A 14-year-old Eagan teen suffered minor injuries to his foot after shooting himself with a shotgun Saturday afternoon near Paynesville, the West Central Tribune reports. A day later, 26-year-old Sartell man accidentally shot himself in the foot while deer hunting five miles north of Clarissa in central Minnesota, the St. Cloud Times reports.

A 16-year-old Eveleth boy is recovering from a gunshot wound following a duck hunting accident early Saturday morning. Authorities say Baker Felix was accidentally shot in the knee when his 18-year-old brother's shotgun discharged as the brother fell backwards in the canoe they were hunting in.

Two Bemidji men were arraigned Friday in Beltrami County District Court after an alleged cross-burning May 25 at a home in Northern Township. A defense attorney said the alleged incident an offensive "juvenile prank," but the prosecutor called it a "crime of hatred and intolerance."

Spencer Olson won the Audience Choice Award for his film "Bunnies" at this year's Fathom Film Festival in Bemidji. The film features Lego rabbits fighting and shooting machine guns at each other. Videos on Olson's Youtube channel (Olsonstudios) have been viewed nearly 3 million times.

Hunters in Minnesota are expected to see more deer than last year after the mild winter and early spring, but fewer hunters have antlerless deer tags this fall, the Duluth News Tribune reports. This is because the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is trying to conserve the number of does this year. “We’re going to see more deer and kill less deer,” Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association based in Grand Rapids, told the newspaper.