A new survey of manufacturers shows the biggest shortages are in skilled production, followed by scientists and engineers. Officials say the lack of skilled workers could hurt the state’s economic growth if manufacturers can’t ramp up production.

Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul allegedly sexually assaulted two underage girls in the Diocese of Crookston eight years ago. The Star Tribune reports the 57-year-old went to India before charges were filed in 2006. Jeyapaul denies the allegations and continues to work with children.

The Minnesota Education Department on Friday released the list of schools that failed to make what federal officials call “Adequate Yearly Progress."

Almost 18 percent of metro area homeowners were underwater in the third quarter, according to data from a California research firm. As the Pioneer Press reports, that's slightly higher than in the previous quarter.

An October 15th deadline looms for people who suffered property damage in June's floods to apply to the Small Business Administration for help. So far fewer than 300 people have applied. Even a rejected application is important: getting turned down by the federal agency is a step toward qualifying for state aid.

In a newly filed sexual discrimination suit, two bartenders at the Hilton Minneapolis claim a supervisor bragged about having sex with customers, made sexual advances to them while they were working and retaliated when they spurned her, the Pioneer Press reports.

A deadly, drug-resistant superbug outbreak that first appeared last summer at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., claimed its seventh victim Sept. 7 – a seriously ill boy from Minnesota, the Washington Post reports. The boy was the 19th patient at the research hospital to contract an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae.