A former nurse is facing a civil suit for $50,000 after reportedly stealing powerful pain drugs from a kidney patient headed into surgery. The suit accuses her of being "negligent and careless" and says Abbott Northwestern either knew or should have known about the nurse's behavior.

Minnesota-born Christie Prody, former longtime lover of the imprisoned football star, will plead guilty to burglary and drug charges, a Clay County prosecutor says. She is accused of stealing prescription pills from a Moorhead couple while working as an in-home nursing assistant.

Dozens of Mounds View High School students are protesting a student nurse's firing. More than 60 took unexcused absences and rallied with signs such as "Fired for Caring." The principal says she understands the nurse was popular but her dismissal was in the school's best interests.

Felony drug charges were filed Friday against a Nicollet nurse who allegedly stole dozens of morphine pills from a former hospice patient in Mankato.

A woman in Jordan, Minn., was surprised when her 4-year-old Pekingese took in an abandoned kitten, then start producing milk and nursing the gray stray animal to health, the Associated Press reports. Pat Weber says the kitten was days old when her grandson found it in the family's barn in early September in Jordan, about 40 miles southwest of Minneapolis.

A woman says she was trying to discretely breastfeed her child in a Target store when employees there tried to discourage her and harass her. Now she has 3,000 people and counting signed up on Facebook to join a nationwide "nurse-in." A Target spokesman apologized and said the stores will "feel proud to support" the protest.