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.

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.

A nurse at St. Cloud Hospital was charged for allegedly stealing pain medication from 23 patients and is also accused by hospital staff of introducing bacterial infections to patients from syphoning from IV bags.

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.

A mother organized the protest after she tried to breastfeed her child in the women's clothing section of a Target store, where workers reportedly told her to move to a fitting room. Michelle Hickman told workers the law says she has a right to nurse in public but says they ignored her. Target's corporate office says the company supports women's rights to breastfeed -- in fitting rooms or in public.