The woman who famously won a $300 million settlement from PG&E Co. will look into elevated cancer rates in Fridley. Erin Brokovich will bring her celebrity attention to what a state researcher discovered is a 10 percent higher cancer risk in the city. A representative for Brokovich says her investigation does not necessarily mean there is any added danger in Fridley.

Celebrity legal activist Erin Brockovich visited Fridley, where residents want more investigation of what they call a "cancer cluster." She said she wants more facts.

An investigation spurred by a Facebook page finds Fridley has what one expert calls an 'extremely unusual' concentration of Superfund sites. Fridley Patch talks to the person working for famed environmental researcher Erin Brokovich who is looking into an elevated cancer rate in the city.

The Health Department revised its figures on cancer rates in the Twin Cities suburb and says any variation from the norm is likely due to smoking.

Kare 11 reports one person was treated for smoke inhalation. Several fire departments responded to the fire at Kurt Die Casting on Hwy. 65. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The university found lung cancer deaths were about the same among those who had annual chest X-rays and those who did not. The finding will shift the focus to whether CT scans are a better method of early detection.

Scientists focused on a chemical found in drinking water in Ohio and West Virginia, but they also say it exists in smaller amounts in Washington County. But a health official in Minnesota cautions that studies so far on perfluorooctanoic acid, of PFOA, have been inconsistent and the latest research doesn't necessarily mean there is an increased risk of cancer here.