One witness at the trial in Nashville chose to go to prison rather than testify against the nine defendants, most of whom are originally from Somalia. A woman who did testify says other Somalis have called her a snitch and blame her for the arrests of the defendants. She testified that a Somali gang kept teenagers from Minnesota and two other states as prostitutes in a Nashville apartment.

Michele Bachmann is among 50 witnesses named in a messy, multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit involving a group of Tennessee investors and a California businessman over a failed television venture.

An annual convention, which runs during the next five weeks, brings thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses back to Rochester each year. The event gives the city an estimated $7 million boost.

Witnesses who saw a small plane crash in northwestern Ontario earlier this week are credited with helping save the lives of three Northland residents aboard the aircraft. Several people living on the lake got into boats, made their way to the crash site and provided first aid to the victims, Canadian media reported.

Witnesses say they saw a man who helps operate an at-home day care service walking two young children on leashes and pushing kids to the ground, according St. Cloud police. He was arrested and could be charged with malicious punishment of a child, according to the St. Cloud Times.

At least a few of the more than 20 young men who left Minnesota to join a group linked to al-Qaida in Somalia were scared to leave under threats of death, it was revealed as part of an ongoing trial of Mahamud Said Omar, the first of the men to be put on trial. He's accused of sending money and Minnesota recruits to the terrorist group al-Shabab. The trial Tuesday enters its second week.

The carrier says 4G users can expect Internet access that is about 10 times faster than on the 3G network.