Records show that just months after consulting firm Accretive swept into the Fairview health care system with a new approach to collecting money from patients, hospital employees were expressing alarm and frustration, the Star Tribune reports. "We are giving the image that we are money-hungry," one employee said. Said another: "The patients are being bombarded by phone calls."

For the fourth time this June, a bear has been spotted in Elk River. In this instance, though, the bear was scrounging for food right outside the Flanagan family's house, and mom Sarah Flanagan has cell phone video to prove it.

Octavia Shonte Marberry was charged Friday with two felony counts of first-degree aggravated robbery. Police say Marberry was likely with her brother when he was shot and killed by a bystander in south Minneapolis after allegedly robbing a woman

The Stearns County sheriff's office says 57-year-old Bonita Schwandt had been sitting alone by the fire pit. Her boyfriend found her body when he went to check on her.

Police arrested the sister of a man who was shot and killed by a bystander in south Minneapolis after allegedly robbing a woman Thursday. Police say Octavia Shonte Marberry was likely with her brother, Darren Evanovich, before he was killed. She may face charges.

Spring Lake Park police arrested a woman for animal cruelty after they say she threw three-week-old puppies at her boyfriend. Police say she threw the dogs out of a vehicle onto a parking lot pavement. They were uninjured. Police arrested the boyfriend, too, for allegedly breaking the woman's nose.