City Administrator Dave Montgomery says the plaza is not designed to be a campground and negotiations on moving the protest will begin early this week. Surprised demonstrators say it's the first they've heard of a move.

The Minneapolis City Council awarded the third-largest settlement in city history Friday to a woman who was severely burned from a flash-bang grenade used during a drug bust in 2010. Police didn’t find drugs or the man they were looking for.

After a four-year, $100 million pilot project in four communities, including the Twin Cities, the U.S. Department of Transportation said in a report that not only did biking increase by nearly 50 percent over the three-year life of the four projects, but there were 7,700 fewer tons of carbon dioxide emitted.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman says he'll propose to increase the city's property tax levy by about 2 percent. Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak's spokesman says he's aiming for a tax levy increase of less than 3 percent.

A former University of Minnesota Duluth administrator says he was demoted after recommending that the university fire a staffer after sexual harassment complaints. Randy Hyman says then-chancellor Kathryn Martin removed him from his position as vice chancellor after he said UMD fitness instructor Rod Raymond should be fired. Martin was unavailable for comment. Raymond is still employed by the university.

Hennepin County Board members have voted by a 5-1 margin to raise their salaries 2.5 percent in 2014. The move -- which comes after votes over the past four years to freeze their own pay -- was not well received by commissioner Jeff Johnson, who said he was "not comfortable with the message" the raise sends to taxpayers.