Fox 9 has the story of New Hope police officer Todd Black, and his 8-year-old K-9 partner, Jack. The German shepherd spent six years at Black's side, chasing down suspects and sniffing out narcotics. But veterinarians had to remove a mass on his spleen and is now battling blood cancer.

About 100 students from around the world are taking part in the competition at the University of North Dakota. All the drone planes have to do is sneak into a simulated enemy compound and retrieve a flash drive. Within five minutes. A couple of other similar competitions have been held and they yielded no winners.

The Herald reports the North Dakota city had about 9,200 crimes last year. That's the fewest since the year of the 1997 floods. However, there was a spike in burglaries and drug offenses from 2010.

Four Daughters Vineyard and Winery in Spring Valley took top honors at the fourth annual International Cold Climate Wine Competition at the U of M on Thursday, the Post Bulletin reports. The Four Daughters 2011 La Crescent beat out more than 325 wines from 12 states and Canada to win the Minnesota's Governor's Cup trophy and "Best of Show" for the top white wine.

Drug testing is being temporarily suspended in the St. Paul Police Department crime lab, MPR reports. The action comes after a Dakota County court hearing this week when two crime lab workers and the director of the lab said the lab does not follow any written procedures for drug testing and does not document most of the steps they take when testing evidence for illegal drugs.

The NOvA far detector building in Orr, Minn., will use a 15,000-ton particle detector to measure the interactions of neutrinos beamed all the way from a lab outside of Chicago. The lab is one of two neutrino detectors that the University operates in northern Minnesota.

Two out-of-state companies will be paid to evaluate and reform the workflow at the St. Paul Police Department crime lab, MPR reports. The lab halted operations at its drug chemistry division in July after lab employees said they did not follow any written operating procedures. Thousands of drug cases are potentially in question.