Minneapolis City Council voted Friday to ease a restriction on restaurants and breweries that prohibited alcohol from being served within 300 feet of a house of worship.

Men's Fitness magazine is raising a toast to the bar in the Twin Cities restaurant La Belle Vie. The award-winning Loring Park neighborhood hot spot was named one of the "25 Best Bars in America" in the publication, which praised the posh eatery for its "meticulously chosen wine list."

3 Degrees Church said the proposed adult entertainment venue was within 500 feet of its home.

WCCO reports bars and restaurants are upset with police pulling over customers and staff. The owners claim the increased patrols are hurting their business. The city council asked the police department to conduct an internal investigation.

Scott Anderson says he never thought the day would come. The Presbyterian Church barred homosexuals from serving as ministers until last year, when the church's national assembly voted to remove the ban.

The Dakota County Board of Commissioners has adopted a social host ordinance that targets residents in the southern part of the county who provide a residence or location for people younger than 21 to consume alcohol. Sheriff Dave Bellows said the ordinance is an important next step because it hold party hosts responsible.

A bill to ban e-cigarettes is picking up support in the State Legislature.

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka will be allowed to build a house of worship on a residential parcel of land after all. A 2010 federal suit alleges that the city's blockade of the project was a violation of the church's First Amendment rights to free speech and religious worship.