As part of a Veterans Administration effort to mental health services for returning soldiers, two Minnesota medical centers are adding staff. The Minneapolis VA Medical Center is getting 24 new staff members, the St. Cloud VA five.

Media reports say a 22-year-old Minneapolis man is one of two suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Mogadishu. They quote a U.N. official who says friends and family identify the man on an audio tape recorded But MPR finds friends of the missing man who say it does not sound like him. U.S. officials have not yet confirmed the bomber is American.

The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a former nurse convicted of encouraging suicide in online chatrooms. Fifty-year-old William Melchert-Dinkel of Faribault was convicted of two counts of aiding suicide in the deaths of 32-year-old Mark Drybrough, of Coventry, England, who hanged himself in 2005; and 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji, of Brampton, Ontario, who jumped into a frozen river in 2008.

Some in Minneapolis' Somali community think a former neighbor was responsible for a weekend suicide bombing in Mogadishu. The FBI can't confirm that but plans to conduct forensic tests to find out.

Veterans who seek mental health care at the Twin Cities VA Hospital wait an average of two weeks before their first appointment. At the St. Cloud VA Hospital it's 11 days. Those wait times are shorter than at many other VA centers around the country, where three to six week waits are not unusual.

The Veterans Administration will construct a new community-based outpatient clinic in southeastern Minnesota, according to the Austin Daily Herald. It will provide primary health care services and mental health counseling to area veterans. The tentative opening date is sometime between late 2013 and early 2014.