An unidentified man has been dropping off truckloads of live pigeons at a truck wash in Worthington, according to its employees, the Worthington Daily Globe reports. In one release captured on a surveillance video, about 1,000 birds exploded from the truck trailer, and nearly as many were released last week.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to revoke their guidelines on how to comply with a 2008 law aimed at preventing the suction from pools drains from trapping swimmers under water. The law was passed in response to the death of 6-year-old Abbey Taylor of Edina.

Republican Senator and Finance Committee Chairman David Hann accuses the Democratic governor of going around a state law that would allow him to halt the spending of millions of dollars in federal grants for the state's health-care programs. Hann says he wants more information about how the state would spent the money. Forum Communications reports Dayton's budget office marked the funds "urgent," which means the money wouldn't require legislators' approval.

A panel of judges in St. Paul on Thursday will hear arguments about whether to revive a lawsuit brought by two Missouri residents who object to the law's requirement that they buy health insurance. The argument has drawn support from critics nationwide as well as Republican lawmakers in Minnesota. A lower court dismissed the case, saying the challengers failed to show that the law would harm them directly.

Health care workers can get $60,000 in federal money in exchange for working two years in communities with limited access to health care.

The aggressive practices used by the Chicago-based Accrective Health to collect debt from patients could put Fairview's University of Minnesota Medical Center at risk of being terminated from Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Star Tribune. Federal documents obtained by the newspaper show patients and their relatives were subjected to "abuse and harassment'' from debt collectors while waiting for treatment.