Workers used a front-end loader to lift the boom off of him. The man was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with an injury to his right leg.

The town of Hallock is waiving fees for home lots in hopes that workers coming to staff a new canola plant will put down roots there. The town has seen a steady decline in population and now has fewer than a thousand residents for the first time since 1950.

A Central Corridor light rail construction worker lost his hand and foot after heavy machinery rolled over on him Tuesday. The worker for contractor Ames Construction was working on an overpass near I-35W when the mobile lift he was in toppled over.

St. Paul police had fallen out of the habit of donating confiscated liquor to the Little Sisters of the Poor. But then Sister Theresa's letter explained that Sunday happy hour "has always been such a pleasant treat" for the senior citizens at Holy Family Residence. Happy days are here again.

The Interact program aims to reduce the number of times sick residents are sent to a hospital by offering additional medical training to nursing home employees. In other markets, the program has cut avoidable hospitalizations by up to 20 percent.