Teams from hotels and motels in the Iron Range will compete against one another in this year's Housekeeping Olympics. Events include laundry-folding and bed-making contests.

The number of skaters for the Northshore Inline Marathon is less than half what it was ten years ago, but it’s still the largest skate race in the nation. Organizers say they’ve smoothed out some sections that have tripped up skaters in the past. The 26-mile race between Two Harbors and Duluth is tomorrow.

The city is providing tap water at several stops along the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon route. The city says municipal water is clean, tastes great and is far less expensive and better for the environment than bottled water.

Maj. Dave Brown and his wife Rachel of Madison will be among 12 couples competing for $1 million on the CBS game show. Dave is a Wisconsin Army National Guard officer. He says his 16 years of service and deployments to Iraq should help with challenges. The 20th season of the "Amazing Race" debuts Sunday, February 19.

The last time Leah Prudhomme went for a swim in Island Lake she was attacked by a possibly rabid otter. But she's determined not to let the 25 bites she sustained - or the rabies shots she's getting - keep her from competing in this weekend's triathlon.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan claimed on a nationally syndicated radio show that he had run marathons. His personal best time? Under three hours, the Wisconsin congressman said. But he only ran one marathon – Grandma's Marathon in Duluth in 1990 – in 4 hours, 1 minute. Ryan says he just misspoke. Runners howled. “No one confuses a 4:01 with a sub-3. No one,” said one comment on Runner's World magazine.