Ramsey City Council Member David Elvig owes the state $100,000 in sales tax, according to an agreement Elvig reached with the Department of Revenue, the Star Tribune reports. The good news for him is that it's less than the $649,000 officials previously said he owed. He's the founder of E-Street Makers Inc. of Anoka, which produces custom furniture and cabinets. He separately faces 24 counts of theft and is accused of embezzling from his employees' 401(k) and group health and dental plans.

Minnesota native Lindsey Vonn declares in "Us Weekly" magazine that she is not secretly dating Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. The Olympic gold medalist skiier filed for divorce from her husband of four years last month.

St. Paul native Lindsey Vonn has been hospitalized in Vail, Colo., with an undisclosed illness. Vonn, a gold medal winner in the downhill in the 2010 Winter Olympics and four-time overall World Cup champion, backed out of a promotional event in Vail Friday because of illness.

Finance & Commerce reports the California-based Tower Investments owes more than $740,000 in back property taxes and fines. For the past six years, Tower has been pushing a major biobusiness park on a former elk farm in southeast Minnesota, but nothing has happened on the site since 2010. Tower's senior vice president claims the taxes aren't paid because Tower is in the midst of appealing its property taxes with Olmsted County.

Is a battle of the sexes shaping up on the ski slopes? St. Paul native Lindsey Vonn hopes so. She wants to race against men in a downhill event in Canada in November.

The Minnesota-native topped both gymnast Shawn Johnson and swimmer Michael Phelps to be the most searched Olympic star on Yahoo. Vonn dominated NBC’s airwaves throughout the Vancouver Games while taking gold in 2010 in the downhill.

The Minnesota Department of Revenue claims Drink Inc., a bar and restaurant in Minneapolis that closed earlier this year, failed to pay sales taxes between March 2003 and January 2007. The defunct business still owes the state more than $126,000. A new pub has opened in the former Drink location in downtown Minneapolis.

No, it wasn't at the ESPYs or similar red carpet event -- it was at the homecoming dance at a Colorado high school. Sophomore Parker McDonald worked up the courage to ask Vonn to be his date when he spotted her on the slopes in Vail.