A Navy SEALs veteran who lives in the Twin Cities is giving fantasy role-players a chance to experience the raid on the home in Pakistan where the SEALs killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Commander Larry Yatch and his wife, Anne, have opened a 10,000-square-foot studio in New Hope where participants can take part in a re-enactment of the raid for $325 each. So far, 137 people have signed up to pretend to kill a man wearing a white robe and a fake beard.

Plymouth city leaders suddenly shut down their aging, basement police shooting range last week, upsetting residents and volunteer firearms safety instructors who planned to use the range next month to train kids to shoot. The residents and instructors say the abrupt closing was directed at them because they initiated legislation for a new state law that requires publicly funded ranges to open for youth gun training -- a law that Plymouth leaders had opposed.

The Sherburne County Drug Task Force arrested Rose McEachern Wednesday morning during a raid. Investigators found $30,000, 71 firearms, and an assortment of narcotics during their search of the 28-year-old's home.

The Duluth News Tribune reports the $297 million deal could bring anywhere from 200 to 400 new jobs to northern Minnesota.

The Associated Press reports the court panel assigned with redrawing the state's political boundaries won't rule until late February -- a point where the Republican Congresswoman should know if its time to abandon her presidential campaign if her placement in the polls don't improve.

Police in New York Mills, Minn., got a report about "shots fired," so they set up a perimeter and locked down a nearby school. They later caught two people with a potato gun. One officer on the scene said: "When you use walnuts, it does sound like a shotgun."

Roger Rusack, a longtime University of Minnesota physics professor, has been a part of the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle for two decades. He helped design, develop and tweak a critical particle detector within the massive, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. His contribution, the electromagnetic calorimeter, measures the energies of photons.