The House and Senate passed separate bills that would place new restrictions on abortion providers. One bill would require a doctor to be present when a patient takes the abortion medication, RU-486. The other would require abortion providers to have licenses and be subject to random inspections.

A nurse at St. Cloud Hospital was charged for allegedly stealing pain medication from 23 patients and is also accused by hospital staff of introducing bacterial infections to patients from syphoning from IV bags.

The summer heat wave sweeping through the Twin Cities and southern half of the state is resulting in more patients with heat-related conditions at the hospital. Regions Hospital emergency room physician Gary Mayeux tells KARE-TV that there's been a 15 to 20 percent increase in heat exhaustion cases in the last week.

Plans are in place for an anti-abortion clinic to open later this year kitty-corner from the Building for Women, where the only abortions in northern Minnesota are performed, at the Women’s Health Center. The director of the Women's Health Center says her patients are already picketed and harassed by abortion opponents and she expects that to increase when the new building moves in nearby.