KARE 11 reports that 15-year-old Rose Hollerman feels it is discrimination to not be allowed to compete alongside other athletes. The Minnesota State High School League says it is mostly an issue of safety that prohibits the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown High School sophomore from racing against other runners.

Crews have started demolishing the former Brookdale Center to make way for a new Wal-Mart Supercenter. It's all part of a $100 million renovation project to transform the 50-year-old mall into a shopping center called Shingle Creek Crossing.

You might be familiar with wheelchair racing and basketball. But those are just a couple of spokes on the wheel of options at the National Wheelchair Sports Camp underway near Stewartville this week.

350 engineers and staff work at Polaris Industries' research and development center in Wyoming, Minnesota. But a spokeswoman says they're too crowded there. They're expected to have twice as much room a year from now, once an expansion that starts next week is done.

Despite opposition from neighbors and a developer of a residential building, Izzy's ice cream-making kitchen and scoop shop broke ground in Minneapolis last week.

WCCO reports the Minnesota State Lottery brought in nearly $62 million last month. The lottery director says the state has now recovered "the entire amount lost in sales during the shutdown" last summer.

Hurricane Sandy has already grounded more than 100 flights out of the Twin Cities and will disrupt traffic for the rest of the week. So far the cancellations involve flights that were headed east, but a ripple effect will get the west coast involved, too. Meanwhile, Minnesota is among the states sending emergency personnel east to help with the response.