A memo from the station's news director says they now believe the worker at a New York City meat market did say "duck," not "dog," when asked whether the market sold dog meat. WCCO later published an investigation alleging the market was selling meat from dogs bred in Minnesota. The station yanked the story but issued no correction or apology.

Cambria Holdings will be setting up some sort of showroom for its products in the WCCO Radio headquarters building in downtown Minneapolis, the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal reported Friday. The company will occupy the first floor of the building, which has been vacant since Nick's Sports World moved out of the location in 2008.

Edward Moody is moving back to Minnesota to join the CBS-affiliate as a weekend anchor/reporter. The Pioneer Press reports he will anchor the Saturday evening newscasts with Liz Collin. Moody, who comes to WCCO from the Fox-affiliate in Indianapolis, will make his Twin Cities debut on Friday, Aug. 24. Moody has also worked in Duluth as a morning anchor.

Looking to fight old, stagnate views of New Ulm, the local Convention and Visitors Bureau rolled out in earnest with a hip, energetically new tourism campaign, the New Ulm Journal reports. And what is more hip than bobbleheads? At the center of the campaign is a bobblehead video of "Hermann the German" appearing at fun spots around town.

The Minnesota chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association wants an explanation. Meanwhile, an animation studio in Taiwan is having some fun with the story at WCCO's expense. Next Media Animation says WCCO never retracted the report; rather, they "just quietly scrubbed it from their website."

Minnesota State Lottery officials say they set a new sales record for the fiscal year -- which ran through June. Ticket sales topped out around $504 million.

After spending the last two years reporting for WNYW in New York, reporter Heather Brown is coming back to WCCO. Brown says her first day on the job in Minneapolis is Monday. She is currently working for the CBS affiliate in New York covering the devastation from storms on the East Coast.

KSTP-TV is bringing two Minnesotans back to the state: Eric Kahnert, who grew up in Apple Valley, joins the station as weeknight news anchor on Labor Day, the Pioneer Press reports. Todd Wilson, a Minneapolis native, starts work at the Hubbard-owned station as a general assignment reporter Thursday.