The 2012 annual fair in Freeborn County kicked off appropriately enough with a birth – in a bathroom near the Cattle Barn. A baby boy was born Tuesday to parents who both work for the carnival group Merriam’s Midway Shows, the Austin Daily Herald reports. Dale Merriam, a semi-retired owner of the traveling carnival, said the mother had worked just Monday night until after midnight setting up for the fair. A collection was being taken for the parents.

Two men are dead after their car rolled into Mille Lacs Lake just after midnight Sunday morning. A passenger in the backseat suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The Minnesota State Patrol says alcohol was detected in the driver and both passengers, but it's unclear if it was a factor in the crash.

Gov. Mark Dayton was sending off Ted the turkey at the Capitol Friday when the free bird escaped from his wire cage and made a break for it. Ted was eventually apprehended and will travel to Washington D.C. next week for an official pardon from President Obama.

The 51-year-old woman was taken to a hospital for non-life threatening injuries after a train struck her vehicle after she had stalled on the tracks

Police say the two went off the road and into a creek in Benton County. The car was in up to 3 feet of water when they were saved by two passers-by who used a piece of lumber to break through the car's window.

A driver who survived a fatal crash and lost her Chihuahua in the accident recovered the dog six days later. Residents on a farm not far from the crash site three miles north of New Richland were able to catch the dog, Mia, and arranged for a reunion for grateful owner and Waseca resident Mandi Kauffman, the Albert Lea Tribune reports.

The Bemidji Pioneer says eight schoolchildren were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after their school bus overturned when a semitruck hit it from behind.

The family tells Thisweek Newspapers they came home to find their house destroyed -- with a broken window, screen and shards of glass all over. To their surprise, the burglar was a turkey, who they found completely at home on their couch.