SARTELL, Minn. (AP) — Verso Paper has been billed $350,000 by fire departments who responded to an explosion and fire at its mill in Sartell.

MINNEAPOLIS (DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Sports Writer) - The Minnesota Twins have begun to put together a run of better starting pitching, with Scott Diamond leading the push. Jake Peavy and the Chicago White Sox still got the better of them. Peavy struck out eight over eight smooth innings, Alejandro De Aza hit the go-ahead infield single off Diamond’s leg in the eighth and the White Sox [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A referee in Hennepin County District Court has found that Minnesota’s Defense of Marriage Act does not deny same-sex partners the right to inherit each other’s assets. The Star Tribune reports that Wednesday’s ruling comes in the case of James Morrison, who is now entitled to inherit about $250,000 in assets he once shared with his longtime partner, [...]