By ANTHONY LONETREE, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Traffic fatalities continue to decline nationwide, and Minnesota officials are using new strategies to try to push numbers there even lower.

Every Wednesday morning, homeless men arrive for their haircuts at the Listening House of St. Paul, Minn., eager to take a seat in what was once a dental chair.

Some will eye their barber, and a nearby portrait of people in a 1890s barbershop, and they'll ask: "Which one are you?"

The barber, Ken Porwoll, takes it in stride.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Thirty-four years after their two young daughters were found stabbed to death in a quarry outside of St. Cloud, Minn., Fred and Rita Reker have seen the cold case vetted by experts from Minnesota to Pennsylvania, and received no justice.Frustrated? "We're probably past that," Fred Reker said.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Valuable rings and crosses were stolen early this week from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis's residence in St. Paul, a church official reported.