By PAUL WALSH, Minneapolis Star Tribune

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. - The penguins have moved to the 'burbs.

Eleven African penguins that were removed from their flood-ravaged exhibit in Minot, N.D., to temporary quarters at the Como Zoo in St. Paul are now calling the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley their home.

The racier the car, the racier the hormones.

That's what research results say about some men when it comes to conspicuous spending and their desire for sexual dalliances.

This is the stuff that legends are made of.

Eight-year-old Jack Guiney, hospitalized in New York for weeks with burns over half of his body, greeted his hero as he strode into the room on May 20, 1964.

It was Harmon Killebrew. The late Minnesota Twins slugger was in town for a two-game series with the Yankees.

A grammatically challenged ex-con has admitted that he robbed a TCF Bank in Fridley, Minn.

Joe Nathan Michael, 48, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Minneapolis to the heist on May 20, 2010, which briefly netted him about $2,000.

According to the plea agreement:

The Humane Society of the United States is accusing a mammoth hatchery in central Minnesota of abusing baby turkeys as it winnows out those unworthy of America's dining tables.

A woman sent a text message as her boyfriend was sexually assaulting her, leading to Sherburne County, Minn., sheriff's deputies arresting the man at the scene, authorities said Monday.

The 51-year-old man, from Princeton, Minn., is jailed on suspicion of fifth-degree domestic assault and third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

According to Sheriff Joel Brott:

A severely disabled boy was brought by his father to a Mayo Health System hospital emergency room in Lake City, Minn., badly malnourished and a nurse granted the parent's request to send the child home with only a note saying the boy was well enough to attend school, according to a state Health Department investigation released Thursday.

A $20 traffic ticket has been issued to a 92-year-old woman who drove across the center line in northeastern North Dakota and hit two of four motorcycles heading the other way, killing a newlywed riding with her husband, authorities said.

Stolen personal information on more than 3 million student loan borrowers was recovered during the discovery in Minneapolis of two safes containing CDs and floppy discs, state investigators said Friday.

A Minnesota middle school teacher is accused of biting off a piece of a stranger's ear while she was in a St. Paul cafe early Sunday and then picking the evidence up off the floor and concealing it in her mouth.

Susan M. Mwarabu, 30, of Rochester, was charged Monday with third-degree felony assault and was released from the Ramsey County jail.