Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman is using a grand jury as part of the process to decide whether to file charges against Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk, a Ruszczyk family attorney says.

Convening a grand jury is one way a prosecutor can determine whether to bring charges against someone who is suspected of committing a crime. Here's a look at how grand juries work, why they exist and what makes them so controversial.

In the span of just two weeks, there have been two high-profile cases of people being dumped in their hospital gowns on the street outside. The latest is in Milwaukee where workers of the Aurora Sinai Medical Center put a homeless man out on the street after he was discharged. Pictures showed he had a hospital gown, sweatpants, no shoes and one sock.

Where football is concerned, it's getting to be that charity begins on the road. A week after Minnesota fans inundated a New Orleans Saints player's charitable foundation with cash in admiration for his sportsmanship, Philadelphia fans -- some of them, anyway -- are pouring money into Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer's charitable foundation, too.

When one St. Paul couple got engaged last year, they dreamed of getting married on their anniversary, Feb. 2. In their excitement, they didn't immediately realize that date fell right before the Super Bowl. Planning a wedding for that same weekend has been full of its own challenges.

Stores in Blaine, Minnetonka, Woodbury and Richfield are reportedly on the list. The store closings will begin in February and the majority of the targeted locations will go dark by mid-April.

The rapper 50 Cent agreed to accept bitcoin from people buying his Animal Ambition album. The value of those sales has now skyrocketed: The rapper's holding is worth more than $7.5 million.