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My Pillow, Inc. founder Mike Lindell and his landlords got a three-month reprieve to keep the pillow manufacturing plant in Carver open despite violating a dozen conditions in the city operating permit, reports Nick Mason in the Chaska Herald.

Back in 2004, John Buteyn hurled the Eden Prairie High School baseball team to a 4-3 victory in the state championship game, beating Woodbury 4-3. Now he’s the team’s head coach.

On Saturday morning in Jordan, runners raced in support of the Heimatfest fireworks.

Music fans from throughout the nation traveled to Prior Lake‘s Lakefront Park on July 13 for the first night of the 2012 Lakefront Music Fest. Here’s a slideshow of the event, which boasted food, fundraisers and performances from Rocket Club, Rockie Lynne and Travis Tritt. 

But getting that song just right didn’t quite help a teen who admitted to fiddling with the radio in Savage, where he received a citation for his role in a crash that totaled a squad car.

In Shakopee, two utilities employees were hospitalized after their four-member crew was injured while performing scheduled maintenance on a utility line near the women’s prison.

And the Chanhassen Villager’s Sheriff Report includes an entry on someone who, we hope, is not claustrophobic — on July 11 a deputy responded to a person stuck in an elevator in Victoria.

Compiled by David Schueller