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Stearns County day-care provider loses license

The suspension in Stearns County came after a boy died, the year's seventh death at an in-home child-care center in Minnesota.

Updated: July 02, 2012, - 11:03 PM

Minnesota shuts down 2 child-care providers

Infants died at homes where safe-sleep rules weren't followed.

Updated: June 23, 2012, - 07:36 AM

Health beat: Family dinners are not a cure-all

A new University of Minnesota study challenges the popular notion that family dinners do everything from improving children's eating habits to reducing depression and drug abuse.

Updated: June 07, 2012, - 09:33 PM

Minnesota limits psych drugs for kids

Concerned by a sharp rise in the use of powerful psychiatric drugs for adolescents, Minnesota will start requiring doctors to consult Mayo Clinic beforehand.

Updated: June 05, 2012, - 08:58 AM

Parents ask: Who owns their son's Facebook history?

Battle with Facebook has taken a grieving Wisconsin family into the murky legal waters of digital access -- and whether they should have control over the private social media account of a loved one who died.

Updated: June 02, 2012, - 06:37 AM

Health beat: Fewer children, but plenty of needs

Minnesota's child population is shrinking, but that does not signal a need to shrink spending and efforts to improve child care, health and welfare, leaders of the Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota argued this week.

Updated: May 31, 2012, - 08:04 PM

Lack of child-care records puts Minnesota kids at risk

Minnesota lags in posting data on licensing problems, safety violations.

Updated: May 30, 2012, - 06:23 AM

Parents can't assume providers carry insurance

Parents may assume their child-care providers carry liability insurance in case of an accident, but Minnesota law doesn't require it and regulators don't always track which providers have it.

Updated: May 19, 2012, - 05:50 PM

Child-care group backs stricter baby sleep rules

A measure would require a doctor's OK before child-care workers could put a baby to sleep on its stomach.

Updated: May 10, 2012, - 09:45 PM

Day-care bill would provide babies new safeguards in Minnesota

Alarmed by a rise in deaths among children in day care, a Faribault lawmaker has proposed that Minnesota hold child-care providers to a tougher standard of safe sleep practices.

Updated: May 10, 2012, - 11:44 AM