The Minneapolis police raid at 5753 Sander Drive, an apartment not far from the Crosstown and MSP, didn't net any contraband. But it did lead to what the city describes as an "accident" that left Rickia Russell with severe burns from an improperly deployed flash-bang grenade, Corey Mitchell and Randy Furst report. The City Council approved a $1 million settlement Friday, its third largest in recent memory, in a year when settlements for alleged police conduct may hit a record.

Fire Chief Alex Jackson is facing his own heat from the City Council, after a ballooning overtime bill and other problems have raised questions about his leadership, Steve Brandt reports. Brandt's story comes days after Jackson promoted one of his predecessors in the job, Bonnie Bleskachek, to an arson investigator, after she spent five years in a desk job following the scandals that chased her from the chief's office.

Matt McKinney continues his investigation of towing and impound practices by describing how the St. Paul police impound lot cashes in by keeping money belonging to owners of auctioned vehicles. It's the same policy as the Minneapolis impound lot - at least until McKinney started reporting on it, because the city now says it will begin notifying those vehicle owners due a refund from auction proceeds.

Taxi drivers need to hang up and drive - that's the ruling from the City Council, Eric Roper reports. Yet the city eased up two rules - they can wear jeans and get out of their cars while waiting for fares.

The local archdiocese says these women have no relationship with the Catholic church, but that hasn't deterred a small group of female priests from leading congregations, including the one -year-old Compassion of Christ Church, whic meets in Prospect Park United Methodist Church, Rose French reports.

In her column, Gail Rosenblum tells an uplifting story about Vicie Williams, a Minneapolis woman who overcame an abusive childhood, homelessness and prison to become a successful entrepreneur selling fruit-flavored barbecue sauces.

Fifty years after its demolition, the late, great Metropolitan Building still looms large in the memory of the city. Rick Nelson provides a vivid portrait of this lost treasure - renowned for its soaring atrium, plate-glass floors, delicate ironwork and rooftop restaurant - and narrates a video with fascinating footage of the building's demolition, shot by three University of Minnesota students in 1961 and 1962. To see what happened to some of the granite blocks rescued from the ruins, check out my story and Matt Gillmer's video here.