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Governor Mark Dayton today rolled out a plan to have drug manufacturers pay for programs aimed at combating the growing opioid addiction and overdose epidemic in Minnesota.

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says a New York Rangers player who died in 2011 of an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers and a minor league hockey player who supplied him with pills are victims of organized sports.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Law enforcement, health professionals and addiction specialists from around the country will convene in Minnesota to talk about ways to address the growing number of opioid overdose deaths.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A published report says Prince had arranged to meet a California doctor to try to kick an addiction to painkillers shortly before his death.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince's personal chef says the star was battling waves of sore throats and frequent upset stomachs in his final months.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that investigators are looking into whether Prince died from a drug overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death.

St Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - An area woman has entered a guilty plea in  a federal drug case that investigators say covered several years and may have involved the illegal purchase of thousands of painkillers.

Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man who has been identified as the suspect in a recent armed robbery in the city.

A Rochester area woman is facing federal drug charges, accused of using bogus identities to buy or attempt to purchase large amounts of prescription painkillers.