AM.MN: St. Louis County was a swinging place to work in the ’90s, complaint says

Hey, wanna “go out dancing, drinking and partying’’ with various county commissioners? Women employees of St. Louis County didn’t — but they got invited to throughout the 1990s, according to a complaint served on officials by a former county spokeswoman. Sex was part of the come-ons from higher-ups, too, she alleges, but pursuing harassment complaints was a no-no. The Duluth News Tribune got a copy of the document (not yet filed at court) containing the charges.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning…

MINNEAPOLIS: Third to drown downtown in recent weeks ID’d. A body pulled from the Mississippi River on Sunday — the third this month — was a Mounds View man who jumped a fence and swam into chilly water April 29 … so not the college-boy-walking-home-from-a-party scenario seen elsewhere. [Star Tribune]

ALBERT LEA: New airport runway funded by feds. The city council chose a local builder’s bid to accommodate more planes — since another federal-stimulus project, a proposed high-speed train from Chicago, won’t swing west. [Albert Lea Tribune]

MINNEAPOLIS: Bus hits old man near truck-bike crash site. The 81-year-old pedestrian had the walk signal but got hit (update: and killed) by a turning school bus — only a block away from where a turning truck killed a bicyclist last week. [Star Tribune; Fox 9] 

MOORHEAD: Officials say don’t count on river diversion. A congressman and a U.S. senator (guess who) say a $900 million flood-control project proposed for the Minnesota side of the Red River has a “minus 5 percent” chance of happening. [AP]

ST. PAUL: Hollywood private eye helps cops nab movie pirate. Locals aided by a movie-industry dick scored Ramsey County’s first counterfeit intellectual-property arrest in years: a guy named Cheesy who sold “Quantam of Solace” DVDs out of his SUV at a strip mall parking lot. [Minnesota Daily]

PIPESTONE COUNTY: Clogged pipe caused manure spill that closed state park beach. Almost three weeks after 300,000 gallons leaked, authorities banned swimming — but you can still go boating if you want. [Pipestone County Star; Star Tribune]