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a hot-line to ask elp, said Kelly ate director. challenge is sue- d hope we could elp more people," still got minors poor — people filth insurance — me up with the abortion." abortion in Min- )m about $250 to lights advocates, law would add to of victories here icluding removal 14,000 e women ligible for ley. ban on abortions my Medical Cen- nton's lifting of a abortions and a revented federal- , from referring on clinics. are performed at clinics and hospi- 3t. Paul -Ramsey five Twin Cities Women's Health iow a change in affect Hennepin Center, where a bortions was lift - he policy change rily to allow for ity of Minnesota at the Minneap- abortion proce- >spital's intent is at training at ex- inics. ortions have tak- medical center s lifted, said Dr. the hospital's Ise public money rtions would, if Tease the hospi- abortion clinics. A National Weather Service in actor who visited the station in .rly January said the Hibbing of- fice was a disorganized and unsat- isfactory station. The inspector also said most of the staff at the station, operated by Weather One Corp., was unfa- miliar with a procedure used to calibrate instruments that mea- sure barometric pressure. "He was right on some things. We should have been doing the (barometric) comparisons," con- tractor Michael Nbalik said Mon- day. The federal inspector's report Minneapolis -St. Paul. All 18 people on board were killed. The safety board has not ruled on the cause of the crash but re- ports released to date have raised questions about the pilot's training history, his ability to work with others and the labor-management climate at the airline. The NTSB has scheduled its hearing on the crash for May 24, There is no indication the board is looking at the weather station's operation as a cause. The weather station has received "no special focus," said board spokesman Alan Pollock. service because it was out of cali- ration. The device was about 20 feet off — a discrepancy considered "slightly out of tolerance," Pollock said. Mihalik disagreed with the in- spector's finding, saying the de- vice was "just within tolerance." He also challenged the investi- gator's finding that his office is disorganized. "I'll challenge anybody to come up here and work with any of my employees, especially when the weather is bad, and I'll guarantee they'll walk away impressed," he said. Officials to be reimbursed for legal fees MARY R. SANDOK ASSOCIATED PRESS Three Afton City officials found to have violated Minnesota's open meeting law unintentionally can be reimbursed for their legal fees stemming from the case, the state Court of Appeals has ruled. In a unanimous opinion to be filed today, a three -judge panel said that the city's insurance car- rier must reimburse. the three offi- cials. The ruling reversed key parts of a Washington County trial court's decision. Mayor Jon Krosehel and City Council Members Suzanne Flinch and Nicholas Mucciacciaro spent a total of between $56,000 and $80,000 defending themselves against an Afton resident's law- suit, according to estimates from attorneys involved in the case. The appeals court rejected the officials' claims that the city was required to pay their legal bills, but said that the city could pay the costs voluntarily. The court said that the Minnesota League of Cit- ies Insurance Trust, under terms of its policy with the city, had a duty to reimburse them. Pierre Regmer, an attorney rep- resenting the city of Afton, said the ruling "has much more of an impact on the League of Minneso- ta Cities Insurance Trust, because it mandates the league to reim- burse them for their attorney fees. "As far as the city is concerned, the court affirmed what we ar- gued all along: there's no manda- tory requirement of the city to reimburse as they claimed." The appeals court previously af- firmed a finding that the three officials unintentionally violate. the open meeting law in June 1991 by holding a closed meeting dur- ing which they approved a well repair contract. Each official was fined $100. In the reimbursement case ap- peal, the court said its ruling did not address whether cities were permitted to pay defense costs if open meeting law violations were found to be intentional. Richard Allyn, attorney for the trust, said trust officials will de- cide in the next few days what their next step will be. Jon Erik Kingstad, Mucciacci- aro's attorney, praised the ruling. "The public interest is, if people don't get the assurance that they can receive a defense for keeping offices that they legitimately won in an election, a lot of people who don't have the financial means will simply be excluded from pub- lic office," he said. Age discrimination ruling. In another case, the court held that the Minnesota Human Rights Act protects workers, no matter how old, from discharge based on age. But it permits exemptions for a mandatory retirement age estab- lished by law or an employer's published retirement policy if it is consistent with state law. That ruling stemmed from a case brought in Blue Earth County regarding the firing in 1991 of two employees — then ages 78 and 79 — by H&C Electric Supply Co. An appeals court panel ruled that the former employees — John Hoerr and Willard Dorn — can sue for age discrimination be- cause the company did not have a mandatory retirement policy. was a warehouse for Farwell Uz mun and Kirk hardware wholesal— ers. It is the third such renovatic • Debt Consolidation • Purchase/Refinance •Second Homes • Rural Property • 100% Equity Loans • Home Improvement • Slow Credit • CID Payoffs single-family homE for artists' families sold three. 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