GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - General Mills Chief Executive Officer Steve Sanger is stepping down effective immediately, the nation's second-largest cereal maker said Monday. The company promoted President and Chief Operating Officer Ken Powell to chief executive officer.

By Tom Webb, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Sep. 26--The folks who brought you Trix's "silly rabbit" and a bird that's "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" have been quietly rethinking how they advertise to children.

By Tom Webb, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Sep. 22--They're cheering for Cheerios at General Mills, which Thursday posted a 5.9 percent increase in first-quarter earnings, thanks in part to a resurgence of its Big G cereal lines.

Sep. 23--Yo, yogurt! General Mills reported a 38 percent rise in earnings Thursday, led by a big jump in Yoplait yogurt sales, and signs of recovery in a cereal line that now includes yogurt-flavored Cheerios.