Underwriters Laboratories conducted a study that found Minneapolis to be among the ten safest cities for families with young children.
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U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kyle recommended that Gregory Bell serve his sentence in Miland, Michigan, and that he participate in a 500-hour residential drug treatment program.
The airport is expected to close Thursday afternoon, and-assuming water levels drop as expected-reopen at least its primary runway to air traffic on Monday.
Each company could have been required to pay an $87 million fine in connection with Tom Petters' $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme, but prosecutors recommended that there be no criminal fine so as to return as much money as possible to the victims.
The funding was awarded under the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program and will allow for an additional three years of broadband mapping.
Digital Angel's board of directors unanimously rejected the $17 million offer from Florida-based PositiveID Corporation, describing it as "inadequate" and "highly opportunistic."
A Texas judge ordered U.S. Bank to pay an additional $26.6 million for infringing on DataTreasury's patents relating to banking and check imaging.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, Twin Cities home prices posted one of the highest decreases among 20 U.S. metro areas tracked; but without adjusting for seasonality, the average home price rose 0.8 percent, representing one of the highest increases.
Floyd and Inger Olson allegedly failed to file tax returns for their business, National Real Estate Trader's, Inc., from 2004 to 2008.
Neither St. Jude nor rival Medtronic-the company that Joseph McCullough joined after leaving his former post-would specify the terms of the settlement or reveal McCullough's employment status.
CEO Brian Dunn expects sales during the company's "most important holiday season ever" to be driven by smartphones, touch-screen tablet computers, new video-game devices (including some with 3-D games), and e-readers.
Financial details of the transaction weren't disclosed, but Cleantec-the company that Ecolab is acquiring-has about $55 million in annual sales.
The former executive of Denny Hecker pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to investigators and one count of mail fraud.
A federal judge ordered Xcel to turn over documents related to capital projects at two of its power plants within 30 days.
The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit that dates back to November 2007 but will not become involved in two of the three allegations that it contains-which indicate that the Mayo Clinic improperly obtained laboratory accreditation and failed to retain histopathology slides for the required period of time.
The Minneapolis-based toy seller claims that Automoblox Company did not honor obligations that were outlined in the companies' license agreement.