The Richfield electronics retailer announced that it'll open at midnight on Black Friday-like Target and many other retailers-but CEO Brian Dunn said he was not happy about the race to unlock doors early because it impacts employees' Thanksgiving plans.
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Toronto-based FirstService Corporation announced on Monday that it has acquired Gittleman Management Corporation, a Bloomington-based residential property manager, for an undisclosed amount.
The St. Louis Park-based restaurant operator said that it has completed the acquisition of the Cadillac Ranch eatery at the Mall of America and expects to close on the purchase of six more before the end of the year.
A Ramsey County district court judge reportedly called MPR's lawsuit "premature"; MPR wanted the Met Council to use a steel-springs system in order to reduce vibrations in front of MPR's broadcast facility, but the less costly rubber pad that the Met Council wants to use instead may be a sufficient alternative, she said.
A jury awarded the compensatory damages-$100,000 in lost earnings and $900,000 in damage to reputation-to a holistic healer in Hudson, Wisconsin, who sued KSTP after a 2009 story about the treatment that she provided to a former patient.
The Met Council has joined an ongoing lawsuit seeking damages from 3M for alleged environmental effects stemming from its disposal of chemicals.
The retailer will close five stores, open one store, and reportedly build a distribution center in Texas that will supply food to stores in eight states.
The magazine took home five gold awards, one silver award, and five bronze awards at the Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association's 2011 event, which recognizes excellence in publishing.
A London court found that 3M breached an agreement to actively market a product called BacLite and ordered it to pay $1.3 million in damages; 3M, meanwhile, is touting the outcome as a victory, pointing out that the lawsuit had originally sought about $40 million in damages.
A new proposal-called "The Corridor" by its authors-calls for building a new Vikings stadium at the Farmers Market site, redeveloping the Metrodome site as a "medical campus," and establishing a new governing body to oversee the region's sports and entertainment facilities.
Eric Bernard, who allegedly received more than $300,000 in personal profits from a $5 million mortgage fraud scheme, is the third defendant to be sentenced in the case.
The new "Delta Away We Go" app allows Facebook users to plan a trip, invite their friends, discuss details, and purchase plane tickets without ever leaving the social-networking site.
The law restricts electricity imports from new fossil-fuel plants in other states-and North Dakota claims that it is interfering with energy production in the coal-rich state.
A restructuring plan that just received bankruptcy court approval will give majority control of Perkins; Marie Callender's, Inc., to Wayzata Investment Partners.
The company said that the sale will allow it to focus its resources on its core medical device and in-vitro diagnostic businesses-and help boost its finances.
St. Paul-based start-up Smart Signal Technologies will market a system that can collect real-time traffic information from intersections to help controllers better mediate traffic flow.
Ninety-two percent of union members voted on a second contract offer from American Crystal Sugar Company, and 90 percent rejected it.
With the holiday shopping season right around the corner, Target reported that its year-over-year, same-store sales growth in October was almost double that experienced between October 2009 and 2010; still, the results fell short of analysts' expectations.