New York-based Harvard Maintenance is firing more than half of its Twin Cities work force-about 240 employees-after an immigration audit revealed that workers were illegal immigrants. The Service Employees International
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Five Minnesotans who were charged in connection with an alleged $10 million bank fraud scheme pleaded not guilty on Monday in federal court in St. Paul. The five are among
Less than one week after the Minnesota Department of Commerce charged a Michigan company for allegedly scamming 118 Minnesota homeowners out of nearly $290,000, yet another mortgage lender is facing
The next time you buy an item from Amazon.com, you may have to pay taxes on it. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton and several Minnesota legislators have joined lawmakers in several
The latest saga in the Denny Hecker case came to a close Tuesday when U.S. District Court Judge Joan Ericksen handed down the maximum 14-month sentence to Christi Rowan, who is
The long list of tenants who have exited downtown Minneapolis' Block E development just got longer. The Applebee's restaurant on the skyway level of the development closed on Sunday. Katy
Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity Advisors, LLC, is continuing to expand its presence in Minnesota with the purchase of the Radisson Hotel at the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. Susan Weinberg,
January's improvement in the housing market was short-lived as February prices and sales both posted double-digit decreases, according to a monthly report released Thursday by the Minneapolis Area Association of
A week after Reuters reported that Lawson Software, Inc., is exploring the possibility of a sale, the company announced that it has received an unsolicited proposal to be bought by
MTS Systems Corporation on Monday announced that it has been temporarily suspended from federal government contracting for failing to properly disclose that it previously pleaded guilty to violating export regulations.
Bankrupt real estate developer Gerald Trooien and his lender, General Electric Capital Corporation (GE Capital), have reached an agreement to settle a dispute over $18 million in loans, thus allowing
Maplewood-based 3M Company is extending its partnership with Quanta Computer, Inc., with the creation of a Singapore-based company that will make and sell touchscreen solutions for the personal computing market.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce on Thursday announced that it has charged loan modification firm Save My Home USA Company, Inc., for allegedly scamming 118 Minnesota homeowners out of nearly
John R. Hawkins, who has served as CEO of Minneapolis-based Hawkins, Inc., for more than a decade, died at age 59 after battling liver cancer, the company announced Friday. The
Medtronic just received disappointing news from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about a product that it hoped to bring to market. In a Wednesday filing with the U.S.
The rapidly increasing cost of oil and the resulting spike in the price of jet fuel have presented a challenge in the sale of Sun Country Airlines. Court documents filed
The number of billionaires in the world has increased since last year, but there are now fewer billionaires in Minnesota, according to a list recently published by Forbes magazine. Six
UnitedHealth Group is protesting a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) decision to rescind a $23.5 billion contract-and four members of Minnesota's Congressional delegation sent a letter in support of that