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Brooklyn Park Man Guilty in $5.1M Mortgage Fraud

Eric Devon Bernard, the last of three defendants to be found guilty in connection with a 2006 fraud scheme, worked with others to fraudulently obtain loan proceeds in connection with the sale of seven residential properties in the Twin Cities metro area.

U of M Researchers Find Gender Bias on Wikipedia

Significantly fewer females than males edit and post content to the popular online information source-which, in turn, has less coverage of topics that may be of particular interest to women, according to new findings.

Gov’t Knew About Salmonella in Cargill Meat

Salmonella was discovered at Cargill's Arkansas plant last year and at stores earlier this year through routine government inspections-long before the company's August 3 recall of 36 pounds of ground turkey-but federal rules don't allow a recall to be issued until meat is directly tied to an illness or death.

Is the U Too Administration-Heavy? Review Underway

There is some disagreement about whether the University of Minnesota has too many administrators-and claims that there are prompted the University Senate Committee on Finance and Planning to conduct a review of vice-presidential units, which will be completed in the coming weeks.