More than half of the organizations and individuals targeted in clawback lawsuits seeking to recover money from Tom Petters' fraud scheme have asked to have the suits thrown out.

Following the airing of a parody song about the Hmong community, HealthPartners and AT&T pulled their ads from the radio station-which contends that the song was aired on a comedy show and was not intended to offend listeners.

The Minneapolis-based water systems manufacturer expects the deal to close during the second quarter.

According to the Minneapolis newspaper, the redesigned Web site is faster and delivers a better reader experience.

TCF Financial Corporation's lawsuit against the Federal Reserve board wasn't thrown out as the Fed had requested-but the company was dealt a blow when a federal judge refused to issue a preliminary injunction to stop debit-card interchange limits from being enforced.

The bank is seeing results from a program it initiated three years ago that requires branch managers to spend nearly half of their time working on small-business lending.

San Jose, California-based Cypress Semiconductor-which has a manufacturing facility in Bloomington-claims that GSI Technology's products infringe on five patents that Cypress holds.

David Beulke was sentenced to more than four years in prison and three years of supervised release for bilking $5.6 million from 3M Company through the creation of fake shell companies.

The Minneapolis City Council voted 9 to 4 to award a $1.73 million contract to Life Time Fitness despite the fact that the Chanhassen-based company doesn't meet a city requirement to offer domestic partner benefits to its employees.

E-mail marketing vendor Epsilon on Friday informed its customers-which range from retailers like Best Buy to financial institutions like U.S. Bank-that someone gained unauthorized access to its database of e-mail addresses.

U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson ruled Wednesday that two of Medtronic's implantable defibrillators do not infringe on patents licensed to Boston Scientific.

U.S. Bancorp, TCF Financial Corporation, Home Federal Savings Bank of Rochester, Stearns Bank of St. Cloud, and Highland Bank of St. Michael are among the Minnesota banks that tapped the Federal Reserve's discount window during the financial crisis.

Up to 10 early stage tech companies chosen to participate in the first cycle of the program, which begins August 1, will receive at least $6,000 in seed funding, mentorship, space, resources, and connections to entrepreneurs, investors, and Fortune 500 executives.

The Jennie-O Turkey Store, which operates as a subsidiary of Austin-based Hormel Foods Corporation, issued a recall for nearly 55,000 pounds of raw turkey burgers sold exclusively at Sam's Club stores.

Two recently released reports indicate that there are few women in top leadership positions at Minnesota companies, and the state lags behind the majority of the country in women-owned businesses.