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News & Features Archive
Monday, November 2, 2009
Disk drive component maker Hutchinson Technology says the company broke even in the latest quarter primarily through layoffs and the closing of a plant in the past year.
(11/02/2009)
A 25-year-old St. Anthony man has pleaded
guilty to perjury in an federal investigation into why a string
young men have traveled to Somalia from the Minneapolis area.
(11/02/2009)
A Lakeville woman who was intoxicated when she rolled on top of her infant grandson pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter on Monday.
(11/02/2009)
A new report released Monday ranks Minnesota tops in the nation for civic involvement.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak faces 10 challengers on the ballot Tuesday for his office at city hall and many of Rybak's opponents are critical of the mayor on several issues, especially his record of raising property taxes.
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will be challenged at the polls Tuesday by Republican-endorsed business executive Eva Ng, who has made her disdain for rising property taxes her central issue.
The two largest medical providers in the Dakotas have completed a merger.
If Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak decides to run for governor, he knows it wouldn't be easy to run the state's largest city at the same time.
The Republican Party of Minnesota is taking the rare step of backing candidates in four local school board elections Tuesday.
The Hibbing area in northeastern Minnesota has the highest jobless rate of any city in the state. It's also in the center of the state's taconite mining industry. The industry is seeing a mild rebound after a summer shutdown, but so far the upturn has skipped Hibbing.
Cass County authorities have charged a man
with manslaughter in the weekend death of a 2-month-old child,
saying he got drunk, passed out and lay on top of the child while
babysitting.
More than half the 14,000 jobs created or
saved by the federal economic stimulus in Minnesota are in public
schools.
The newspapers in Hibbing and Virginia
have eliminated their Monday print editions to save money.
Two public meetings will be held next month on a proposed copper, nickel, cobalt and precious metals mine near Hoyt Lakes in northeastern Minnesota.
Government investigators say taxpayers are unlikely to recover all of their investment in General
Motors or Chrysler.
Twelve dogs confiscated last month in an animal cruelty investigation will be available for adoption today.
Former State Auditor Pat Anderson said she would favor expanding the sales tax to clothing and some services in exchange for cuts in corporate and personal income taxes.
One of the prosecution's star witnesses
is on the stand in businessman Tom Petters' fraud trial.
Police in Duluth are still looking for an SUV that hit an 18-year-old pedestrian over the weekend.
A new U.S. Census Bureau report says
Grand Forks-area drivers have the shortest commutes in the country.
Twenty-something Michael Israelievitch has just been named Principal Timpani of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. It was a grueling (but thorough!) audition and he feels ready to take on his new role.
The Green Bay Packers-Minnesota Vikings
rivalry was too much for at least 43 football fans at Lambeau Field
Sunday.
There's one day left in an eBay auction for a motorized La-Z-Boy chair that was seized from a drunken driver in northern Minnesota, and the top bid has already surpassed $40,000.
Ford, the only Detroit automaker to dodge
direct government aid and bankruptcy court, surprised investors
with net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter and
forecast a "solidly profitable" 2011.
Federal prosecutors plan to call one of
their star witnesses Monday in the fraud trial of Minnesota
businessman Tom Petters.
Exactly one year from the 2010 election,
former State Auditor Pat Anderson is sketching out what she'd do as
Minnesota governor.
Minnesota teens who want to tell others
about the dangers of texting while driving can help spread the
message by entering a TV commercial challenge.
The Minnesota Department of Natural
Resources is accepting applications through the end of business
Monday for a new $3.7 million conservation grant program.
Researchers like Ellen Pence, above, say one key to preventing domestic violence is to recognize that not all abusers are alike.
A long-standing ritual of homeowners - sealing their blacktop driveways - is getting new scrutiny from the state of Minnesota because sealant from driveways and parking lots may be washing off into ponds and streams as hazardous waste.
Tomorrow Minneapolis will hold its first election using a new voting system called instant runoff voting. St. Paul residents will see a question on their ballot asking whether they want to switch to instant runoff voting, too. Midday offers a primer on how this voting system works.
Guthrie Theater artistic director Joe Dowling makes his American acting debut in a play he has directed in the past and by a playwright he knows well. Dowling talks about the challenge of both directing and acting in a play that has tested previous actors and directors.
Flu vaccines against H1N1 are hard to come by unless you're in one of the priority groups. It may be until end of November until there's enough for wide distribution. The top infectious disease official at the National Institutes of Health talks about the strategy for fighting H1N1, and how vaccines might be produced faster in the future.
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