Minnesota
Bus company confident of cause of tour bus crash
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota bus company remains confident that a driver's sudden medical emergency led to the fatal tour bus crash earlier this week that killed two and injured 20.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:30 am | Loading…
Small Florida bank shuttered, 124th this year
WASHINGTON - Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:30 am | Loading…
Alabama court: Minnesota pilot death claims to be heard
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that negligence claims against two aircraft firms in the 2002 death of a Minnesota pilot were wrongly thrown out.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:25 am | Loading…
State House tells court Pawlenty abused budget law
ST. PAUL - Lawyers for the Minnesota House spell out in a 34-page brief why they believe Gov. Tim Pawlenty misused a state law to enact budget cuts without legislative consent.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:25 am | Loading…
Man charged in UI vandalism pleads not guilty
DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Minnesota activist arrested in the 2004 animal rights vandalism at the University of Iowa has pleaded not guilty in federal court.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:20 am | Loading…
Video game watchdog group to close
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis nonprofit group best known as a video game watchdog is closing its doors at the end of the year due to a lack of funding.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:20 am | Loading…
Lawyer denied access to terror suspect
ST. PAUL - A Minnesota law professor and advocate for Somali immigrants in the state says he was denied access to a Minneapolis man who is being held on terrorism charges in the Netherlands.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Ramsey County marks adoption day with 35 adoptions
ST. PAUL - Ramsey County is observing National Adoption Day by finalizing the adoptions of 35 children to 24 families in one afternoon ceremony.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Minn-Kota Red Cross has new director
FARGO, N.D. - The Minn-Kota Chapter of the American Red Cross has a new director.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:10 am | Loading…
The museum formally known as Ironworld closes
CHISHOLM, Minn. - The financially strapped museum in Chisholm formerly called Ironworld has closed. No reopening date has been set.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:10 am | Loading…
State GOP biggest user of tax break Pawlenty axed
ST. PAUL - Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Republican Party was the biggest user of a campaign program he axed that gives donors tax refunds for part of their contributions.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Man convicted of homicide by driving drunk
ST. PAUL - A driver has been convicted in Ramsey County of driving drunk and causing the death of a St. Paul woman and injuring her husband.
Nov 20, 2009 | 11:55 pm | Loading…
Survey suggests improving but weak Plains economy
OMAHA, Neb. - Business appears to be slowly improving in rural areas of 11 Midwest and Plains states, but the economy there remains weak, according to a new survey of bankers.
Nov 20, 2009 | 11:55 pm | Loading…
Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.
Nov 20, 2009 | 11:45 pm | Loading…
Bus company: Driver in I-90 crash had aneurysm
MINNEAPOLIS - A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crashed, killing two people and injuring 20, the owner of the bus company said Thursday. State officials said they couldn't confirm the aneurysm and it was too e…
Nov 19, 2009 | 10:00 pm
Minnesota man indicted on animal terrorism charge
DES MOINES, Iowa - A Minneapolis man has been indicted on animal terrorism charges in Iowa, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Nov 19, 2009 | 9:50 pm | Loading…
Part of SD town evacuated after chemical leak
BIG STONE CITY, S.D. - Residents of this northeastern South Dakota town who were evacuated after an anhydrous ammonia leak returned to their homes Thursday morning unharmed.
Nov 19, 2009 | 9:45 pm | Loading…
Another man indicted in missing Somalis case
MINNEAPOLIS - A 24-year-old St. Anthony man has been indicted on terrorism-related charges in the federal investigation into the departures of young Somali men who left Minnesota to fight with a terror group in Somalia, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Nov 19, 2009 | 9:45 pm | Loading…
Petters insists in testimony associates hid fraud
ST. PAUL - Minnesota businessman Tom Petters stuck to his story Thursday that he didn't know that his close associates were carrying out an enormous fraud at Petters Co. Inc., saying he "chose not to look" too closely at what was happening.
Nov 19, 2009 | 9:45 pm | Loading…
Treasury to sell warrants as 3 banks exit bailouts
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction off warrants for three banks that it acquired as part of last fall's financial bailout. It's the latest government effort to reel in its emergency financial programs.
Nov 19, 2009 | 9:40 pm | Loading…
