All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2013 // The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis, Minn., office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known...
Jan 15 2013 // A St. Paul, Minn., man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen.Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation on one...
Jan 15 2013 // Millions of dollars in relief loan money sit unclaimed more than six months after heavy flooding hit northeastern Minnesota.Most of the $12 million allocated by the Legislature for disaster loans to homeowners remains...
Jan 10 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to A (Excellent) from B (Fair) and the issuer credit rating to “a+” from “bb+” of Austin Mutual Insurance Co. (Austin) in Maple Grove, Minn....
Jan 4 2013 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., has acquired Liscomb Hood Mason Co., a $2.2 million revenue agency based in Duluth, Minn.With roots dating back to 1927, Liscomb Hood...
Dec 20 2012 // Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety says about 1,300 people have been arrested for driving while intoxicated so far in December. State law enforcement agencies are working overtime hours this month as part of a...
Dec 11 2012 // Some school districts in Minnesota want parents to pick up the tab for insuring expensive tablet computers that are given to students. More and more electronics are replacing textbooks, paper and pencils. Farmington...
Dec 4 2012 // A monthly economic index report suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months for nine Midwest and Plains states.The Mid-America Business Conditions index rose slightly in November to a weak...
Nov 19 2012 // The Minnesota State Patrol says unlicensed drivers are more likely to be involved in a deadly crash.Lt. Eric Roeske says statistics from 2011 show unlicensed drivers are twice as likely to be involved in fatal accidents....
Nov 16 2012 // Minnesota agriculture officials are phasing out a federally funded program that allows them to test produce for contaminants like E. coli and salmonella.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Microbiological Data...
Nov 13 2012 // Officials with the National Weather Service say two weak tornadoes touched down late Saturday on the south edge of the Twin Cities’ metropolitan region in Minnesota.Meteorologist Chris Franks tells the Star Tribune...
Nov 5 2012 // A Hillman, Minn., man whose home was facing foreclosure has been convicted of setting the house on fire for the insurance money.Jurors deliberated for four hours this week before finding 53-year-old Randy Donald Reed...
Nov 4 2012 // The Minnesota State Patrol says unlicensed drivers are more likely to be involved in a deadly crash. Lt. Eric Roeske says statistics from 2011 show unlicensed drivers are twice as likely to be involved in fatal accidents....
Nov 2 2012 // AAA Minneapolis has named Tom Sorel, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), as its new president and chief executive officer.Sorel will join AAA Minneapolis effective Dec. 1, 2012. He will...
Nov 1 2012 // A Duluth, Minn., building contractor convicted of vandalizing a client’s duplex over a billing fight has been sentenced to almost seven years in prison.A jury convicted 35-year-old Adam Leroy Seavey of first-degree...
Oct 22 2012 // A former Minnesota police officer who accused other law enforcement of illegally accessing her driver’s license information to see her photo has reached tentative settlements with St. Paul and other cities worth...
Oct 5 2012 // You might be surprised to learn it’s not a rural county that leads the state in the most collisions between deer and vehicles in Minnesota. State safety officials say Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, may...
Oct 5 2012 // State officials now say 11 homes and 24 other structures were destroyed by the wildfire that threatened the northwestern Minnesota city town of Karlstad.Jean Goad, a spokeswoman for the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center,...
Sep 13 2012 // A U.S. woman accused of sharing songs online owes record companies $222,000 for willful copyright violations, a federal appeals court in Minneapolis, Minn., said reversing a lower court’s ruling in a long-running...
Sep 11 2012 // Minnesota safety officials say the number of pedestrian deaths has risen sharply this year. Twenty-three pedestrians have died in Minnesota this year — the deadliest in the last five years. Last year at this time, 14...