Federal prosecutors Joseph Traxler, formerly the chief financial officer and senior vice president of Centennial Mortgage and Funding, defrauded American Bank of St. Paul of about $8 million.
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An air quality alert has been issued for the northern half of the state, with the south to follow.
A tribute to the features reporter will air Friday morning.
The teens, 18 and 19, died in the crash on I-94.
Well, they're happy for him, just not that he was allowed to leave.
A man was talked out of jumping by a beer salesman and his co-worker.
His mother has made an emotional plea for information.
The Wild play-by-play guy can bring it on his Weber Grill.
He evaded almost $120,000 in sales tax payments over a three-year period.
Some election judges took issue when voters tried to cast their ballot on Tuesday.
Dozier has been in the lineup despite some health concerns.
The Minneapolis-based financial institutes vice chairman of payment services Pamela Joseph and executive vice president Leslie Godridge both ranked in this year's list compiled by American Banker magazine.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is eyeing a $374 billion mortgage-servicing portfolio of Residential Capital LLC. The bankrupt lending unit, a subsidiary of government-owned Ally Financial, filed for Chapter 11 protection in May. Dow Jones News Wires reports Minnesota-based ResCap already has a proposed agreement to sell the mortgage unit to NationStar Mortgage Holdings Inc. Berkshire says it will match the $2.4 billion bid, but offer a lower breakup fee.
Joseph Meyer, 47, has pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in connection with a mortgage scheme involving the Cloud 9 Sky Flats condo development in Minnetonka. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Nine people have been charged in the fraud scheme. A Minneapolis man is the only person who has not entered a plea.
A woman from Savage was sentenced to 60 months in prison Friday for her role in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme that victimized lenders across the country. Barbara Lynnae Puro, 49, was sentenced after pleading guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The new case involving a Utah company joins a list of other mortgage fraud prosecutions Minnesota has pending. Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman says the companies are exploiting homeowners in financial distress by promising services that they don't deliver.
A Chanhassen man has become the third person to plead guilty in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 57 properties. Douglas Rex Butler faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of fraud.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Bloomington-based First Commercial Bank, making it the fourth federally insured institution in Minnesota to fail this year. So far in 2012, 41 banks have failed nationwide. A Kentucky-based bank and trust company will assume First Commercial's deposits and purchase essentially all of the failed bank's assets