Ethisphere Institute selected 145 companies worldwide for the list. Best Buy, Ecolab, Mosaic, Target and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans were all on the list unveiled Thursday.
It's located in the historic Carriage House garage space
Bogdan Vechirko will have to avoid legal trouble for a year.
South High School held a balloon release for Dychaun Chew Thursday evening.
Weeks of below-average rain are taking a toll.
The girl died three weeks after the assault took place.
The statue will cost about $14,000 to rebuild.
One of the drivers crossed the center line and hit the other vehicle.
Some council members called it a "misuse" of his powers, but the mayor pushed back.
Sheila Nezhad and Jacob Frey finished first and second, respectively, in the endorsement process.
The 32-year-old was drunk-driving a pontoon, with one of his friends falling off and dying.
Big-time hailstones slammed Lonsdale and Cannon Falls.
Fortune Magazine's top 50 list includes 3M, Target, St. Jude Medical and General Mills. Maplewood-based 3M was the highest ranking Minnesota company in the 18th spot for most-admired companies. Best Buy did not make the list this year after being named the 36th most-admired company last year.
Layoffs at Best Buy Co. Inc. and Supervalu Inc. landed both Minnesota-based companies on a list highlighting the biggest corporate layoffs during the first half of 2012. Business Insider compiled a list of the Top 16 biggest mass layoffs of 2012, which ranked Best Buy at No. 7 with 2,800 job cuts and Supervalu at No. 8 with 2,500 layoffs.
Forbes magazine has once again recognized St. Paul-based Ecolab and Golden Valley-based General Mills on this year's list of the “The World’s Most Innovative Companies." Ecolab ranks No. 31 and General Mills is 50th out of 100 global companies. Both Minnesota-based firms were on the magazine's 2011 list.
The Richfield-based electronics retailer was named by 24/7 Wall St. as one of the most hated. The website reviewed several factors including earnings, product quality, pricing and consumer satisfaction. Best Buy is sixth on the top ten list. Facebook, American Airlines and AT&T are the top three most hated.
Target and Best Buy rank highly on the annual list, with Minnesota strongly represented.
Target more than doubled its number of "likes" on Facebook to be Minnesota's most popular brand on the social networking site. The Minneapolis-based retailer has surged to 11.7 million "likes," followed by Buffalo Wild Wings with 7.32 million. Best Buy, Dairy Queen and Betty Crocker rounded out the top five most-liked companies.
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