The Austin-based company says the agreement gives the workers a wage increase of $1.50 per hour, plus improvements in their pensions and medical insurance plans.
The Wild will play 40 games in the final 77 days of the regular season.
The puppy died two days after undergoing a procedure at a Mayo research facility.
The suspect faces three separate felony charges.
He was charged with illegally possessing a machine gun.
Chris Smith will be eligible immediately as a graduate transfer.
Members of the girls team returned to the bus to find the driver unresponsive.
Sometimes the company didn't send people their results at all, the lawsuit alleges.
The corporation's Optum business represented a significant chunk of that total.
The couple say their friend was "not acting right."
Reported cases lag what's happening in real time, so the newly reported cases over the next week or so will still be very high.
Projects will help Minnesota prevent or adapt to climate change and mitigate its impacts, the governor says.
Workers at the Hormel Foods plant in Austin are being screened for tuberculosis after one employee there was identified with the contagious disease, KAAL TV reports. Tuberculosis is a health issue for the workers at the plant, but not a threat to food safety, the station reports.
Cliffs Natural Resources and the United Steelworkers union have agreed to keep negotiating past the September 1 expiration worker's current contracts, the Duluth News Tribune reports. Both sides have agreed to a short-term extension and employees will not strike. Negotiations with ArcelorMittal and U.S. Steel continue.
Dayton responded to Republican criticism of state worker contracts saying the negotiations are well within the parameters of contracts approved by former Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty. The contracts would give over 27,000 public workers a two percent raise.
Strong sales of Spam and Jennie-O products helped the Austin-based meat producer meet Wall Street expectations. Hormel's third quarter earnings rose to $111.2 million, or 41 cents per share, in the third quarter ended on July 29 compared to $98.5 million, or 36 cents per share, a year earlier.
A Republican-led legislative panel rejected new contracts for more than 27,000 state workers. Senator Mike Parry called Governor Dayton irrational and referred to union leaders as "dinosaurs" following the vote Thursday.
But that's still 15,000 jobs that need to be filled during the holiday season. The Richfield-based electronics retailer plans to increase its regular workers' hours instead.
A 37-month contract for union members at taconite plants in Hibbing, Eveleth and Michigan that includes a 4.5 percent wage increase was ratified by the United Steelworkers. The union and company reached a tentative agreement on Oct. 11.
Mower County officials testing Hormel employees and residents for tuberculosis say all results so far have come back negative. The investigation comes after a worker at the Austin, Minn. plant was diagnosed with the disease last week. Tuberculosis is a threat to people, but does not affect food safety.
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