The rate of year-end bank robberies is nearly triple what it was a year ago. A robbery at the Glenwood State Bank in Alexandria Thursday makes it 67 statewide in 2011.
Jensen beat to multiple other hopefuls for the endorsement at Saturday's convention.
Monday-Wednesday should be fantastic weather in Minnesota.
A canoer found the body in a swamp near Eagle Lake Friday.
Kim Crockett was endorsed as the party's candidate for secretary of state, while Jim Schultz won the endorsement for attorney general.
The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office confirmed that 63-year-old Ryan Erickson died when a grain bin fell on him.
The local Mexican restaurant is fighting a case presented by Taco John's over naming rights, among other things.
Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative called the incident "the unthinkable."
Pedestrian bridges near the Lutsen Resort have been damaged by the vast river flow.
Warren Dean, 27, admitted to robbing seven St. Paul businesses in a span of three days.
The 17-year-old was identified Friday.
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The FBI believes the man who robbed a U.S. Bank in Bloomington on Monday morning is the same suspect who robbed a bank in Fargo, North Dakota, on New Year's Eve. Anyone with information is asked to call 612-376-3200.
Maple Grove-based InterBank was among four banks in three states closed by federal regulators Friday. Great Southern Bank based in Missouri will taken over InterBanks's four branches in the Twin Cities metro starting Monday. The FDIC has now closed 21 failed U.S. banks this year.
The Bloomington bank that's been known as First Commercial will open its doors as part of Republic Bank & Trust on Monday. Regulators shut down the bank after closing on Friday. The FDIC arranged a sale of its assets to Republic, which is based in Louisville, Kentucky. It's Minnesota fourth bank failure this year.
Twin Cities banks are cashing in on the surge of multifamily construction, jostling to do business again with real estate developers, the Star Tribune reports. It's a sharp twist from the post-crash years when toxic concentrations of commercial real estate loans brought down so many small community banks and larger banks all but pulled out of construction and development lending.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis says the health of Minnesota's banks is gradually improving as the industry recovers from the recession. A Fed official says profits are still not great but they're moving in the right direction. A new report on the year's second quarter also shows the number of bad loans is shrinking.
The suspect was convicted of armed robbery of the same bank back in 2007.
A group of Twin Cities Somalis are frustrated with banks no longer willing to transfer money to Somalia. In response, Somali-American customers are removing their money and closing bank accounts. They want banks to restore the wire service to Africa. Banks fear the money transfers could violate anti-terror regulations.
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