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.
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Six deer died in Goodhue County.
Denise and James Closs' deaths have been ruled as homicides.
The buckles can break, posing a safety risk to babies.
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The Ellisons tried to block its release, citing privacy concerns.
Canada is just the 2nd nation to approve a nationwide regulated pot market.
It follows an assault on a GOP candidate on Friday.
It follows an attack ad that ran last week.
Excelsior Blvd. is closed at Fairview Ave. until about 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Minnesota is first in the U.S. among states where over 90 percent of students take the test.
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.
The FBI is trying to determine whether a man suspected of bank robbery in southern Minnesota is the same man involved in a string of heists around the metro area. Authorities arrested the suspect after a bank robbery in Brewster, Minn.
Mark Wetsch is charged with 13 counts of armed bank robbery in various towns around Minnesota. He was arrested after a robbery in Brewster, Minnesota, last month. Authorities say he referred to other robberies.
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.
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.
