The Commerce, Public Safety and Natural Resources departments are all facing similar lawsuits over union contracts that award benefits to early retirees but not to older workers.
One of the guns Gabriel Lee Young-Duncan obtained was used in a deadly St. Paul shooting last year.
The festival at the Union Depot returns June 4-5.
The Twin Cities is among the areas that could get hit.
The sunbather told police he was trying to "tan and relax."
Nero helped save the California condors before taking up his post as an education ambassador.
Few details are known about the incident.
The former Minnesota Vikings linebacker was introduced Friday afternoon.
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The most significant severe threats are Sunday night and again on Monday.
The young woman killed in the crash was a college student studying zoology.
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The Pioneer Press says Republican House Speaker Kurt Zellers told the director of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources she was being let go so the commission could go in a different direction. DFLers are shocked and say the commission itself had no complaints and should have sole authority to make firing decisions. The commission helps direct lottery proceeds to environmental and natural resources projects.
A federal judge in St. Paul rules Well Fargo must face a group lawsuit for promoting a risky securities-lending program. The bank's lawyers say they will appeal.
The owner of two taconite plants in northern Minnesota, Cliffs Natural Resources, sent their team in charge of negotiating union worker's contracts home for the holiday weekend. Cliffs agreed to a short-term extension for current contracts with United Steelworkers Friday and the union decided they will not strike while negotiations continue.
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.
A 20-month federal investigation into alleged discrimination against Muslim students in the St. Cloud schools ended with a settlement.
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.
The U.S. Department of Labor claims women were less likely to be hired and Asian men were favored over other applicants at its meatpacking plant in Arkansas. Federal officials want to cancel Cargill's existing government contracts
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims in the suit that the defense contractor broke the law after refusing to hire a black woman. A recruiter had allegedly told the woman to remove her braids so she would look more professional.
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