Sandra Calkins pleaded guilty last spring to defrauding investors out of about $9 million. The 67-year-old was the owner of the Edina-based Princess Soft Toys. MPR reports the company closed in 2010 and the brand was bought by a Connecticut-based toymaker.

Paul W. Fox, a former top executive of Wirth Cos., was sentenced to three years of probation, 300 hours of community service and ordered to pay $35,536 in restitution to the IRS, the Star Tribune reports. Fox pleaded guilty last December to filing a false income tax return and wage report. Twin Cities hotel developer Jeffrey Wirth was sentenced to 54 months behind bars in September and ordered to pay almost $6.5 million to the IRS for tax evasion.

Among the projects underway include work on the new $137 million Radisson Blu hotel at the Mall of America. The 500-room hotel is set to open next year, pushing the number of hotel rooms in Bloomington to 8,000.

Muslim families celebrated the grand opening of a new mosque in downtown Plymouth Saturday. Despite some neighborhood opposition, KARE 11 reports the Plymouth City Council approved the new center last August.

A woman from Savage was sentenced to 60 months in prison Friday for her role in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme that victimized lenders across the country. Barbara Lynnae Puro, 49, was sentenced after pleading guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The Bloomington man accused of injuring an Iraq War veteran by throwing a metal vise through his windshield will spend more than six years behind bars. Fox 9 reports Gerret Parks pled guilty to one count of felony first-degree assault.

A Chanhassen man has become the third person to plead guilty in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 57 properties. Douglas Rex Butler faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of fraud.