Business
July 4, 2019
More than six years after the case began, judge Gregory Kishel -- overseeing the corporate bankruptcy of Ponzi master Tom Petters (right) -- said it i

Bankruptcy judge orders trial for BMO Harris Bank in Tom Petters case

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kathleen Sanberg concluded BMO Harris Bank lied, gave the court "false and misleading" testimony and "intentionally destroyed and failed to preserve the Minnesota e-mail backup tapes."
Business
July 3, 2019
Changing your car's transmission fluid is one of the most important boxes to check of your maintenance list. (Dreamstime/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1309224

Mechanic shortage prompts hiring call from AutoNation

Business
July 3, 2019
Beth Davisson, executive director of the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center, and Jonathan Copley, chief executive officer at Aetna Better Health of Ken

'Without employment you don't stay sober.' Kentucky program urges businesses to aid addicts

Business
July 3, 2019
A Sun Country Airlines jet takes off from Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport MSP. File photo by Glen Stubbe/glen.stubbe@startribune.com ORG XM

Sun Country apologizes for no notification about canceled flights

It was the first real-time test for the customer communication system that should've been automatic.
Business
July 3, 2019
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2018 file photo, employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle.

Retailers want feds to look into how tech giants control info

Online giants have too much control over pricing and other information, argues a trade group representing Target, Best Buy and others.
Business
July 3, 2019

Retail deals (plus what to skip) in July

Business
July 3, 2019
Workers have completedthe Wisconsin portion of Enbridge's proposed $2.6 billion pipeline. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune)

Minn. regulators will not appeal Enbridge pipeline ruling

The PUC will try to fix their flawed environmental review of Enbridge's proposed $2.6 billion oil pipeline rather than go to the state Supreme Court.
Business
July 3, 2019
Former Starkey president Jerry Ruzicka, shown here leaving the federal courthouse in Minneapolis in 2016, is set to go to prison on Moneay. (Mark Vanc

Former Starkey president heads to prison Monday

Jerry Ruzicka was convicted in March 2018 of defrauding Starkey out of millions of dollars.
July 3, 2019
Satellite photos show Midwestern farmers' struggle with extreme weather

Satellite photos show Midwestern farmers' struggle with extreme weather

Unplanted, drowned or late fields have two things in common: They look brown from space.
Business
July 3, 2019

Older workers are staying on the job; here's why

Local
July 2, 2019
A Volkswagen official at the heart of the German automaker's wide-ranging diesel emissions cheating scandal plans to plead guilty in the case.

Minnesota will use VW settlement cash to get polluting diesel vehicles off the road

The MPCA will use nearly $4 million to pay businesses, cities and nonprofits to replace old diesel trucks with those that have cleaner-burning diesel engines.
Golf
July 2, 2019
] Aaron Lavinsky ¥ aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com 3M hosted a 3M Science Tour for the media on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine

3M has fun with products from adhesives to wall graphics at PGA tournament in Blaine

3M Open Science Tour showcased products made with company technologies.
Business
July 2, 2019
Delta later this year will offer "welcome cocktails" and other new amenities to passengers on all international flights exceeding 6.5 hours.

Bellinis and chocolates: Delta adds a touch of first class to economy on longer flights

The expanded services are a bid to distinguish it from competing airlines.
Business
July 2, 2019
Lynn Martinson, a production trainer at CyberOptics, worked on an Autospace Multi Sensor (AMS) at her workstation, Friday, July 10, 2015 in Golden Val

CyberOptics shares plunge 23% as chip-industry slump pounds its sales

Executives said spring sales came in at the low end of forecasts and they are downbeat about the rest of 2019.
Business
July 2, 2019
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s campus in Minnetonka.

UnitedHealth Group helps launch data science program at black colleges in Atlanta

The group will spend $8.25 million over 5 years for students at the schools.
Business
July 2, 2019
Lyft co-founders John Zimmer, front second from left, and Logan Green, front second from right, cheer as they as they ring a ceremonial opening bell i

The power of Google and Amazon looms over tech IPOs

Trustbusting politicians find Silicon Valley to be a complicated web.
Business
July 2, 2019

Alexander: Stop online theft of PC processing power

Business
July 2, 2019

Five common misconceptions about the Federal Reserve

Business
July 2, 2019
Wells Fargo's top Minnesota executive joins Habitat for Humanity board as Habitat's production grows

Wells Fargo's top Minnesota executive joins Habitat for Humanity board as Habitat's production grows

CEO Laurie Nordquist of Wells Fargo Minnesota has joined Habitat's board a few weeks after Wells Fargo announced that its foundation was focusing more on affordable housing around the nation.
Business
July 2, 2019
Xcel Energy’s resource plan still calls for the calling of coal plants in Becker, Minn. However, it also will need more power plants in the 203

Xcel says it will likely need more power capacity by 2030s

As utility shifts from coal to renewables, gas plants, other technology may fill gap.

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