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September 3, 2016 at 5:22AM

Minnesota health insurers propose big premium hikes for 2017

Individual market policies have proposed increases averaging anywhere from 36 percent to 67 percent.

E. coli outbreak in General Mills flour stirs up new food worries

The Golden Valley-based company is at the center of a fast-moving discussion among scientists and regulators about how serious the development is and its implications.

Lifetouch adjusting its lens to the digital age

The nation's largest producer of school photos and IDs is now expanding into the realm of organization all things digital and visual for people.

Target's top marketer, Jeff Jones, is leaving to become Uber president

Jones, who has been one of Target's most visible executives, will be responsible for ride-sharing operations, marketing and customer support.

Start-ups in Target's Techstars accelerator race to finish line

Some of the companies are now trying to partner with Target, and some also are thinking of opening an office or moving to the Twin Cities.

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The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.

In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece