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January 27, 2018 at 6:47AM

Why would Amazon snub Twin Cities in headquarters contest?

Columnist Lee Schafer wrote what's worse than being cut from the list is it seems doubtful there's anything to be learned from the experience.

UnitedHealth and Walgreens are mixing urgent care with pharmacy

An experimental mash-up of services in the tiny suburb of Hilltop is helping to generate buzz on Wall Street.

Blue Cross shifting work to Anthem

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is shifting some back-office work to an Anthem subsidiary; no word on how many local jobs will be affected.

Eyebobs envisions bigger retail presence and audience

As the business continues to grow online, Eyebobs also will open new stores in Mall of America and Orlando this year.

South Dakota's Sanford Health expands into five more countries

The health system's new clinics mean it will have 30-plus locations in nine countries, including Costa Rica, Ireland and New Zealand.

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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