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Thousands of customers in Minnesota and across the country lost cellphone service for several hours during a widespread AT&T outages Thursday morning. Downdetector - a website that tracks system outages based on customer complaints - showed outages from 3 a.m. till noon affected nearly 75,000 customers of AT&T and its discount carrier, Cricket Wireless. During the outages, customers could not make or receive calls and texts, and likely lost access to the internet if using data....
A tiny Canadian company is hoping Minnesota's Iron Range could be the next source of a globally sought-after element - helium. Far from simply giving lift to balloons, the noble gas has become an essential ingredient in space exploration, semiconductor chip manufacturing and some medical imaging. Large pockets are rare, but by chance, drillers looking for platinum and palladium stumbled on what might be a major reservoir locked more than 1,700 feet underground near Babbitt. That discovery in...
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell said he plans to appeal. Asked if he can afford to pay, he pointed out that the breach-of-contract lawsuit was against one of his companies, Lindell Management LLC, and not against him...
After undergoing surgery, radiation and three different therapies, Scott Goedeke faced a tough reality: The cancer that first surfaced on the roof of his mouth had spread to a lymph node in his neck. So the 58-year-old health-care consultant agreed to an experimental treatment that would deploy his own cells to destroy it. "I have to do this," he recalled thinking at the time. His medical team at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis extracted one tumor, identified the cells that could attack...
Capital One is purchasing Discover Financial Services for $35.3 billion, the banking giant announced Monday - an all-stock deal that brings together two of the country's largest credit card companies. The two financial giants combined would become the biggest credit card lender in the nation, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence. Discover, based in Riverwoods, Ill., has a market value of nearly $28 billion, while McLean, Va.-based Capital One is valued at about $52 billion....
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering relaxing one of its most significant climate change rules - tailpipe emissions limits for cars and trucks - by giving automakers more time to boost sales of electric vehicles, according to two people familiar with the matter. Rather than mandating a rapid increase in electric vehicle (EV) sales in the coming years, the agency could delay these requirements until after 2030, the two people said. The individuals spoke on the condition of...
The moccasin-maker Minnetonka, 2½ years after apologizing for cultural misappropriation, has relaunched its best-known style after a redesign by a Red Lake Nation artist. The Thunderbird, first introduced in the 1950s, is now Animikii. Graphic designer and activist Lucie Skjefte, a citizen of Red Lake Nation, reimagined the shoe's beading work. It is named after her son, whose name coincidentally shares similar meaning as thunderbird in the Ojibwe language. "The Thunderbird is one of our...
A settlement between the state of Colorado and Kansas-based debt collector TrueAccord will refund $500,000 to borrowers who defaulted on loans issued by tribal lending entities. According to the settlement, investigators found that, from 2017 to 2022, TrueAccord collected or attempted to collect on roughly 29,000 consumers who defaulted on loans issued by the tribal lenders. Most loans had interest rates over 500% APR, and some approached 900% APR—far greater than the 12% cap for unlicensed loans under Colorado law, according to a statement f...
A Minnesota Polaris employee is facing a reckless driving charge in Alaska after a December snowmobile collision that killed three sled dogs. Alaska State Troopers said in a news release Tuesday that 48-year-old Erik Johnson of Roseau, a test rider for Polaris, and the company were charged with a single misdemeanor for operating the vehicle in a way that created "a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm to a person or property." Charging documents released Wednesday by the Alaska Department...
Minneapolis-based Target last posted on social media platform X on Jan. 31, 2023. The retailer's year-plus absence on the app formally known as Twitter isn't unique among Minnesota companies, big and small. The likes of Medtronic, 3M, UnitedHealth Group, Magers & Quinn Booksellers and more have all taken their posts — and oftentimes, significant advertising dollars as well — away from the once-dominant network. As for the reason behind the mass exodus, the large companies, at least, have been hesitant to share their thinking. Target dec...
Minnesota farms are growing in size but shrinking in number, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture census released Tuesday. The once-every-five-years USDA agricultural census, which tracks data on producers earning more than $1,000 a year, found the average Minnesota farm in 2022 was 388 acres, up 17 acres from 2017. Nationally, more U.S. farms are closing and fewer acres are devoted to farmland than five years ago, Tom Vilsack, USDA secretary for the Biden administration, said...
There's plastic in our food, and consumer advocates are tired of waiting for federal regulators to do something about it. Consumer Reports sent a letter to General Mills this week over relatively high levels of plastic chemicals called phthalates found in several products, including Cheerios, Yoplait, Progresso vegetable soup and cans of Annie's organic cheesy ravioli. Phthalates are "plasticizers" used in the production of plastic to make them stronger and softer and are commonly used in vinyl...
MADISON, Wis. - An attorney for the energy company Enbridge tried to persuade a federal appellate court Thursday to vacate an order that would shut down part of a pipeline running through a Wisconsin tribal reservation. About 12 miles (19 km) of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's reservation. The company contends that U.S. District Judge William Conley improperly ordered Enbridge last summer to shut down a section of the pipeline on the...
NEW YORK CITY - Every Egg McMuffin sold in the U.S. now uses cage-free eggs after McDonald's and supplier Cargill achieved the milestone two years ahead of schedule. McDonald's last year bought 2 billion eggs, all from Cargill. Many of those eggs come from Minnesota. Forsman Farms invested millions to build a cage-free facility in Renville, Minn., to help meet the pledge McDonald's set in 2015 to use 100% cage-free eggs at its U.S. locations. https://www.startribune.com/mcdon...
Seven Clans Casino, Hotel and Water Park - Thief River Falls: Hello Seven Clans fans! Starting on Monday, February 12th our Triple 7s Eatery will close down for a remodel and the construction of our New Bar will also begin! (The current bar will be open during the construction of the new bar). On the same day, the River Road Cafe will open!it will be open daily 8:30am - 11pm for dine-in or take out! We are continuing to make improvements all around the property, big changes for better dining...
Rappers Snoop Dogg and Master P claim their foray into the cereal business went stale because of the "diabolical actions" of Minnesota cereal maker Post Consumer Brands and Walmart. The rappers' company, Broadus Foods, Tuesday sued Post - its manufacturing partner - and retail giant Walmart for "collusion and conspiracy" in allegedly crippling sales of the rappers' cereal line. "Post essentially worked with Walmart to ensure that none of the boxes of Snoop cereal would ever appear on store...
JPMorgan Chase is once again upping its expansion plans for the Twin Cities with a new target of more than 60 locations in the region by the end of 2027. That would double its current footprint in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. And it would put Chase in a neck-and-neck race with Huntington Bank to be third-largest bank in terms of number of locations in this market. U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo, the dominant players in the region, each have roughly 80 or so branches in the Twin Cities....
Officials in Osseo want to open a city-run dispensary when recreational cannabis sales start in Minnesota next year. "Our goal is to be the first facility to open in the Twin Cities, municipal or otherwise," City Council Member Mark Schulz said at a council work session in late January. "We are way further along than anybody else, which is a really good thing." An ad-hoc committee has been exploring the idea for months. In January, the council passed a resolution paving the way to join the...
St. Paul – Respondents to the annual Minnesota Manufacturing Business Conditions Survey, conducted by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, reported a cautiously optimistic outlook in their business indicators for 2024 compared to how their businesses performed against those indicators in 2023. Conducted between November and December, the random sample survey of Minnesota manufacturers asked respondents to rate the outlook for their business in 2024 compared to p...
After fourth quarter profits came in well below expectations, officials at Polaris Inc. said they will return to a lean manufacturing focus and take other steps to drive down costs and improve the company's profit margins. Polaris on Tuesday reported fourth quarter profits fell 47% year over year and revenue was off 5% in what Chief Executive Mike Speetzen said was a "complicated environment." To get through the COVID-19 pandemic and deal with the supply chain challenges directly afterward, the...
Higher mortgage rates - and a lack of house listings - stifled buyers in the Twin Cities metro last year, causing sales to fall to the lowest level in more than 20 years. Still, with strong demand and too few options, sale prices managed to eke out a modest gain as buyers battled for a dwindling number of properties. "We saw fewer listings and fewer sales; and yet higher prices, surprisingly strong offers and relatively quick market times," said Amy Peterson, president of the St. Paul Area...
WINDOM, MINN. - By 5:30 p.m., Kristi Maricle's classroom is full with former workers from the shuttered hog slaughterhouse. On the smartboard reads an unfinished sentence. "So, Rosa, what does the whole sentence say?" Maricle said. There's murmuring in the rows. Some are in coats. One young man wears headphones. Kids color in the back. https://www.startribune.com/many-workers-displaced-by-slaughterhouse-closure-remain-in-windom-awaiting-opportunity/600339417/...
As the state tries to find ways to meet its pledge of a carbon-free electric grid by 2040, a push to streamline the state's permitting system for renewable energy projects and transmission lines is gaining momentum ahead of the legislative session that begins in mid-February. While an effort to nix a contentious rule that can limit solar development on what's known as "prime farmland" has already stalled, a new and potentially influential task force report includes dozens of other ideas to...
ANGOLA, La. - A hidden path to America's dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country's largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then f...
The Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana, like many tribes, runs a lucrative online lending business. Thousands of Minnesotans in financial predicaments have turned to Fort Belknap's lenders for easy-to-access credit. But those loans carry extremely high interest rates, ensnaring consumers in debt traps and allegedly breaking state and federal laws, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison claims in a recent lawsuit. Fort Belknap tribal business leaders deny those allegations....
