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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Rosemount aluminum recycling operation faces more than $1 million in fines, civil penalties and required plant upgrades for violating clean air laws and trying to conceal it. Spectro Alloys Corporation pleaded …
08 Jun 12
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – American Crystal Sugar and union representatives meet Friday in attempt to restart contract talks in a dispute that has locked out workers and dragged on for 10 months. It’s the fourth …
08 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Gov. Mark Dayton departs Friday on a trade mission to China, one of Minnesota’s biggest export markets. The first-term governor is leading a 50-member delegation on a trip that includes …
08 Jun 12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The fiancée of an “America’s Got Talent” contestant scrutinized for claims he was injured in Afghanistan says he made a “mistake” when he gave the show a photograph of a soldier instead …
08 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota’s annual Take-A-Kid Fishing weekend opens Friday – the weekend when adults can fish without a license while accompanying a child younger than 16. The Department of Natural Resources says …
08 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The 2012 Minnesota State Fair’s commemorative poster features a red rooster as its centerpiece. Fair officials unveiled the poster Wednesday. Artist Joe Heffron’s work in colored pencil features a rooster surrounded …
07 Jun 12
WALKER, Minn. (AP) – Authorities have recovered the body of a 55-year-old Walker man who apparently drowned while snorkeling in a northern Minnesota lake. Cass County sheriff’s officials got a call around 9 p.m. Tuesday …
07 Jun 12
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups has pleaded guilty to a weapons charge. Thirty-one-year-old Samuel J. Johnson of Austin, Minnesota pleaded guilty Wednesday to being a …
07 Jun 12
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