Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A jury today awarded $31.8 million against Big Four firm KPMG in an accounting fraud lawsuit. Cast Art Industries, LLP v. KPMG, LLP, Superior
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... the study, which will look at about 50 men who have run marathons for more than 25 years straight.Eagan resident John Tantzen, a manager at a technology company, runs up to 60 miles a week. A family history of heart disease pushed Tantzen, 48, into athletics years ago. Since the 1980s, he has competed in dozens of races, including all 27 Twin Cities Marathons.He is thin and fit, and he has...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's parallel runways.Now, Minneapolis, Richfield and Eagan are considering ordinances that would require all new-home construction or home additions in the worst airport noise zones to meet the same noise-dampening standards that the Airports Commission uses when it insulates homes under the loudest runway zones. Homeowners would bear the cost.That...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
MINNEAPOLIS• SOUTHWEST 53, SOUTH 6: Elliott Mathieu is in a class of his own. The senior quarterback threw a state-record eight touchdown passes, leading the Lakers past South on Friday. Six players shared the previous record of seven, including Joe Mauer of Cretin-Derham Hall against Eagan in 2000. Sean Borman of Hopkins threw seven touchdown passes in a 56-42 victory over Edina earlier this...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biothera announced today that it completed enrollment in the first arm of its metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) trial in July. The dual-arm trial is
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... , which he believes are significantly undervalued. The carrier expects to close its acquisition of Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest Airlines Corp. later this year.Several major airlines have moved aggressively to shore up their cash positions. The specter of bankruptcy that was back on airlines' and analysts' radar screens in May has seemed to diminish in the months since. Some airlines, which...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... just talking about adults,” Barry said. “You’re talking about children.”The WARM Shelter’s Leah Eagan-Stoddard, a development associate and volunteer coordinator, points out that the average household will pay an estimated $3,000 for heat this winter, electricity costs are up 21.7 percent since last year and heating oil costs have risen 40 percent.She said people can donate online either...
MSNBC.com: Travel News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
updated 11:20 a.m. ET Oct. 9, 2008EAGAN, Minn. - Northwest Airlines Corp. said on Thursday it is reducing its fuel surcharges on cargo flights in some markets because of the declining cost of jet fuel.Beginning Oct. 20, Northwest said NWA Cargo would reduce its fuel surcharge from 46 cents per pound to 42 cents per pound. The surcharge for shipments from the U.S. to Europe, Africa, and the Middle...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... and going to an assembly with bike and helmet giveaways. Teachers at Red Pine Elementary in Eagan plan to park at a nearby gun club and hoof it from there to school, where students who show up on foot will get T-shirts and water bottles. In Olmsted County, local leaders, from firefighters to football players, are joining students for a walk-to-school event that's expected to draw 10,000...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... and going to an assembly with bike and helmet giveaways. Teachers at Red Pine Elementary in Eagan plan to park at a nearby gun club and hoof it from there to school, where students who show up on foot will get T-shirts and water bottles. In Olmsted County, local leaders, from firefighters to football players, are joining students for a walk-to-school event that's expected to draw 10,000...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Recycling bins will collect 900 tons of beverage containers and reduce trash by 50% EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Coca-Cola Recycling, LLC (CCR), announced a partnership with Holiday Stationstores to enable beverage container recycling at Holiday stores around the Twin Cities. Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company and CCR will work with the...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... been in a stalemate over how to integrate their seniority lists after Atlanta-based Delta acquires Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest later this year, though they have approved a joint collective bargaining agreement covering more than 12,000 pilots.Pilots value their seniority. Those at the top of the list get first choice on vacations, the best routes and the bigger planes that they get paid...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... off-sites, including in Rochester and Owatonna.Randall Clegg, superintendent of the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District, said the city's recruitment of a university stands out."It's different in one respect in that the mayor and the Burnsville city staff have had a significant role in bringing this partnership to fruition," Clegg said. "The city staff and the mayor were seeing that this...
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Geraghty will be joining Eagan-based Blue Cross this month. He most recently served as a senior vice president with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. He also previously held senior leadership positions with Newark, N.J.-based ., a release detailed.
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... a video cable,” The New York Times reports. Road Runner is a service of Time Warner Cable.Thomas Eagan, an analyst at Collins Stewart, said that in the face of falling ratings and troubled local ad markets, companies like LIN TV are “going to have to play hardball like this,” the Journal writes. Also, with the Federal Communications Commission calling for all television to go digital by...
