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Health secretary Price resigns amid travel investigations

Health secretary Price resigns amid travel investigations

Price, who earned a reputation in the House as a budget hawk critical of government waste, resigned Friday after President Trump criticized him for chartering flights on private jets.
by Alison Kodjak

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Immigrants line up to renew work permits as program ends

Immigrants line up to renew work permits as program ends

After a looming Oct. 5 deadline, no one else can renew under a program that has let nearly 800,000 immigrants brought to the United States as children work even though they lack legal papers.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota fitness firm VP, friends, indicted in Chicago

A Friday statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago says the suspects made nearly $900,000 in illegal profits buying shares in Life Time Fitness Inc. earlier in 2015.
by Matt Sepic

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Business executive Susan Marvin on values and purpose

Business executive Susan Marvin on values and purpose

A talk by longtime Marvin Companies executive Susan Marvin. The company is headquartered in Warroad, six miles from the Canadian border, and Susan Marvin believes it's important to keep a healthy and vital rural America.
by MPR News Staff

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2 top execs leave medical marijuana manufacturer LeafLine Labs

2 top execs leave medical marijuana manufacturer LeafLine Labs

LeafLine Labs said its chief medical officer and chief financial officer have left the company, effective Thursday, the company's CEO said in a statement.
by Mark Zdechlik

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Equifax promises a new lifetime service, as new leader offers an apology

Equifax promises a new lifetime service, as new leader offers an apology

The company's interim CEO promises to "let consumers easily lock and unlock access to their Equifax credit files." The service would be "offered free, for life."

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'Playboy' founder Hugh Hefner, champion of free speech and 'smut', dies at 91

'Playboy' founder Hugh Hefner, champion of free speech and 'smut', dies at 91

Hefner's magazine was blamed for (or credited with) setting off a cultural revolution in America, but within a few years he was branded a male chauvinist.

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St. Paul council OKs ordinance for mixed-use development at Ford site

St. Paul council OKs ordinance for mixed-use development at Ford site

After about a decade of work, the St. Paul City Council has passed an ordinance guiding mixed-use development for the Ford plant site. A late change increases the percentage of housing for those earning very low incomes.
by Peter Cox

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Minn., N.D. governors seek common ground on flood control

Minn., N.D. governors seek common ground on flood control

Mark Dayton and Doug Burgum have spoken twice since a federal judge stopped construction of the $2.2 billion Red River diversion, and they're hoping to resolve the dispute together.
by Dan Gunderson

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Trump, GOP tax plan would cut rates for many Americans

Trump, GOP tax plan would cut rates for many Americans

The plan is sweeping in scope but omits critical, controversial details that are likely to take months to work out in a bitterly divided, GOP-led Congress.
by The Associated Press

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