Plymouth News

Business is booming in the Hennepin County Library system. Through October, 4.3 million people have visited the countya s 41 libraries this year.

In a federal courtroom Monday, Deanna Coleman recalled the day last year that she stepped into the office of her boss, Wayzata businessman Tom Petters, to discuss the growing pressure from his investors who were sick of excuses and wanted to be repaid.

Local homebuilding activity dipped in October with fewer planned housing units in the pipeline, but some pockets of the metro are showing signs of a strong rebound in single-family construction.

Plymouth-based AGA Medical has cut the expected price range for its initial public offering of stock by about 20 percent, the company said Tuesday in a regulatory filing.

Award-winning CD/DVD and Blu-ray DiscTM burning and printing software is now available for Primera's disc publishers PLYMOUTH, MN, USA .- Primera Technology, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of CD/DVD and Blu-ray Disc Publishers, today announced its PTPublisher for Mac software.

A man holds a handful of moss. Plymouth, Minn.-based Creative Water Solutions has developed a technology that uses sphagnum moss, which inhibits the growth of microbes, to clean water.

A guide to buying Minnesota-raised meat from small farms. FRESH & NATURAL FOODS Plymouth, 763-559-0754; Shoreview, 651-203-3663; Hudson, Wis., 651-730-1660. GRASSROOTS GOURMET Midtown Global Market, 920 E. Lake St., Mpls., 612-871-6947. TWIN CITIES CO-OPS Go to www.twincitiesfood.coop for a list.

Silverwood Park in St. Anthony focuses on integrating arts and nature programming.

AGA Medical's pending stock sale will price lower than expected and may begin trading as early as today in what is expected to be the first initial public offering by a Minnesota company in nearly two years.

Share + Oct 21, 2009 5:47 pm US/Central 1 of 1 There is a $1,500 reward available for anyone with information on the whereabouts of William Lane, 23, who is suspected of second-degree murder.

Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing the owner of a Plymouth nursing home for fraud for allegedly overbilling the state.

Republicans and Democrats in Minnesota finally found something on which most of them agree.

Cameron Rowan drives a front loader filled with potash in the Mosaic Potash Colonsay mine in Colonsay last month.

Plymouth-based fertilizer giant Mosaic reported sharply lower profits for the first quarter amid a global sales slowdown of crop nutrients.

A Minnesota-based company accused of violating the Clean Air Act has agreed to spend about $30 million to improve air pollution controls at its sulfuric acid production plant in Louisiana.

When asked how many times the word "bubble" is repeated in the "Bubble Bubble Pop" hand-washing song toddlers sing at the Goddard School in Plymouth, education director Sally Hansen pauses.

It has been an anguishing 12 months for the investors and creditors who put their faith in Wayzata businessman Tom Petters only to watch his business empire implode amid allegations that he had orchestrated a massive fraud for more than a decade.

The Tile Shop will open in the former Circuit City location in Franklin in February, according to Baker Storey McDonald Properties, which represented the tile retailer in the deal.

Hundreds of pelicans stopped at a pond in Plymouth Monday while making their annual migration through Minnesota.

Share + Sep 22, 2009 5:32 pm US/Central Reporting Caroline Lowe PLYMOUTH, Minn. A jewelry salesman is in the hospital after four masked men armed with knives held him up while he was getting into his car in Plymouth.