CAREER ■ Mitzel joins Adventure as graphic designer Samantha Mitzel recently joined Adventure, a full-service advertising agency with offices in Brainerd, St. Cloud and Minneapolis.

CAREER ■ Visit Brainerd voted best visitor bureau Visit Brainerd was nominated for an award for Best Convention & Visitor Bureau for a town/area less than 25,000 in population in the 2012 Minnesota Meetings & Events Magazine readers choice awards.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis projects continued steady improvement for Minnesota banks across key measures of earnings, growth and asset quality.

What's open/closed for Presidents Day In observance of Presidents Day, post offices will be closed Monday. There will not be mail delivery. Some banking institutions will be closed. Grocery stores will be open regular business hours.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors. He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan f...

As the economy begins to show signs of strength, people naturally want to know, how long will the damage from the financial crisis linger? A new paper from the Bank of England suggests it may be much longer than we would like.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - TCF Financial Corp. has been fined $10 million for failing to adequately monitor suspicious bank transactions, including some with possible links to terrorism.

■ Monda joins Stifel Nicolaus' baxter office BAXTER - Tyler Monda joined Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. as a financial adviser in the firm's Baxter office.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt Romney's attempts to convert momentum from the debates into support in all-important Ohio, according to an Associated Press ...

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