Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP announced plans Thursday to expand its presence in the Midwest with a new office in Minneapolis. The office, the firm’s 16th, will be staffed by eight partners recruited from the Minneapolis office of Gray ...

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MINNEAPOLIS  — Southwest Airlines will begin flying passengers nonstop between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Baltimore with twice-a-day service starting in April. The Star Tribune reports that the Dallas-based carrier had connected Twin Cities passengers to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport with ...

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WASHINGTON — For the first time in a century, most of America’s largest cities are growing at a faster rate than their surrounding suburbs as young adults seeking a foothold in the weak job market shun home-buying and stay put ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices fell in most major cities for the second straight month, further evidence that the housing recovery will be bumpy and weigh on the broader economy in 2012. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday showed ...

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NEW YORK — Electronics retailer Best Buy said Tuesday that its third-quarter net income fell 29 percent as it cut prices in popular categories such as tablets and TVs to drive sales and traffic during the busy holiday season. Its ...

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NEW YORK — Target Corp. reported a 3.7 percent increase in third-quarter profits, helped by solid spending and improvement in its credit card business. The Minneapolis discounter said Wednesday that it earned $555 million, or 82 cents per share, in ...

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WASHINGTON— Home prices rose in August in half of major cities measured by a private survey, a sign that prices are stabilizing in some hard-hit portions of the country. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday that prices increased in ...

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WASHINGTON — For someone known as a consensus builder, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sure generates — and shrugs off — a lot of dissent. Bernanke last month pushed ahead with a plan to keep short-term interest rates near zero ...

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NEW YORK — Target Corp., buoyed by its push into groceries and incentives it offers credit cardholders, posted a 3.7 percent increase in second-quarter profit and said earnings for the year will beat Wall Street estimates. Target is counting on ...

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COLLEGE PARK — A University of Maryland researcher says he has developed a wireless bridge monitoring system to test for problems like those that brought down a Minneapolis bridge four years ago. University of Maryland electrical engineering researcher Mehdi Kalantari ...

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