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Business Briefs for Feb. 4

North Star announces promotions of three employees Sheila Brockman, CPCU, ARM, API, AIS, has been promoted to department manager of the Personal Lines Underwriting department. Brockman has worked for North Star since March of 1992 and previously held the position of assistant department ...

Game break: 10 Super Bowl ads to watch Sunday

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Super Bowl ads are designed to entertain and go down easy, as Stella Artois brings back Carrie Bradshaw and “The Dude” and the Backstreet Boys and Chance the Rapper remix the 1990s classic “I Want It That Way” for Doritos. With ads costing more than $5 ...

Foxconn again shifts Wisc. plan after Trump intervenes

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group has shifted its stated strategy yet again on Friday for a massive Wisconsin campus, crediting a conversation with President Donald Trump for cementing plans to proceed with building a factory to make high-tech liquid display screens. The news ...

US stocks eke out gains after bumpy day caps solid week

Stocks capped a bumpy day of trading Friday with modest gains, extending the market's winning streak to its third straight day. Gains in technology companies, energy stocks and banks outweighed losses in retailers and elsewhere in the market. Major indexes were higher much of the morning as ...

Robust job gain in January shows US economy’s durability

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers shrugged off last month’s partial shutdown of the government and engaged in a burst of hiring in January, adding 304,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year. The healthy gain the government reported Friday illustrated the job market's resilience nearly a ...

Sanford Canby recognized for excellence in quality and patient safety

Sanford Canby Medical Center has been recognized by the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) for superior performance in quality and patient safety as part of MHA’s Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN). MHA is one of 16 national, regional or state organizations selected by the U.S. ...