Target hiring 100,000 workers for the holidays

Nick Lentz at WCCO News is reporting Target plans on hiring around 100,000 seasonal workers between now and the end of the year.

Nathan O’Neal at FOX 9 looks into how and why more than 4,500 school buses in Minnesota failed annual safety inspections last year.

Jeffrey Meitrodt at the Star Tribune reports the Minnesota Department of Education has refused to turn over more than 2,000 files involving complaints and state oversight of charter schools to the newspaper, despite publicly acknowledging that the complaints are a matter of public record.

Dana Thiede at KARE 11 is reporting organizers of the NorthShore Inline Marathon announced that participant Mike Lufholm died following the inline skating race in Duluth on Saturday.

Anthony Bettin at WCCO News reports Jeffery Holmquist, 46 of Dassel, was inside a fish house in Collinwood Township when a gas explosion occurred, the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office said. Holmquist was severely burned and flown to Hennepin Healthcare, where he later died.

Mars King at the Pioneer Press reports that after more than a century on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, MSP Plumbing, Heating and Air will leave the historic street for a larger facility in Woodbury.

Via Bring Me the News: Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop, a national candy, craft soda and ice cream retailer, opened its third Twin Cities store in Bloomington this week, with items such as pickle cotton candy and ketchup soda for sale.

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