Minnesota Lawyer

State officials say Minnesota mortgage borrowers will be eligible for a total of $280 million from a national settlement between states and the country's biggest mortgage lenders.

A man in Freeborn County is charged with bigamy for having two wives.

An administrative law judge has selected a route for a high-voltage power line through southeastern Minnesota.

A former St. Paul police clerk has been found civilly liable in the 1981 death of his girlfriend.

A northwestern Minnesota shop that sells tobacco, pipes and other products has sued the city of Moorhead over the way police are enforcing a new ordinance outlawing drug paraphernalia.

Settlement talks are set next month in a federal lawsuit filed by a former St. Cloud police officer who alleges the police department discriminated against him because he is gay.

Serious mistakes in Minnesota hospitals rose slightly in 2011, but they led to fewer serious injuries and deaths than the year before, according to an annual report.

A Florida man is accused of secretly taping men using a restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued a debt collection agency, saying it failed to protect the confidentiality of health care records for thousands of state residents and did not reveal the extent of its involvement in their health care.

The number of properties with at least one default notice, scheduled auction or bank repossession declined by about 14 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to the same time in the previous year.