U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar stopped in her home state Monday to rally business leaders around patent reform legislation designed to insulate Minnesota’s Fortune 500 companies and its mom-and-pop shops from frivolous lawsuits.

A Cottage Grove man is suing for $2,127 after he claims his initial application was wrongfully denied.

The proposed 12-mile bus rapid transit or light rail line between downtown St. Paul and Woodbury is among 11 projects tapped by the Obama administration to be part of a program to increase coordination among the federal agencies that oversee major infrastructure projects.

Maplewood officials expect 3M Co. to pull a permit as soon as this week to construct a $150 million research building on its headquarters campus. But they say actions in the Legislature have sent them back to the drawing board when it comes to providing economic development incentives for the project.

When the news broke last month that the state and 3M are in settlement talks over damage to natural resources caused by contamination from perfluorochemicals produced by the Minnesota-based manufacturing giant, Fardin Oliaei was paying close attention.