Eden Prairie News

The top Twins' pitching prospect is Kyle Gibson . He is a 24-year-old right-hander who is recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Legend has it Handel's "Water Music" was brilliant because it had to be. Handel had angered his patron, the Elector of Hanover, by overstaying a trip to London and not returning to Germany.

Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs was in the metro shooting photos and making appearances on behalf of Cambria, the Eden Prairie maker of countertops she calls "my family here in Minnesota." We talked about her being the first to depart on the latest installment of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice," which ended with Arsenio Hall being named the winner.

Posted at 1:45 PM on May 24, 2012 by Chris Roberts Filed under: Arts around the state I've been dropping in on art openings around the Twin Cities to record viewer reactions to specific pieces.

"I am honored to be a part of such an influential group in the hearing care industry," said Sawalich.

US Factory Utilization Almost All the Way Back; SAP Reaches Deep in Wallet for Ariba; TVs being Made Again in America; Amazing Level of New Truckload Fleets The level of US manufacturing factory utilization in April, according to the Federal Reserve late last week.

Once again , a national publication has honored Hopkins High School as one of the top-performing schools.

Fairmont Area School Board disagreed Tuesday over a decision made by its operations committee to recommend switching school photographers from local Roger Carlson to Lifetouch of Eden Prairie.

Eden Prairie: The event will take place at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial at Purgatory Creek Park.

The 33-year-old right-hander signed with the Twins as a free agent during the offseason to a one-year deal, but dealt with a family issue during spring training and was unable to find his groove once the season started.

Edina High School is once again the best school in Minnesota, ranking 154th in the nation as part of Newsweek 's annual Best High Schools list.

Bob and Kippy Rieder were married May 19, 1952, in St. Cloud, Minnesota. They have four children : Mark and Coleen Rieder of Rochester; Gary and LuAnn Rieder of Eden Prairie; Joe and Jennifer Rieder of Chanhassen; and Jeff and Tracie Rieder of Rochester.

The state said Friday it has awarded $25.5 million to fund 14 highway projects around the state, with more than half of the money going to five Twin Cities projects.

A Mayo Clinic doctor whose remarks regarding female genital mutilation ignited online controversy no longer works for Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea.

A new collection of public sculptures arrived in Hopkins on Friday for the second year of ArtStreet, joining the two pieces from 2011 that are staying in the city permanently .

For years, Paul Piazza had a standing invitation to consolidate his Minneapolis firm, Minnesota Produce Inc., with Eden Prairie, Minn.-based The Kunkel Co.

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The Vancouver, Wash., firm invested about $100,000 in the program, including a Fortus 250 3D printer production system from Stratasys Inc.

Atlanta-based CryoLife is spending $17 million in cash to acquire Hemosphere, an Eden Prairie-based medical device company that develops and markets a proprietary graft that's surgically inserted to aid in dialysis treatments for kidney disease patients, reducing the risk of infections.

Hopkins police made the following arrests between May 7 and May 13. Only arrestees who've been charged with felonies have been identified.