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POLITICAL INSIDER: Pawlenty: DC like ’drug dealer’
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EDITOR’S NOTE _ An insider’s view of this year’s elections based on dispatches from around the nation.
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Laird’s HR in 13th lifts Tigers
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Six lead changes, five ties, four errors, two blown saves, 25 runners left on base and at least four botched double plays.
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Tigers 10, Twins 9, 13 innings,
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Thursday’s Scores
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Thursday’s Scores
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Tebow overcomes turnovers, Vikes top Broncos 31-24
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Tim Tebow’s first two series had rookie written all over them. Then he started playing with the veteran-like poise that helped him get drafted in the first round by Denver in the first place.
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Minnesota runs to 24-17 win over Middle Tennessee
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Jon Hoese had a tough decision to make earlier this week: Stay at his father’s bedside after a severe stroke or join his teammates for Minnesota’s season-opener at Middle Tennessee.
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Broncos-Vikings Stats
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Gardenhire ejected in 7th inning
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Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire was ejected in the seventh inning against Detroit on Thursday night after arguing a close play at second base.
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Tigers’ Cabrera leaves game in 6th
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Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera left Thursday night’s game against Minnesota in the sixth inning with left biceps tendinitis.
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Broncos lose RB LenDale White to ankle injury
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Denver Broncos running back LenDale White has left the team’s final preseason game with an injured ankle.
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MIDWEST
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Minn.-Crookston 37, Mayville St. 6
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Twins RHP Baker leaves game in 2nd
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Minnesota Twins starter Scott Baker left Thursday night’s game against Detroit after two innings because of pain in his right elbow.
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Ex-auto mogul Hecker accused of bail violations
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Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to send fallen Twin Cities auto mogul Denny Hecker back to jail.
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Lake Crystal shooting death ruled a homicide
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The shooting death of a Lake Crystal man has been ruled a homicide.
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2 sought in Fla. triple killing arrested in Minn.
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As campers slept nearby, a SWAT team kicked in the door of a camper at a Minnesota state park, tossed in flash-bang grenades and arrested two men early Thursday wanted in a triple homicide in Florida, officials said.
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Star witness in Petters case sentenced to 1 year
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A judge sentenced the woman who blew the whistle on Tom Petters’ $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme to one year in prison Thursday, even as he praised her cooperation with federal prosecutors.
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,172
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As of Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at least 1,172 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
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Army: Chaplain is 1st killed in action since ’70
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A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday.
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Minn. Chamber urges Pawlenty to seek health grant
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The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce is urging Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty not to turn his back on the federal health care overhaul.
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VeraSun asking corn farmers for repayment
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Midwest farmers who sold corn to bankrupt ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. have been receiving official letters asking for most of that money back.
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Poll: Minn. voters are unhappy with Washington
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A new poll finds Minnesota voters feeling surly about Washington two months before they decide whether to keep federal and state incumbent lawmakers and pick a new governor.
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Off-duty officer killed in motorcycle crash
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An off-duty Lakeville police officer has died in a motorcycle crash.
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Star witness in Petters case sentenced to 1 year
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The woman who blew the whistle on Tom Petters’ $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme, even as she was implicated herself, has been sentenced to one year in prison.
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Life sentences upheld for siblings in Minn. murder
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The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld the life prison sentences for a brother and sister from rural Minnesota convicted of killing a man during a Thanksgiving party in 2003.
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