| June 30, 2009 | - The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled Al Franken the victor in his close senatorial race against Norm Coleman.
| Source:
AP via WP
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| January 4, 2009 | -
Minnesota election officials announced that Al Franken had won a recount of ballots cast for one of the state's Senate seats, narrowly defeating Republican incumbent Norm Coleman.
| Source:
CNN
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| November 24, 2008 | - Officials in Rochester, Minnesota, said that the city's economic woes were relieved for the year after an eight-day visit by Saudi King Abdullah and hundreds of his family members, who spent up to $2.5 million during their stay.
| Source:
Local 6
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| November 21, 2008 | -
Minnesota continued to examine ballots cast in the Senate race between Al Franken and incumbent Norm Coleman; both parties challenged the legitimacy of some ballots, including one in which a voter chose both Franken and the “Lizard People.”
| Source:
Minnesota Public Radio
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| November 7, 2008 | -
Democrats added to their majorities in both houses of Congress, while Senate races in Minnesota, Georgia, and Alaska remained undecided.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 4, 2007 | - Eleven slaughterhouse employees in Austin, Minnesota, were diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a rare neurological disorder that they appear to have contracted as part of their work airblasting brain tissue from pig heads in order to get at the meat.
| Source 1:
WP
Source 2:
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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| September 21, 2007 | - A man in St. Paul, Minnesota, faced $5,000 in fines for ripping the head off a tame duck in a hotel lobby.
| Source:
Star Tribune
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| September 16, 2007 | - At a gala hosted by Mr. Sulu from “Star Trek,” the Japanese American Citizens League saluted Sen. Larry Craig (R., Idaho), and tourists flocked to the airport men's room stall where Craig was recently arrested for attempted cruising. “I checked it out,” said Jon Westby of Minneapolis, who was with his wife, Sally, visiting the stall for his second time. “It's the second stall from the right.”
| Source 1:
The Hill
Source 2:
Idaho Statesman
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| August 1, 2007 | - A bridge collapsed in Minnesota.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 5, 2007 | - A six-year-old girl had her small intestine ripped out by the drain of a Minneapolis swimming pool.
| Source:
11Alive.com
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| June 21, 2007 | - A Minnesota man was fined $3,000 for putting dog feces in a parking ticket envelope.
- A Minnesota man was fined $3,000 for putting dog feces in a parking ticket envelope.
| Source:
AP via Philly.com
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| April 12, 2007 | - A Minnesota jail guard was suspended after thumping an inmate with a Bible.
| Source:
Kare 11 TV
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| February 15, 2007 | - An airline pilot from Minnesota won two $25,000 lottery jackpots over two consecutive days, while the winning ticket of a $3.5 million Connecticut Classic Lotto jackpot expired without the winner stepping forward.
| Source 1:
AP via MiamiHerald
Source 2:
NYT
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| October 15, 2006 | - A Minnesota school principal resigned after shooting two orphaned kittens on school property.
| Source:
AP
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| September 1, 2006 | - In a courtroom in Duluth, Minnesota, a cocaine trafficker ate his own feces.
| Source:
Duluth News Tribune
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| July 25, 2006 | - In Minnesota people in zombie costumes were arrested for carrying “simulated weapons of mass destruction.”
| Source:
local6.com
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| July 17, 2006 | - Thieves stole a 14-foot inflatable sheep from a store in Rochester, Minnesota.
| Source:
WCCO.com
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| June 29, 2006 | - It was revealed that a Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player crashed his SUV into a parked car because he was drunk and masturbating to porn.
| Source:
wcco.com
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| June 1, 2006 | - The United States declared a moratorium on wind farms in Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
| Source:
PhysOrg.com
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| April 2, 2006 | - Scientists successfully sent muon neutrinos from Illinois to Minnesota in order to prove that some neutrinos do transform, most likely to tau neutrinos.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| February 18, 2006 | - A woman in Minnesota was arrested for biting off part of another woman's nose. Police obtained a search warrant to recover the nose, which was then reattached.
| Source:
TwinCities.com
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| January 12, 2006 | - A Minnesota man named Jonathan “The Impaler” Sharkey, who claims to be a vampire, announced that he would run for governor and promised that if elected he would personally impale murderers and child molesters. “I'm a Satanist who doesn't hate Jesus,” he explained.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 15, 2005 | - Four Amish children in Minnesota were diagnosed with polio.
| Source:
AP
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| March 30, 2005 | - A Minnesota man threw a toddler at a policeman.
| Source:
WCCO
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| March 22, 2005 | - In Minnesota, an overweight loner Chippewa neo-Nazi goth teenager shot and killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend, then went to his high school and shot and killed a security guard, five students, a teacher, and himself.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 11, 2005 | - Two hundred rallied against Syria in Minneapolis.
| Source:
Star Tribune
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| December 16, 2004 | - and a Minnesota company was building a power plant that will be fueled primarily by turkey droppings.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 1, 2002 | -
People in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were still bickering over the wisdom of putting up a statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air.
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