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Minn. high court won't hear Senate case until June

Apr. 24, 2009
Minnesota will head into June without a second U.S. senator under the Supreme Court's schedule for hearing Republican Norm Coleman's appeal. The court says that it won't hold oral arguments until June 1, later than Democrat Al Franken had hoped. In the...
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Minnesota: Coleman leads Mondale

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Republican Norm Coleman held a sizeable lead over former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale in the race for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat but the slow pace of counting paper ballots kept the winner of the battle in doubt. With 63 percent of the vote
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler