News Headlines for Alborn, Minnesota

Minnesota Vikings practise Thursday without 'Williams Wall' (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - The Minnesota Vikings went to work Thursday without their star defensive tackles. Perhaps it will serve as good practice, to learn what playing without them would be like.

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Minnesota Senate recount gets tedious, pretty fast (AP via Yahoo! News)
As the manual recount in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race began, one volunteer judge asked the city election director what to do if she spotted a questionable ballot and no one else did.

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KG's return to Minnesota with Celtics is a big ticket (ESPN)
Kevin Garnett returns to Minnesota on Friday night to play against his former team for the first time in a Celtics' jersey.

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Minnesota Recount Data Viewer (Pioneer Press)
Use this tool to look at the state of the Minnesota Senate recount.

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2.9-million ballot recount starts in Minnesota (Chicago Sun-Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. — City and county workers across Minnesota began a laborious recount Wednesday of more than 2.9 million ballots in the tight U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.

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Minnesota state colleges aim for more online courses (Pioneer Press)
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is aiming to deliver a quarter of its college credits through online courses by 2015.

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NFL Preview - Minnesota (5-5) at Jacksonville (4-6) (Miami Herald)
There is still a logjam atop the NFC North standings and the Minnesota Vikings are right in the thick of the race. Minnesota will have to put its road woes aside this Sunday, however, when it pays a visit to Jacksonville to take on the Jaguars.

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Minnesota Wild send goaltender Nolan Schaefer back to Houston (Pioneer Press)
The Minnesota Wild reassigned goaltender Nolan Schaefer to Houston this afternoon, meaning Josh Harding is well enough to back up Niklas Backstrom tonight against Vancouver.

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Minnesota loses 7,500 more jobs in October (BizJournals)
Minnesota employers cut another 7,500 jobs in October, pushing the state’s unemployment rate up slightly to a seasonally adjusted rate of 6 percent, according to figures released Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

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Minnesota Senate race recount could get ugly (CNN)
The Senate campaign in Minnesota between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken was considered to be quite nasty, with attack ads and angry statements by both sides.

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