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The GOP shortlist now looks much different than it did even a week ago. Former state Sen. Ted Daley, an accountant and West Point grad who served in the Gulf and Iraq wars, is widely considered the party’s most credible candidate at this point. He was elected to the Senate in 2010, but lost re-election in 2012. Calling him “squeaky clean,” the state GOP operative said that Daley’s military service casts him “in the Kline mold.” Kline served 25 years in the Marines. And while Daley’s “very conservative,” a GOP operative who works on House races added, “he’s not a...

The trailer for this movie is finally out. So far, it's a limited release before the new year, then goes to full release shortly after the 1st.

The lawsuit said 60 to 70 students were involved in the activity during the 2008 and 2009 school years. Red Wing is about 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The high school has about 880 students, and their racial composition is 89 percent white, 4 percent Hispanic, 3 percent black, 3 percent American Indian and 1 percent Asian, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. The day was unofficially known in the school as Wednesday Wigger Day. The lawsuit said wigger is a pejorative word for a white person who imitates the mannerisms, language and clothes associated...

The actions taken by Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy, have placed him in consideration, posthumously, for the Congressional Medal of Honor -- the United States' highest military award. On a June afternoon in 2005, Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy lay in hiding on the side of a ridge in the lawless eastern mountains of Afghanistan. He carried little with him in the thin alpine air near Pakistan's border. A rifle. Clips of ammunition. Sophisticated communications and surveillance equipment. Some high-energy food. There were three U.S. commandos hiding with him on that mountain, all, like him, members of one...

U.S. Army Spc. Michael Sheridan, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, looks onto Route Redwing in Baghdad. He provides security for an observation point and troops on the ground. U.S. Army photo by Spc. James P. Hunter U.S. Troops Secure Baghdad’s Route Redwing U.S. soldiers are tasked to run security operations and route reconnaissance on Route Redwing, used by insurgents to bring supplies into Baghdad. By U.S. Army Spc. James P. HunterMultinational Corps–Iraq BAGHDAD, April 5, 2006 — To prevent improvised explosive devices from endangering the lives of coalition forces and Iraqis, U.S. soldiers assigned to elements of the...

A hundred old ladies could live in this shoe. Built with 80 cowhides, 1,200 feet of rope and 300 pounds of adhesives, this supersize "638-D" beauty is the latest addition to Minnesota's oversize landmarks. Scraping the factory rafters, the creation of Red Wing Shoes was crowned the world's largest shoe by the Guinness Book of Records at a special measuring session Saturday at a Las Vegas trade show. Using ladders, cranes and special rigging equipment, 60 employees and retirees built the boot in Red Wing over 13 months and finished it in time to mark the company's 100th anniversary Feb....