TV star, ex-U.S. senator wins over Fair crowd. Fred Thompson, the all-but-declared Republican presidential candidate, visited the Minnesota State Fair on Monday, but it was Fred Thompson, the star of NBC's "Law & Order" television show, who attracted throngs of fairgoers during his hourlong stop at the Great Minnesota Get-Together. The former U.S. senator from Tennessee shook hundreds of hands, posed for dozens of photos and autographed everything from T-shirts and Fair maps to bumper stickers and videotapes of his TV shows during his brief campaign stop at the Fair, the first one this year by a presidential candidate -...