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Sunday November 23, 2008

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Rejected absentee votes may decide it

Recounting in Hastings

Even as the U.S. Senate race recount forged ahead, both sides are massing their troops in the next battle over piles of disputed ballots.

Holidays have retailers boxed in

A Banana Republic sale last week

Facing a bleak shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas, stores are offering aggressive discounts to kick-start sales.

Iowa 55, Gophers 0

Turn out the lights

Instead of being the tight rivalry game many expected, the Gophers' Metrodome finale was a laugher for Iowa and giant disappointment for the home team.

Photo right: Shonn Greene

At closed Hecker lots, blocked driveways, silence

There were plenty of new cars at Denny Hecker's six newly closed Twin Cities dealerships Saturday, but the salesmen were gone and computers had been removed from their desks.

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