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    December 13, 2011
    Jennings to miss at least two weeks for unbeaten Packers
    GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Wide receiver Greg Jennings will be on the sideline as the Green Bay Packers make their push for a perfect regular season. Come playoff time, the Packers expect to have him back. Coach Mike McCarthy said Monday that Jennings will miss two to three weeks with...
    sports/proDecember 13, 2011 - 12:00am
    April 22, 2011
    Natalie Warren, in stern, and Ann Raiho paddle the Cannon River. The two are preparing for their upstream slog on the flood-swollen Minnesota River by paddling against the current on the Cannon River. (Photo courtesy of Shane Kitzman, Northfield News)
    Hudson Bay bound: A long adventure to shrink the gender gap
    If Ann Bancroft hasn't settled the matter once and for all, Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho certainly will. The two -- soon-to-be St.
    News/regionApril 22, 2011 - 8:00am
    February 1, 2011
    Steelers, Packers arrive in Dallas
    FORT WORTH, Texas -- Video cameras and cowboy hats were in style as the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers arrived Monday at the Super Bowl. With dozens of fans chanting "Go Pack Go" as the players walked off team buses, the Packers witnessed Super Bowl frenzy for the first...
    sports/proFebruary 1, 2011 - 12:00am
    January 24, 2011
    Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, left, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers embrace after beating the Chicago Bears for the NFC Championship Sunday in Chicago. The Associated Press
    Packers, Steelers in Super Bowl
    Get ready for a hair-raisin' Super Bowl in Big D. No barbers necessary, that's for sure, when the Steelers face the Packers. Troy Polamalu...
    sports/proJanuary 24, 2011 - 12:00am
    August 16, 2010
    Stingers denied playoff access
    THUNDER BAY, Ont. -- Needing to win two out of three games in the final regular-season series of the season against Thunder Bay to make the playoffs, the Willmar Stingers instead dropped the first two games and were eliminated from post-season play. After losing to the Border Cats...
    sportsAugust 16, 2010 - 12:00am
    May 14, 2010
    Rudy Goldstein, 23, of Hutchinson, is paddling this 12-foot kayak to Hudson Bay. He launched his kayak on April 25 from the back yard of his parent's home in Hutchinson, and expects to cover 2,600 miles on his summer ad-venture. He is shown on the Minnesota River in Granite Falls on Thursday morning. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny
    Student finding lots of Minnesota Nice on fast-flowing river
    He walked from the riverbank to the coffee shop in St. Peter wearing rubber boots and the grime that came from days of hard paddling and camping...
    News/regionMay 14, 2010 - 12:00am
    January 23, 2010
    Matthew Smith
    Young writer warms to cold destination
    WILLMAR -- A place by the name of "Cold Bay'' and known to average no more than five days of sunshine each year might not seem like a great destination,...
    sportsJanuary 23, 2010 - 12:00am
    December 17, 2009
    Wisconsin hockey players dispatch stray bat
    ASHWAUBENON, Wis. - When a bat flew into the arena where the Green Bay Gamblers were playing Cedar Rapids, coach Jon Cooper made the call. He sent three of his players to take care of business - with sticks in hand. The junior hockey team is now getting some jeers for killing the...
    sportsDecember 17, 2009 - 9:45am
    U.S. priest auctions family silver for homeless
    GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (AP) -- A Wisconsin priest is auctioning off his late mother's collection of old silver pieces to raise money for a homeless shelter. The Rev. Guy Blair donated 14 silver items, including five sugar urns dating back to the 1790s. Other pieces include vases and...
    News/nationOctober 17, 2009 - 3:59pm
    October 5, 2009
    While the Tribune searched Willmar this weekend for excited Vikings fans ahead of today's big game at home against Green Bay, it was a solitary Packers fan we discovered instead as she decked her home in green and gold. Melinda McGee painted her Willmar home green this summer in honor of her favorite football team. She said she spent 14 years in Wisconsin and became a Packers fan largely due to Brett Favre. Although Favre is now a Viking, McGee says the Packers are in her blood and she'll be rooting agai...
    Oh, the irony in Viking land
    News/sportsOctober 5, 2009 - 12:00am
    Dave Trauba, manager of the Lac qui Parle Wildlife Refuge, candles a goose egg while participating in this year's survey of the nesting grounds of the Eastern Prairie Population geese on the tundra near Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada. Submitted photo
    Hard year on tundra
    WATSON -- Crawling over permafrost at four to five miles an hour, the train ride from Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, to Churchill on the edge of...
    sportsSeptember 5, 2009 - 12:00am
    June 1, 2009
    <b>Associated Press</b> Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Nick Blackburn throws a pitch in the first inning against the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Blackburn pitched six innings and earned his fifth win of the season. Joe Nathan got his ninth save.
    Twins avoid sweep with win over Tampa Bay
    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Brendan Harris homered and Justin Morneau and Carlos Gomez also drove in runs Sunday to help the Minnesota Twins avoid...
    sports/proJune 1, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 22, 2009
    Obama signs order to close Guantanamo in a year
    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S.
    News/nationJanuary 22, 2009 - 12:00pm
    April 17, 2008
    Twins top Rays, 6-5
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Mike Lamb hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning that Carl Crawford caught in foul territory and the Minnesota Twins beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5 on Wednesday night. Delmon Young, a former Rays standout who came to the Twins in an offseason trade,...
    NewsApril 17, 2008 - 12:00am
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