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Hickory
Scottish deerhound Hickory poses for photographs with his handler Angela Lloyd, right, and judge Paolo Dondina after Hickory, owned by Minneapolis-resident Sally Sweatt, won best in show during the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

This week, Gov. Dayton released his budget plan, a Minneapolis woman's dog won Best in Show at Westminster and Fargo-Moorhead residents began prepping sandbags for spring flooding.

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Willie Navy
Willie Navy, 53, of Brainerd, is still recovering from injuries sustained when he was beaten outside a downtown Brainerd bar Feb. 6, 2011. Navy says he was kicked in the head repeatedly, causing multiple facial fractures that could require several surgeries. He says his attackers used racial slurs during the attack.
MPR Photo/Tom Robertson
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Hickory
Scottish deerhound Hickory poses for photographs with his handler Angela Lloyd, right, and judge Paolo Dondina after Hickory, owned by Minneapolis-resident Sally Sweatt, won best in show during the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
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Gail Wischmann
Volunteer Gail Wischmann, a sergeant with the Cass County sheriff's office, was among those helping fill sandbags at "Sandbag Central" in Fargo, N.D., on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. Many of those working the morning shift were county and city employees as well as nearly two dozen jail inmates.
MPR Photo/Ann Arbor Miller