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Getting wet
Fourteen-year-olds Tanner Kuhl, left, and Buzuaya Weis play in a spray of water from a fire truck at the Schwan's USA Cup International Youth Soccer Tournament in Blaine, Minn. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Extreme humidity coupled with already-high temperatures pushed the heat index into record territory across Minnesota this week.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

Unusual weather and the long-awaited end of the state government shutdown dominated the news this week.

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Heron Release
Almost two months after being rescued, a Great Blue Heron chick displaced by the north Minneapolis tornado is released back to the wild on July 18, 2011, in Coon Rapids, Minn., near the Mississippi River.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel
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Getting wet
Fourteen-year-olds Tanner Kuhl, left, and Buzuaya Weis play in a spray of water from a fire truck at the Schwan's USA Cup International Youth Soccer Tournament in Blaine, Minn. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Extreme humidity coupled with already-high temperatures pushed the heat index into record territory across Minnesota this week.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
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Heat wave
After a quick break to eat a hot dog, four-year-old Marquis Cates Jr. begins his sprint back to the water. Cates and some of his family members spent the sweltering afternoon of July 18, 2011, at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, Minn.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel