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No end in sight and no gum at Senate trial

Published February 8, 2009

ST. PAUL (AP) âÄî The strict rules of decorum inside the courtroom at MinnesotaâÄôs Senate election trial may have seemed heavy-handed, but they didnâÄôt seem out of control. Then...

Franken says he’s ready to join Senate

Published February 6, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) âÄî Al Franken said Friday he's frustrated but not bitter that a lawsuit by Norm Coleman is keeping him out of the U.S. Senate. "I admit to being frustrated at times," Franken...

Bruininks to senators: Pawlenty’s budget won’t hurt students

Published February 5, 2009

University of Minnesota President Bob Bruininks told a Senate higher education committee on Thursday that the University would seek to minimize the impact on students in solving its upcoming budget problems....

Franken asks Minn. court to put him in Senate

Published February 5, 2009

Lawyers for Democrat Al Franken asked Minnesota's highest court Thursday to order the governor and secretary of state to certify him as the winner of Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, without waiting for the...

Senate trial continues one absentee at a time

Published February 4, 2009

ST. PAUL (AP) âÄî Judges in the trial over Minnesota's Senate race have begun considering thousands of rejected absentee ballots, one at a time, in a process that could take weeks. A day earlier,...

Judges may add 5K absentees to Senate race

Published February 3, 2009

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) âÄî The judges in Minnesota's Senate election trial threw Republican Norm Coleman a lifeline on Tuesday, opening the door to adding nearly 5,000 absentee ballots to a race...

Experts dissect Senate contest

Published February 2, 2009

Political observers across the country have kept close watch on MinnesotaâÄôs U.S. Senate recount trial as it begins its second week of what could be a months-long trial. With the possibility for...

Minnesota Senate trial begins 2nd week

Published February 2, 2009

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) âÄî Both sides in Minnesota's Senate recount trial tried to use Monday's testimony from a county elections director to bolster their cases. Ramsey County Elections Director...

U student challenges Cam Gordon for City Council

Published February 1, 2009

Editor's note: Some information presented in this story is based on false claims made by Charles Carlson. Upon further investigation by The Minnesota Daily, some of the claims made by Carlson concerning...

Senate trial focuses on absentee processing

Published February 1, 2009

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) âÄî Attorneys for Norm Coleman sought Friday to show that in the crush of absentee ballots submitted in the final days of his U.S. Senate race, elections judges sometimes made...

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