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• Musher Mitch Seavey wins Iditarod
  The the 53-year-old, Minnesota-born Seavey crossed the finish line at 10:39 p.m. local time on Tuesday -- 2:39 a.m. ET Wednesday.March 13, 2013
• Black smoke rises; no pope yet
  Smoke started pouring from a special chimney above the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City Wednesday morning -- and its dark color means the 115 cardinals meeting inside the chapel have not yet agreed on a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.March 13, 2013
• Media watching for results of papal conclave
  A Catholic organization has set up a website that lets people register to receive a text or email notification when a pope has been selected by cardinals meeting in Vatican City.March 13, 2013
• Ojibwe women walking from Mississippi headwaters to Gulf
  Ojibwe women are walking with a pot of water from the headwaters of the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.March 12, 2013
• 'Drink rail' seating to debut at Target Field
  The folks at Target Field are getting ready to welcome the Twins home from spring training. They took the tarp off of the infield last week, and they'll have a new seating arrangement waiting for fans out by the right field foul pole, below the big entrance plaza.March 12, 2013
• Black smoke from chapel chimney: No pope yet
  Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Tuesday, signaling that cardinals had failed on their first vote of the papal conclave to choose a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and their troubled church.March 12, 2013
• Twins pitcher moved to intensive care
  Twins minor league pitcher Deolis Guerra has been moved to intensive care at a Florida hospital because of a blood clot in his pitching shoulder.March 12, 2013
• PTSD may be contagious, research says
  When combat veterans bring PTSD home from the war zone, they're not the only ones who suffer its symptoms. Family members are exhibiting signs of the disorder too.The Daily Circuit, March 11, 2013
• Vikings trade Harvin to Seahawks
  A person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press that the Minnesota Vikings have agreed to trade Percy Harvin to Seattle for a package that includes the Seahawks' first-round draft pick in April.March 11, 2013
• A rough guide to the papal conclave
  On Tuesday, 115 "cardinal electors" will be locked inside the Vatican to begin the secretive process of selecting the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. It's one of the more spectacular and intriguing theatrical dramas on the planet.March 11, 2013
• 2004 Iditarod champ takes lead in Alaska trek
  A former winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, who was born in Minnesota, took the lead early Sunday and held onto it as he pressed forward along the Bering Sea coastline. Another musher was just 15 minutes behind.March 11, 2013
• Photos: The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon gets under way
  What do a former runway model, a young man with cerebral palsy and a musher from Tennessee have in common? They're all part of the field this year competing in the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. Ten teams registered for the 373-mile marathon race, which runs from Duluth up the North Shore to the Gunflint Trail near the Canadian border and back. Thirty teams have registered for the mid-distance race.March 11, 2013
• Remember the Vikings-to-LA brouhaha? Overblown, reports say
  Maybe that threat to move the Vikings to LA wasn't such a threat after all. Not only are the Atlanta Falcons offering a stadium down payment nearly twice what the Vikings offered up front -- it looks like fear of the Vikings moving to Los Angeles might have been overblown, as well.March 11, 2013
• Daniel Alvarez paddles from norther Minn. to Key West
  Daniel Alvarez has paddled his kayak from Minnesota's Northwest Angle, the northernmost point of the lower 48 states, all the way to Key West, the southernmost point. It took him about nine months.March 11, 2013
• Photos: Scenes from the Minnesota high school hockey tournaments
  The Minnesota high school hockey state tournaments, both girls and boys, are big events at the end of every winter. The girls tournament wrapped up at the end of February and the boys finished their play over the weekend.March 11, 2013

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