MPR news photos of the week

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Brooklyn Park, MN, USA — Judy Koskie salutes as a hearse carrying the remains of Deputy Christopher Dewey passes following the funeral of Dewey in Brooklyn Park, Minn. Wednesday, August 18, 2010. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson) link to this photo

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Mike Nelson, a Burnsville college student, has his own Thunderbolt 1000 siren. He restored the siren and painted it with stripes to match a 1950's era civil defense film, "Let's Face It". He says the siren is too loud to crank all the way up in his back yard. (MPR Photo/Tim Nelson) link to this photo

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More than 100 years ago, the founders of Bethlehem Lutheran Church prayed and sang in their first language: Norwegian. Today, the church has a new generation of immigrants worshiping with them, so the foreign language emanating from the church is Nuer, one of the languages spoken in south Sudan. (MPR Photo/Ambar Espinoza) link to this photo

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Makda Meles,16, left, won the Miss Teen Africa True Beauty Pageant Saturday. With her, on right, is Durety Diramo,17. Both represented Ethiopia at the Miracle Empowerment Center in Brooklyn Center. (MPR Photo/Rupa Shenoy) link to this photo

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Roseau, MN, USA — Dustin Byfuglien's dog, Walter, drinks beer from the Stanley Cup in his family's home in Roseau Minn. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Byfuglien won the National Hockey League championship with the Chicago Blackhawks earlier this year, and the Stanley Cup is rotated around to each of winning team's players for to have for about a day. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson) link to this photo