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MPR News photos of the week

MPR News photos of the week

The war in Iraq is officially over, but not for the Minnesota National Guard's Red Bulls -- and their families waiting anxiously at home. The NBA lockout is over, and we finally got to see Ricky Rubio in a Timberwolves uniform.

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Photos: Deployment on the homefront

Photos: Deployment on the homefront

With the recent adoption of two girls they've been foster parenting for more than a year, Freddy and Jenny Munoz are still adjusting to life as new parents. However, they are doing so while living apart. Freddy, a member of the Minnesota National Guard "Red Bulls" 34th Infantry Division, is stationed in Kuwait assisting with the drawdown in Iraq as Jenny is home with Eszie, 6, and Emma, 8. This is a look at how the St. Francis, Minn. family is dealing with a deployment on the home front.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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Photos: Final tour of the Ford plant

Photos: Final tour of the Ford plant

Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant was open for retirees and the media to see some of the last Ranger pickup trucks come off the production line on Dec. 1, 2011.

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MPR News photos of the week

MPR News photos of the week

This week we saw the Vikings continue to struggle, the Wild enjoy a winning streak, workers struggle with the American Crystal Sugar lockout, Minnesotans marching to remember the homeless who died on our city streets and the residents of sparsely-populated Traverse County working together in the face of budget cuts. Take a look at images from those assignments and others in our pictures of the week.

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Photos: Holding Traverse County together

Photos: Holding Traverse County together

With just 3,558 residents, or six people per square mile, Travis County along the South Dakota border is Minnesota's least populated -- and it fits most common definitions of frontier. It can be lonely, so people have come to rely on a far-flung network of agencies and collaborators to serve a population that's also one of the oldest in the state. We looked at how the county copes these challenges as part of our Forced To Choose series.
by Ann Arbor Miller

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Photos: Vikings vs. Raiders

Photos: Vikings vs. Raiders

Carson Palmer threw for 164 yards and a touchdown and the Oakland Raiders capitalized on mistakes by Minnesota in a 27-21 victory over the Vikings on Sunday.

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Photos: Yarn bomber HOTTEA comes in from the cold

Photos: Yarn bomber HOTTEA comes in from the cold

For the last three years someone's been splashing words and images on fences and light poles around Minneapolis. Not with paint, but brightly colored yarn. The only clue as to the identity of the artist was a street name: HOTTEA. Now, HOTTEA -- Eric Rieger -- is coming in from the cold.

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Photos: Minnesota's Veterans Day remembrance

Photos: Minnesota's Veterans Day remembrance

Gov. Mark Dayton and other state officials honored veterans Friday at the Veterans Memorial Community Center in Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

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Photos: Hunger and help move out to the suburbs

Photos: Hunger and help move out to the suburbs

The number of people struggling to feed themselves and their families is on the rise in the Twin Cities suburbs, visits to food shelves there have jumped 89 percent since 2008, as the loss of jobs and homes in this economic downturn has left more people in trouble, including middle class families that never thought it would happen to them.

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