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Hickory
Scottish deerhound Hickory poses for photographs with his handler Angela Lloyd, right, and judge Paolo Dondina after Hickory, owned by Minneapolis-resident Sally Sweatt, won best in show during the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

This week, Gov. Dayton released his budget plan, a Minneapolis woman's dog won Best in Show at Westminster and Fargo-Moorhead residents began prepping sandbags for spring flooding.