Wild forward Zenon Konopka got 30 stitches in his face in Jaunary. It was pretty ugly.

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But we'd think those wounds have mostly healed by now. So it's hard to say exactly why an official during game one of the Wild-Blackhawks series looked so scared while watching Konopka on Tuesday night.

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If this shot provides a bird's-eye view, Marshburn's represents an alien's-eye view.

Astronaut Thomas H. Marshburn has been taking very cool pictures of world metropolises during his stint at the International Space Station, and thankfully for us, he's gotten in the habit of uploading them to his Twitter account.

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Yesterday, he shared a shot of the Twin Cities that was taken just before sunrise.

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How an owl prepares its food.

An amazing image of an owl hoisting an unfortunate kitty cat into the air is circulating around the U.K. media... on National Cat Day, of all times.

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Scant information is available about the photo, which apparently was snapped right here in Minnesota.


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Photo: Jeremy Olson, DigitalGopher.net.

On Saturday night, the Minnesota Stars beat the Tampa Bay Rowdies 2-0 in the first leg of the NASL Championship series, meaning they'll enter the final game in Florida next week with a two-goal advantage.

The game went scoreless for 67 minutes, when Stars forward Amani Walker broke the tie, followed by a second goal by Martin Nunez with 30 seconds left on the clock.

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This poster is heartbreaking in more ways than one.

​Sonic the Hedgehog is missing in Uptown.

When Kyle Coughlin first saw the poster stapled to a telephone poll near an alley at Pleasant Ave. and 22nd St., he thought it was a joke.

"I've seen a few of those fake ones, and I assumed it was one of those," Coughlin said.

Coughlin took a step closer, and realized that the poster was real.

"When I read it," Coughlin said, "it actually looked like someone lost their favorite Sonic the Hedgehog doll and was attempting to find it.
 
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One man is standing up against the shutdown.

There's been a lot of frustration in Minnesota today over the government shutdown.

The whole thing is kind of ironic. Lawmakers who campaigned on the mantra of job creation have now put tens of thousands of state employees at risk for losing the jobs they already have.

This culmination of Minnesota's partisan politics staring contest really couldn't have come at a worse time. For the 4th of July weekend, all state parks, trails, and zoos are going to be closed.

But not everyone is taking this shutdown sitting down. At least one man is flexing his protesting muscles -- literally -- outside the Capitol.

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The joke's on Weiner.

There are Weiners and then there are wieners.

Combine the two on Twitter and you have the public humiliation and potential resignation of Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Combine the latter with Mayor R.T. Rybak on Facebook and you have a politician plainly happy to have a laugh at Rep. Anthony Weiner's expense.

The photo below comes a post about Open Streets yesterday on Lyndale Avenue. The photo below that comes from the locker room.

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The rest of the sign is serious business.

Sometimes, the simplest, most direct approach is the right way to get your point across. No mincing words. No politeness.

And that's the attitude photographer David Erickson discovered while cruising the ordinarily Minnesota Nice streets of southeast Minneapolis.

Whoever tagged this street sign was damned serious.

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Lt. Erik Rekedal, White Bear Lake native.

Almost 10 years on from the 9/11 attacks, we are still at war in Iraq, where 4,4542 Americans have died since the fighting began.

We were thinking about that after we came across this photo on the U.S. Army's Flickr page: It shows White Bear Lake native and 1st Lt. Erik Rekedal, a platoon leader with the 1st Infantry Division, guiding a Humvee along an Iraq road congested with sheep on May 18.

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Mark Dayton and the dead northern pike.

The annual floating photo op otherwise known as the Governor's Fishing Opener is over, Mark Dayton now gets to have his mug splashed all over the papers while holding a dead fish, and assorted political foes get to pretend for a few hours that they really like the guy and want to figure out a responsible way to tackle the state's legislative agenda.

Thus we have Majority Leader Matt Dean, Speaker Kurt Zellers and Rep. Joe Hoppe posing next to Dayton on the shores of Pokegama Lake with big smiles.

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