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    June 19, 2009
    Price of downloading 24 songs: $2 million for Brainerd woman
    MINNEAPOLIS -- A federal jury deliberated about five hours Thursday before deciding that Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Brainerd, Minn., mother of four, should pay more than $1.9 million for willfully downloading and sharing 24 copyrighted songs. The dollar amount is about nine times what...
    newsJune 19, 2009 - 8:36am
    May 13, 2009
    Retrial for historic file-sharing case
    DULUTH -- It appears that the nation's first music downloading case to go to trial will be retried here in June after attorneys in the case failed...
    newsMay 13, 2009 - 7:27am
    February 27, 2009
    Former Sen. Norm Coleman, right, looks on as his attorneys, Joe Friedberg, left, and Tony Trimble read a court order on Thursday in the Senate election trial. Pool photo by Jim Mone, Associated Press
    Counties ordered to check ballots
    ST. PAUL - Judges in the Senate election trial want county officials' help. The court on Thursday ordered 63 counties and some cities to examine...
    newsFebruary 27, 2009 - 8:00am
    February 25, 2009
    Al Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton looks over an exhibit with Beltrami County auditor and election administrator Kay Mack, right, during the U.S. Senate election trial Tuesday. Mack testified about how she and Beltrami County election officials handled absentee ballots. Pool photo by Jim Mone, Associated Press
    Trial digs into voter complexities
    ST. PAUL - Kay Mack only talked about a handful of ballots, but her testimony Tuesday illustrated the complexity of a major issue in the U.S....
    newsFebruary 25, 2009 - 8:24am
    February 23, 2009
    Court clerks Jennifer Hobbs, left, and Sarah Sonday work alongside a mountain of trial exhibits that grows daily in Minnesota's U.S. Senate election trial. Pool photo by Richard Sennott, Star Tribune
    Senate trial intrigue lost on observers
    ST. PAUL - Minnesota voters - and even politically engaged college students - have little interest in details of the prolonged U.S. Senate election...
    newsFebruary 23, 2009 - 8:03am
    January 28, 2009
    Mijanou Sampers of Rosemount testifies Tuesday during the U.S. Senate election trial. Sampers was a witness for Norm Coleman's campaign and testified that her absentee ballot was not counted and should have been. Pool photo by Jim Mone, Associated Press - Minn. State Capitol Bureau
    Rosemount woman wants vote counted
    ST. PAUL - Mijanou Sampers was unfazed by her short time in the U.S. Senate election trial spotlight. The Rosemount woman testified Tuesday...
    newsJanuary 28, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 27, 2009
    Norm Coleman's lawyer Joe Friedberg, background right, delivers opening statements during his lawsuit over the U.S. Senate vote recount at the Minnesota Judicial Center in St. Paul Monday. Al Franken's attorney is sitting in the foreground. The three judge panel is at left. Photo by media pool photographer Ben Garvin, St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Counties to supply ballots in Senate trial
    ST. PAUL - Three judges are handling the U.S. Senate election trial, but county election workers are not done with their part in the prolonged...
    newsJanuary 27, 2009 - 12:00am
    Kristen Fuzer of Woodbury, left, looks at an enlarged copy of absentee ballot information on the opening day of the U.S. Senate election trial. Fuzer, political director for Norm Coleman's campaign, was the first witness called in the trial. At right is Kevin Hamilton, an attorney for Al Franken. (Pool photo by Ben Garvin, St. Paul Pioneer Press)
    Woodbury woman part of Senate trial
    ST. PAUL - A Woodbury woman played a minor role in an early U.S. Senate election trial controversy. Kristen Fuzer was the first witness in...
    newsJanuary 27, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 26, 2009
    Thousands of ballots at play in Senate trial
    ST. PAUL - Minnesota's historic U.S. Senate election trial, to start Monday, in some ways may resemble popular television courtroom dramas. "This is going to be very much what you expect a trial to be based on watching 'L.A. Law' or 'Law and Order,'" said Marc Elias, an attorney...
    newsJanuary 26, 2009 - 12:00am
    August 5, 2008
    Prosecution rests; Franco defense witnesses testify about man leaving scene from fatal bus crash
    WILLMAR -- The prosecution rested this morning, and the defense team began calling witnesses in the trial of Olga Marina Franco del Cid, 24, of Minneota. Franco is accused of a total of 24 criminal charges stemming from the fatal Feb. 19 school bus crash near Cottonwood. Three witnesses...
    newsAugust 5, 2008 - 12:00am
    July 31, 2008
    Opening arguments set for this morning in crash trial
    WILLMAR, Minn. -- Opening arguments will begin at 8 a.m. today in the trial of the Guatemalan woman accused of causing the fatal school bus crash near Cottonwood. Jury selection was completed around 2 p.m. Wednesday in the trial of Olga Marina Franco Del Cid, 24, of Minneota, who...
    newsJuly 31, 2008 - 12:00am
    July 10, 2008
    Judge denies change of venue in Cottonwood bus crash case
    MARSHALL -- The trial of Olga Marina Franco Del Cid, the 24-year-old Minneota woman charged in the fatal Cottonwood school bus crash, will begin July 28 in Kandiyohi County District Court in Willmar. In an order issued Tuesday, District Judge David W. Peterson denied a second motion...
    newsJuly 10, 2008 - 12:00am
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