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Last year, we started a holiday tradition. Readers were asked to share their best Christmas cookie recipes. And, boy, did you readers come through. We gave you a bunch of them in a special Eat cookie section. Now, we've got more to share. Here are six more reader recipes to get you in the holiday baking mood.  

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is asking potential appointees detailed questions about gun ownership, and firearms advocates aren't happy about it.  

A Dakota County Sheriff's deputy who was on probation for a fatal accident involving a motorcyclist has been placed on administrative leave following his arrest last weekend on suspicion of DUI.  

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The Pierce County Sheriff's Office has busted a large marijuana operation along a rural stretch in the Town of Salem.  

If the folks from "The Hills" craved hemoglobin instead of Jimmy Choos, the result might be something like "Twilight."  

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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has been chosen to serve as secretary of the vast and troubled Department of Homeland Security for President-elect Barack Obama, Democratic officials said Wednesday.  

The campaign for Senate candidate Al Franken can get access to names of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected, a Ramsey County judge ruled Wednesday.  

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Garner has won a restraining order from a man she says has been stalking her for years.