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Chaltu Nur
Chaltu Nur, the wife of murder victim Anwar Mohammed, is embraced by friends and family following the sentencing of Mahdi Hassan Ali at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on October 31, 2011. Mahdi Hassan Ali received a life sentence with no parole for his role in a January 2010 triple homicide at the Seward Market in south Minneapolis.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel) ( Read Brandt Williams' story on on Ali's sentence.

A Minnesota man convicted of triple murder was sentenced and union workers at American Crystal Sugar voted down a contract offer this week.

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