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• David Hann, ex-Minnesota GOP Party chair, enters US Senate race

  

• CTA extends No. 93 California/Dodge bus route for easier connections

  

• Suspected Brown and MIT professor shooter showed signs of anger, former friend says

  

• How Sacramento set the course for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" to become a holiday classic

  

• Zoe Life Ministries International holds another holiday giveaway on Chicago's West Side

  

• North Texas is cool, cloudy to officially start the winter solstice

  

• 80-year-old North Texas man arrested after shooting wife, then reporting it to neighbor, police say