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Published December 30, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: News Tribune's top stories of 2012


Onlookers take in the scene of a car that fell into a huge sinkhole on Skyline Parkway at Ninth Avenue East in Duluth early Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Rainwater undercut the ground beneath, creating a weak spot in the pavement. The car’s owners are from Seattle and came to Duluth to run Grandma’s Marathon and visit family. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)

  • Onlookers take in the scene of a car that fell into a huge sinkhole on Skyline Parkway at Ninth Avenue East in Duluth early Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Rainwater undercut the ground beneath, creating a weak spot in the pavement. The car’s owners are from Seattle and came to Duluth to run Grandma’s Marathon and visit family. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Jim Carlson (2012 file / News Tribune)<br /><br />
  • Adam Stoningpot wore a blackface minstrel costume at an employee Halloween party at Pizza Luce in October. The historically racist attire drew disdain from customers and staff at the Duluth bar and restaurant, according to witnesses. (Photo by Ben Butter)
  • Former Rep. Kerry Gauthier of Duluth tells a March 2011 House committee that he supports longer sentences for sex offenders. In 2012, police released a report indicating he had been investigated on an allegation he had oral sex at a rest area with a minor in July. (Don Davis / Forum Communications)
  • This artist’s rendering was released in June of the proposed office building for 425 W. Superior St. in downtown Duluth that will be constructed by the AtWater Group. (Image courtsey of Krech Ojard)
  • Patients of the Lake Superior Treatment Center line up at the entrance of the center at 5:15 on an August morning to either pick up doses of methadone or take their doses there. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Minnesota’s first wolf hunt in nearly a half-century began Nov. 3, 2012, with the opening of the deer firearms season. (2004 file / Associated Press)
  • Minnesota Duluth’s Jack Connolly stands beside his 2012 Hobey Baker Award after an award ceremony on April 6 in Tampa, Fla. (Larry Radloff / For the News Tribune)
  • People fill the beach at Park Point on Aug. 12. Duluth saw a high of 88 degrees at Sky Harbor that day. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • Shelly Tormanen, daughter of Trina Langenbrunner, is comforted by Langenbrunner’s mother, Margaret Dupuis, at an October 2000 press conference. Langenbrunner’s family appealed to the public for help in solving her slaying. Joseph John Couture Jr. was arrested and charged in June with the killing and sexual assault of Langenbrunner. He is being held in the Douglas County Jail. (File / Duluth News Tribune)