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Remember the 2011 Flood
On Saturday, the second anniversary of the sounding of the sirens for Souris River flood evacuation, "A Celebration of HOPE" will be held in Minot to recognize the value of volunteerism and the city's progress in its recovery. The event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. in Scandinavian Heritage Park. A balloon release at 12:57 p.m. will mark the time that the sirens sounded in ...
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UND USD to resume football rivalry in 2016 2017
The Coyotes will travel to Grand Forks on Sept. 17, 2016, for the 94th meeting between the two teams. The schools will square off in Vermillion on Sept. 16, 2017, completing the home-and-home ...
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County trying to put halt to man camp construction
WILLISTON, N.D. -- Officials in a northwestern North Dakota county have put a moratorium on so-called man camps that house oil patch workers.The Williams County Planning and Zoning Commission is recommending that the county no longer issue permits for new temporary housing units, or allow current facilities to expand or increase the number of beds.County officials believe the man camps are ...
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North Dakotas U.S. senators want answers in child death on reservation
FARGO -- West Fargo's Christina Bruenjes has a future competing in track and field at North Dakota State, but on Monday the former Packers ...
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Goal replays to be part of ND prep hockey tourneys
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) -- The governing body for high school sports in North Dakota has approved the limited use of instant replay in state hockey ...
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Equal parenting petitions approved for circulation
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger has approved petitions for a proposed statewide ballot measure on parental rights that could go before voters next ...
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Oil pipeline proposed for North Dakota
A pipeline company said it was examining shipper interest for a proposed pipeline to carry 250,000 barrels of oil per day from North Dakota. Koch Pipeline Co., which has headquarters in Kansas, said it was in the early stages of examining interest for its proposed Dakota Express pipeline. The pipeline would stretch from the Bakken oil deposit in North Dakota to Illinois and possibly connect to ...
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Price to depart St. Paul Corps
Col. Michael J. Price, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will soon turn over command of the Corps' St. Paul District to Col. Daniel C. Koprowski. A change of command ceremony is set for today at the district's headquarters building in St. Paul. Price became known in Minot during the flood year of 2011. He made several trips to the city to oversee flood fighting operations and later to ...
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Commission moves on death trap
The intersection of U.S. Highway 83 with the U.S. Highways 2 and 52 Bypass southwest of Minot may soon become something other than the "death trap" Ward County Commissioner Alan Walter described it as at a meeting last month. Commissioners passed a resolution, drafted by Walter, "to address the dangerous intersection" Tuesday morning. While plans have not been drawn up for ...
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Dormant hotel association back in business
New blood and a new name have the former Minot Hotel Association working toward a bright future for the Magic City's travel and tourism industries. Now called the Minot Innkeepers Association, the name was officially changed May 13. Carmelle Colcord, general manager of Souris Valley Suites, is the association's newly-elected president. Colcord noted the Minot Convention & Visitors ...
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Defense in Sherry Arnold case seeks to avoid death penalty
Defense attorneys for one of two men charged in the killing of a Montana high school teacher said Tuesday that their client should be ruled ineligible for the death penalty because he is mentally disabled.Twenty-four-year-old Michael Keith Spell faces charges including deliberate homicide in the January 2012 kidnapping and murder of Sherry Arnold, a popular teacher in the small Bakken oil patch ...
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Rural lawmakers push for farm bill votes in House
WASHINGTON -; Farm-state lawmakers are scrambling to win bipartisan support for a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill on the House floor this ...
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Rice Lake Service District files suit against farmers
Rice Lake Service District has filed suit for eminent domain over easements on the land of area farmers who have not agreed to allow a pipeline to go across their land to help drain Rice Lake, which has risen several inches over the summer. The idea of a lawsuit has been in the works for some time, with former district board member Bob Hargrave mentioning the possibility at a county meeting in ...
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Moorhead dad charged in death of baby left in minivan
Cars are parked in front of a building in Moorhead, Minn., where a five-month-old girl died Tuesday June 11, 2013, after she was left in a car seat in a van while her father was taking care of five other children under the age of 7. Police say the child died after being left in the van for about four hours. (AP Photo/The Forum, Dave ...
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Texas boy missing from Dickinson
The Dickinson Police Department is looking for a Texas boy who walked away from a construction site on Monday.Edward Martin Stubbs, 15, left the site on the 3300 block of Fourth Avenue East at approximately noon Monday.Stubbs arrived in Dickinson with relatives Monday morning to work on a drywall mudding project. He is not believed to be in danger.Stubbs is described as 5-feet-10-inches tall, ...
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ND general fund beats forecast by $1.6 billion
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Revenue streaming into North Dakota's general fund is $1.6 billion higher than officials estimated and there is still one month left to go in the two-year budget ...
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Commissioners resolve to fix death trap
The intersection of the U.S. Highway 83 U.S. Highways 2 and 52 Bypass southwest of Minot was refered to as "a death trap" by Ward County Commissioner Alan Walter in a county meeting last month. Now he and the other commissioners have passed a resolution to address the matter. The resolution, drafted by Walter, sites an increase in activity beyond the designed allowances for the ...
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Sherry Arnold murder Suspects attorneys seek new venue
Breast cancer is back in the news again, with a new face for preventing breast cancer. Angelina Jolie is well-known around the world and took ...
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Author teacher of endangered Lakota language dies
Albert White Hat, who was instrumental in teaching the endangered American Indian language to new generations for nearly four decades, died last week at a hospital in South Dakota, according to language preservationists and fellow members of his Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He was ...
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Defense lawyers in Arnold case want to move trial
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Attorneys for one of two men charged in the killing of Sidney high school teacher Sherry Arnold want his trial moved to Bozeman, saying that potential jurors in eastern Montana were so outraged by the case that they already think he's ...
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Lakota language supporter White Hat dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Lakota language preservationists and tribal members say the Lakota language lost one of its greatest supporters with the death of Albert White Hat last ...
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Bismarck woman pleads not guilty to child neglect
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A Bismarck woman accused of leaving four children home alone in an apartment where a fire started in an oven has pleaded not guilty to abuse or neglect of a ...
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ND family in standoff will face November trial
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- A state district judge has rejected a plea agreement reached between prosecutors and members of a rural Lakota family involved in a summer-long standoff with law enforcement in ...
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Dempsey Meets With Airmen Spouses at Minot Air Force Base
By Air Force Tech. Sgt. Thomas DowMinot Air Force Base Public Affairs MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D., June 18, 2013 More than 1,000 airmen, spouses and local community members turned out here yesterday for a town hall meeting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...
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Birding lodging improved with tourism funds
Regional tourism opportunities will be enhanced with expansion grants from the Tourism Division of the state Department of Commerce.In the region, the department awarded money to projects ranging from canine and owner facilities at a guest ranch to new signs and landscaping at a Riverdale motel.Altogether, the department awarded $100,000 to seven entities for improvements in the 2013-14 tourism ...
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North Dakota's half-lost heritage
Located four miles west of New Town on the south side of US Highway 23 is the Three Tribes Museum, a part of North Dakota’s heritage and kept open only through the oil money of its most generous benefactor, Helen Gough, who at the time of her death in 1963 was one of the wealthiest women in North Dakota.
The Three Tribes museum has an interesting history, almost as interesting as the heritage it seeks to protect in the combined memory of the community and wider nation. The museum is different from other historical centers in that it is, to some extent, protected by its ongoing links to the late Helen Gough. Read more
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