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Abortion, taxes are top topics at legislative forum

April 6, 2013 in The Jamestown Sun

Four Republican lawmakers spoke in favor of three laws seeking to curtail abortion in North Dakota at a Legislative Forum Friday at City Hall, while one Democratic lawmaker expressed reservations with some and the other spoke against all three.
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Section 6AA-North boys’ basketball: Melrose ends Osakis’ season

March 12, 2013 in Alexandria Echo Press

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Section 6AA-North girls’ basketball: Osakis girls fall to Sauk Centre

March 5, 2013 in Alexandria Echo Press

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F-M area in for 6 inches of snow; more expected to the north

March 4, 2013 in DL-Online

FARGO A winter storm is bearing down on the region today, bringing with it as much as a foot of snow in the northern Red River Valley. Continue Reading

Judge rules murder case may proceed against woman accused of killing toddler

February 27, 2013 in DL-Online

LISBON, N.D. A Ransom County judge ruled there is enough probable cause for a murder case to go forward against a Fort Ransom woman accused of battering her toddler son to death last September. Continue Reading

‘He was death on the land’: Ex-Fargo businessman Kiefer facing misdemeanor charges for large-scale animal neglect in western ND

February 25, 2013 in DL-Online

FARGO Bill Kiefer and his bay mule made a conspicuous presence at last summer’s Cow Town Hoe Down celebration in New Salem. Kiefer, a stranger to most in this farming and ranching community of 951 in western North Dakota’s Morton County, gave rides to kids on his mule one afternoon during the annual July festival, which features a parade, street dance, cow chip tossing contest and demolition derby. Continue Reading

UPDATED: Fargo, Grand Forks break snowfall records

February 11, 2013 in DL-Online

FARGO Road crews will work overtime and most students will get the day off today after a blizzard paralyzed much of southeast North Dakota and west-central Minnesota on Sunday, dumping more than a foot of snow on some areas and clogging interstate highways with 4-foot-high drifts.
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Response to North Dakota horse neglect case reaches across state, country

February 6, 2013 in DL-Online

GRAND FORKS People from around the country are reacting to the discovery last week of 99 dead horses and more than 150 others starving and ailing while in the custody of a western North Dakota landowner. Continue Reading

Man killed in accident at fracking site near Watford City

January 21, 2013 in DL-Online

WATFORD CITY, N.D. – A Duluth, Minn., man who died in an accident at a hydraulic fracturing site Saturday north of Watford City was a family man and Air Force veteran who was proud of the work he was doing in North Dakota, his family said Sunday. Continue Reading

Bill targets out-of-state speeders

January 16, 2013 in DL-Online

Tioga Rep. Bob Skarphol is tired of seeing the same out-of-state license plates on vehicles driven by new western North Dakota workers. The Republican has introduced a bill that would require people with out-of-state license plates to pay speeding fines of their home state.
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