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Oil bottleneck gives Rockies cheaper gasoline
A boom in domestic oil drilling has helped lower U.S. gasoline prices, though the steepest drops have missed California commuters, Midwestern farmers ...
North Dakota man to receive Medal of Honor
President Barack Obama next month will bestow the Medal of Honor on a former active duty Army staff sergeant from North Dakota for "courageous ...
ND State defends FCS title in Sam Houston rematch
The North Dakota State Bison have a second straight FCS championship in what's becoming their second home. Backed by more than 10,000 fans wearing ...
Trains carrying more oil across US amid boom
Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their ...
4 charged in synthetic drug overdoses in ND, Minn.
Federal prosecutors in North Dakota have charged four men with conspiring to import and sell controlled substances used to make synthetic ...
Of droughts and foie gras angst _ the year in food
Most Americans never will sip the watermelon margarita at Guy Fieri's behemoth Times Square restaurant, nor savor the chicken Alfredo at the Olive ...
Crystal Sugar workers reject contract 4th time
Their ranks thinned by a 16-month lockout, American Crystal Sugar Co. workers on Saturday rejected a contract for the fourth time. Contract opponents ...
Minn. State turns coaching mess into perfect year
It's been a season of heartbreak and hope, adversity and achievement, stunning in both the worst and best of ways. And it's not over yet for Minnesota ...
Menard to fly Wis. workers in to staff ND store
Home improvement retailer Menard Inc. says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in ...
Residents battle high water in South Dakota town
Standing along a South Dakota waterfront shored up with boulders, Kevin Jens peered at the placid lake and reminisced about a road that led to a ...
ND surgeon acquitted of drugging, raping his wife
A North Dakota surgeon was acquitted Wednesday of raping his wife while she was passed out from a powerful anesthetic he gave her, ending a nearly ...
Pastor: Boy feigned death to survive ND killings
Twelve-year-old Christian Schuster survived a deadly shooting in North Dakota by feigning death as he lay under his slain brother's body, and an ...
Woman, 3 grandkids killed on ND reservation
A well-kept northwestern North Dakota home teemed with FBI investigators Monday as they tried to piece together evidence in the grisly weekend ...
ND voters add farmer protection to constitution
Voters in heavily agriculture-dependent North Dakota became the first to enshrine the right to farm in their state constitution, a move that some say ...
New Faces: Newly elected US senators
A look at the newly elected U.S. senators from Tuesday's election: ARIZONA Republican Jeff Flake, the congressman who won Arizona's open U.S.
Democrat Heitkamp wins Senate race in North Dakota
Democratic candidate Heidi Heitkamp has won the U.S. Senate race in North Dakota, defeating Republican Rep. Rick Berg. Heitkamp won the race by fewer ...
Republicans try to pick up more governors' offices
North Carolina voters elected their first Republican governor in two decades Tuesday as the GOP sought to broaden its hold on governor's mansions ...
Better off 4 years later? A mixed bag of answers
It's a staple of every presidential election, a single question that puts the incumbent's record on trial and asks American voters to be the jurors.
Romney and Obama pop up in latest GOP Senate ads
A resurgent Mitt Romney is popping up more in other Republican candidates' ads as both parties press their closing arguments in closely contested ...
You betcha: Fargo awaits TV version of hit movie
Ask folks in Fargo what they first thought about the 1996 movie that made their city famous, and some will tell you they were not fans. Some residents ...
North Dakota race comes down to ticket-splitters
Dwight Thompson is a solid conservative businessman who will be voting for a Republican for president and a Democrat for Senate. He's a ...
Ex-GOP leader fights ND Election Day campaign ban
A former North Dakota Republican Party chairman who doesn't want to take down the political signs in his yard before Nov. 6 has filed a federal ...
McJordan barbecue sauce fetches $10,000
A man who used to own McDonald's restaurants in North Dakota is about $10,000 richer after selling a 20-year-old container of McJordan barbecue sauce ...
10 NDSU players plead guilty to petition fraud
Ten football players at North Dakota State pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor election fraud and were sentenced to community service for faking ...
ND Senate: Booming economy, close race
Off a dirt road a mile-and-a-half from the nearest town, Democratic Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp is standing in the loft of a barn, giving a ...