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WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval on Friday to a one-week stopgap spending bill for the domestic security agency, averting a partial shutdown with just hours to spare before a midnight deadline. After a chaotic day that featured an embarrassing...

FARGO – A boy accused of trying to mug and kidnap a woman in the parking lot of West Acres mall will be tried as an adult. Abdirahman Sahel, who was 15 when he allegedly attacked a J.C. Penney employee in September, is charged in Cass County District Court with felony robbery,...

MEDINA, N.D. - A Velva man was found running naked on N.D. Highway 30 early Tuesday morning about 10 miles south of Medina, according to the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office. Stutsman County Sheriff Sgt. Jason Falk said Stutsman County Communications dispatched a sheriff’s...

FARGO – A plan for a Moorhead-to-Fargo shuttle service for downtown visitors could help merge the cities’ downtowns. The plan is to offer free parking at the Moorhead Center Mall and shuttle people to Fargo and back every 15 minutes. The plan is a response to the impending...

A long-awaited external review of University of Minnesota research policies has found “many weaknesses” in the university’s efforts to protect human subjects of its experiments. The report by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, released...

ST. PAUL – Gov. Mark Dayton had already proposed using almost all the $1 billion budget surplus forecast last fall, and on Friday he outlined plans for about half the new money as well. Republicans said they would give all the $832 million in additional forecast balance, and...

ST. PAUL – Speed limits on some northern and western Minnesota highways will be getting an increase, the Minnesota Department of Transportation says. About 340 miles of two-lane highways will increase from 55 mph to 60 mph. The changes come as part of a 2014 legislative mandate...

The Friday, Feb. 20, editorial by The Forum regarding the Dakota Resource Council was disturbing to me. I am a longtime member of DRC and currently a board member. I cannot find a single paragraph in that editorial that is not inaccurate or misleading. Two statements are especially...