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WILLISTON, N.D. - Two separate crashes killed four people in North Dakota’s Oil Patch on Wednesday. The first crash happened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 2 near Williston. The North Dakota Highway Patrol said a Ford Expedition was traveling west when the driver,...

NEW YORK - A BNSF Railway train loaded with crude oil derailed on Thursday afternoon in a rural area south of Galena, Illinois, with two of the tank cars catching fire, according to local officials and the company. The incident marks the latest in a series of derailments...

GRAND FORKS - About a week ago at a University of North Dakota sophomore Austin Emineth hung a banner with the words "Fire Kelley" on it in reference to his university's president. The display didn't last long and the banner was eventually confiscated, but Emineth said he simply...

WILLISTON, N.D. – The permanent Federal Bureau of Investigation office here will likely be operational later this year, the agency announced Thursday. The office will be built into the Badlands Town Center, a complex under development in Williston that includes a new...

GLENWOOD, Minn. - A 23-year-old Alexandria man has been arrested and charged in Pope County for trying to solicit a 13-year-old girl for sex and for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. Jordan Christopher Anderson was charged with three felony counts in the case. He has entered...

ONAMIA, Minn. - A man was found dead with a gunshot wound Monday on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe reservation. According to the Mille Lacs Band Police Department, emergency officials were called to a home on the reservation when neighbors saw a man who appeared to be unconscious...

BISMARCK – North Dakota’s House Agriculture Committee heard more than eight hours of testimony Thursday on a bill that would relax the state’s anti-corporate farming law to allow corporations to own swine and dairy operations. Some think the bill opens the door to corporate...

TIOGA, N.D. - North Dakota health and energy officials are working to clean up a pipeline leak that spilled approximately 450 barrels or 19,000 gallons of brine in Divide County. The North Dakota Department of Health said Thursday the Continental Resources pipeline about...

FARGO - The Norwegian Statoil Oil and Gas Services Inc. has reached a $2 million settlement with the U.S. federal government after an investigation found it was drilling into unleased federal minerals in McKenzie County. The investigation by the U.S. Department of the Interior...