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BISMARCK – If a scholarship is set aside for an offensive lineman, can it really count as exclusively advancing academics? Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley thinks it can, as do other North Dakota officials who oversee a program matching private gifts for scholarships with state money. It’s...

Bismarck - Lawmakers will dive right back into the thick of things when they reconvene Wednesday after a three-day recess, and that’s especially true for the House and Senate agriculture committees, which will take up two of the session’s most contentious ag-related bills. The...

St. Paul - Minnesota exported $21.4 billion of goods last year, the White House announced. President Barack Obama talked Thursday about his economic plan, which he said resulted in an American record $2.35 trillion in exports. Part of the White House push included highlighting...

FARGO – It was the final turn in the 800-meter run when North Dakota State could have turned the finish by Erin Teschuk, Amy Andrushko and Jenny Guibert into a victory lap. There were still several events to go, but the outcome was obvious. Make it an eight-peat for the Bison...

Four missionaries from a Devils Lake, N.D., church are on their way home after being detained in Venezuela. Bethel Evangelical Free Church Pastor Bruce Dick said Saturday the medical missionary team is out of the country and on its way back to the United States. “They...

A University of North Dakota police officer was involved in a shooting in the parking lot of Grand Forks' Altru Hospital early Saturday morning after a vehicle pursuit. The shooting occurred about 12:45 a.m., according to news releases issued from area police departments. Grand...

Anthony Mason, a former player with the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks, has died at the age of 48, ESPN and other media reported on Saturday. One of Mason's sons said earlier this week that his father's health was improving after multiple heart...

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...