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Recent UND medical school graduate delivers first baby - her nephew

FARGO - For a brief moment Monday night, Sarah Tillman looked down at the baby she was delivering via cesarean section and felt her focus slip. It was an understandable lapse in concentration. After all, it was the first baby she’d delivered as a doctor – and it also happened to be her brother’s new son.

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Corporate cash fuels campus projects

NDSU President says granting naming rights to corporate sponsors ‘a financial reality.’
FARGO – For nearly 50 years, the Stevens Auditorium at North Dakota State University was named after a renowned botanist and longtime professor.

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Runners from both near, far reach personal goals at Fargo Marathon

FARGO - Coming into this weekend, John Everett had completed marathons in less than four hours in 49 states. Make it 50 for 50.

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Charley Johnson to 'work without a script' as new head of Fargo Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau

FARGO – The last time the Fargo Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau picked a president, he had a background as a part-time weatherman and stuck around for more than 20 years. So board Chairman Tom Kasper figures a full-time TV anchorman should be good for at least 40.

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UPDATED: 'I just got tired': Smith resigns from ND higher ed board PressPass

BISMARCK – For the third time this year, the North Dakota Board of Higher Education will have to replace a voting member.

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Students learn to make sense of dollars

Financial workshop offers kids helpful tips
FARGO – It was a simple proposition, if a tough one, for a hungry fifth-grader to swallow: You get a giant marshmallow now, and if you can hold off eating it, you’ll get a second one later.

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Kilbourne Group gives Broadway’s Loretta Block new life PressPass

FARGO – When Doug Burgum and the Kilbourne Group bought the Loretta Block, a weathered, century-old landmark squarely in the middle of Broadway in downtown Fargo, they couldn’t help but feel the pressure to make whatever they did with it stand the test of time.

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Mining the past for clues on climate change PressPass

Late North Dakota botanist’s work ‘treasure trove’ for study published in journal Nature
FARGO - When spring sprang early, O.A. Stevens wanted to know why. Between 1907 and 1961, the professor and botanist for what eventually became North Dakota State University traveled the state, documenting everything he could find and compiling diligent records on how plants responded to differences in temperature and weather.

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Marcils give $1 million to Concordia's Offutt School of Business PressPass

Renovated building to open this fall
MOORHEAD – Concordia’s new Offutt School of Business is getting a million-dollar boost.

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Eccher: 'You've got male' column offers answer to questions about male behavior PressPass

Why, oh why, should you listen to me? Is it because I’m charming? Witty? Ruthlessly handsome?

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Trade Talk: Swanson sees rise in demand for iodine PressPass

Japan’s nuclear crisis may be unfolding halfway around the world, but the earthquake-and-tsunami-triggered disaster has had an unusual impact on at least one local business.

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Trade Talk: Moorhead mall adds Virgo’s pizza PressPass

When the Moorhead Center Mall announced the addition of a handful of new tenants in early August, leasing director Jeremy Horst told me the shopping center, once beset by a number of vacancies and waning foot traffic, was “taking the right steps” toward a return to vibrancy.

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Trade Talk: Fargo earns No. 1 ranking from economic policy center PressPass

When it comes to picking out the best places in the nation to do business these days, everybody loves North Dakota.

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Trade Talk: Asian cuisine market getting crowded

Call it an Asian cuisine invasion: Restaurants with menus from the Far East keep popping up around the Gateway of the West.

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