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Little for Fargo criminals to ‘like’ on Facebook
Police posting crime surveillance photos on social network
FARGO – Small-time criminals, beware: You might soon be finding your picture on the Fargo Police Department’s Facebook page.
Innovate ND doles out awards to 5 idea-driven companies
FARGO – A videotape conversion company and a webcasting service were among five business ideas honored at the sixth annual Innovate ND Social, Entrepreneurial Ideas Showcase and Awards Ceremony on Tuesday.
RELATED CONTENTFargo School Board considers moving fifth-graders back to Kennedy
FARGO – The Fargo School Board is looking at bringing fifth-grade students back to Kennedy Elementary School here this fall, a plan that has some parents concerned about overcrowding.
MSUM grad creates website to connect listeners with indie bands
MOORHEAD - Like many college graduates his age, Michael Schreifels is entering an uncertain job market.
RELATED CONTENTWhere do F-M's retired signs go? 
FARGO - Behind the offices of Fargo’s Indigo Signworks, unused and discarded signs from area businesses sit mournfully, bordered off by chain-link fence topped by barbed wire, waiting for the end, or perhaps the next chapter, of their advertising life.
RELATED CONTENTMoorhead School Board looks at later start to school day
MOORHEAD – Under new plans to cut costs, some Moorhead students could see later starting times to their school day beginning this fall.
Fargo native ordered to repay $630K
Former bar owner, high school social studies teacher Bradley James Stroup in Oklahoma fraud case
STILLWATER, Okla. – A former Fargo bar owner and Moorhead high school social studies teacher pleaded no contest and was ordered to repay more than $630,000 in restitution on Friday on charges he defrauded an Oklahoma State University football official.
Film offers F-M opportunity to discuss, understand bullying
FARGO – When Emily Beck, executive director of the Fargo Theatre, realized she’d be able to bring in the film “Bully,” she knew she also would have an opportunity to get the community involved in something important.
RELATED CONTENTPatrons who use Wi-Fi but don’t buy anything common at area coffee joints
FARGO - At Atomic Coffee on Broadway last week, Brynn Luger’s table was the epitome of a college student’s.
RELATED CONTENTProsecutor paints fires as way for arson suspect to pin blame on ex-lover
MOORHEAD – After being wronged by a former co-worker with whom she had an affair, Tara Andvik sought revenge by blaming him for fires set on her property last fall.
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Things change as smoke clears
Fargo’s smoking ban began about six months ago, and the dust has settled predictably.
We all win, lose in fantasy leagues
I don’t like sports. I like caring about sports. The caring, however, has always been hampered by my gladiators of choice: the Chicago Cubs, the Minnesota Vikings and the athletic programs of Iowa State University – a trio of perennial losers.
Station’s early Christmas leap stirs inner Grinch
No, you didn’t go to bed on Halloween night and accidentally sleep through the month of November.
Political guests a drag on comedy
Since late-night comedy shows have become as must-do for presidential wannabes as “Meet the Press,” there has been some hand-wringing as vigorous as a surgeon scrubbing up before an operation.
Shirt theft a cruel trick on indie duo
Promising to ask no questions if something stolen is returned rarely seems to work, but I was wishing it would this past Friday night.
Less covers, more copies
Cover bands aren’t all bad, but they’re usually boring. Blame the formula. Like their cultural cousins – light beer, fast food, laugh-tracked sitcoms, top-40 radio, wedding-dance DJs and romantic comedies – cover bands are delivery mechanisms for the familiar.
I’ve had enough summer solitude
I don’t like what college kids and cabin-dwellers do to this town in the summer.
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10K Lakes Fest blog
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic weren’t as rump-shaking as I expected.
10K Lakes Fest blog
Highlights from this year’s 10,000 Lakes Festival near Detroit Lakes, Minn.
Am I really so bad?
For a conflict-avoiding Midwesterner raised on a diet of upbeat emotional repression, asking someone why they are mocking you is a high-level nightmare – better than endless freefall, worse than showing up at the first day of school in nothing but undies.
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