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This image released by NBC shows former news anchor A.J. Clemente on the "Today" show, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in New York. Clemente was fired Monday from a North Dakota television station after he opened his first-ever broadcast with obscenities on Sunday. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

TV reporter fired for profanity on air of first broadcast

Last updated Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 8:53am

BISMARCK, N.D. — A weekend news anchorman for a North Dakota television station says he was fired after he opened his first-ever broadcast with obscenities.

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‘Fighting Sioux’ letters find new home in North Dakota

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 1, 2013 - 6:27pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The letters that spelled “Home of the Fighting Sioux” on the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks may soon appear along a stretch of North Dakota Highway 18 near Pisek.

The Grand Forks Herald reported Monday that Mike Dvorak entered the winning bid of $8,000 for the letters in an online auction. Dvorak owns a farm near Pisek.

Dvorak, 47, said he is building a house and thinking about putting the letters on top of the house and lighting them.

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Idaho man arrested in North Dakota homicide

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 18, 2013 - 5:43pm

WILLISTON, N.D. — An Idaho man suspected in the fatal shooting of another man outside a Williston, N.D., bar was arrested Monday near Billings, Mont.

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Gun-control advocate Susan Beehler of Mandan, N.D., meets with Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., on Feb. 19 at his office in Bismark, N.D. Illustrates GUNS-NDAKOTA (category a), by Stephanie McCrummen (c) 2013, The Washington Post. Moved Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (Photo for The Washington Post by Ben Garvin)

N. Dakota activist fights gun culture

Stephanie McCrummen The Washington Post

Last updated Friday, February 22, 2013 - 12:35pm

FARGO, N.D. — One recent afternoon, Susan Beehler, who may be the only gun-control advocate in all of North Dakota, walked into VFW Post 762, a dimly lit, wood-paneled bar in downtown Fargo.

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North Dakota radio announcer suspended for 2 games

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 3:15pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The University of North Dakota says it has suspended men’s basketball play-by-play radio announcer Paul Ralston for two games due to comments he made after Saturday’s game against Northern Arizona.

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Warrants issued for Utah men connected to ND worker death

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 11:08am

BISMARCK, N.D. -- North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has obtained arrest warrants for two Utah men he says were unlicensed contractors working at a Dickinson construction site where a fatality occurred.

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Fighting Sioux nickname appeal to be heard Feb. 14

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 2:29pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A three-judge appeals panel has scheduled a Feb. 14 hearing in St. Paul, Minn., on a lawsuit over the University of North Dakota’s retired Fighting Sioux nickname.

A judge last May dismissed the lawsuit filed against the NCAA by nickname supporters at the Spirit Lake and Standing Rock Sioux reservations. They claimed they were not included in discussions when the NCAA and the state negotiated a settlement to retire the nickname.

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Larry Boutilier, hardware manager, who has been with the Minot, N.D. Menards since 1996, looks over paperwork at the storey in Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The home improvement retailer says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. (AP Photo/The Minot Daily News, Jesse D. Watson)

North Dakota has more jobs than workers

James MacPherson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 30, 2012 - 10:13am

BISMARCK, N.D. — Home improvement retailer Menard Inc. says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state’s booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers.

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North Dakota, Southern Utah are no strangers

Tom Miller Grand Forks Herald

Last updated Friday, November 2, 2012 - 3:12pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Most of the University of North Dakota football team’s 2012 schedule has featured unfamiliar opponents as the green and white fight through their first season getting accustomed to the Big Sky Conference.

This week’s opponent, Southern Utah, however, provides some recent history — a history both teams discussed leading up to their matchup Saturday afternoon at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.

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Utah man killed in N.D. crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 8, 2012 - 8:27am

TIOGA, N.D. — Weekend crashes in northwest North Dakota left two people dead and four others injured.

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Utah man injured in ND oil rig blast dies

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 8:25am

WILLISTON, N.D. — Authorities say a Utah man has died of injuries suffered in an oil rig explosion in western North Dakota.

A statement from the Mountrail County Sheriff’s Office says 29-year-old Jeffery Kinkaid of Nephi, Utah died Friday.

The Williston Herald reports that Kinkaid was burned in an explosion on Sept. 4 at a rig site southwest of Stanley.

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Jamie Kuntz poses for a photograph at a football field in Dickinson, N.D., on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Kuntz says he was kicked of the North Dakota State College of Science football team for being gay. School officials say he was dismissed from the team for lying to a coach. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Gay North Dakota football player says kiss got him booted

Dave Kolpack, James MacPherson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 6:01am

DICKINSON, N.D. — A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said.

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Utah man burned in N.D. oil rig explosion

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 10:41am

STANLEY, N.D. — A Utah man working in the North Dakota oil fields is being treated at a Minnesota burn center after an oil rig explosion.

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North Dakota football is ready for Big Sky Conference

Wayne Nelson Grand Forks Herald

Last updated Monday, July 16, 2012 - 2:24pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Since Nov. 1 of 2010, the University of North Dakota football program could only make plans to join the Big Sky Conference. Finally, UND’s first official function with its new league has arrived.

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