An auction of 78 wild horses from Theodore Roosevelt National Park was thrown into chaos when a 2-year-old stallion tried to jump a fence, injuring a man and sending others screaming and running for safety. More... |
A watchdog’s review of stimulus spending by the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t resolve the controversy about how the Obama administration allocated the money for border projects. More... |
A watchdog’s review of stimulus spending by the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t resolve the controversy about how the Obama administration allocated the money for border projects. More... |
Fisheries biologists plan to study what effect oil exploration on Lake Sakakawea has on fish. More... |
A Minnesota bowhunter may have bagged a state record 32-point buck. More... |
Congress gave final approval and sent to President Barack Obama legislation to add gays to the list of groups covered by U.S. hate-crime laws. More... |
The social networking giant Facebook.com has labeled Alex Jones’ new documentary film Fall Of The Republic to be “abusive” and is blocking some links to the film from its website, preventing the movie from spreading virally like the Obama Deception, which received tens of millions of viewers despite a Facebook policy to block it too. More... |
Minnesota Democratic Reps. Betty McCollum, Jim Oberstar, Keith Ellison and Tim Walz joined about 40 of their colleagues today in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that nonprofit employers be included in the health care legislation. More... |
Bong water can count as a controlled substance, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers who fail to dump the water out of their pipes. More... |
Companies tapping the rich Bakken shale and the formation below it in western North Dakota have reported excessive natural gas emissions from oil storage tanks and are working to burn or capture it, state and industry officials say. More... |
Every night during prime time, I see commercials that have more sexual content than John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." That was one of hundreds of titles in the accelerated-reading program of a high school in North Dakota. More... |
St. Paul officials say a man working in a manhole was electrocuted when he hit live wires. More... |
The financial manager of the Standing Rock Housing Authority is accused of stealing about $190,000 from programs that receive federal funds. More... |
The most number of highly paid people live in California. New York is second, and Texas, third. Vermont and North Dakota are ranked the lowest in personal income More... |
Safety investigators say the Northwest Airlines plane whose two pilots overflew their destination by 150 miles had an older model cockpit voice recorder that records only 30 minutes at a time. More... |
