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| Jatten Heinen and family walk to the courthouse |
09/05/2008
UPDATED 11:53 a.m.
FARGO - A jury here has cleared former YMCA day care worker Jatten Heinen of all five felony charges against him, returning with a verdict just after 9 a.m. today.
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09/05/2008
BISMARCK — Sponsors of a state income tax cut measure are protesting the way Secretary of State Al Jaeger has worded the issue for the Nov. 4 ballot.
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09/05/2008
Tickets for Saturday’s North Dakota State Bison home football game against Central Connecticut State have sold out.
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09/05/2008
A Glenwood, Minn., developer plans to build a 288-acre housing development with two man-made recreational lakes near Horace, N.D.
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09/05/2008
Shows both quiet, tough sides
Prisoner-of-war-turned-presidential-candidate John McCain promises to change Washington by getting along with the opposition, reforming government and putting the country first.
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09/05/2008
Man accused of code violations
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an order Thursday indefinitely suspending Moorhead lawyer Richard Varriano’s law license for violations including mishandling clients’ trust accounts.
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| Jatten Heinen and family walk to the courthouse |
09/05/2008
The jury deciding whether a former Fargo YMCA day care worker molested four young girls will resume deliberations today after failing to reach verdicts Thursday.
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09/05/2008
Minnesotans and North Dakotans who helped make John McCain the Republican presidential nominee said he will win if voters get to know the McCain they know.
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09/05/2008
Minnesota apparently is a hotbed for failed Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, although few know it.
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09/05/2008
Metro-area Republicans cheered loudly for their party’s presidential hopeful, Arizona Sen. John McCain, as he spoke Thursday night at the party’s national convention in St. Paul.
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09/05/2008
North Dakota’s candidate-filing deadline today and the Thursday night wrap-up of the Republican National Convention have led to a scramble for presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s campaign, the state Republican chairman said.
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| Johanna Holtan |
09/05/2008
Johanna Holtan decided to stay put after the network TV cameras had moved on. When the Peace Corps let its Georgia volunteers go following last month’s Russian occupation, the Fargo native wasn’t ready to head home.
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09/05/2008
9-year-old’s mom still hospitalized
Another victim of Tuesday’s twinhome explosion in south Fargo has been released from the hospital, but the most seriously injured victim remains in a coma, family members said Thursday.
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Myron H. BrightDave Wallis / The Forum
Judge Myron H. Bright greets U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan during a reception celebrating his 40 years as a federal judge Thursday at the Quentin N. Burdick United States Courthouse in Fargo.
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09/05/2008
A U.S. congressman lauded area hunger and nutrition advocates Thursday, saying that their efforts were worthy of an “A” grade.
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09/05/2008
Lawyers have filed a motion for acquittal or a new trial for a woman convicted of driving a van that crashed into a school bus and killed four students last winter near Cottonwood.
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09/05/2008
The Minneapolis Golf Club has reached an $8 million settlement with the family of Abigail Taylor, the 6-year-old girl who was fatally wounded by a swimming pool drain, the club president said.
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09/05/2008
Moorhead police on patrol Thursday night spotted an abandoned mobile home in flames in the Bennett Park mobile home park, said firefighter Rick Loveland.
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09/05/2008
The National Weather Service says the first frost of the season has hit North Dakota.
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09/05/2008
A man shot and killed by a Mineral County sheriff’s deputy might have been a federal fugitive from North Dakota who failed to report to prison after being convicted of stealing and transporting weapons.
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09/05/2008
The Barack Obama campaign is opening five more offices in North Dakota today, including a second one in Fargo, and one each in Jamestown and Dickinson.
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09/05/2008
The West Central Minnesota Area Transportation Partnership, based in Detroit Lakes, is seeking applications for the 2013 Transportation Enhancement Program.
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09/05/2008
An anti-war march at the Republican National Convention Monday drew fewer protesters than predicted, turned violent in clashes between police and some demonstrators who were arrested for damaging property and injuring police and delegates.
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| Michelle Sundberg |
09/05/2008
The Red Bull Flugtag, beginning at 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 6 in Chicago, will take a group of Northlanders into a situation suited for a bird.
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09/05/2008
Police arrested people who refused to disperse after an aborted anti-war march to the site of the Republican National Convention site on Thursday instead turned into a moving sit-in.
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09/05/2008
Printing error sends duck stamp callers to telephone sex line
People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct.
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09/05/2008
When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn’t think twice.
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09/05/2008
It’s still summer, but cool temperatures – and even a bit of frost – have hit South Dakota this week. The cool weather comes on the heels of a hot, windy Labor Day weekend.
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09/05/2008
The public is invited to participate in a foreign policy discussion about U.S. defense and security policies from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Mandan Room at Memorial Union at North Dakota State University.
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09/05/2008
The Victory Office for the Republican Party of Minnesota at 923 Center Ave. in Moorhead is seeking volunteers to help with phone banks and to walk door to door.
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09/05/2008
Riding on Angels’ Wings, a therapeutic horseback riding program in Felton, Minn., has received $30,000 from Sammons Enterprises, the parent company of Midland National Life, Fargo, to begin construction of a new indoor riding arena.
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09/05/2008
The state Health Department is reporting 34 human cases of the West Nile virus so far this year in North Dakota.
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09/05/2008
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has endorsed a Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist for a congressional seat.
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09/05/2008
Atlantic coast states may take double punch
Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina all the way to Maine.
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09/05/2008
The annual Valley Vintage Car Show will be Sept. 20-21 at Veterans Memorial Arena in West Fargo, 1201 7th Ave. E. This year’s show will feature the AAA-sponsored No. 6 Ford Fusion show car and simulator.
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09/05/2008
A raffle sponsored by the Fargo Jaycees raised more than $1,000 to help fund the children’s program room and theater in Fargo’s new main library, expected to open next spring, the Fargo Public Library announced Thursday.
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09/05/2008
The 2008 Faith Reason and World Affairs Symposium Sept. 16-17 at Concordia College will focus on climate change, the severity of the problem and discussions on how quickly the world must adapt, what it means to this region and what can be done to fend off the damage.
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09/05/2008
District 22 Republicans are sponsoring a chili feed and homemade pie auction Sunday at the City Hall Auditorium in Casselton.
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09/05/2008
Minnesota State University Moorhead will host a panel discussion on emergency preparedness on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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09/05/2008
C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” bus tour will visit West Fargo High School from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 12.
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09/05/2008
The Fargo Park District has planned various fall art events for children. All events will be at the RDJ Rec Center, 1104 2nd Ave. S.
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09/05/2008
Quick response from volunteer firefighters stopped a Cooperstown café fire from spreading to other downtown buildings Thursday morning, said Griggs County Sheriff Bob Hook.
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09/05/2008
A bird’s nest in a chimney is believed to have caused a fire that damaged the roof of Schuett Hall at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton on Wednesday night, a spokeswoman said.
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09/05/2008
District 22 Republicans are sponsoring a chili feed and homemade pie auction Sunday at the City Hall Auditorium in Casselton.
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09/05/2008
Clay County Commission candidate Lysa Ringquist is hosting a free community picnic from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturdayat Romkey Park in Moorhead.
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09/05/2008
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden will present North Dakota State University junior Matthew Wold with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a public presentation and ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Plains Room of the Memorial Union at NDSU.
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