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CASSELTON, N.D. - Many residents evacuated a southeastern North Dakota town overnight after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, and officials warned that acrid smoke could blow into the area. No one was hurt in Monday's derailment of the mile-long train that sent a great fireball and plumes of black smoke skyward about a mile from the small town of Casselton. The fire had been so intense as darkness fell that investigators couldn't even get close enough to count...
FARGO, N.D. — Top federal law enforcement agents who spent the last several days touring the oil patch in North Dakota and Montana came away comparing the scope of the crime problem to the cocaine cowboys of south Florida in the 1970s and '80s and the heyday of street gangs in Washington and Los Angeles in the early '90s. Officials from seven federal agencies on the trip say they want to help state and local authorities who are doing most of the heavy lifting but are often bogged down by an onslaught of service calls for d...
FARGO, N.D. — Voters cast ballots Tuesday to resolve a bitter dispute over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname, even as supporters of the moniker promised to resume the battle this fall regardless of the outcome. The issue has been simmering for decades, dividing the state, sports fans, alumni and even area tribes. But it boiled over seven years ago when UND was placed on a list of schools with American Indian nicknames that the NCAA deemed hostile and abusive. Those colleges were told to dump the n...
MINOT, N.D. — Geese and airboats on patrol shared the streets of Minot on Friday as the Souris River set a new record for flooding, rising so quickly that it could be seen climbing up the side of homes in the North Dakota city. The Souris broke a more than 130-year-old record at noon when it measured 1,558.52 feet above sea level at the city's Broadway Bridge. That was about 9.5 feet above flood stage and a half-foot higher than the record set in 1881. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Officials with the U.S. Dept. of Fish and W...
MINOT, N.D. — Sirens in the North Dakota city of Minot sounded five hours ahead of a looming deadline Wednesday morning as the bloated Souris River began to overtop levees AP Photo/ The Forum, Teri Finneman The Souris River passes near a home Tuesday in Minot, N.D. About 11,000 Minot residents are being ordered to leave their homes even earlier than expected this week as the river gets closer to swamping the North Dakota city with the worst flooding in four decades, officials said Tuesday. The warning was followed by an a...
MINOT, N.D. — Plastic sheeting hung over the apartment building like a shroud, stretching from the eaves to the ground. Across it, someone had spray-painted the word "pray" and drawn a line labeled "1969" — the level where floodwaters had risen the last time the Souris River climbed out of its banks in Minot. That line stood just 2 feet above the ground. But the water is expected to climb far higher in parts of this Air Force town over the coming days as the little-known waterway swells from rain and snowmelt. It could bri...
FARGO, N.D. — The Red River Valley flood fight shifted Sunday from the cities of Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., to rural areas north of the north-flowing river, which crested Saturday night in Fargo at its fourth highest level in recorded history. Fargo officials said the metropolitan area appears to be in good shape, but urged residents not to travel outside the city. About 60 miles of roads were closed in Cass County, where Fargo is located, and another 10 miles of roads were washed over, officials said. Water was flowing o...
A provision in the health care reform bill that boosts Medicare reimbursement rates for some rural states has North Dakota written all over it. Officials from a Fargo hospital conceived the plan at least five years ago to protest what many believe to be an unfair method of payments for doctors and providers. It has now been proposed by North Dakota's two Democratic senators, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both of whom claim it's a tough sell. "I can't describe to you how tough a fight this is," Conrad said. "There's 'x'...
A provision in the health care reform bill that boosts Medicare reimbursement rates for some rural states has North Dakota written all over it. Officials from a Fargo hospital conceived the plan at least five years ago to protest what many believe to be an unfair method of payments for doctors and providers. It has now been proposed by North Dakota's two Democratic senators, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both of whom claim it's a tough sell. "I can't describe to you how tough a fight this is," Conrad said. "There's 'x'...
