touched down in an RV park<\/a> in the oil patch city on Tuesday. It would have been “near impossible” to treat the 26 people seeking help for their injuries without the new hospital, said Mike Curtis, the hospital’s chief administrative officer.<\/p>\n“We’ve never had (a situation) this bad or with this number of people within such a short period of time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Four of the patients brought Tuesday were in critical condition and transferred to the closest facility after they were stabilized, Curtis said. The remaining 22 were treated and released. A 1-week-old baby was the sole casualty from the natural disaster.<\/p>\n
About 20 doctors, nurses, and support staff rotated throughout the night to help treat patients even as staff was still learning where everything was in the new building.<\/p>\n
McKenzie County Board of Commissioners Chairman Douglas Nordby commended the hospital for its quick response.<\/p>\n
“I drove around with our emergency manager for the county and looked at all the response (activity) going on,” he said. “That was awesome that every entity in our community, and the communities around us, showed up to help.”<\/p>\n
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CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 McDonald’s is stopping the sale of salads at 3,000 restaurants after people became sick from a parasite causing intestinal illness.<\/p>\n
The Chicago-based fast-food chain said Friday it’s acting “out of an abundance of caution” until switching to another supplier. Health officials in Illinois and Iowa say they’ve identified roughly 100 combined cases of cyclosporiasis apparently linked to consuming McDonald’s salads. The illness is caused by the Cyclospora parasite.<\/p>\n
McDonald’s is removing the lettuce blend from identified restaurants and distribution centers. At least one of the affected restaurants is in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota,<\/strong> South Dakota, Montana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Missouri.<\/p>\nThe most common symptom is watery diarrhea. Other symptoms could include appetite loss, intestinal pain, nausea and fatigue.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota’s oil production set a record in May due to rebounding crude prices.The Department of Mineral Resources announced Friday the state produced an average of 1.24 million barrels of oil daily in May. That’s up more than 19,000 barrels daily from April, and more than 17,000 barrels from the previous record set in December 2014.<\/p>\nNorth Dakota also produced a record 2.38 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day in May. There were a record 14,755 producing wells in May, up 172 from April.<\/p>\n
The May tallies are the latest figures available.<\/p>\n
North Dakota sweet crude was fetching $62.50 a barrel on Friday, up more than $4 from the May average and more than $27 from one year ago.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/article>\nBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp continues to hold a fundraising advantage over Rep. Kevin Cramer, her Republican challenger.Heitkamp’s campaign earlier this week released partial figures ahead of the Federal Election Commission’s Sunday deadline. Heitkamp says she raised more than $1.9 million in the second quarter for her re-election bid, and has $5.2 million cash on hand.Cramer’s campaign on Friday says he raised more than $1.5 million during the reporting period, and has more than $2.4 million in the bank.The North Dakota race is seen as critical for control of the closely divided Senate.\u00a0<\/article>\nBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer has released a 60-second spot that features President Donald Trump’s support of him over Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in a race critical for control of the Senate.The television ad began airing Friday statewide. It features remarks Trump made at a campaign rally last month in Fargo, where he criticized Heitkamp for voting with her party leadership and against his agenda, including tax cuts he signed into law.Cramer’s campaign didn’t give specifics on the ad buy.Heitkamp is considered a moderate and one of the least reliably partisan Democratic votes in the Senate. She’s largely backed North Dakota’s corporate interests on energy and voted to confirm 21 of Trump’s 26 cabinet-level nominations.Trump carried North Dakota by 36 percentage points in the 2016 election.<\/article>\n <\/p>\n
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Three environmental groups are suing North Dakota over an air quality permit that allows construction of an $800 million oil refinery about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.<\/p>\n
National Parks Conservation Association, the Environmental Law and Policy Center and the Dakota Resource Council filed the lawsuit in state court on Thursday, asserting that the state erred when it concluded the proposed Davis Refinery wouldn’t be a major source of pollution and wouldn’t negatively impact the park.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit asks a judge to declare the permit invalid and send the case back to North Dakota’s Health Department for further review.<\/p>\n
“We must protect the air quality in the national park, which visitors and surrounding community members breathe, and on which the stunning views and fragile ecosystems depend,” said Stephanie Kodish, clean air program director for National Parks Conservation Association. “This polluting oil refinery betrays the conservation values of the park’s namesake.”<\/p>\n
The 30,000-acre (12,000-hectare) park is named for the former U.S. president who ranched in the region in the 1880s and is revered for his advocacy of land and wildlife conservation. It’s a rugged and breathtaking area of hills, ridges, buttes and bluffs where millions of years of erosion have exposed colorful sedimentary rock layers, and is home to a variety of wildlife including prairie dogs, wild horses and bison. The park is the state’s top tourist attraction, drawing more than 700,000 visitors annually.<\/p>\n
Meridian Energy Group is developing the refinery to initially process about 27,500 barrels of oil daily, with room for expansion. The company maintains that the plant with modern technology will be “the cleanest refinery on the planet.”<\/p>\n
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In world and national news<\/p>\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The White House is stressing that the indictment against 12 Russian intelligence officers contains no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the Trump campaign or that the hacking the Russians are accused of conducting affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Spokeswoman Lindsay Walters says “this is consistent with what we have been saying all along.” The indictment comes as the special counsel investigates potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.<\/article>\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\nELLESBOROUGH, England (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump has departed Windsor Castle after tea with Queen Elizabeth II. It was Trump’s first time meeting the monarch. Britain’s national news agency said they spent 47 minutes getting acquainted over tea _ 17 minutes longer than scheduled.<\/article>\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\nGARDEN CITY, Ind. (AP) \u2014 The collapse of a gas station chain owned for decades by Vice President Mike Pence’s family has cost taxpayers millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites in three states. That’s the finding of an Associated Press analysis of court documents, business records and environmental reports. The Kiel Bros. Oil Co. went bankrupt in 2004. Since then, Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million to clean up leaking tanks and other problems. And the work is nowhere near complete.<\/article>\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\nLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) \u2014 The University of Louisville is removing the Papa John’s name from its football stadium. The Kentucky school is taking action after the pizza chain’s founder, John Schnatter, reportedly complained that Colonel Sanders never faced a backlash for using a racial slur. University President Neeli Bendapudi announced change for Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium on Friday. Also being renamed is the business school’s John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise.<\/article>\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 British detectives investigating the poisoning of two people by the nerve agent Novichok in southwestern England says that a small bottle found in the home of one of the victims tested positive for the deadly substance. Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were sickened on June 30 in a town not far from Salisbury, where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with Novichok in March.<\/article>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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