ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – State officials say several recent cases of salmonella in Minnesota have been linked to stuffed chicken entrees that look cooked but are actually raw. The state health and agriculture departments said Thursday that the illnesses happened in two separate outbreaks involving products from two unrelated […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Attorney General Marty Jackley says if a county employee in South Dakota has religious objections to gay marriage they can have another employee issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple.     Jackley said Thursday that the constitutional right to marry that’s now guaranteed to […]

Tornado tosses mobile home 60 feet, injuring Montana man SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) – A tornado picked up a single-wide trailer in eastern Montana and threw it onto a storage shed about 60 feet away, injuring a 79-year-old man and his dog.     The National Weather Service in Glasgow says a […]

Latest North Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment as of 11am July 2, 2015. MURDER FOR HIRE-APPEAL Supreme Court rejects appeal in Fargo murder-for-hire scheme BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected another appeal by an Oklahoma man convicted of hiring a hit man to kill […]

US Sen. Heitkamp to have hip replacement surgery next month BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is scheduled for hip replacement surgery next month. Staff for the North Dakota Democrat say she will undergo a right hip replacement on Aug. 17 in Bismarck. The National Institute of Arthritis […]

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment as of 10:45am July 2. GRAIN STOCKS Wheat, corn, soybean stocks all are up in South Dakota     SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Stocks of wheat, corn and soybeans all are up in South Dakota. The Agriculture Department says in its […]

HURON, S.D. (AP) – A Huron man is accused of brandishing a gun in an alleged case of road rage in the city. Richard Rathjen tells The Associated Press that it was a case of self-defense. Rathjen allegedly got into an altercation with another person after a traffic incident Monday, […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of stabbing the Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent on South Dakota’s Crow Creek Indian Reservation has pleaded guilty to attempted murder under a deal with prosecutors. In return for Brian Iron Boulder’s guilty plea last week, federal prosecutors have dropped assault charges. Iron […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man accused of trying to kill his wife is standing trial in South Central District Court. Terry Link is charged with attempted murder, interfering with an emergency phone call and preventing arrest last October, about two months after Tamara Link had filed for divorce […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police say a 3-year-old boy who was in a minivan that was stolen has been found and is safe. Authorities say the child was sleeping in the back seat of the vehicle when it was taken by 33-year-old Ali Hashi shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday. […]