FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police say a grocery store employee was shot twice during a robbery. Police Lt. Joel Vettel says the Sunmart Foods employee was taken to a Fargo hospital following the shooting late Sunday night.      Vettel says the employee’s condition was unknown on Monday and the suspect […]

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says two men were rescued from Lake Sakakawea after their boatcapsized A third man was able to swim to shore safely and notify authorities.      District game warden Mike Raasakka says the men’s boat began taking on water early […]

      HANKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have released the name of a 55-year-old man who died in an industrial accident after getting entangled in some equipment. Dean Louis Marschel, of Annandale, Minn., was found dead Thursday morning when the Richland County Sheriff’s Office responded to a gravel pit area about […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Longtime Burleigh County Clerk of Court Deb Simenson during her career has sent jury duty summons to her husband and two sons. Now, she can add her own name to that list.      Simenson uses a computer program to randomly select names from lists of voters […]

                                                  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Belcourt man who was a member of the town’s Rural Fire Department has been sentenced for arson. Thirty-seven-year-old Joseph Morin was accused of trying to burn down his former residence where his wife and children lived.      U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says Morin pleaded […]

 NEW YORK (AP) – Now we know how the tabby cat earns his stripes. He just needs the right DNA. Scientists say they’ve found the gene that determines which of the common tabby patterns a cat will have. Cats with narrow stripes have a working copy of the gene. If […]

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new study says it will take up to $7 billion to keep up North Dakota’s county and township roads during the next 20 years.      Denver Tolliver is director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. He says $834 million […]

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Supreme Court has refused a request to put a medical marijuana initiative on the November ballot. In a brief order Wednesday, the court said it won’t intervene in the dispute. Secretary of State Al Jaeger wouldn’t put the proposal on the ballot because of […]