FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s two largest universities set enrollment records during the first day of fall semester classes. North Dakota State in Fargo had 14,319 students enrolled Tuesday, an increase of about half a percent over the year. The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks had 14,807 […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota lawmakers are supporting big increases in some of the state’s highway speeding fines. North Dakota has some of the region’s lowest fines for speeders. They’re also hard for law officers to calculate without using a chart.      The Legislature’s Transportation Committee on Wednesday endorsed […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Favorable weather has continued to help harvest progress in North Dakota, but precipitation is needed for most row crops.      The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop, livestock and weather report that barley made it to 93 percent harvested, Durum wheat reached 60 […]

 LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, has died at age 95 in Los Angeles.      Her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, says Diller died Monday morning in her sleep. She had survived a near-fatal heart attack in 1999. […]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A cancer researcher who resigned from Duke University in North Carolina two years ago is now working in North Dakota. The Grand Forks Herald reports Anil Potti (uh-NEEL’ PAHT’-ee) is a medical oncologist at the Cancer Center of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Potti came […]

                                                  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man who was kept off a bus because of his saggy pants is accused of hitting a bus depot worker with a magazine rack.        Prosecutors in Fargo have charged 25-year-old Nigel Wakefield of Detroit with aggravated assault.        The incident happened […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad plans to donate his Senate papers to George Washington University in Washington, D.C.        Conrad is an alumnus of the school. He earned a master’s degree in business administration at George Washington in 1975.        Conrad and university […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The state Department of Mineral Resources reports on Tuesday that North Dakota oil producers pumped an average of about 660,000 barrels of oil each day in June.      Agency spokeswoman Alison Ritter says that’s up from about 639,000 barrels in May.      Ritter says there were […]