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Undated — The North Dakota Tea Party Caucus has announced Tea Party Rallies in seven North Dakota cities, on September 17, 2012, Constitution Day.

A news release says, the goal is to bring concerned citizens of North Dakota together to express Constitutional solutions in what is the most important election in a generation. All times will be at 6:30 PM local time.

The cities hosting the rallies are:

Fargo – City Hall (207 4th St N)

Jamestown – KC Hall (519 1st Ave S)

Bismarck – State Capital (Front Steps)

Minot – Oak Park (11th to 14th block of 4th Ave NW)

Dickinson – Gate City Bank (204 Sims St, basement)

Williston – Airport Int’l Inn (3601 2nd Ave W)

Grand Forks – Sept 15 or 17th, location/time to TBA

(locations are subject to change)

NDTPC, Executive Director, Perry Schumacher says, “The North Dakota Tea Party Caucus remains committed to action by shaping a new political reality in our state.

Once again we want to provide an opportunity for North Dakota citizens to express to all candidates how America’s future is tied to the Constitution.

The energy we saw in the election of 2010 remains. From now until November we will do everything possible to assure the momentum created in 2010 continues.”

NDTPC, President, Leon Francis, says, “The citizens of North Dakota will do our part to assure this President does not fundamentally transform America as he has stated is his goal.”

Mike Motschenbacher of Bismarck, says “These simultaneous rallies once again demonstrate the united efforts across our state by concerned citizens.

Those who believe in the principles of the NDTPC will have an opportunity to come together in a city near them to demonstrate their strength of commitment.

Since 2009 the tea party has shaped the debate of our country.

On September 17th, we in North Dakota will continue adding to that debate.”

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota officials say counts of
visitors indicate the state’s tourism industry has rebounded from
last year’s flooding that put a damper on summer travel.
     The state Tourism Division says that compared to the same time
period a year ago, visitors in the second quarter of this year were
up 24 percent at North Dakota’s state parks, up 25 percent at
national parks and up 13 percent at major attractions.
     Division Director Sara Otte Coleman says the warm spring
combined with pent-up demand after last year’s flooding has been
great for the state’s tourism industry.
     Coleman says tourism spending also has been strong. She says
taxable sales tied to tourism in the first quarter of this year
were up nearly 38 percent from a year earlier.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman, punching a man who was helping her, and threatening to kill both of them with a knife.
 
28-year-old Dustin Louis Vaughn made his first court appearance Thursday on felony charges of gross sexual imposition and terrorizing.

He also is charged with misdemeanor charges of simple assault and criminal mischief for allegedly slashing the woman’s tires.
 
     The male victim told police he was helping the woman get property out of her apartment Tuesday when Vaughn arrived and punched him. The man was able to get away.
 
     The woman reported that Vaughn then assaulted her. Vaughn later allegedly approached the woman and the male victim and threatened to kill them.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – American Crystal Sugar Co. officials say the
company’s chief executive officer will not be attending a proposed
meeting with locked-out union workers.
     The union has invited Crystal Sugar CEO Dave Berg to an Aug. 16
gathering that union negotiator Steven Bertelli on Wednesday
described as an “informative, constructive discussion that could
contribute to productive negotiations.”
     In a letter posted on the Crystal website, a lawyer for the
company says the issues have been outlined in 21 negotiating
sessions and a public meeting will not resolve the dispute.

     About 1,300 workers have been locked out of their jobs for more
than a year at facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa.

     The union says the contract offer is unfair, particularly on
seniority and job security, and voted against it three times.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota exports the first half of
2012 were up 24 percent over the year, and the oil boom played a
role.
     The U.S. Commercial Service says oil exports jumped 47 percent
from 2011, to $438 million.

The agency notes that most of North Dakota’s crude exports return to the U.S. via a pipeline that briefly enters Canada.
     There also were big increases in the export of North Dakota farm
and construction equipment the first six months of the year.

Wheat exports were down 21 percent to $96 million. Agriculture Department statistics show that wheat production in the state last year was
down 43 percent from 2010, largely due to flooding.
     Total U.S. exports the first half of the year were up 7 percent
from 2011.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials don’t believe extreme drought in
other states has anything to do with Japanese beetles showing up in
North Dakota for only the second time in 52 years.

     The pests that feast on everything from rose bushes to corn
crops are most prevalent in states east of the Mississippi River,
many of whom are dealing with extreme drought.

But North Dakota State University entomologist Jan Knodel (kuh-NOH’-duhl) says the beetles don’t fly such long distances, and they prefer hotter,
drier weather anyway.
     Knodel speculates the beetles found in traps in eastern North
Dakota hitched a ride on trucks bringing nursery plants to North
Dakota from Minnesota, which has established populations of the
bugs.
     North Dakota doesn’t. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring
says officials will work to keep it that way.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota officials say farmers, ranchers, homeowners and others turned in a record amount of old, unusable and banned pesticides last month in a state collection program.
 
     Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says more than 145 tons of pesticides were collected in Project Safe Send. He says that far exceeds the 108 tons collected two years ago.
 
     Goehring says most of the pesticides collected in the effort are agricultural and home products that no longer are registered for use in North Dakota, are damaged or are no longer needed by their owners.
 
     The collections were conducted in July in 12 communities across North Dakota.
 
     Fees paid by pesticide manufacturers to register their products in North Dakota are used to pay for the collection effort.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The oil boom keeps moving east.
     The northeastern North Dakota city of Grand Forks has created a
new website as part of a campaign to recruit oil patch companies to
the region.
     City officials say three companies have announced expansion
plans into the region to meet growing demands from the oil industry
for their products. One company, Steffes Corp., is expanding its
Dickinson plant to Grand Forks.
     Grand Forks Mayor Michael Brown says the city believes it can
help companies who are looking for space to expand.
     The site is www.accessthebakken.com.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Camping restrictions put in place earlier
this year on some wildlife management areas along Lake Sakakawea
have been expanded to southwestern North Dakota.
     The state Game and Fish Department is prohibiting overnight
camping on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, except for holidays, on
wildlife management areas in Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden
Valley, Hettinger, Morton and Slope counties.

More details are available on the agency’s website, at
http://www.gf.nd.gov

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A group says it will stop airing a
television ad that is critical of North Dakota Democratic U.S.
Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp’s record as attorney general.
     The ad claims when Heitkamp was attorney general during the
1990s, she spent taxpayer money on private airplanes.

     Heitkamp on Thursday called the charge “completely false” and
asked TV stations to quit running it.
     It was produced by Crossroads GPS, an organization that supports
Republicans.

A Crossroads spokesman says the ad has been taken down
voluntarily.

The group had intended to spend $191,000 running it into the middle of next week.
     Heitkamp says when she was attorney general, her office got two
surplus planes for free from the Department of Defense.

One was flown on anti-drug missions. The second was used for spare parts.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Democratic U.S. Senate
candidate Heidi Heitkamp says people shouldn’t assume she holds the
same views as national Democratic Party leaders.
     She says North Dakotans also shouldn’t assume that her opponent,
Republican Rick Berg, agrees with national Republican leaders on
everything.
     Heitkamp’s opponents have tried to tie her to Democratic
President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Some
of Berg’s critics associate him with Republican House Speaker John
Boehner.
     Heitkamp says people shouldn’t associate Boehner’s views on
federal farm legislation with Berg’s. And she says people shouldn’t
assume she shares Reid’s opinions on energy policy.
     Heitkamp says what matters are the differences between her
positions and Berg’s on policy questions. She said: “I don’t speak
for Harry Reid and Harry Reid doesn’t speak for me.”

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Public Service Commission
wants to participate in a federal lawsuit that claims two
commissioners took improper campaign contributions.

Two environmental groups have filed suit against federal Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar. The suit says Commissioners Brian Kalk and
Kevin Cramer have gotten campaign donations from the coal industry.

 

In sports…

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State University head football coach Craig Bohl has dismissed linebacker Brandon Jemison for an unspecified violation of team rules.

Jemison is a 6-foot-1, 217-pound senior from Fargo. He played in all 40 games during his first three years and started 27 of them. NDSU in Fargo is the defending Football Championship Subdivision champion.

 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION…

Thursday’s Games
     Fargo-Moorhead 5, St. Paul 3

MLB…

AMERICAN LEAGUE
 
  Final  N-Y Yankees   4  Detroit         3
  Final  Tampa Bay     7  Toronto         1
  Final  Cleveland     5  Boston          3
  Final  Kansas City   8  Baltimore       2
 
 
    NATIONAL LEAGUE
 
  Final  N-Y Mets      6  Miami           1
  Final  St. Louis     3  San Francisco   1
  Final  Arizona       6  Pittsburgh      3
  Final  Chi Cubs      5  Cincinnati      3
  Final  Washington    5  Houston         0
 
 
    NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PRESEASON
 
  Final  Washington     7  Buffalo       6
  Final  Baltimore     31  Atlanta      17
  Final  New England    7  New Orleans   6
  Final  Philadelphia  24  Pittsburgh   23
  Final  San Diego     21  Green Bay    13
  Final  Denver        31  Chicago       3

 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) – The Minnesota Vikings are gearing up for tonight’s preseason opener against the San Francisco 49ers and Randy Moss.

 The former Vikings star receiver hasn’t played in the NFL since 2010, when he played for three teams including Minnesota.

The Vikings come back home for next week’s preseason game against Buffalo.

 

NBA…

 UNDATED (AP) – The NBA has scheduled a conference call today with four general managers to conclude a blockbuster deal.

The four-team, eight-player trade would send free agent All-Star center Dwight Howard to the L.A. Lakers with Andrew Bynum going to Philadelphia and Denver getting Andre Iguodala (ihg-woh-DAH’-lah).

 

 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Minnesota Timberwolves’ second-round draft pick Robbie Hummel says he’ll play in Europe rather than the NBA next season.

The former Purdue star tells the Lafayette Journal and Courier that he’s agreed to a deal with a professional team in Spain.

Hummel says the deal was made with the approval of the Timberwolves.

 

OLYMPICS…

 LONDON (AP) – The U.S. women’s soccer team avenged one of its toughest losses by nipping Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal as Carli Lloyd scored both goals.

The Americans had lost a heartbreaker to Japan last year in the women’s World Cup final.
 

 LONDON (AP) – America’s Ashton Eaton can now be called, “The
World’s Greatest Athlete.” He earned that title by winning the
Olympic decathlon gold medal by 198 points.

Eaton set the decathlon world record at the U.S. trials in June and backed it up with an Olympic victory with 8,869 points.
     Two-time world champion Trey Hardee of the U.S. settled for
silver with 8,671 points.

 

American runner Manteo Mitchell ran the last 200 meters of the opening lap of the Olympic 4×400-meter relay preliminaries with a broken leg.

Mitchell told The Associated Press he had about half a lap to go when he
felt a popping in his left leg.

     He finished the lap in 46.1 seconds and helped the Americans to
a tie for first with the Bahamas in 2 minutes, 58.87 seconds.

A few hours later, doctors told him he had a broken left fibula. The
relay final is set for today.

 
     LONDON (AP)- Usain Bolt is the world’s fastest man — in both the 100 and 200 meter dashes.

The Jamaican flash won his second straight gold medal in the 200 meters just days after winning the 100 for the second straight Olympics.

 

 Christian Taylor of the U.S. won the Olympic triple jump gold
medal, overtaking U.S. teammate Will Claye with his fourth jump in
the final.

Taylor, the world champion, earned the Olympic title
with a best jump of 17.81 meters.

 

LONDON (AP) – Claressa Shields is the first U.S. woman to win a
boxing medal in an Olympics.

The 17-year-old shuffled, danced and slugged her way past her 33-year-old opponent from Russia, winning the championship bout of the 75-kilogram class 19-12.
     The teenager won the 12-member American team’s only gold medal
in London.

 

 LONDON (AP) – The unbeaten U.S. women’s volleyball team advanced
to the Olympic final with a straight-set victory over South Korea
and will play for the title Saturday against defending Olympic
champion Brazil.

 The American team lost to Brazil 3-1 in the final at the 2008 Beijing Games.
   Brazil advanced with a straight-set win over Japan.

 

  LONDON (AP) – The U.S. women’s basketball team goes for its fifth straight gold medal today at the London Olympics.

The American women are set to play France in the championship game.

 

 LONDON (AP) – The United States continues to hold the lead in
the overall medals race and the gold rush at the London Olympics.
Team USA increased its total to 90, including 39 gold. China is
next in both races with 80 and 37.
     Russia sits third overall with 56, and Britain has 52. But the
host country is third in the gold medal standings with 25 to just
12 for Russia.

 

GOLF…

 KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) – Carl Pettersson (PEHT’-ur-sihn) starts second round play at the 94th PGA Championship with a one-shot advantage over Gary Woodland, Alex Noren, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano and Rory McIlroy.

John Daly is in a group just two back with Tiger Woods three off the lead.

 

In world and national news…

 OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) – Organizers of a wake and visitation today
for the half-dozen Sikh (seek) worshippers gunned down by a white
supremacist at their Wisconsin temple have allocated an extra two
hours to accommodate the thousands of mourners expected.

Later, at the temple, a traditional 48-hour ceremony will honor the victims.
     
     GENEVA (AP) – The U.N. refugee agency says offices in Lebanon,
Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have all reported big increases in the
number of people who have registered as refugees from Syria or are
in the process of being registered.

The agency says nearly 150,000 people fleeing Syria’s civil war have sought help and they expect that to grow.
     
     WASHINGTON (AP) – One of the Republican attacks on President
Barack Obama in an increasingly negative ad war is that he removed
the work requirement from welfare laws.

 Obama’s campaign is firing back with an ad that says the claim is false. The ad says Obama wants to give states waivers if they show that their methods put
welfare recipients to work more effectively.
     
     NEW YORK (AP) – J.C. Penney is issuing a gloomy financial report
this morning and withdrawing its profit guidance for the year.

J.C. Penney is reporting a bigger-than-expected loss and plummeting
sales, as its customers continue to be turned off by a new pricing
plan that gets rid of hundreds of sales in favor of every day lower
prices.
     
     TOKYO (AP) – Nuclear experts in Japan say there was a nuclear
plant even closer to the epicenter of last year’s devastating
earthquake that survived largely undamaged while Fukushima suffered
multiple meltdowns.

A team from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says the Onagawa plant in northern Japan was well prepared with greater safety margins.