show moreMinneapolis City Council signs off on Vikings stadium plan
The Minnesota Vikings bagged the last political sign-off necessary for their new stadium Friday when the Minneapolis City Council narrowly approved the plan.
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An East Grand Forks man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman and a Grand Forks man is wanted for his role in the incident.
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Caylee Rodocker helps her dad, Jason, place flags on graves of veterans Friday at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Grand Forks. Rodocker, an airman stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, and his family volunteered for the project. Herald photo by John Stennes
Workers wanted: ND touts jobs in non-oil counties
Oil barons, energy experts, politicians and even former Major League Baseball manager Tony LaRussa were in North Dakota this week to revel in the good fortune from an oil boom that has hundreds of job seekers flocking to the western part of the state.
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John Hoplin spent most of the spring chasing teammate Quinn Baumann. In the end, however, nobody else in the state could catch Hoplin. Hoplin, a junior at Grand Forks Red River, won the javelin here Friday in the opening day of the North Dakota Class A High School state track meet. Hoplin won with a throw of 191 feet, 10 inches.
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Results from the 2012 ND State Track & Field Meet, running May 25 - 26 in Bismarck
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The Tommies won the 4x800 relay Friday on the opening day of the North Dakota Class B girls high school track meet. Thompson led from almost start to finish. Shimek ran a strong first leg to put the Tommies in the lead. Marx ran a strong anchor as the Tommies held off runner-up Kindred. Thompson finished with a time of 9 minutes, 57.41 seconds to Kindred’s 9:58.35.
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