Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

As protesters made one last stand, the Boy Scouts of America's leadership began a conference Wednesday that was expected to culminate in a long-anticipated vote on whether to allow openly gay Scouts — a decision that, either way, could deeply affect the organization's membership and funding.

• Boy Scouts raise their hands at the close of a news conference held by people against the change in the Boy Scouts of America gay policy

Times not so sweet for sugar

Heavy rains in the northern Red River Valley will further slow sugar beet planting and could allow American Crystal Sugar Co. growers to plant only 430,000 to 440,000 of the 458,000 acres originally planned, officials of the Moorhead, Minn.-based farmer-owned cooperative said.

• American Crystal Sugar Co.

State has many with student loans, but low debt loads

Although the number of people who have student debt in North Dakota is among the highest in the nation, the average amount borrowed is among the lowest, according to a recent report.

Minnesotans will feel legislative session impact

Legislative sessions have consequences, and 2013’s version will be felt by many Minnesotans.

• Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signs an education bill
• Issue by issue look back at Minnesota Legislature

Ex-Bison player denies he faked community service

A former football player at North Dakota State University denied Wednesday that he at one point faked the community service he was ordered to serve for pleading guilty to faking signatures on an election petition.

• Clockwise from top left: Darren (D.J.) McNorton, Aireal Boyd, Don Carter and Joshua Gatlin

Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe

A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities in central Florida early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said.

• FBI investigators walk near the crime scene

MPCA studies water quality in Snake, Two Rivers

The Snake and Two Rivers rivers in northwest Minnesota are part of an ongoing water quality study scheduled to resume this summer to assess the condition of rivers, streams and lakes in Minnesota.

N.D. governor names new director of DOT

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple today appointed Grant Levi as executive director of the state’s Department of Transportation. Levi had been serving as the interim executive director since November 2012.

• Grant Levi

AT THE MOVIES: New and returning movies for Grand Forks and East Grand Forks theaters

New and returning movies for Grand Forks and East Grand Forks theaters

• "Tyler Perry's Peeples"
• Tom Cruise
• J.J. Abrams on the set of "Star Trek: Into the Darkness."

N.D. CLASS B TRACK: Fueled by frustration

Negative thoughts poured through Josey Page’s head after tearing her ACL at the end of the basketball regular season. It’s not that she’s a negative person; she just had so many plans.

• Carrington's Josey Page edges Hazen's Stephanie Ziegler to win the 800-meter relay

UND BASEBALL: UND rolls past Northern Colorado in GWC tournament

NEWARK, N.J. — The pitching of Brock Johnson allowed UND to roll past the top-seeded team in the Great West Conference tournament.

• UND sports logo

N.D. CLASS A BOYS TRACK: One last title bid for Riders’ big three

They each own a state title. They each are headed for Division I college track on scholarship. None of that has slowed Bryan Bjerk, John Hoplin or Loren Bothun this season.

• RR Roughriders logo

MARILYN HAGERTY: Al Neuharth: bigger than life even in death

Dear Shirley, Al Neuharth was there — talking from a screen — at the Celebration of Life held for him at the University of South Dakota. It was on May 17.

• Marilyn Hagerty

OUR OPINION: Charities sow early seeds of recovery

“American Red Cross volunteers had an emergency shelter open by 7 p.m. at the public school in Drayton, N.D.,” Wednesday’s Herald reported. Why are we not surprised to learn that before many people in the region even knew that Cavalier, N.D., had been evacuated, the Red Cross already had a shelter up and running?

• Our Opinion

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