Evacuated Cavalier residents may be allowed to return home soon

“We are seeing water recede at Renwick Dam. It’s dropped a foot since 6 p.m. Wednesday,” Pembina County Emergency Manager Andrew Kirking said this morning.

• Renwick Dam holds overnight in Pembina County

N.D. 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.

Weather, prices hurt industry, but American Crystal union members return to work

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.

7-year-old boy struck by car in Williston

A 7-year-old boy was struck by a car Wednesday just as school concluded for the day. Police, EMTs and witnesses surrounded the victim, who was placed on a body board before being loaded onto a stretcher in the ambulance.

• Students watch from the playground
• Williston police and paramedics work on a 7-year-old boy

N.D. state employees to see raise in 2013-15, but some unhappy

Mike Stebbins will see a raise in his salary during the next biennium thanks to the state Legislature. But, he said Wednesday, it could be a larger increase.

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

Recovery effort on hold in deadly St. Paul landslide

Authorities in St. Paul are working to determine how to proceed safety with the recovery effort for a child who's been missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured.

• Rescue personnel work near the scene of a rockslide
• An emergency worker attends to a person on a stretcher
• 1 child dead, 1 missing in St. Paul landslide

Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births

The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.

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

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. STATE GIRLS TENNIS: Lim adds to Red River’s depth

A year ago, Greg LaDouceur spotted a weakness in Cindy Lim’s game. “Sometimes, she’s too nice,” LaDouceur said. “That’s her nature.” Lim became more confident and more assertive this year, and in turn, she’s become a contender for the North Dakota state singles crown.

• 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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