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Minot man celebrates 108th birthday today

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World War II veteran and retired farmer Ray Curtis celebrates a birthday today that not many people reach. He is 108 years old. He’s one of the oldest living World War II veterans in North Dakota. Curtis, who lives at Minot Lodge Senior Living in Minot, will observe the day with a ...

Proposed measure seeks approval, second withdrawn

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BISMARCK – A sponsoring committee proposing a constitutional measure related to public records, conflicts of interest, legislative salaries and lobbying has withdrawn its initiative. The proposed initiative was submitted to the North Dakota Secretary of State Friday and withdrawn on ...

Senate bill creates grant fund for rural emergency services

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BISMARCK – A bill proposing to use Legacy Fund earnings to support emergency services in rural communities is working its way through the legislative process in the North Dakota Senate. Sen. Josh Boschee, D-Fargo, introduced Senate Bill 2332, which proposes to establish a Legacy Earnings ...

State electric school bus efforts may pump brakes

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Some North Dakota school districts are part of a movement that has embraced electric school buses, but the federal funding shakeup carried out by the Trump administration leaves administrators in limbo. Spending deals approved by Congress in the Biden era committed more than $5 billion to ...

McGregor man sentenced for GSI

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A McGregor man convicted for four counts of gross sexual imposition has been sentenced to serve a consecutive 14 years in prison. Robert Jerome Watterud, 37, McGregor, appeared in North Central District Court in Burke County on Monday for sentencing, following guilty verdicts for all four ...

Tioga man sentenced to 4 years in 3 cases

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A Tioga man has been sentenced to a concurrent sentence of four years in three cases in Mountrail County. Andrew Allen Norm Wiedmer, 33, Tioga, appeared in North Central District Court for a pretrial conference on Thursday, where he entered changes of plea to guilty for 11 counts while nine ...