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60-year-old Tracy Peters is in the Cass County Jail awaiting potential charges of attempted murder.
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Line workers from 10 North Dakota Co-ops will head to Guatemala in November -
As I write this, I have one more political debate to moderate. This year, we chose to spotlight US House races in North Dakota and Minnesota’s 7th District.
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It is the sights and sounds of waterfowl overhead that perhaps best exemplify fall. Biologists have long recognized predictable seasonal migrations of birds from their breeding grounds to non-breeding grounds, or what we would generally refer to as wintering grounds. They have also come to recognize four basic routes or flyways for migratory waterfowl in North America.
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A permanent oil tax break faces scrutiny; Theater B’s Frankenstein explores humanity and creation; and Tech With Peck examines data centers’ promises and costs.
Dakota Datebook
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South Minneapolis native Alexander Heine, born in 1885, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad. But the railroad wasn’t his first love. Alexander became enchanted by the magic of powered flight and caught the flying bug at an early age. He ventured to California, where he attended the Curtiss School in San Diego. When he returned to Minnesota, he couldn’t afford to buy an airplane, so he built one.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
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Demonstrators across France converged with students Saturday to protest rising living costs, as the country's fiscal crisis deepens.
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More than three decades after the end of apartheid, families of victims of some of the worst crimes of South Africa's past are still fighting for justice. As survivors and perpetrators grow older, a new wave of legal efforts is seeking truth, accountability and reparations before it's too late. -
Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for overnight accommodations, families are often on their own — and on the street.
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MPR News
On an ordinary summer afternoon, one could expect to see a line of cars form at the entrance of the Sky-Vu Drive-In theater and spill out onto the state road just beside it. As people in each vehicle drove by the marquee to pay admission, they’d park in front of the screen as the sun set and the film began.
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