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Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Adams (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Billings (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Bowman (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Golden Valley (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Hettinger (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Slope (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Stark (North Dakota)
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 805 Issued At: 2008-08-04T03:47:00 Expired At: 2008-08-04T11:00:00 Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.spc.noaa.gov

Welcome House gets full-time case manager Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
Even on her way to work, Brenda Kriedeman sees more of the under-the-radar life of Bismarck's homeless than most people encounter in a month, a year, or maybe ever.

Roses are vital; lawn is optional Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:19:12 -0500
Unless you flip through Ed and Alice Kaseman’s three-ring binder documenting the evolution of their Bismarck backyard over the past two years, you couldn’t credit all that could be accomplished in two short seasons. And all by the homeowners themselves.

Region roundup Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
ADAMS Hettinger - A charity golf tournament sponsored by West River Health Services will start at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Hettinger Country Club. Tee-off is at 10 a.m. and there's a $10,000 prize for a hole in one. For information or to pre-register, call 567-2339 or 567-6187.

Man finds fulfillment in business tanning buffalo hides Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:19:12 -0500
STEVENSVILLE, Mont. - Jason Erickson was serving up beef burritos when he decided he would rather be delivering buffalo - and not as a meal.

Four detained for lack of papers Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
Four men were detained by the border patrol after a fight at the Broken Oar on Saturday night.

Obama makes bid in 7 longtime Republican states Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
WASHINGTON - Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana borders Barack Obama's home state.

Dems say Obama's N.D. campaign has a chance Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
Al Gore ignored North Dakota during his presidential campaign eight years ago. In 2004, John Kerry gave one February speech in Fargo - on Super Bowl Sunday - and spent much of his time in North Dakota watching the football game.

8 inducted into N.D. Cowboy Hall Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
MEDORA (AP) - The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame has eight new members.

High gas takes no toll on N.D. tourism Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
MEDORA (AP) - A new $2 million interpretive center, which houses a restored stagecoach once used by the Medora Stage and Forwarding Co., has helped increase the number of visitors to the historic Badlands site that includes the Marquis de More's chateau.

2 arrested in Fargo armed robbery Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
FARGO (AP) - Fargo police say two suspects are in custody in the armed robbery of a convenience store.

Some farm chemicals in pickup toxic Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
GRAFTON (AP) - Some of the farm chemicals picked up in this year's record-setting Project Safe Send collection are considered highly toxic. Still, officials say they're typical of the old and unused pesticides brought to collection sites each year.

New holiday lights considered Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:02 -0500
GRAND FORKS (AP) - Grand Forks officials are mulling the purchase of decorative lighting to brighten up the city during winter.

Area Sports Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:45:13 -0500
CLASSA LEGION BASEBALL STATE TOURNAMENT Wednesday through Sunday At Corbett Field, Minot Wednesday's games Game 1: #1 Bismarck vs. #8 Grand Forks, 10 a.m. Game 2: #4 Minot vs. #5 Williston, 7:45 p.m. Game 3: #2 Dickinson vs. #7 Devils Lake, 1:15 p.m.

GOVERNOR'S CUP: Seidler gets win Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:45:13 -0500
So Marlyn Seidler wasn't perfect on Saturday night at the North Dakota Governor's Stock Car Classic.

CLASS B: Casselton cruises Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:45:13 -0500
By Tribune Sports Staff LaMOURE - The Casselton American Legion baseball team rolled through the state tournament.

Morning Leadoff Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:45:13 -0500
Trivia answer From 1D: On this date in 1982, Joel Youngblood became the only player in major league history to play and get hits for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drove in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory at Chicago. After the game, he's traded to the Montreal Expos and plays that night in Philadelphia. He entered the game in right field in the fourth inning and later singled.

11 feared dead on K2; rescue team reaches Italian Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:07 -0500
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K2 on Monday after an avalanche and exposure left at least 11 people presumed dead on the world's second-highest mountain. An Italian who was also stranded made his way down the slope with a rescue team after telling a colleague, "I am surely not going to give up now."

Attackers in western China kill 16 border officers Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:45:07 -0500
BEIJING - Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Solzhenitsyn broke taboos, shook Soviet empire Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:45:10 -0500
MOSCOW - When Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" appeared in the thick monthly literary magazine Novy Mir back in November of 1962, taboos were shattered. Buried secrets were unearthed. And the Soviet Union was shaken to its foundations.

Funerals begin after North India temple stampede Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:45:06 -0500
SANTOKHGARH, India - Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people.

Bush to face protesters during South Korea visit Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:07 -0500
SEOUL, South Korea - President Bush held off on visiting Seoul earlier this year when protesters held nightly candlelight vigils and clashed with riot police in anger over government plans to resume imports of American beef.

Iraq violence kills 11, including 2 US soldiers Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:45:10 -0500
BAGHDAD - Roadside bombs killed two U.S. soldiers and at least nine Iraqis Monday in Baghdad and surrounding areas, officials said.

Activists: Israel bullying ill Palestinians to spy Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:45:12 -0500
JERUSALEM - Gaza resident Bassam Waheidi is slowly going blind, but he won't pay what he says is the price of regaining his sight _ spying for Israel in exchange for medical treatment.

Fatah fighters who fled Gaza seek West Bank refuge Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:45:10 -0500
JERUSALEM - Scores of Fatah allies who fled to Israel from the Gaza Strip sought refuge in the West Bank on Monday after Israel decided they would face "immediate danger" from Gaza's Hamas rulers if they were returned home.

Olympic protests over Beijing evictions Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:45:09 -0500
BEIJING - About 20 people angry about being evicted from their homes in central Beijing demonstrated Monday not far from Tiananmen Square, saying the Olympics should not curb their legal rights.

Suspect in bus beheading described as hard working Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:45:11 -0500
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A man who witnesses said stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized a fellow traveler on a Greyhound bus immigrated to Canada from China four years ago and worked for a time as a church custodian, the pastor who employed him said.

Tropical Storm Edouard heads for Texas-La. coast Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:12 -0500
GALVESTON, TEXAS - Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at Texas' Gulf coast at the height of tourist season Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds before a projected landfall a day later.

Rural volunteer fire depts. struggle to recruit Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:45:16 -0500
BIG SPRINGS, Neb. - Simple numbers were working against the fire and rescue department in this town of 400 along Interstate 80. Unbeknownst to six people in a Suburban that had just wrecked on the busy interstate, the math didn't favor them either.

Anti-tobacco lawyer Scruggs reports to Ky. prison Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:45:16 -0500
ASHLAND, Ky. - Anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has reported to a federal prison in eastern Kentucky.

Kosher slaughterhouse owners surrounded by scandal Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:13 -0500
NEW YORK - Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa _ not exactly a center of Jewish culture.

In US, gas prices mean more riders, fewer buses Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:45:15 -0500
DENVER - High gas prices almost killed the lifeline to the city for a group of mountain commuters.

Recordings raise questions about inmates' rights Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:13 -0500
SAN DIEGO - The last thing defense attorney Jim McMahon expected to hear on a recording of phone calls from the county jail was his own voice discussing trial strategy with a client who had been jailed on a probation violation.

FBI investigates new attacks on Calif. scientists Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:45:16 -0500
SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI is investigating two firebombings targeting scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities said.

Wis. ambush suspect maybe 'freaked out,' mom says Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:45:13 -0500
KINGSFORD, Mich. - When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation.

Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:45:14 -0500
The rich are sharing your financial pain _ and contributing to it.

Oil prices drop about $4 after storm threat eases Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:45:07 -0500
NEW YORK - Oil prices plunged in a massive sell-off Monday, falling below $120 a barrel for the first time since early May after Tropical Storm Edouard appeared unlikely to threaten oil and natural gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

Stocks pull off lows as oil falls sharply Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:45:07 -0500
NEW YORK - Stocks pulled off their lows Monday after a big drop in oil prices offset some of investors' concerns about a government report on inflation.

Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:45:03 -0500
WASHINGTON - Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades.

Motorola snares Qualcomm's Jha for handset unit Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:45:07 -0500
NEW YORK - Motorola Inc. snagged Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm Inc. and a star of the wireless industry, to head its handset division as that unit prepares to become an independent company.

ImClone hints at dim view of Bristol-Myers offer Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:04 -0500
NEW YORK - ImClone Systems Inc.'s board of directors said Monday cancer drug partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s $4.5 billion buyout offer "substantially undervalues" the company, with Chairman Carl Icahn personally against the deal.

WCI Communities files for bankruptcy Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:04 -0500
ADRIAN SAINZ MIAMI - Carl Icahn's WCI Communities became the latest casualty of the housing market crisis Monday, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the home builder failed to get additional financing in the face of massive losses.

Kerviel's assistant handed preliminary charges Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:45:05 -0500
PARIS - A 24-year-old former assistant to futures trader Jerome Kerviel has become the second person handed preliminary charges in the multibillion-euro (-dollar) Societe Generale banking scandal, a French judicial official said Monday.

Retailer Boscov's seeks bankruptcy protection Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:45:04 -0500
READING, Pa. - The troubled chain Boscov's Department Store LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, becoming the latest victim of a harsh consumer spending environment.

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