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Why I won't be watching 'Weight of the Nation'
Count me out of the audience tonight when "Weight of the Nation," the much-anticipated HBO documentary about obesity in the United States, makes its television debut. If the trailers and pre-show pub...
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:08 AM
Bake (Biscuits) for your best (canine) friend
UPS has been making frequent deliveries to our house this holiday season. One of those guys who drops packages at our door always remembers our Golden Retriever, Wrigley, with a couple of big biscui...
Posted on 12/23/09 at 11:30 AM
Should Hasan face charges of treason?
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, last week, is awake, according to CNN. I've had this thought in the back of my my head since that shooting that Hasan...
Posted on 11/9/09 at 6:54 AM
Pyongyang rumblings have little effect on SKoreans
SEOUL, South Korea — Outsiders might hear the opening notes of a war in the deluge of threats and provocations from North Korea, but to South Koreans it is a familiar drumbeat.April 05, 2013
Moorhead mom shocked by her New York gun arrest
Fargo - Beth Arneson Ferrizzi and her husband will welcome their first child together in June, but it might seem less laborious after what she went through delivering his handgun to him last week.April 02, 2013
Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan
HARTFORD, Conn. — With an announcement of sweeping proposals to curb gun violence, Connecticut lawmakers said they are hoping to send a message to Congress and other state legislators across the country: A bipartisan agreement on gun control is possible.April 02, 2013
Sifting of Sept. 11 debris for remains begins anew
NEW YORK — Jim Riches pulled his son's mangled body out of the rubble at the World Trade Center, but the phone calls still filtered in years afterward. The city kept finding more pieces of his son.April 02, 2013
Midwest economy: March state-by-state glance
The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.April 01, 2013
Rivals prepare for legal battle over abortion bans
Rival legal teams, well-financed and highly motivated, are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation's toughest bans on abortion.By David Crary , March 31, 2013
Analysis: NKorea threat may be more bark than bite
SEOUL, South Korea — Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for “death to the U.S. imperialists” and urge the people to fight with “arms, not words.”March 29, 2013
Single-engine plane crashes into lake in Minnesota
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- A single-engine, fixed-wing airplane crashed on northwest Lake Latoka in Alexandria shortly after 10:30 a.m. this morning. No serious injuries were reported.By Al Edenloff , March 29, 2013
Drone industry worries about privacy backlash
WASHINGTON — It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans’ everyday lives, performing countless useful functions.March 29, 2013
SD Sen. Tim Johnson retirement opens door for GOP
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The anticipated retirement announcement from South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson gives Republicans one of their best chances of picking up a seat in their quest to regain control, as the veteran moderate Democrat steps aside.By CHET BROKAW , March 26, 2013
USDA expanding program to fight rural poverty
COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. officials are expanding a program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding.March 26, 2013
Girl, 9, walks to get help after crash kills dad
LOS ANGELES — A 9-year-old girl crawled out of a mangled SUV, climbed out of a canyon and walked about a mile in the middle of the night to find help after surviving a highway crash that killed her father in Southern California, authorities said.March 25, 2013
Couple reflects on gay marriage
BERKELEY, Calif. — Big change is coming to the lives of the lesbian couple at the center of the fight for same-sex marriage in California no matter how the Supreme Court decides their case.By MARK SHERMAN , March 25, 2013
Winning ticket for $338M Powerball sold in NJ
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — The sole winning ticket sold for Saturday's $338.3 million Powerball drawing was purchased at a liquor store in northern New Jersey.March 25, 2013
ND getting $102,000 in settlement with Google
BISMARCK — North Dakota is getting about $102,000 in a multistate settlement with Google. Google Is paying a $7 million fine to settle an investigation into a snoopy software program.March 21, 2013
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