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Los Angeles reached an agreement with the leaders of the International Olympic Committee on plans to host the 2028 Summer Games. The accord calls for the IOC to contribute $1.8 billion to $2 billion toward the hosting costs, depending on the value of potential new marketing deals...

ST. PAUL -- Renee Montgomery picked the right time to break out of a long-distance shooting slump. She scored a season-high 20 points off the bench, including four three-pointers, as the Minnesota Lynx defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 88-77 Thursday night at Xcel Energy Center in...

ST. PAUL — The St. Paul man who carried out a murder-suicide at UCLA left a “kill list” at his home — and that led authorities to a woman’s body in Brooklyn Park. Mainak Sarkar, 38, drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two semi-automatic guns and killed Professor William...

LOS ANGELES — A former Dickinson man accused of stalking media mogul David Geffen agreed to stay at least 200 yards away from Geffen for 10 years as part of a plea deal in Los Angeles district court on Feb. 9. Jamie Kuntz, who made national headlines in 2012 when he came out as...

LOS ANGELES — ABC has ordered four drama pilots, including a series on North Dakota’s oil exploration. “Boom,” from ABC Studios, centers on the biggest oil discovery in American history, which has triggered a geopolitical shift and an economic boom in the Peace Garden State...

FARGO — Brandon Eicher spent a year seeing all 50 states, but one of the Chicagoan’s favorite memories was from a bar in a little prairie town in southeast North Dakota. “So warm, so welcoming,” he said of the friends he made at the Silver Prairie Saloon in McLeod, population...

LOS ANGELES — Jamie Kuntz, a native of Dickinson, was ordered Wednesday to go back to court in Los Angeles on charges that he repeatedly violated a no-contact order from entertainment mogul David Geffen, the Associated Press reported. Kuntz’s defense lawyer said it’s a case...

LOS ANGELES — Rapper Wiz Khalifa notched his first No. 1 album last week, leading four new titles onto the U.S. chart. The North Dakota-born performer (born Cameron Jibril Thomaz) swooped in at the top with his fifth studio album “Blacc Hollywood” (Atlantic), which sold 90,000,...