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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,...

THOMPSON — The mayor of Thompson has joined a national group of mayors supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage. On Thursday, Karyn Hippen became the 400th mayor to join Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, and the first mayor from North Dakota in the group. “I was in favor...

LOS ANGELES — California gained 356,000 people in 2013, many attracted to the San Francisco Bay area and its prospering technology industry, a state demographer said on Thursday. California, the most populous U.S. state since 1963, ended the year with 38.3 million residents following...

Phyllis Frelich, a Devils Lake native credited with helping to blaze a trail for deaf actors, has died. She was 70. The Deaf West Theatre, based in Los Angeles, made the announcement Thursday night. Frelich had been involved with the theater. “You paved so many roads for...