thanksgiving

FARGO — Retailers aren’t the only ones gearing up for booming business on Black Friday. While stores ring up throngs of customers eager to get deeply discounted sale items, plumbers, too, have a busy day keeping up with calls for help clearing out clogged kitchen sinks or plugged...

Someone told me a long time ago the three most important things in life are faith, family and finances. Thanksgiving gives me a moment to pause and give thanks for all that I have to be thankful for, and especially these three and the wisdom to appreciate them in that order. Thankfully...

By Jackie Hope It’s coming: the biggest four-day weekend of the year. It’s the motherlode of Mom’s cooking, followed by the big kahuna of shopping, with some good football thrown in between. All riiiight! Thanksgiving and Black Friday! Don’t you just love Thanksgiving?...

BISMARCK -- All available North Dakota Highway Patrol troopers will be on patrol statewide Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving and one of the busiest travel days of the year. The Highway Patrol stated in a press release that it is maximizing its efforts to increase visibility...

By William H. Benson Rex Walls was a character. Brash, loud, full of opinions, and convinced that he knew all that needed knowing, he stormed his way through life. When his daughter, Jeannette, then only 4, burned her stomach when cooking some hot dogs, Rex got into a shouting...

BISMARCK — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple gathered several top officials in his conference room Monday to talk turkey, and the turkey cooperated. Lena the turkey was unflappable, standing stoically in the middle of the conference table while Dalrymple pardoned the 26-pound,...