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FARGO, N.D. - Recently a bunch of plastic bags floated out of a closet and around my feet when I pulled out a winter coat to wear. "Why are there plastic bags stuffed in between all the coats in the closet?" I asked my husband. "It's easier to get...

Harry L. Rosenzweig, an influential mathematics professor who had been chairman of the math department at McDaniel College, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at his Westminster home. He was 72. "Harry was very popular with math majors and, in general,...

Politician. Born: 22 July 1923, Russell, Kansas. Robert Joseph “Bob” Dole was born in Russell in 1923, to Doran Ray and Bina N. (Talbott) Dole. As a boy growing up in western Kansas during the Great Depression, he worked a number of odd...

This week marks the midway point of the 2011 prep football regular season and because of a rare oddity in scheduling, five of the six local teams are off. The lone local taking the field this week is Brethren Christian, which on Saturday travels north to...

Mike Reily is the type of person who brings a bouquet of flowers to Thanksgiving dinner, complements the host on the food, offers to give up his slice of pumpkin pie when the dessert offerings run out and even volunteers to help with the dishes. He is...

University of Arizona scientists have found evidence of extreme Western drought in the second century that matches or exceeds the better known droughts of the medieval period....

JCPenney launches impulse gift shops in store, retail roundup, Justin Bieber...

In death, as on the final day of his life, Declan Sullivan's voice again was ignored by those at Notre Dame entrusted to listen. On Page 39 of the university's so-called independent investigation into the scissors-lift accident Oct. 27 that killed the...