News Headlines for Alkabo, North Dakota

North Dakota helicopter headed to help in California wildfires (The Bismarck Tribune)
Early Thursday morning, five North Dakota National Guard soldiers took off for California.

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North Dakota State Fair gearing up (The Bismarck Tribune)
With their new CD hitting stores July 22, the country duo Sugarland is once again hoping to make their way to the top of the charts. And on July 26, they also will be making their way to Minot for the North Dakota State Fair.

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Mississippi research interns spending summer in North Dakota (KPLC Lake Charles)
Associated Press - July 5, 2008 4:04 PM ET FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota State University professor who traveled to Mississippi Valley State last fall to watch a football game came back...

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North Dakota Broadcast Pioneer Dies | Video (KFYR-TV Bismarck)
A long time friend of broadcasting in Western North Dakota has died. Marietta Ekberg died yesterday at St. Alexius Medical Center at the age of 86 after a long illness. Ekberg was the daughter of Philip J. Meyer and Etta Hoskins Meyer, the founders of Meyer Broadcasting.

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North Dakota gushes overnight riches (The Morning Call)
Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle.

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Obama Visits North Dakota (KX TV North Dakota)
BARACK OBAMA ADMITS WINNING NORTH DAKOTA IN THE GENERAL ELECTION WILL BE A CHALLENGE. WHILE THE STATE SENDS DEMOCRATS TO WASHINGTON, IT'S BEEN OVER 40-YEARS SINCE A DEMOCRAT CARRIED NORTH DAKOTA. FOLLOWING HIS SPEECH, BARACK OBAMA TALKED WITH REPORTER

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North Dakota sending aid to California (CBS 47 Fresno)
Gov. John Hoeven says North Dakota is sending a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter to California with three pilots and two crew chiefs, to help fight wildfires.

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Exploratory Drilling for Uranium Under Way in North Dakota (KQCD-TV Dickinson)
Exploratory drilling for uranium is under way in southwest North Dakota. It`s being done by an Australian company, and it`s the first search for the radioactive element in North Dakota in three decades.

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Number of nurses increases in North Dakota (The Dickinson Press)
BISMARCK - The number of registered nurses per capita in North Dakota has increased since 2000 and is well above the national average, but the distribution remains uneven, a health official told legislators Tuesday.

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Obama Visits the Blue State of North Dakota (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
The Nation -- Barack Obama is serious about going where no Democrat has gone before -- or, to be precise, where no Democrat has gone in a very long time.

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