Kiwanas Pancake Feed ready to flip Saturday

Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Dozens of volunteers are gearing up for the 54th annual Kiwanis Pancake Karnival.

• Kiwanas Pancake Feed

Valentine's Day spending up nearly 9%

Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) _ With an economy on the rise, couples are expected to spend more this Valentine’s Day.

• Valentine's Day

"Piggyback Bandit' banned from Minnesota prep events

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is banning the man known as the "Piggyback Bandit" from high school games in the state.

Suspect in high speed chase gets away

Moorhead, Minn. (WDAY TV) - A suspect in a high speed chase in Moorhead and Dilworth last night in a stolen SUV, gets away.

Moorhead man nearly sets home on fire while trying to defrost pipes with propane torch

Moorhead, Minn. (WDAY TV) - A Moorhead man is lucky to still have his home after a fire this morning. It happened just before six on the 500 block of Highway 75 North.

• Moorhead Fire

Autopsy finds Fargo lawyer found dead at rest stop shot himself

HILLSBORO, N.D. – An autopsy has confirmed that Fargo attorney Steven M. Light, whose body was found inside a rest stop near Hillsboro on Wednesday evening, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Traill County Sheriff’s Department says.

Child fatally struck in Montrose, driver dies

MONTROSE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota State Patrol says two people are dead after a vehicle veered off a highway in Wright County and struck a child waiting for a school bus.

Audit: North Dakota school lacks controls

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Dickinson State University awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them, signed up students who couldn't speak English and enrolled a handful without qualifying grades, according to an audit report of the North Dakota school.

Train collides with semi in ND; driver injured

TRENTON, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a truck driver was injured after a west-bound Amtrak train struck a semi hauling water in northwest North Dakota.

Agency says it can't act in ND trench collapse

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — A federal agency says it can't intervene in a case where a man died in a trench collapse because the man wasn't working for the company that built the trench.

Advocates want tougher penalty for animal cruelty

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Animal advocates plan to start an initiative campaign to toughen North Dakota's penalties against animal cruelty.

Obama revamping birth control policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retreating in the face of a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned.

• Sen. Marco Rubio

Blasts hit security HQs in Syrian city Aleppo

BEIRUT (AP) — Two explosions struck security compounds in Aleppo on Friday, killing 28 people, state media reported, the first significant violence in a major city that has largely stood by Syrian President Bashar Assad in the 11-month-old uprising against his rule.

• Syrian security forces

House Fire in Blanchard, ND

Blanchard, ND (WDAY-TV) -- Firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire in Blanchard, North Dakota late Thursday night.

Local law makers weigh in on same sex marriage issue

Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) _ The controversial challenge to become the state's first gay married couple is re-igniting heated debate. Lawmakers in both parties are weighing in, wondering if it will come up in the next legislative session.

• State Representative Al Carlson
• State Senator Tim Mathern
• Fargo gay couple applies for marriage license
• Fargo couple to challenge North Dakota's gay marriage law
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