WDAY http://www.wday.com http://www.wday.com/rss/rss_head.jpg http://www.wday.com JAMESTOWN - The Anne Carlsen Center for Children in Jamestown has dedicated a 3 million dollar remodeling project. CEO Dan Howell says the project has created a more homelike atmosphere, allowing greater independence for the 30 disabled children and young adults who previously lived in a dormlike setting. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3904 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3904 BISMARCK - Former standout University of North Dakota receiver and kick returner Weston Dressler has signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. The Bismarck native graduated from the Fighting Sioux program last year with 19 school records. He had hoped to land with an NFL team, but wasn't drafted. Dressler says rather than risking getting cut at an NFL camp as a free agent, he decided to go north. He signed for two years, with both himself and the Roughriders holding an option for a third. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3903 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3903 ST. PAUL - Republicans need to find another person to run the 2008 GOP National Convention in St. Paul. Convention coordinator Doug Goodyear resigned yesterday after Newsweek reported that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar. The John McCain campaign says it respects Goodyear's decision and is looking forward to the convention in September. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3902 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3902 FORT TOTTEN - Tribal firefighters on the Spirit Lake Nation Reservation have battled more than 100 fires in a one-and-a-half-month period. Chief Daniel Herman says the fires mostly have been small, though one large blaze damaged some structures in Tokio and threatened people's homes there. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3901 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3901 GRAND FORKS - The city of Grand Forks will be keeping an eye on a garbage study that's planned in Minnesota's Koochiching County, as the city tries to find a solution for what to do with its garbage when the current landfill closes. The Minnesota county is investigating plasma gasification technology -- a process that basically uses lightning bolts to vaporize garbage. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3900 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3900 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Kelli and Jason Medders of Fargo are praying for a day when they can bring their daughter home from a Minneapolis hospital. It might not be for a while, and they say the ordeal is frustrating and exhausting. Kelli Medders initially was pregnant with identical quadruplets. One fetus died during an operation to correct a blood flow problem. The 28-year-old Medders then gave birth in early November by Caesarean section. Callie is the only child to survive. Her weight is still measured in grams instead of ounces, and her lungs aren't yet strong enough to breath on their own. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3899 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3899 CENTER CITY, Minn. (AP) - Two people are dead after a fiery head-on crash in Chisago County. The Minnesota State Patrol says an 18-year-old driver was westbound on Highway 8 shortly before 8 p.m. Friday when the driver crossed the center line and struck another vehicle head-on. That vehicle was being driven by a 49-year-old resident of Phoenix. The 18-year-old is from Shafer, Minnesota. Both vehicles burst into flames, and the two drivers died at the scene. The names of the victims weren't immediately released. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3897 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3897 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Wild coach Jacques Lemaire says he'll return for an eighth season with the franchise. Lemaire announced his decision in a news release Saturday. Lemaire has a career record of 500-381-168 over 14 years, including 60-52 in the playoffs. But with the Wild, he's gone just 11-18 in the postseason. The Wild were ousted in the first round last month by the Colorado Avalanche, culminating what Lemaire called his "toughest season as a coach." http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3895 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3895 PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) - A burglar who authorities say used the obituary pages to help select his targets is now facing up to 78 years in prison. Dane Johnson was convicted Friday of 10 counts of burglary and stealing. Prosecutors say Johnson and a co-defendant burglarized more than 30 Kansas City-area homes, picking their victims in part by reading real estate listings and obituaries. In one of the cases in which Johnson was convicted, a man was at a funeral for his wife while Johnson burglarized his home. The co-defendant received 28 years in prison in October of 2006 after pleading guilty. The two were arrested after a 2006 home burglary in which a resident confronted them. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3894 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3894 HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says an undersea earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 has shaken Guam. There were no immediate reports of damage in the U.S. territory Saturday morning. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu says the quake failed to generate a destructive, widespread tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 7:51 a.m. at a depth of 54.4 miles. It was located 125 miles west-southwest of Hagatna, Guam, and 250 miles southwest of Saipan in the neighboring Northern Mariana Islands. Guam is west of the international date line, about 3,700 miles southwest of Hawaii. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3893 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3893 MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Two children and their mother are said to have lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom. Wisconsin authorities say a religious "superior" had claimed the corpse would come back to life. The children, ages 15 and 12, cried hysterically after a deputy who came to the home looking for the woman ordered them out because of the stench from the body. The children are in foster care. Their mother and a self-described "bishop" remain in custody on felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3892 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3892 MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is looking for the "SpongeBob fanatics" who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building. The 10-foot-tall painting of Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants turned up on a cabin in the Pike National Forest that used to be the Forest Service's tree nursery until it was abandoned in the 1930s. Forest Service law enforcement officer Tom Healy says the incident is part of an increase in vandalism in the area. Officials say whoever painted the cartoon on the chimney brought four colors of paint and spent a lot of time doing it. Healy says it will cost several thousand dollars to wipe the animated yellow sea sponge's image from the site. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3891 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3891 McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Convicted Washington D.C.- area sniper John Allen Muhammad has changed his mind about not appealing his death sentence. He was sentenced in 2003 to die for the shooting rampage the year before that left 10 people dead. One was killed cutting grass. Another victim was pumping gas. Allen had written a letter to Virginia's attorney general saying he wanted to suspend all appeals and that he had not authorized appeals that had already been filed on his behalf. But his lawyer this week wrote to a federal judge that Muhammad now does want to move ahead with an appeal. Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo were both convicted in the 2002 snipings. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3890 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3890 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Democrats have rescinded their 2006 endorsement of the state's attorney general. Marc Dann is weathering a sexual harassment scandal in his office. Members of the Ohio Democratic Party executive committee met Saturday morning and passed a resolution saying they no longer recognize Dann as an endorsed statewide officeholder. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3889 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3889 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - A University of North Dakota law school plan to raise tuition by about 75 percent over four years will not go into effect next school year. The Legislature's Budget Section must approve all tuition hikes of more than 5 percent, and University System Chancellor Bill Goetz says the group won't consider the plan at its June meeting. That's the last chance for the plan to win approval before tuition is set for the coming school year. The state Board of Higher Education approved the tuition increase plan in February, on a 4-3 vote. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3885 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3885 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Mike Lamb lifted the Minnesota Twins past the Boston Red Sox 7-6 with a two-run single in the ninth. Delmon Young led off the ninth with a single, and advanced on a sacrifice by Matt Tolbert. Adam Everett popped out, Young stole third without a throw, and Carlos Gomez walked and moved up on a steal. Then Lamb hit a 1-2 pitch from Jonathan Papelbon, who blew his second straight save opportunity. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3882 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3882 FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A woman suspected of shoplifting two magazines from a downtown Fargo drug store took an unfortunate escape route. Authorities say the 22-year-old woman ran right past the police station. Sergeant Jeff Skuza says a caller told police about the heist and the direction the woman was running. Officers at the station two blocks away walked outside -- and nabbed her. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3879 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3879 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The ND Transportation Department is kicking off a new statewide program to reduce motor vehicle crashes. The "Alive at 25" program aims to make young people more aware and educated about the dangers of driving too fast, driving while impaired and not using seat belts. Authorities say motor vehicle crashes are the Number One killer of people ages 15 to 24 in North Dakota. The Alive at 25 four-hour course involves such things as an impaired driving simulator and Jaws of Life demonstrations. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3878 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3878 DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that had been filed by a Minnesota man who struck and killed a dog on a highway, then sued the dog's owners for damage to his car. Jeffery Ely of Cloquet filed the lawsuit against Daniel Munthe, whose 13-pound miniature pinscher Fester was killed in January after it escaped from its family's home. Ely's insurance wouldn't cover the damage, so he sued the Munthes for $1,029 to cover the cost of repairs, time he took off work and court fees. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3877 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3877 ST. PAUL (AP) - The heads of a joint Minnesota House-Senate panel say they still have more questions than answers after a two-hour hearing into a national conference that got Minnesota Department of Natural Resources funds. A report earlier this week said a national game wardens conference held in St. Paul last July turned a profit despite low attendance and weak private fundraising, thanks in part to the DNR's resources. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3875 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3875 ST. PAUL (AP) - State human services officials are going back to the drawing board in their efforts to develop software for an online health care sign-up system. The Department of Human Services dropped the software developer, ACS State and Local Solutions, two months ago for insufficient progress despite five years and more than eight million dollars. A new report says the software was "incomplete, error-prone and not always efficient to use." http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3874 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3874 DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - Several lakes in far northern Minnesota remain locked in ice and inaccessible to boats going into this weekend's fishing opener. As of Friday, ice still covered most of Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, Saganaga Lake and Gunflint Lake. The Minnesota Climatology Office also reports that some areas of Lake Vermilion remain covered in ice, and so is Walker Bay of Leech Lake. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3872 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3872 FARGO, N.D. (AP) - The attendance office at Fargo South High School is paying close attention to incoming calls. School resource officer Chris Potter says at least one student used the Internet to connect with a phone-relay service. A call was then made to the school that the student would be absent. Potter says the phony calls can sometimes originate overseas and the caller may use an accent. The number comes up on caller ID with an unfamiliar area code. He's spread the word among other school resource officers and school administrators. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3870 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3870 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) - A state health official says uranium found in groundwater in western North Dakota is naturally occurring -- and not from mining for the radioactive element. Some Billings County residents questioned the quality of their drinking water at a meeting last week in Belfield. Uranium was mined in the state in the 1960s, but was largely unregulated. Some wondered if the uranium from the mines leached into groundwater. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3869 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3869 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Governor Hoeven has declared an "early phase" agricultural drought emergency in North Dakota. Hoeven's executive order yesterday triggers a state Water Commission program that helps ranchers with the cost of creating permanent water supplies for cattle. Hoeven says there are "extended dry conditions across the state and little significant rainfall in the forecast." Hoeven says livestock water supplies were not replenished by spring runoff. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3868 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3868 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Bobcat says its new global distribution center in Minnesota will not affect its plans for the Bismarck shipping facility. The West Fargo-based company says more than 1 billion dollars of the company's machinery will be shipped annually from its Brooklyn Park, Minnesota to markets in the U.S. and abroad. The 92,000-square-foot facility also will be used for final assembly for a new line of imported compact tractors. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3867 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3867 WALHALLA, N.D. (AP) - A wildfire at northeastern North Dakota's scenic Pembina Gorge was contained before it scorched a large area. Authorities say the Friday fire blackened only about 300 acres, including about 25 acres of North Dakota Forest Service land bordering the Tetrault Woods State Forest. The Forest Service says about 365 grass fires have burned nearly 32,000 acres of land across North Dakota so far this spring. Both numbers are close to the annual average the past three years. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3866 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3866 Even though the flu season typically ends this month, there are more new cases in North Dakota this week. The state health department says there are now 3,790 confirmed cases, up 39 from last week. Cass County is still leading the state with 747 cases, while Grand Forks County is reporting 210. Ninety people have been hospitalized this season because of the flu. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3862 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3862 The teenager who hit the car of a pregnant woman near Mahnomen may be charged with two crimes. The crash happened last Saturday on Highway 200, just east of Highway 59. Aimee Aguilar was two days past her due date when a 16-year old female hit her vehicle. Aguilar underwent an emergency C-section that night, and the baby, Jordan James Aguilar, is reportedly in critical condition. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3861 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3861 FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ The former president of a simulcast horse racing company says she's owed money as compensation for her time spent in prison. Susan Bala of Fargo was convicted in 2005 of illegal gambling and ordered to serve 27 months in prison. The sentence for Bala and Racing Services was later overturned by an appeals court. Bala has filed a motion in federal court saying she deserves money because of "unjust conviction and imprisonment." http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3859 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3859 Seizures include: 1 lb 10 oz of cocaine with an approximate street value of $26,000. 12 lbs of marijuana worth an approximate street value of $12,000. Ruger 9mm Handgun. Approximately $10,000 cash. 1999 Ford F-150 pick-up, 2006 Dodge Nitro, 2005 Ford Taurus, Older model boat and trailer. Also two elementary age children were removed from the home for child protection purposes. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3858 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3858 FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Secretary of State Al Jaeger says Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney violated state law by placing his name on squad cars with the state seal. Laney says he will remove his name from the cars at his own expense. The sheriff's department recently spent $9,000 to put new new logos that display a replica of Laney's badge on 14 squad cars. Jaeger sent a letter to Laney today telling the sheriff to remove his name or remove the state seal. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3857 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3857 DILWORTH, Minn. (AP) - Three eighth graders in western Minnesota have been suspended for sitting down during the Pledge of Allegiance. The school handbook at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High requires students to stand during the pledge but does not require students to recite it. Principal Colleen Houglum didn't immediately return a message left by The Associated Press on Friday. She told The Forum of Fargo that she couldn't comment on the students' discipline because of privacy issues. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3855 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3855 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ Imation Corp. plans to close its floppy diskette plant in Wahpeton by the end of the year, a few months sooner than expected, after a group of former employees have taken over some of its contracts. Imation, based in Oakdale, Minn., announced one year ago that it would phase out the plant's near 390 jobs by mid-2009, as part of a company-wide restructuring. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3840 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3840 Two days past her due date, Aimee Aguilar feared her baby was lost Saturday. On her way to meet her husband for dinner, a 16-year-old driving an eastbound vehicle on Minnesota State Highway 200 turned into the path of Aguilar's Chevy Trailblazer near Mahnomen. "My stomach hit the steering wheel really hard," said Aguilar, who was driving west on 200 when the crash occurred about 7:48 p.m. She fell down when she got out of the vehicle. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3852 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3852 MINOT, N.D. (AP) _ A man has been ordered to serve 20 years in prison for strangling a woman with a telephone cord in his Minot apartment. Jay Washek pleaded guilty in December to killing 28-year-old Jennifer Erickson of Plaza in April last year. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors asked Judge William McLees to sentence Washek to 25 years with five years suspended. The judge said he had not considered anything less for what he called "a brutal, insidious and entirely unprovoked crime." http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3845 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3845 Police have recommended that a 16-year-old male be charged with terrorizing for threatening two sixth-grade boys with a knife Wednesday morning. The 16-year-old was in a vehicle about 8:40 a.m. in the 600 block of 15th Avenue North, around the corner of Ben Franklin Middle School, when he threatened the two sixth-graders from the vehicle's window with the knife, said Fargo Police Sgt. Jeff Skuza. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3851 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3851 Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - As we get ready to put on the bug spray, Fargo's Mayor is asking housing developers to do their part in cutting down on mosquito breeding grounds. Empty lots are common on the south side of Fargo. This side effect of growth creates nice new homes for growing mosquitoes, and the city is hearing about it. Mayor Dennis Walaker/Fargo: "You don't want to be living next to an undeveloped lot that's holding water." http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3854 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3854 Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - A NWA flight made an emergency landing Thursday morning at the Hector International. Compass Flight 2040 made the landing because a fire started inside a bathroom on the plane. The flight was en route to Regina, Saskatchewan from Minneapolis. There is no word on what started the fire, but the NTSB is investigating. Fargo firefighters tell WDAY 6 News that a flight attendant helped to put the flames out and that there is minimal damage to the plane. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3824 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3824 Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Noridian leaders are trying to figure out how to move forward after finding out they did not win a contract that could have brought in nearly 150 million dollars over five years. The company put in a bid for the work in January of 2007 and got the news this week. Noridian says it doesn't know yet if this means people in Fargo will lose their jobs. The company gives paychecks to about 11 hundred people across the country, including four offices in North Dakota and one Minnesota. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3831 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3831 WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) - Bail has been set at $25,000 for a man charged in the explosion of a home-made bomb in a restaurant dining room in Wahpeton over the weekend. 20-year-old Benjamin Zachary, of Burnsville, Minnesota, is charged with endangering by fire or explosion. He was arrested yesterday in Wahpeton. Police say a home-made bomb exploded in the dining area of the Fryin' Pan restaurant in Wahpeton early Sunday. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3833 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3833 CASSELTON, N.D. - Backers of the "Old Can Pile" brainstormed here Thursday night to make a plan that prevents the landmark from being demolished by its current owners as early as May 29. Loegering Manufacturing President Kurt Bollman no longer wants the Can Pile on the property and wants it gone by May 29, giving its supporters a short deadline to meet. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3846 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3846 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ Wildlife officials say wounds to a horse were likely caused by broken juniper tree branches and not a mountain lion. Kyle Bergquist says the pregnant mare was injured Tuesday night in a pasture east of Bismarck. He still believes a cougar attacked the horse. North Dakota wildlife officials say they consulted with wildlife officials in Utah, where cougar attacks are more common. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3825 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3825 Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - You want them as best friends, especially if you're having car trouble. Eight teams from high schools across the state competed in the Ford, AAA State Auto Competition in West Fargo today. Each team is given a car with intentionally installed bugs. They must race to identify and fix the problem. Organizers say the competition is not just about winning. Auto Tech is one of the fastest growing professions in the country. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3853 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3853 There's nothing like the piercing sound and soaring sight of fighter jets in formation overhead to create visibility for the "Happy Hooligans." Now that's presence. But the fighter jets are gone, replaced by much quieter transporter jets - as well as remote controls and crews for Predator aircraft flown thousands of miles away in trouble spots like Afghanistan and Iraq. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3848 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3848 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ A Burleigh County inmate has pleaded not guilty in an attack on two officers earlier this week. Jason Benefiel was charged Thursday with two felony counts of assault on a corrections officer. South Central District Judge Bruce Haskell ordered Benefiel to be held without bond. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3839 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3839 BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ A psychiatric evaluation of convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III has been completed, and a federal judge could decide soon if Duncan will be allowed to represent himself in his death penalty hearing. A jury is expected to decide this summer if Duncan should be imprisoned for life or executed for the kidnapping, abuse and slaying of young Dylan Groene in 2005. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3841 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3841 Fargo, ND (WDAY Sports) - Going to the gas station can be painful at the pump, but if you don't mind a little drive and you don't mind catching walleye, it might be worth the effort and expense to head for upper Red Lake this weekend. Ten years ago the walleye population was almost zero, but a combination of aggressive re-stocking and careful harvesting has led to a walleye boom. So much that the DNR has increased limits from 2 to 3 for this summer. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3838 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3838 ST. PAUL (AP) _ A bill that would force students to remain in school until they are 18-years-old is headed to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's desk. The House passed the bill 82-49 Thursday night. It would also require physical education for graduation. The Senate passed the bill earlier. Representative Carlos Mariani of St. Paul says many Minnesotans may be unaware that students can legally drop out of school as soon as they turn 16. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3844 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3844 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says people should make sure they have a state agency Web site when searching online for North Dakota employment information. Stenehjem says some Job Service North Dakota customers went to a copycat Web site that charges a fee for the services Job Service North Dakota provides free. The official Web site of Job Service North Dakota is www.jobsnd.com. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3830 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3830 Minnesota (WDAY TV) - The Greenbush-Middle River High School Principal is under investigation by the Roseau County Sheriff's Department. 60-year-old Eldon Sparby is accused of kicking a 10th grade male student in the leg during a tornado drill at the school last month. In a complaint, the student alleges that Sparby kicked him intentionally when they were told to sit down. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3832 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3832 The Grand Forks Police Department is investigating a report of a girl being sexually attacked in the stairwell of a Grand Forks apartment complex Tuesday night. The attack occurred about 7 p.m. Tuesday night at 515 N. 47th St. The girl told police she was unable to describe the suspect because she was attacked from behind. Police did not release the age of the alleged victim, but referred to her as a juvenile. The investigation began after police responded to a call at Altru Hospital's emergency room. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3828 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3828 FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ Family members in the case of a teenage boy accused of killing his sister in Fargo say they're frustrated by delays in the court proceedings. Sergei Carlson is charged with murder and a deviate sexual act in the death of 16-year-old Whitney Carlson of Fargo. He has pleaded not guilty. A judge delayed the next hearing until June after defense attorney Mark Beauchene asked for more time to review an expert's report. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3819 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3819 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ The late Woodrow Wilson Keeble, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War, will be given the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state's highest honor. Gov. John Hoeven says a formal ceremony to present the award to Keeble's family is being planned for this summer. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3817 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3817 MAHNOMEN, Minn. (AP) _ A baby boy is in critical condition after being delivered by emergency C-section following a two-vehicle crash in northwestern Minnesota. The accident happened Saturday night on state Highway 200 in Mahnomen (mah-NOH'-min) County. Authorities say 20-year-old Amy Aguilar of Mahnomen was driving west when she collided with an eastbound vehicle driven by a 16-year-old girl. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3802 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3802 Moorhead, Minn. (WDAY TV) - What company isn't looking at ways to save money? American Crystal Sugar in Moorhead is part of a unique pilot project which will allow the company to recycle and use sugar beet waste for a power source. When processing beets, Crystal generates close to 200 tons a day of waste or sugar beet tailings. Usually those tailings go to farmers who feed them to cattle. Now that "garbage" will soon become energy. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3816 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3816 Fergus Falls, Minn. (WDAY TV) - That 20 inches of snow that fell in Fergus Falls a few weeks ago is gone, but its damage can't be reversed. At Pebble Lake Golf Course, it meant another late season start and loss of green fees. Now the city is stepping in to help. Parks and Recreation Director Rick Terway says the courses fleet of mowers and vehicles needs replacing soon, but with this third year of bad spring weather and increasing competition among golf courses; finding the money to do it isn't easy. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3815 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3815 Minnesota (WDAY TV) - There is talk of consolidation at Lake Park-Audubon as parents and taxpayers talk about the future of the district. This time, their conversation was spurred by some strong, critical words from the Department of Education. In the last two and a half years, Lake Park-Audubon school leaders have asked taxpayers for money to repair or build new schools four times. Each time the majority of voters said no. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3814 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3814 FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ North Dakota's largest health care system is making some cost-cutting moves to shore up its finances over the long term. The nonprofit MeritCare Health System might eliminate as many as 300 positions left open by future resignations and retirements, said Bruce Pitts, executive vice president of clinical services. MeritCare also will consider consolidating one or two of the 18 clinics in the Fargo-Moorhead area. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3809 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3809 FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ A Fargo man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old autistic boy. A judge set bail at $100,000 for 26-year-old Steven Niemcryk. He's charged with two counts of felony gross sexual imposition. Authorities say Niemcryk admitted raping the boy on two occasions while he was baby-sitting him. http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3779 http://www.wday.com/news/rss.cfm?id=3779