A study has shown that the upper Midwest United States has the worst drunk driving rate in teh country. Must be something about those Northern climates..."The upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country, according to a government report that says 15...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly...
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For the fifteenth year in a row, CQ Press has announced their rankings for the safest and most-dangerous states. Not too many surprises, but I would like to know, what makes New Hampshire the safest...
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It is such a rare find. A complete mummified dinosaur, skin and all. Staff at North Dakota's state museum are carefully freeing the dinosaur from its 65-million-year-old rock tomb. There are only a few...
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Salvia is the new weed, or so the journalists are saying. But salvia sounds a lot more, ahhh, interesting shall we say. A quick fix legal hallucinogen sounds ideal for those days which feel like they'll never...
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Wowaditaka, "to not be afraid of anything," is how the fellow soldiers of the North Dakota 164th Infantry Regiment who fought alongside Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble remember him during the battles of...
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Letter from Patti Solis Doyle, Campaign Manager
David Plouffe, Campaign ManagerObama for AmericaP.O. Box 8102Chicago, IL 60680
Dear David:
Congratulations again on your victories Tuesday night. As Senator Obama declared, it was a great evening for Democrats.
One of...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards postponed campaign events in Alabama and North Dakota to make a major policy address on poverty Wednesday in New Orleans, where he launched his...
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". 'I hope they hang onto him this time,' says sheriff Jason van Rassel, Calgary Herald Published: Friday, October 26, 2007 To the North Dakota sheriff who helped put killer Richard Lee McNair in prison for life, news of his recapture in Canada on Thursday ranks as a...
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Ya gotta like this guy. He and a friend are on a mission to get supplies to build a new ice house when his wife calls to say she feels lucky.So he listened, and they both got lucky, with a $2.98 million payout from a Marilyn Monroe-themed jackpot. Despite his new-found...
In this analysis, two Washington Post writers take a deep look at how the USAF accidentally flew live nukes cross-country in August. They painstakingly point out how the "domino effect" of multiple errors created what was, in effect, an unknown nuclear crisis in our...
Athens, GA (Sept 19, 2007) - The year was 1966. Lyndon B. Johnson was president. The
Baltimore Orioles won their first World Series 4-0 over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Sound of Music won the Oscar™ for Best...
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"A B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states last week, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander, Pentagon...
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"The cruise missiles were carried across the US by a B-52 bomber. (File photo Getty Images: USAF)""By North America correspondent Kim Landers
Posted 1 hour 45 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 31 minutes ago
The cruise...
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