Classifieds

Morris Sun Tribune

Weather Forecast

Close

North Dakota

Jacob Eichelberger

Teen lucky to survive cold, mother says

DeAnn Eichelberger knew something was wrong with her son when the former high school hockey player tried to give her directions to pick him up from a New Year's Eve...

news Tue, Jan 05, 2010 - 8:36am

An image captured by one of NDSU's web cameras shows Minard Hall after a section of the building collapsed.

NDSU to install beams to support Minard roof

North Dakota State University plans to install steel beams to support the roof over a collapsed section of Minard Hall, Facilities Management Director Bruce Frantz said Tuesday. The northwest wall...

news / education Wed, Dec 30, 2009 - 12:50pm

Beer can alarm alerts tenant to burglar

FARGO - An apartment tenant who set beer cans in front of his door to alert him to intruders ended up tussling with an alleged burglar early today in south...

news Tue, Dec 29, 2009 - 10:04am

"You just never think that anything like this would ever happen," says Keri Drinka, an NDSU academic director whose office was damaged. "I'm just so thankful that nobody was in there."

Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

BUILDING CAVES IN: No one injured in overnight collapse at NDSU excavation site

Part of a wall collapsed from Minard Hall, a classroom building on the North Dakota State University campus, sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. Sunday. No one was in the...

news / education Mon, Dec 28, 2009 - 7:23am

Women and children escape injury when shotgun fired at Fargo mobile home

FARGO - Two women and two children in a mobile home escaped injury when at least four shotgun blasts were fired at the home in south Fargo early today, Fargo...

news Wed, Dec 23, 2009 - 9:39am

Fargo School District explores social media

From tweeting to friending, local school officials are adding social media lingo to their vocabulary. However, while sites such as Twitter and Facebook may be effective for school districts to...

news / education Tue, Dec 22, 2009 - 11:05am

NDSU President Dick Hanson announces Wednesday that the university is now under a hiring freeze because of a budget shortfall. Carrie Snyder / The Forum

NDSU freezes hiring, citing lagging tuition collections

Lagging tuition collections at North Dakota State University have prompted a temporary hiring freeze. President Dick Hanson announced Wednesday that 75 percent of vacant positions will stay open at least...

news Fri, Dec 18, 2009 - 2:09am

NDSU faculty members seek to establish cheating registry

FARGO -- Some faculty at North Dakota State University want to create a central list of students found guilty of cheating. Faculty who support the idea say they currently have...

news / education Tue, Dec 08, 2009 - 5:05am

3-year-old credited with saving lives in ND apartment fire

JAMESTOWN, N.D. -- Officials here are crediting a 3 ½-year-old boy with saving his mother and grandmother from an early morning apartment fire. Jamestown Fire Chief Jim Reuther said the...

news Fri, Dec 04, 2009 - 7:34am

WDAY-TV's 'Party Line' co-host Verna Newell was one of F-M area's first TV personalities. (Forum file photo)

One of Fargo's first TV personalities dies at 89

FARGO -- She was equally at ease chatting with Richard Nixon or Johnny Cash and the organizers of a local church crafts fair. She always had impeccably styled hair -...

news Wed, Dec 02, 2009 - 11:00am

Mehmet Tulbek explains the workings of the new pilot-scale durum mill to Duane Hauck on Tuesday during a tour of the Northern Crops Institute on the campus of North Dakota State University in Fargo. David Samson / The Forum

Mill able to do double duty

Northern Crop Institute's mill now can do double duty. The organization's pilot-scale durum mill has been converted so that it can mill the type of wheat used for bread, too...

farm / agriculture Thu, Nov 26, 2009 - 12:53am

Pond side vigil

Autopsy shows Dickinson State students had no drugs or alcohol prior to accident

After three Dickinson State University softball players drowned in a stock pond northwest of Dickinson, final toxicology tests reveal drugs or alcohol were not involved. After two fellow teammates received...

news Fri, Nov 20, 2009 - 11:15am

Julie Hjelle stands in front of her rig at the Big Sioux Truck Stop in Grand Forks, N.D. Hjelle is an online student at the University of North Dakota and often uses Wi-Fi Internet access at truck stops and rest areas to download classwork. (John Stennes/Grand Forks Herald)

UND student earns online degree from cab of truck

FARGO -- Julie Hjelle gives new meaning to distance learning. The University of North Dakota student is earning an online degree while working as a truck driver. Hjelle, 39, of...

news / education Wed, Nov 18, 2009 - 8:45am

Grand Forks mom convicted of drunken breastfeeding gets 3 more months in jail

GRAND FORKS -- A Grand Forks mother convicted of breastfeeding while drunk was sentenced Monday to three more months in jail for slashing a tire on an acquaintance's pickup --...

news Wed, Nov 18, 2009 - 12:10am

Actor Kellan Lutz arrives at the Hollywood Life 11th Annual Young Hollywood Awards on June 7in Santa Monica, Calif.

Dickinson native sinks teeth into 'Twilight' role

The "Twilight" movies have raised vampire-worship to a blood sport. And right in the middle of it all is Kellan Lutz, a Dickinson, N.D., native. The former Abercrombie & Fitch...

news Mon, Nov 16, 2009 - 7:08am

Pages