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GRAND FORKS -- Supporters and opponents of UND's Fighting Sioux nickname spoke again to the Student Senate on Sunday evening, making familiar emotional arguments from the past. The Senate heard both sides' presentations but did not take a stance.

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 -- a crime committed the evening of Aug. 7, just hours after she was sentenced for child neglect. Stacey Anvarinia,...

GRAND FORKS -- Against Cal Poly last week, UND controlled the Mustangs' triple option, the clock and the scoreboard. The only thing out of UND's control was the fan interest in the game -- billed as one of the biggest in the history of the Alerus Center. UND's biggest win since...

GRAND FORKS -- Someone slipped a needle into a piece of Halloween candy given to a child Saturday in Grand Forks and later bitten into by the child's father, who was injured, police said Sunday. The man told police Sunday in a complaint he was eating his child's Halloween candy when...

GRAND FORKS -- A dog caused a three-car accident in Grand Forks late Saturday night that slightly injured one person, according to police. The three cars in the minor pileup were damaged. The dog? Gone, apparently unharmed. According to police, it started at 11:30 p.m.

GRAND FORKS -- A 21-year-old Grand Forks man sped away from police though parts of the city's south side early this morning before fleeing his vehicle on foot and swimming across the English Coulee into Sertoma Park, where he was arrested, police say. According to a police news release,...

GRAND FORKS - A Grand Forks man injured during an altercation at the Ralph Engelstad Arena following Friday's University of North Dakota-Minnesota men's hockey game remained in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Altru Hospital on Monday, according to a nursing supervisor. Jason...

Two boys were confined at juvenile detention in Monday night after refusing a Grand Forks traffic stop and eventually crashing the stolen car into a residential neighborhood. According to a news release: One Grand Forks officer attempted to stop a 1997 Chevy Monte Carlo that was...

GRAND FORKS -- Grand Forks' noise ordinance could well be unconstitutional, UND Student Senator Michael Rocks-McQueen told the City Council on Sunday. During a joint meeting of both bodies, he compared the wording in the city's law to that of a law in Virginia Beach, Va., that was...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Police say they arrested a Horace, N.D., man Tuesday for exposing himself at a Grand Forks convenience store. Sgt.

GRAND FORKS -- UND and Minnesota will pack about 12,000 frenzied fans in Ralph Engelstad Arena this weekend for the longest standing college hockey rivalry in the country. Don't expect the rivalry to go anywhere, despite the University of Wisconsin's wishes that the Gophers pull...

GRAND FORKS -- A Grand Forks woman was arrested Wednesday evening after a fire in a bathroom at the Budget Inn Express. Grand Forks firefighters responded to a fire call about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday at 3400 Gateway Drive. When firefighters arrived, they found smoke coming from a large...

GRAND FORKS -- Police are looking for two young women who stole a short-haired Chihuahua puppy from a Grand Forks pet shop. Andy Gleich, the owner of the Stonegate Pet Center in the Grand Cities Mall, said the two women weren't strangers to the store. "They've been in like three...

GRAND FORKS -- It ain't cheap putting on a concert, especially a concert as big as Britney Spears' "The Circus," which cost Grand Forks' Alerus Center $1.2 million to put on. The city-owned events center made $1.1 million from the concert. All that stacks up against the $1.9 million...