http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/ Americus, ND News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/b6bdeb765fdf2b02265e521dbf775a73.html As Tuesday turned into Wednesday nearly 900 farmers in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota began lifting sugar beets from their fields American Crystal Sugar Co started its stockpile harvestat midnight with hundreds of trucks hauling the crop from the fields to one of the farmer cooperative's five processing factories or 33 outside piling stations http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/a4f901c76dbb369762179a197e9857ed.html Coaches in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association have picked Colorado College to repeat as champions The defending MacNaughton Cup champions received eight of the 10 firstplace votes in the Grand Forks Herald preseason coaches poll http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/dbc4e31ffa11688d8d5666de9d46347f.html Playing in North Dakota State's home stadium used to be the game of the year for former University of North Dakota football coach Dale Lennon Now he says it's just the game of the week Lennon is the firstyear coach at Southern Illinois which travels to the Fargodome this weekend to play the Bison in a Missouri Valley Football Conference matchup It will be the sixth time that Lennon has played under NDSU's roof but he said the circumstances have changed http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/3cd2b6bbb3befeec95aab75f2726eb66.html Jennifer McBride is the new managing editor of The Dickinson Press The announcement was made by Harvey Brock the publisher of the southwestern North Dakota daily newspaper http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/551294b2397750c8634929317931f8db.html A Minot Air Force Base officer admitted taking a missile launch control device as a souvenir because he thought it would be a cool thing to haveone of his supervisors testified Tuesday at a hearing to determine whether the officer will face a military trial Capt Paul Borowiecki 27 is accused of taking the launch control device in July 2005 rather than destroying it as required when it was no longer in use Officials say he admitted the theft in May and returned the device http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/133930980bfe6bcad1a95cbdea71d480.html The attorney for a man charged in a kidnapping and shootout with police says his client will plead guilty Vincent Degidio duhJID'eeoh Jr of Moorhead Minn is charged in federal court with attempted murder of a police officer kidnapping and weapons violations http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/c64e4a63b85db6745a69c6a29632aac5.html Laura Bush was welcomed to North Dakota on Thursday by children wearing red white and blue sailor hats and a sign that said: Your 50th state the best for lastThe first lady came to North Dakota to visit the Sims Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church believed to be the oldest Lutheran church west of the Missouri River and to stop at Bismarck's Riverside Elementary School to promote a program that brings artwork into the nation's schools http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/north-dakota/americus/content/09f510a0ebd0b3878dedd4eb93d26bb9.html Farmers in the Dakotas are wrapping up one of the best spring wheat and winter wheat harvests in more than a decade with yields that industry officials describe as phenomenal in some areas It's amazing we got as much out of this year as we didsaid Neal Fisher administrator of the North Dakota Wheat Commission