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Student volunteers work to save homes

Published March 27, 2009

Classes at the three major Fargo-Moorhead area colleges have been cancelled all week, and many students are spending that time in the snowy sand.

River predicted to reach unexpected heights

Published March 27, 2009

Flood water heights scramble Fargoans to prepare for river crest.

Volunteers pack Fargodome to combat rising river

Published March 27, 2009

Fargo residents and out-of-towners teamed up to ready thousands of sandbags for use.

Charges dropped against CT priest who taped police

Published March 26, 2009

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) âÄî Connecticut prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested while videotaping East Haven police officers in an attempt to document...

Democratic budget clears Senate committee

Published March 26, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî Senate Democrats pushed a recession-era budget backed by the Obama administration through committee on Thursday after rejecting Republican attempts to cut spending and reduce...

28 injured as tornados rip through southern Miss.

Published March 26, 2009

MAGEE, Miss. (AP) âÄî Residents in a tornado-ravaged community took advantage of clearing skies Thursday to collect family keepsakes and begin cleaning up from a storm that left 28 injured and...

Mortgage rates drop to record low

Published March 26, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî Rates on 30-year mortgages fell this week to the lowest level on record after the Federal Reserve launched a new effort to assist the staggering U.S. housing market. Mortgage...

Alaska volcano erupts twice, sends ash 12 miles up

Published March 26, 2009

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) âÄî Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted twice Thursday, spewing a more than 12-mile-high cloud that could drop ash on Anchorage for the first time since the volcano began erupting...

IRS squeezes Swiss bank clients for evidence

Published March 26, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî The IRS is ratcheting up the pressure on Americans who kept secret Swiss bank accounts, giving them six months to come clean and cough up any evidence against their advisers...