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By CHRISTOPHER BJORKE that tracks prices at the Bismarck Tribune pump.

The average price in Gas prices are going up North Dakota is up about along with growing demand 40 cents a gallon over a year and expectations of eco- ago, according to the site, nomic recovery. and up 30 cents compared to “ W i t h t h e e c o n o m y three months ago. DeHaan improving, we’re seeing a said the increased demand rise in oil use,” said Patrick is coupled with a short supDeHaan of NorthDakota- ply. The federal Department GasPrices.com, a website of Energy reported that

gasoline inventories were down 7 percent in the last four weeks.

“We’re feeling pressure from the supply and demand, from the fundamentals,” he said.

Gas prices in Bismarck, which typically run higher than the eastern part of the state, were between $3.13 and $3.19 per gallon on

Thursday, according to DeHaan’s site. The average price in North Dakota was $3.08 per gallon Thursday.

The national average was $3.06.

Motorists could be paying more than $4 for a gallon of gas by May if they follow the usual seasonal increases, DeHaan predicted.

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Larry Janis, left, the Corps of Engineers Water Supply business line manager for Lake Sakakawea, answered questions before speaking at Thursday night's public meeting in Bismarck. At right is Jan Swenson, who said her concern was with the amount of water being drawn from the reservoir.

State officials blast corps’ water plan

By BRIAN GEHRING Bismarck Tribune In what was one of Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s first public speeches on issues facing North Dakota, he called a Corps of Engineers plan to charge Lake Sakakawea water users a storage fee an “outrage” and an “unconscionable and unjust attempt to achieve monetary gain where none is justified.”

The newly-appointed g ov e r n o r ’s c o m m e n t s Thursday night drew a standing ovation from roughly 300 people attending a public hearing on the corps’ plan released Dec. 16.

Dalrymple was not the only one with strong opposition to the plan.

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Western North Dakota’s roads limit oil production

By DALE WETZEL Associated Press Roads battered by heavy truck traffic in western North Dakota’s oil country are already hampering development and driving up shipping costs, INSIDE transChairman of portation the Three analysts Affiliated Tribes told lawurges makers cooperation, 2B who will be deciding how much money to spend repairing the network.

Denver Tolliver, associate director of North Dakota State University’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, and institute analyst Alan Dybing briefed the No r t h D a k o t a Ho u s e’s Appropriations Committee

on Thursday about an institute study of the costs of keeping up roads used by the oil industry.

The study, which was published last month, estimated it would cost at least $907 million over 20 years to rebuild or maintain roads that the institute identified as carrying oil industry traffic in 17 counties. If 5 percent annual inflation in road-construction costs is assumed, the cost could soar to almost $1.3 billion.

“I think the road system right now is probably constraining the logistics of the oil industry,” Tolliver said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think if we don’t make some of these needed investments over the next three to four years, then I think the transporta-

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Denver Tolliver, with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, presents his report to the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday on the costs of road reconstruction. tion costs of the oil industry Gov. Jack Dalrymple has will be much higher than it recommended that the would be otherwise.”

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director for Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., Tex Hall, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, and North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem all testified against the plan.

Dalrymple said prior to a 2008 corps real estate policy, Lake Sakakawea water users were able to access water with being charged a fee.

The proposal would charge those drawing water from the lake a fee of $21.91 per acre-foot of water with a maximum use of 100,000 acre-feet of water.

An acre-foot of water is the amount of water that it takes to cover one acre of land with water a foot deep.

Larry Janis of the corps’ Omaha office said the Flood Control Act of 1944 Continued on 9A

Pentagon plans to rein in spending

By ANNE FLAHERTY and ANNE GEARAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than a decade defined by costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon announced plans Thursday to freeze its ballooning budget, forcing the services to shrink the Army and Ma r i n e s a n d i n c re a s e health care premiums for military retirees and their families.

The Pentagon says it can stop asking for annual budget increases in 2015, adjusting its spending only for inflation. The last time the Pentagon’s budget went down was in 1998.

The plan is aimed at helping the nation whittle away at its massive deficit.

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen gestures during a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday to discuss defense budget cuts. spending cuts and relies on another $100 billion in costsaving moves to cover urgent requirements, is tied to two assumptions: that the war in Afghanistan will Continued on 9A

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to trim members’ office budgets by $35 million, a symbolic down payment on a promise to bring the budget deficit under control.

That 5 percent cut is enough to keep the government running for about five minutes.

With the bipartisan 410-13 vote, lawmakers said they were leading by example as they work to fulfill a promise to return most domestic accounts to the levels in effect before President Barack Obama took office.

“This bill committing ourselves to a more responsible and efficient stewardship of taxpayer dollars demonstrates to the American people that we are listening,” said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif.

“Across this country families and small businesses have cut their spending, are paying off debt, and are striving to live within their means. We should do the same.”

But the accounts they cut by 5 percent to produce $35 million in budget savings have gone up by more than double that since the 2008 budget year. The budgets for the office expenses and staff salaries for rank-and-file lawmakers have gone up 14 percent since 2008; expenses for congressional committees and leadership offices have increased by smaller amounts.

“House Republicans are walking the walk on reducing the size and scope of the federal government by first cutting the House budget,” said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.

The budgets of House leadership offices have risen by 8 percent since 2008.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The general now heading army training is Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ choice to be the next army chief of staff.

Gates told a Pentagon press conference Thursday that he had recommended Gen. Martin Dempsey for the job. If President Barack Obama accepts and nominates Dempsey, the general would have to be confirmed by the Senate.

Dempsey would replace Gen. George Casey, who leaves the army’s top uniformed post in the spring.

Dempsey is now commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command and previously was acting commander of Central Command.

He also led the multinational training effort in Iraq and commanded the 1st Armored Division in Baghdad.

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By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press HANOVER, Md. — Two packages about the size of small books ignited and released a sulfur-like smell when they were opened Thursday at Maryland state g ov e r n m e n t b u i l d i n g s 20 miles apart, slightly burning the fingers of two employees. One of the parcels was addressed to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who said the mailing meant for him complained about highway signs that urge motorists to report suspicious activity.

“Somebody doesn’t like seeing that sign,” the Democrat said.

The fiery devices, one found in Hanover, another in Annapolis, closed mailrooms at government offices across Maryland.

A worker unzipped the first package, addressed in typeface to the recently ree l e c t e d g ov e r n o r a n d adorned with holiday stamps, around 12:30 p.m. in Annapolis where mail for O’Malley’s office is routinely checked. The building is just blocks from the governor’s office, which is inside the State House in the heart of the capital.

The package contained a message about the state’s terrorism tip line, which is widely shown on overhead highway signs that read, “Report Suspicious Activity” and give an 800 number.

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Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley, right, holds up a copy of a photo of a letter that was mailed to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday during a news conference outside the Jeffrey Building. At left is A.J. McAndrew with Maryland State Police field operations. mation about missing children and, to the ire of some drivers, it added real-time traffic estimates to major highways in March. Some commuters complained drivers were slowing down to read the signs, backing up traffic. At O’Malley’s request, the state studied the issue and removed the real-time postings from one congested area on the Capital Beltway.

U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., said a return address on one of the packages turned out to be a Washington parking garage.

Ruppersberger, a member of the House Intelligence Committee who was briefed on the mailings. He said there were no apparent links to terror organizations.

“I believe this is what we call in intelligence a lone wolf situation, involving an individual who for whatever rea-

son was upset with state government,” Ruppersberger said.

The second package, torn open about 15 minutes after the first, was sent to state Transportation Secretary Beverley Swaim-Staley, Ruppersberger said, although he was not certain whether her name was written on it.

It was opened at the agency’s headquarters in Hanover, near Baltimore’s airport. The woman who burned her fingers at the transportation agency building was taken to a hospital, as were three other people who were concerned because they were near the package when it was opened.

Cate Conroy, acting director of outreach and advocacy for the Veterans Affairs Department, where the governor’s mailroom is housed, was in the building when the

package was opened. She said employees calmly left while reports of smoke were investigated.

“It happened quite quietly, actually,” Conroy said, adding that employees were allowed back into the building a few hours later.

State police were preparing photographs of the two packages for agency mailrooms so they can open today, and will provide steps workers should take if they find something, spokesman Greg Shipley said.

The FBI’s joint terrorism task force was assisting in the investigation. A U.S. Homeland Security Department official said the department was aware of the incidents and monitoring them. One of the packages would most likely be taken to an FBI lab at Quantico, Va., to be examined.

Supply of execution drugs questioned ST. LOUIS (AP) — A civil rights group is raising concerns about Missouri’s supply of a drug crucial to the execution process as the state prepares to execute its first convict in nearly two years.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri announced Thursday that the Missouri Department of Corrections has a dwindling supply of sodium thiopental, and that what is on hand is nearing its expiration date. The ACLU uncovered that information through a freedom of information request.

Sodium thiopental is the first of three drugs used in many executions, an anesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious.

Corrections Department spokesman Chris Cline said

in a statement that the department has an adequate supply of sodium thiopental for the execution of Richard Clay, scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing a southeast Missouri man in 1994.

The ACLU’s investigation found Missouri has 50 units of sodium thiopental in stock, which the group said would be sufficient for the execution and for a rehearsal of the execution. Previous execution rehearsals used 10 units. But the ACLU said Missouri didn’t use the drug during its most recent quarterly execution rehearsal in July, and that this may have been because the state wants to stretch its inventory with an eye to future executions.

ACLU attorney Tony Rothert said that in earlier rehearsals, corrections

department staff practiced how to prepare and mix all three of the drugs used in the execution process. But sodium thiopental was not used in the July rehearsal, he said, raising concerns that the staff may not correctly prepare the drug during Clay’s execution, meaning the convict could possibly feel pain.

Cline’s statement said that while corrections officials would not discuss the training, “I can tell you the statement made by the ACLU referencing the July 13, 2010 execution simulation training is inaccurate.”

Cline said the July simulation did in fact use sodium thiopental.

The ACLU also is worried that drugs so close to their expiration might not work correctly, Rothert said. A document supplied by the

state to the ACLU shows Missouri’s batch of sodium thiopental expires March 1.

“These documents show that the state has been cutting corners during its training,” said Brenda Jones, director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri. “The inadequate training and nearing expiration date for the drugs raise serious constitutional questions. We do not believe that the state can guarantee that Mr. Clay will not be killed in a cruel and unusual manner.”

Some executions across the U.S. have already been put on hold because of the shortage.

Just last month, California called off its first execution in five years after prison officials were unable to secure sodium thiopental despite a frantic two-month search.

CBO: Health care repeal would increase deficit WASHINGTON (AP) — Repealing President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul would add billions to government red ink and leave millions without coverage, Congress’ nonpartisan budget referees said Thursday ahead of a politically charged vote in the House.

House Speaker John Boehner brushed off the Congressional Budget Office analysis as emboldened Republicans, now in the majority in the House, issued their own report arguing that Obama’s coverage expansion would cost jobs and increase budget deficits.

But Democrats seized on the CBO analysis, calling it a game changer in the battle for public opinion.

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office director Douglas Elmendorf estimated repeal would increase the deficit by $230 billion from 2012 to 2021, the 10-year estimating period for budget projections. Moreover, Elmendorf said about 32 million more people would be uninsured in 2019 as a consequence.

But Boehner told reporters: “I do not believe that repealing the jobkilling health care law will increase the deficit.”

The budget experts are “entitled to their opinion,” added Boehner, R-Ohio, saying that the analysts had to rely on information selectively supplied by Democrats who wrote the legislation. Not so, said the Democrats; adverse rulings by the budget office repeatedly forced them to go back and revise the bill as they were writing it.

The budget director’s verdict gave Democrats a new counterattack against Republicans elected on a promise to cut government debt.

Until now, the main Democratic argument has been that repealing the law would eliminate benefits people are already receiving, from seniors facing high drug costs, to young adults who can stay on their parents’ coverage, to those in poor health who can now get insurance.

“We can’t afford to increase the deficit by nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars, especially with the very first substantive vote of the 112th Congress,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., one of the authors of the law.

“Republicans have to understand that health care isn’t going to

be repealed,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “They should get a new lease on life and talk about something else.” Reid has said he’ll block repeal in the Democratic-led Senate.

The White House issued a formal veto threat, saying the repeal bill “would explode the deficit, raise costs for the American people and businesses, deny an estimated 32 million people health insurance, and take us back to the days when insurers could deny, limit or drop coverage for any American.”

Republicans countered that even if it’s technically accurate that the health care law reduces deficits in the short run, a program that big is bound to bust the budget over the long term — and repealing it now will save money later.

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London With more on the way, police NYC readies for snow increase presence LONDON (AP) — More police officers were being deployed at transport hubs in London amid continuing fears of a terrorist attack, British media reported Thursday.

Sky News reported that transport police were told to cancel days off today, and that there would be a heavy police presence across the capital — including near Luton and Heathrow airports.

The report quoted unnamed sources as saying that members of the emergency services had recently been briefed about how to respond to a Mumbai-style attack on London.

Scotland Yard declined comment on the report, saying it never discusses the specifics of terrorism-related operations. The Home Office said the country faced a real and serious threat from terrorism, but declined to go into details.

The government said the threat level from international terrorism remains at “severe” — the second-highest level, meaning an attack is highly likely. The level has not changed since Jan. 2010.

“We will police accordingly and use a range of covert and overt tactics which remain under constant review,” police said in a statement.

BAA, which runs Heathrow and five other terminals, said security at its airports remained at a high level and that the company is vigilant at all times.

The Daily Telegraph reported on its website that train stations across London were put on high alert. Quoting an unnamed security source, it said there was no imminent threat but activity from extremist cells had led to an adjustment in policing levels.

NEW YORK (AP) — As a snowstorm approaches with the power to pummel parts of New York with several inches, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking no chances of another political beating.

Less than two weeks after a post-Christmas blizzard paralyzed the city and its airports for days, the beleaguered mayor on Thursday detailed new and experimental plans for cleanup after the coming storm. Those include GPS devices on 50 sanitation trucks in Brooklyn, which was among the spots hardest hit by the last storm and worst neglected by the city.

“I realize there were problems with the city’s snow-cleaning efforts last week,” said Bloomberg, whose reputation as a pragmatic manager took a hit from the cleanup failures.

“We want to assure all New Yorkers that we are doing everything in our power to make sure we don’t experience those kinds of problems again.”

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for New York City, plus parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and suburban Long Island, beginning Friday morning. Two to 5 inches of light snow could come overnight Thursday

with heavier snow possible today into Saturday.

But forecasters say it’s difficult to nail down a possible total because accumulation will vary widely depending on where snow bands linger the longest.

T h e l a t e - De c e m b e r storms in the East caused the cancellation of more than 10,000 flights and delayed travel plans for hundreds of thousands of passengers.

Major U.S. airlines are again warning of delays and cancellations and waiving the usual fees to change flights. American, United and Continental all say there could be travel disruptions at the large New Yorkarea airports: Newark, LaGuardia and Kennedy.

Last month’s storm dumped 2 feet in some places. Many streets in boroughs outside Manhattan went unplowed for days, and ambulances and buses got stuck in the snow.

Calls to 911 backed up, and some people who needed urgent medical care did not get it. The snow melted days later to reveal huge piles of trash that garbage trucks hadn’t been able to reach.

The pilot GPS devices in Brooklyn, Bloomberg said, will let officials track plows and also let sanitation

workers in the field report problems, like stuck cars, with exact locations. If successful, the city plans to install GPS on all of its 1,700 sanitation trucks.

The city will also deploy teams from its street conditions observation unit, which typically looks for quality-of-life problems like potholes and graffiti, to monitor conditions during the storm. The teams will shoot video of the conditions on the streets.

The point of ratcheting up the communication is to avoid problems rampant in the previous storm, Bloomberg said.

“We did not know where all of our trucks were, we did not know how many stuck cars and buses there were, we did not have the kind of information we needed to respond,” Bloomberg said.

Patrick Bahnken, president of the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Inspectors FDNY, said the difficulties were in no way the fault of his union’s members, many of whom were desperately trying to get through the snow and save lives during the storm and its aftermath.

At one point 911 dispatchers and emergency medical technicians were wrestling a backlog of 1,300 emergency calls.

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Facebook apologizes to photographer SHUEYVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Facebook has apologized to an Iowa birth photographer for disabling her account over photos it initially deemed inappropriate.

The company wrote in a Thursday e-mail to Laura Eckert that it had restored her account and that its decision to disable it on Dec. 22 was made “in error.”

Eckert says she still wants to know which of her photos led the company to disable her account. She says Facebook warned her about photos she posted in May of a friend and her newborn. Eckert says she removed some photos and carefully cropped others to make sure they didn’t show genitalia or nipples.

Facebook spokesman Simon Axten says the company reviews thousands of pieces of content every day and acts to ensure Facebook “remains a safe and trusted environment for everyone.”

Cops hope video will aid lamb probe CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati police believe a retailer’s video may help them find out who left lambs’ heads at three homes and nailed to a cross outside a church.

Police reported last month that someone left butchered heads first thought to be goats’ heads on the doorsteps of two homes and in the bed of a truck outside a third home in an upscale neighborhood. Detective Charles Zopfi said Thursday that a fourth head was found the next day nailed to a homemade, 1-foot cross outside a church not far from the neighborhood.

Zopfi says police later learned that they were lambs’ heads most likely bought at Jungle Jim’s International Market in nearby Fairfield.

Police believe the incidents are connected and are awaiting the store video.

FBI investigates cargo ship death HOUSTON (AP) — The FBI in Houston is investigating the death of a Ukrainian man who apparently died aboard a cargo ship on New Year’s Eve. FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap says an autopsy is being conducted to determine if a crime was committed aboard The Alexia, which docked late Wednesday at the Port of Houston.

The victim’s identity hadn’t been released Thursday.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington and the Consulate in Houston didn’t immediately return calls.

Dunlap says if a homicide has been committed, the FBI will determine who has jurisdiction over the investigation on the ship’s location at the time of death.

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Man charged with biting FBI agents jailed for a day PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man who posted online proterrorist songs and statements and is charged with biting FBI agents who struggled for his concealed gun during a confrontation will be allowed to remain free pending trial, provided he’s in a halfway house, a judge said Thursday.

Still, the federal magistrate said Emerson Begolly, 21, must remain jailed until late this afternoon so Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Picking has time to file an emergency appeal.

Picking argued that Begolly’s posts using the name Asadullah Alshishani, some in the form of poems or Islamic chants, are so alarming he must be jailed. Some posts criticized the United States as “AmeriKKKa” and praised terrorism, including Swedish suicide bomber Ta i m o u r A b d u l w a h a b al-Abdaly.

“This young man is similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — explosive at one minute and docile the next,” Picking argued to U.S. Magistrate Judge Ervin Swearingen at a three-hour hearing Thursday.

“It’s those explosive moments that concern the government, your honor.”

But federal public defender Marketa Sims suggested the government’s claims were overblown.

“I’ve never yet in 21 years practicing law seen anybody detained by poem,” she told the judge, saying the government never said what crime it believed was committed by Begolly.

All parties agree Begolly is a socially inept loner who has an IQ of 160 but doesn’t know how to drive. Begolly, who suffers from a form of autism, has taken college courses online since the eighth grade.

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Fiancee set on fire dies in hospital SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. woman who was among 14 people set on fire at a New Year’s dinner in Puerto Rico has died.

Family friend Justin Stein said 25-year-old Lisa Donahue died at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Burn Center in Miami Thursday. She was the fifth fatality from the blaze.

Donahue’s fiancee, Jesus Sanchez, died on Tuesday.

Police said the couple was one of 14 people that suspect Justino Sanchez Diaz — Jesus Sanchez’s uncle — had invited to the house he shared with his parents and sister for an early New Year’s dinner. He set the guests on fire with kerosene and a torch.

Several people remain in critical condition.

Copters rescue 160 stranded skiers VIENNA (AP) — Police say helicopters and emergency crews rescued about 160 skiers and snowboarders stuck on a defective chairlift in western Austria.

Most of them were winched down to the ground but 17 had to be attached by cables to helicopters and flown out because of the rugged terrain below them.

The crews were called into the Gruenau-Kaesberg ski area on Wednesday after one chairlift lurched to a stop. Officials say no one was hurt in the rescue operation but several people had to be treated for shock.

Heavy floods kill dozens of Brazilians SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities in Brazil say four people from the same family have died in a mudslide in the interior of Sao Paulo state, and civil defense officials say heavy flooding has killed at least 35 people and forced more than 30,000 out of their homes across the country.

Officials in the city of Jundiai said Thursday the four people, including two girls, died when their house collapsed because of a mudslide triggered by downpours.

The worst hit state is Minas Gerais, where civil defense authorities said on Thursday that 16 people either drowned or were buried in mudslides. More than 13,000 were forced to seek shelter.

Heavy rains since Christmas in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo states have killed more than 20 people and left about 20,500 homeless.

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Ivory Coast winner wants ouster ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The internationally recognized winner of Ivory Coast’s presidential election is asking for special forces to launch a commando operation to remove the country’s defiant sitting president who has refused to cede power five weeks after losing the vote.

Hunkered down at a hotel guarded by United Nations peacekeepers, Alassane Ouattara told The Associated Press on Thursday that Laurent Gbagbo would try to flee if the regional Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, sent in troops to oust him.

“I know Mr. Gbagbo,” Ouattara said on the lawn of the lagoonside hotel. “If he sees that ECOWAS troops are coming to capture him, believe me he will start running away. I know him well.

He does not have the courage to face those type of situations.”

While the U.N. and other world powers recognize Ouattara as the winner of the Nov. 28 presidential runoff, Gbagbo has refused to step down, insisting he was the victor. The political standoff has paralyzed this once prosperous country, the world’s largest cocoa producer, and tensions over the outcome have sparked

Associated Press

Alassane Ouattara, in red tie, is watched over by armed guards as he walks with advisors and staff in the garden of the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Thursday. violence, with the U.N. confirming at least 173 deaths.

W h i l e E C OWA S h a s threatened military action against Gbagbo, African leaders in recent days have shied away from making a commitment, fearing mass casualties and a possible return to civil war in the nation that was divided by such bloodshed after a civil war that erupted in 2002.

Ouattara, 68, addressed those concerns in the AP interview, saying that if West African nations “do send in special forces with the objective of removing Mr. Gbagbo, he will be removed,

without much damage.”

An ECOWAS military operation would not take much time or many resources, and Gbagbo would cave in immediately, said Ouattara, who is protected at the hotel by U.N. peacekeeping troops.

Gbagbo’s location can be quickly identified by a team of elite troops because he “is essentially at his residence o r a t t h e p re s i d e n t i a l palace,” Ouattara said. He added that elite forces have carried out similar operations in Latin America and Africa “to remove the person who is the problem.”

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and the strongest of ECOWAS’ 15 members, has a large military and the kind of special forces that Ouattara is calling for. But participation of Nigerian commandos would require the approval of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who as recently as Tuesday said more time is needed to resolve the Ivory Coast standoff.

At home, Ouattara has been confined to the grounds of the resort hotel and has been barred access to the institutions of power, including the presidential palace located across the lagoon where Gbagbo has continued to hold Cabinet meetings.

But abroad, Ouattara has succeeded in exerting his influence, including asking some 20 countries to no longer recognize Gbagbo’s ambassadors.

In recent weeks, both Britain and Canada have asked the Ivoriandiplomats there to leave.

In a tit-for-tat late Thursday, Gbagbo’s government announced that they were expelling both the British and the Canadian ambassadors in Ivory Coast, said Pascal Affi N’Guessan, the president of Gbagbo’s party and one of his top advisors.

U.S. will not extend Honduran aid TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The U.S. says it is not renewing a $215 million aid program in Honduras.

The U.S. Embassy did not give a reason in a statement announcing the decision.

But Honduran officials claimed Thursday that it was because of corruption under the government of former President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 2009 coup.

The administration of current President Porfirio Lobo said it regrets the U.S. decision.

The five-year program managed by the Millennium Challenge Corporation helped finance farming and road construction in Honduras. It ended in 2010.

The Embassy statement said corporation members have left open the possibility of signing a new agreement with Honduras in December 2011.

Official says draft ultra-Orthodox Jews JERUSALEM (AP) — The commander of Israel’s military says ultra-Orthodox Jews should be drafted into the army.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have exemptions to continue their religious studies. The exemptions have long been a sore point in Israeli society.

Army Radio quoted Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi as telling parents of newly drafted soldiers Thursday that “those who do not serve must be made to feel ashamed.”

He said, “The ultra-Orthodox can also join (the military), and they must be made to do so.”

It was one of the strongest statements on the issue by a serving chief of staff.

State TV says Iran did not arrest American TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television said Thursday that authorities did not arrest an American woman who tried to enter the country from Armenia, casting doubt on earlier media reports that she had been detained on spying charges.

The state-run Arabiclanguage Al Alam TV quoted an informed source denying reports of her arrest and saying the woman was turned around at the border crossing because she did not have a visa.

The report did not identify the source.

Other local media had said a 55-year-old American was arrested at the border on suspicion of spying and that she had a microphone hidden in her mouth. U.S. officials could not confirm those reports.

One of them, in the stateowned IRAN newspaper, said the woman — identified in Farsi as Hal Talaian — had “spying equipment or a microphone” concealed in her teeth and that customs authorities detained her in the border town of Nordouz, 370 miles northwest of the capital, Tehran.

That report said she arrived in Iran from neighboring Armenia without a visa.

Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying the woman was taken into custody about a week ago.

Fars also said she told Iranian border guards that her life would be in danger if they sent her back to Armenia.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said U.S. offi-

cials had not been able to confirm the reports of her arrest. He said the U.S. was seeking more information through Swiss officials, who represent American interests in the Islamic Republic, and the U.S. Embassy in Armenia.

“There’s lots of conflicting reports swirling about o n t h i s , ” To n e r t o l d reporters. “What we’ve heard so far is precisely conflicting reports. So, frankly, rather than give those any kind of momentum or life, I’d rather just wait until we have the facts.”

Armenian authorities had no immediate comment.

In July 2009, Iran detained three Americans — Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — along the Iraqi border. Initially, Tehran accused them

of illegally crossing into Iran, but later added espionage charges, although authorities have given few details to support the accusations.

The U.S. has dismissed the spying charges. It says the three are innocent hikers and has repeatedly called for their release.

The Americans’ families have said the three were hiking in Iraq’s largely peaceful mountainous northern Kurdish region and that if they crossed the border at all, they did so unwittingly.

Iranian authorities released Shourd in September on compassionate grounds on $500,000 bail.

Her fiance, Bauer, and their friend Fattal remain in prison and could go on trial next month. They could face up to 10 years in prison, if convicted.

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Panel Ex-CIA officer charged with leak to reporter says halt project LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state Native American Heritage Commission asked coroner’s officials Thursday to order a halt to work on a Mexican-American cultural center in downtown Los Angeles over concerns that Indian remains are being disturbed.

Commission staffer Dave Singleton said in a letter to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Department that the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes project should be suspended until an investigation into the remains is completed.

Singleton said archeologists observing the project have reported that none of the remains belonged to Indians, but that Native Americans living in the area fear that may not be the case.

“Given the strong concerns expressed by the Native Americans of the Los Angeles basin, the Native American Heritage Commission respectfully requests that the Los Angeles Department of Coroner stop the project,” Singleton wrote.

The coroner’s office has the power to halt work on the project because of its jurisdiction over unclaimed human remains, Singleton said.

Messages left with coroner’s office director Anthony Hernandez were not returned.

LA Plaza president Miguel Angel Corzo said that remains have been found at the site, but that coroner’s officials confirmed that they dated from when the parcel was a church cemetery during the first half of the 19th century.

Center staff have been assured by archeologists and coroner’s officials that the project site had never been used for Indian burials, he said.

“Everything we have been doing has been done in concert with all the accepted archaeological practices based on the premise that the cemetery that was there before was a Christian cemetery,” Corzo said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former CIA officer has been indicted on charges of disclosing national security secrets after being accused of leaking classified information about Iran to a New York Times reporter.

Fe d e ra l p ro s e c u t o r s charged Jeffrey Sterling with 10 counts related to improperly keeping and disclosing national security information.

The indictment did not say specifically what was leaked but, from the dates and other details, it was clear that the case centered on

leaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen for his 2006 book, “State of War.” The book revealed details about the CIA’s covert spy war with Iran.

Sterling, 43, of O’Fallon, Mo., was arrested Thursday and appeared in federal court in St. Louis later in the day. U.S. Magistrate Judge Terry I. Adelman told him he would be detained through the weekend because the government had declared him a danger to the community. There was no plea entered. Another detention hearing was scheduled for

help federal investigators.

After the book was published in 2006, the FBI focused on Sterling whom Risen had written about in March 2002 for the newspaper. The article said he was familiar with Iranian operations.

The Dec. 22 indictment was unsealed Thursday in Alexandria, Va. In response to the charges, Sterling’s lawyer, Edward McMahon, said in a statement: “He’s innocent and we’ve always maint a i n e d h e’s i n n o c e n t throughout this long process. And we’ll prove it in court.”

R i s e n’s l a w y e r, Jo e l Kurtzberg, said he would not discuss whether Sterling was Risen’s confidential source.

Kurtzberg did say that Risen did not provide investigators with any testimony or documents.

“Mr. Risen did not cooperate with the government in any way in connection with the investigation,” Kurtzberg said.

The CIA said in a statement that it “deplores the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.”

The New York Times declined to comment.

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Students who posted placenta pic reinstated KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City college said Thursday that it would allow four nursing students booted out for posting photos of themselves with a human placenta on Facebook to return to school following a federal judge’s ruling reinstating one of the students.

The announcement from Johnson County Community College followed U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren’s order that the school allow Doyle Byrnes to return when classes resume Jan. 19 and take her finals from the previous semester.

While college officials had argued the students’ actions were disruptive, Melgren said the school’s response was more disruptive. He also noted nothing in the photos could link the placenta to a particular mother.

“I’m an uptight guy and I’m not offended by them,” he said of the photos.

Byrnes’ three classmates, who were not part of the lawsuit but testified during the hearing, hugged and cried when a community college official told them they could come back to school. The classmates declined to comment.

Byrnes said after the ruling that she was simply trying to share her nursing school experience when she posted a photo showing her smiling, wearing a lab coat and surgical gloves and leaning over the placenta in a tray.

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Sterling served on the Iranian desk at the CIA and handled Iranian spies who had defected to the United States. In Chapter 9 of the book “A Rogue Operation,” Risen detailed how a CIA officer mistakenly revealed the CIA’s network in Iran in 2004.

Iranian security officials were able to “roll up” the CIA’s agent network in the country.

Risen called it an “espionage disaster.”

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Not the brightest burglar Police in Delaware say a man broke into a house, got drunk and couldn’t make his way back outside — so he called 911 for help.

New Castle County police say 44-year-old John Finch was trapped in the home in part because he’d broken into it before, back in April.

That led the homeowner to change the locks so that a key was required — even inside.

Police say no one was home when Finch broke in again, through a rear window. He stayed for a few days, drinking three bottles of gin and two bottles of whiskey.

When he tried to leave, he was too drunk to climb back out of the window and called 911. He was arrested Wednesday afternoon.

Finch now faces charges in both break-ins.

Police say he was admitted to a hospital and has yet to make a court appearance. There’s no indication Finch has retained an attorney.

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Police say a Georgia woman used a friend’s baby to collect more than $1,600 in child support from an exboyfriend after she convinced him the child was his.

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Craig Dodd says Regina Thompson’s exboyfriend paid the money over two years. Dodd says the ex-boyfriend even had pictures made at the girl’s birthday party.

The 38-year-old Thompson has been charged with five counts of theft.

Police say she was keeping her friend’s child when she concocted the scheme.

The girl’s mother, Lastraga McCloud, didn’t know anything about the plot.

Police say it began to unravel when the girl, now five, began to talk more and told Thompson’s ex-boyfriend, Joseph Golden, that he wasn’t her father.

Thompson did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

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People and personalities ‘Prairie Home’ first: Keillor on own show ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Garrison Keillor will finally get a chance to enjoy “A Prairie Home Companion” from the audience’s perspective.

In a first for his long-running radio variety show, Keillor will Keillor: take a guest spot In audience and let someone else host.

Singer and fiddler Sara Watkins of the band Nickel Creek will host the Jan. 15 show from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. Keillor will appear as private eye Guy Noir and Lefty the cowboy and deliver the “News from Lake Wobegon.”

Keillor says he’s never gotten to see the show himself. The 68-year-old humorist says for once, he wants “to stand in the back of the hall and watch for a few minutes.”

“A Prairie Home Companion” is heard on nearly 600 public radio stations, drawing more than 4.3 million listeners weekly.

T.I.’s wife’s drug charge dropped ATLANTA (AP) — The wife of rapper T.I. is no longer facing charges for possession of ecstasy after she finished a drug diversion program.

Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, said Thursday that the charge was dismissed after Tameka “Tiny” Cottle finished 24 sessions of a certified drug diversion program in Georgia.

Cottle was arrested on Sept. 1 along with her husband during a traffic stop on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. The 35-year-old pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge in November.

Prosecutors declined to charge T.I., citing a federal judge’s decision to send him to prison for 11 months for violating his probation on weapons charges and because only four ecstasy pills were found on the Grammy Award winner.

Jaime Pressly arrested for DUI

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Pressly: Lowe says no Arrested traffic collision was involved.

Pressly’s blood-alcohol level wasn’t immediately released.

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s website says the 33-year-old actress-model spent the night in jail and was released Thursday morning after posting $15,000 bail.

An e-mail to her manager seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned.

Singer George Jones released

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country Music Hall of Fame SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) member George Jones is back at — Authorities in California say his home just outside Nashville actress Jaime Pressly has been on Thursday after being hospitalarrested in Santa Monica for ized overnight. investigation of driving under the His publicist, Kirt Webster, tells The Associated Press that influence of alcohol.

“George is home, resting and all Lt. Darrell Lowe says the co-

is well.” Webster says Jones feels fine and was even making football predictions.

The 79-year-old went in for an annual checkup Wednesday, and doctors required Jones: him to stay Going home overnight to continue monitoring him. He underwent a number of tests and was cleared to leave the Nashville-area hospital.

Jones has received numerous awards and charted more than a dozen No. 1 hits throughout his long career, including the classic song “He Stopped Loving Her Today.”

He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992.

Lohan investigation referred to DA LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s up to the Riverside County district attorney’s office to decide whether Lindsay Lohan will be charged with battery for last month’s skirmish with a Betty Ford Center rehabilitation technician.

John Hall, spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said findings from the Palm Desert Police Department’s probe into Lohan’s alleged skirmish with rehab worker Dawn Holland were received Thursday. Hall said his office was waiting for additional material from investigators and did not know when a decision would be made.

Lohan is accused of tussling with Holland after the 24-yearold actress returned to the rehab center past curfew on Dec. 12 and refused Holland’s request to take a Breathalyzer test. Riverside County Sheriff’s said in a news release Tuesday that she violated her probation and wanted her charged with battery, though Holland is no longer pursuing charges.

Shawn Chapman Holley, Lohan’s attorney, did not immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday. After Internet reports surfaced claiming that Lohan was under the influence during the altercation, Holley insisted in a statement Wednesday that Lohan didn’t drink alcohol or do drugs during her 90-day stint at Betty Ford.

Lohan was released from the drug dependency center this week after receiving treatment there since late September.

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DEATHS LaDon Johnson

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FA RG O — LaDon Jerome Johnson, 76, Fargo, passed away Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, in Bethany Retirement Living, Fargo.

WATFORD CITY — Services for Alvin W. Johnsrud, 76, Watford City, will be held at 11 a.m. today, Jan. 7, at First Lutheran Church, Watford City. Casketbearers are his grandchildren. Interment will be at the Schafer Cemetery, Watford City, under the direction of Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com.

Gladys Marie (Demmer) Egli, 82, Bismarck, died Jan. 5, 2011, at the Baptist Home, where she resided.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, at Evangel Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Roger Will officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Union Cemetery, New Salem.

Elizabeth “Betty” H. Braun, 95, Mandan, died Jan. 5, 2011, at Medcenter One, Bismarck. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Patrick Schumacher officiating. Burial will be at Mandan Union Cemetery.

ELLENDALE — Elsye Nicholson, 100, Ellendale, died Jan. 1, 2011, at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, Bismarck. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, at Presbyterian United Methodist Church, Ellendale. Burial will be in the spring at Ellendale City Cemetery.

She is survived by her children, Judy Nicholson, Woodland, Calif., and Jerry, Bismarck; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and her siblings, Toby Schimke, Ephrata, Wash., and Evelyn Heil, Plainfield, Ill. (Hoven Funeral Chapel, Ellendale)

LaDon Johnson

LaDon was born Sept. 11, 1934, to Victor and Johanna (Selness) Johnson in rural Grandin, where he grew up on the family farm and graduated from Hendrum High School (Minn.) in 1951. He then earned his bachelor of science degree in animal husbandry (1956) and master of science degree in animal science (1957), both from North Dakota State University. LaDon served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1957 to 1959. He earned his Ph.D. in animal science from Ohio State University in 1965.

During his college years, LaDon was a charter member and the first president of the NDSU Farm House Fraternity. He was also a member of the National Honor Society, “Who’s Who in American Colleges” and several other frater nities, including Alpha Zeta. LaDon was a longtime member of Toastmasters, which is also where he met his wife, Patricia.

LaDon worked as an assistant county extension agent in LaMoure County before landing his “dream job” at NDSU, where he worked as an animal nutritionist with the Extension Service, retiring in 1995 as professor emeritus. LaDon participated on numerous livestock judging teams. He received many awards at NDSU, culminating in his North Dakota Agricultural Hall of Fame induction in 2002.

Throughout his active years, LaDon was involved in 4-H judging, the Pork Producers Council, Cattlemen’s Association, Saddle & Sirloin, Little International, Harvest Bowl Committee and North Dakota Agriculture Winter Show. LaDon also spent countless hours working with his Angus cattle on his hobby farm near Kindred.

LaDon married his wife of 2 1 y e a r s , Pa t r i c i a , o n June 3, 1989, in Fargo. He became “Pappa/Grandpa extraordinaire” to his newfound children and grandchildren. LaDon and Patricia traveled extensively across the U.S., but LaDon was most at home on the Dakota prairie.

Preceded in death by his parents, LaDon is survived by his wife, Patricia; his stepchildren, Wade, Janet, Mary ( John) and Cyndi; four grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; his brother, Marlowe (Darlene); his sister, Cynthia; his aunt, Inez; and three nieces.

There will be a prayer service at 7 p.m. Sunday at Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo, with visitation starting at 5 p.m.

There will be a funeral service at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at the Mavis Whiting Chapel of Bethany Retirement Living, with visitation starting at 9 a.m.

Please feel free to sign the online guest book at www.boulgerfuneralhome. com.

Orlynn Johnson PICK CITY — Orlynn G. “Orlie” Johnson, 66, Pick City, formerly of Glenburn, died Jan. 5, 2010, at the Sakakawea Medical Center, Hazen, after a courageous battle with cancer. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at Bethany Lutheran Church, Minot. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Minot, at a later date.

He is survived by his sisters, Arlyce Holtz and Marilyn Miller, both of Minot, and Marcia Hettich, Elgin; and one brother, Mark, Minot.

(Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot)

Gladys Egli Alvin Johnsrud

Alvin W. Johnsrud passed away on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, at Maple View Nursing Home, Bismarck.

Alvin was born July 31, 1934, in Watford City, to Andrew and Louise (Wehrung) Johnsrud, the third of five sons born to them. Alvin was confirmed in the Lutheran faith and graduated from Watford City High School in 1952. Alvin married Cecelia Johnson on Feb. 27, 1954, in Watford City.

They moved to the Mule Shoe Ranch southeast of Watford City after their marriage, where they farmed and ranched. To this union, three children were born, Jeff, Jim and Ruth.

Alvin drove truck for Eklund Brothers for a time, did custom butchering and also worked at Williston Packing Company as a butcher. In 1969, Alvin and Omar Wold bought the Watford City Sales Ring, consigning and contract buying livestock in the area and continued until the mid ’80s. His wife, Cecelia, passed away in May 1990. Alvin married Dyanne Rolfstad Barkie in November 1992 in Watford City. They continued the farming and ranching operation until 1999, when Alvin retired. They continued to live on the farm until August 2010, when ill health took Alvin to Bismarck and Maple View.

Alvin loved the farm and everything about it. He loved horses and cattle. Alvin played amateur baseball in Watford City as a young man and softball in the later years. He loved hunting and fishing with family and friends and was an avid reader. Alvin also was an awesome cook. Everyone enjoyed his fish frys.

Alvin was a member of First Lutheran Church, the Odd Fellows, the Eagles Club and Pinochle Club.

Alvin is survived by his wife, Dyanne Johnsrud, Watford City; his sons, Jeff (Ann) Johnsrud and Jim (Vonnie), both of Watford City; his daughter, Ruth (Mark) Gress, Dickinson; his stepdaughter, Kari (Tom) Jones, Billings, Mont.; his brothers, David (Shirley) Johnsrud, Soldotna, Alaska, and Don (Jeanette) Johnsrud, Kalispell, Mont.; eight grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Alvin was preceded in death by his parents, Andrew and Louise Johnsrud; his first wife, Cecelia; two brothers, Arden and Orville; and his grandson, Cole Gress.

Robert Ramsfield WILLISTON — Robert “Peanuts” Ramsfield, 79, Williston, died Jan. 4, 2011, at Mercy Medical Center, Williston. Services will be held at 11 a.m. today, Jan. 7, at Calvary Lutheran Church, Alamo.

He is survived by his wife, Janice; two sons, Larry, Worland, Wyo., and Lane, Cocoa Beach, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Nadine Steiner, Bismarck; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. (Everson Funeral Home, Williston)

Veronica Zander Veronica Zander, 87, Bismarck, died Jan. 6, 2011, at the Baptist Home, Bismarck.

Arrangements are pending with Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck, and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church.

Gladys was bor n on Aug. 16, 1928, in Dent, Minn., the daughter of George Fredrick and Matilda Almira (Smith) Demmer. She graduated from Pelican Rapids High School in 1946, Fergus Falls Normal Training School in 1950, and Moorhead State College in 1959 with a bachelor of science degree in education. Gladys taught in rural Minnesota and Mandan schools before marrying Arthur Elmer Egli of New Salem on Dec. 29, 1961. Gladys farmed with Arthur in New Salem for eight years, during which time two sons were born. In 1970, the family moved to Bismarck, where Gladys continued her teaching career as a substitute teacher well into her retirement years.

She was a member of Evangel Assembly of God Church. Gladys enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, reading the Bible and playing her piano.

Survivors include her sons, Darryl (Erika) Egli, Rice, Minn., and Kevin (Deborah) Egli, Lincoln; her grandchildren, Alexis, Tori, Bryce and Cohle Egli, all of Lincoln; her sister, Florence Robins, Bemidji, Minn.; and her brothers, Orville Demmer, Fergus Falls, Minn., and Alvin (Marian) Demmer, Mt. Vernon, Wash.

Gladys was preceded in death by husband, Arthur Egli; four sisters, Irene Nibbe, Ethel Peterson, Ardella Carlson and Iva Broberg; and two brothers, Leonard Demmer and an infant brother.

Go to www.eastgatefuneral.com to share memories of Gladys and sign the online guest book.

Alvin Hummel

Elizabeth Braun

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m., with a rosary/vigil service beginning at 7 p.m. today, at Perry Funeral Home, Mandan. Visitation continues one hour prior to the service at the church.

Elizabeth was born Oct. 8, 1915, in rural Morton County, north of Mandan, to Joseph and Marion (Feininger) Heck. She was educated in country schools in Morton and Burleigh counties. She attended and graduated from Capitol Commercial College. She lived north of Bismarck from 1929 to 1940. She then moved to Mandan. Elizabeth worked at many different jobs. She married Stephen Whitted in 1934. He died in 1952. In 1965, she married Frank Braun, and they lived on a farm for 10 years before moving to Mandan. Frank passed away in 1986. Elizabeth lived in Mandan until entering the Baptist Home.

She is survived many nieces and nephews.

Elizabeth was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Stephen and Frank; four sisters; and four brothers.

Vernon Sailer S TA N T O N — Vernon Sailer, 70, Stanton, died Jan. 5, 2011, at Sakakawea Medical Center, Hazen. Services will be held at 10 a.m. CST today, Jan. 7, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Stanton. Burial will follow at 2 p.m. CST at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, rural Mandan.

Vernon is survived by his wife, Chris; one daughter, Melody Taylor, Stanton; one son, Eric, Stanton; two grandchildren; and 10 siblings, Clifford, California, Delmar, Stanton, Marlyn, Valley City, Lawrence, Fargo, Armond, Jamestown, Mayda Mueller, Jamestown, Yvonne Kluever, Washington, Francis Zimmerman, Jamestown, Marjorie Schelske, Ja m e s t ow n , a n d L a u ra Anvik, Stanton. (BarbotSeibel Funeral Home, Beulah)

Alvin “Al” Hummel, 86, passed away Jan. 4, 2011, in Weatherford, Texas. Services will be held at 11 a.m. today, Jan. 7, at Western Star Cowboy Church, Springtown, Texas, formerly known as Veronica Fettig, infant Annis Chapel Baptist stillborn daughter of BranChurch. Interment will be at don and Renae (Schatz) FetAnnis Chapel Cemetery, tig, passed away Jan. 5, 2011, Springtown. at St. Alexius Medical Center, Bismarck. Immediately received by the hands of God into heaven, she was blessed by the Rev. Paul Becker at the Alvin hospital who has presided in Hummel private family services.

Veronica is survived by her parents, Brandon and Renae; her grandparents, John and Gayla Schatz, Alvin was born May 3, Darcy Fettig and Kathy Feist, 1924, in Victoria Township, and Sheila and Keith N.D., to Anna and Johnnes Dewald; her great-grandHummel. mothers, Marian Anderson, He was preceded in death Elizabeth Schatz and Betty by his daughter, Ann Marie Fettig; and her aunts, uncles, Jacobson; and his brothers, and cousins. (Eastgate Harrold, Carlyle and H.W. Funeral Services, Bismarck) “Bill” Hummel.

He is survived by his wife, Elaine Hummel; his sons, Shawn Hummel, Danny Teresa L. Sorenson, 55, Hu m m e l a n d h i s w i f e, Mandan, formerly of Keene, Raynell; four grandchildren; died Jan. 5, 2011, in a Bisfour great-grandchildren; his marck hospital. Services will sisters, Sylvia Brown, Arlene be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jewell; and his brother, Wal- Jan. 8, at First Lutheran ter Hummel. (Mount Olivet Church, Keene. Further Funeral Home, Fort Worth, arrangements are pending Texas) with Langhans Funeral Home, Parshall.

Veronica Fettig

Teresa Sorenson

Perry Larson

RAY — Perry Larson, 59, Ray, died Jan. 6, 2011, due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on County Road 17, north of Ray. Arrangements are pending with Fulkerson Funeral Home, Williston.

Myrtle Biesterfeld W I LT O N — M y r t l e Biesterfeld, 92, Wilton, died Jan. 6, 2011, at Prairieview Nursing Home, Underwood.

Arrangements are pending with Goetz Funeral Home, Washburn.

Donald Bohnet HEBRON — Donald Bohnet, 84, Hebron, passed away on Jan. 1, 2011, at Marian Manor Health Care Center, Glen Ullin. Services will be held at 2 p.m. CST today, Jan. 7, at St. John UCC, Hebron, with the Rev. Gaylund Olson officiating. Burial will be at St. John Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to noon CST today at Spangelo-Stevenson Funeral Home, Hebron.

Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.stevensonfuneralhome.com.

Frances Erickson-Johnson ALAMO — Frances L. “Onie” Erickson-Johnson, 82, Alamo, formerly of Alexander, died Jan. 4, 2011, at the home of her daughter, LoryJean Wilson, in Charlottesville, Va. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, at Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church, Williston.

Further arrangements are pending with Fulkerson Funeral Home, Williston.

Herbert Kuck ELLENDALE — Herbert “Herb” Kuck, 89, Ellendale, died Jan. 6, 2011, at Prince of Peace Care Center, Ellendale.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Ellendale. Further arrangements are pending with Hoven Funeral Chapel, Ellendale.

Rhine Hunts Along MANDAREE — Rhine Hunts Along, 62, Mandaree, died Jan. 4, 2011, at Trinity Hospital, Minot. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at Water Chief Hall, Mandaree. Further arrangements are pending with Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City.

Rose Schiltz DICKINSON — Rose Schiltz, 88, Dickinson, died Jan. 5, 2011, at her home.

Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. MST Saturday, Jan. 8, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Dickinson.

Further arrangements are pending with Ladbury Funeral Service, Dickinson.

Bruce Golz ASHLEY — Bruce Golz, 71, Ashley, died Jan. 6, 2011, at the Ashley Medical Center.

Arrangements are pending with Carlsen Funeral Home, Ashley.

STATE DEATHS FA RG O — T h e o d o re Kearns, 78; Orpha Lunde, 85; Donald Smith, 86; Terry Storm, 48.

GRAFTON — Paul Campbell, 89.

GRAND FORKS — Mary Dobson, 86; Braxton Enno, infant; Avis Rood, 89.

JAMESTOWN — Kenneth Shank, 92.

LANGDON — Helen Wilhelmi, 92.

NEW ENGLAND — Margaret Wolf, 85.

PARK RIVER — Richard Rollefstad, 58.

VALLEY CITY — Laverne Burown, 98.

WAHPETON — Aquila Bravo, infant; Allene Kube, 103.

GOP strikes early in global warming fight WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans wasted no time Thursday in trying to block the Obama administration from acting to stem global warming.

On their second day in power, GOP lawmakers introduced several bills that would hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward with regulations to reduce heat-trapping pollution from factories and other sources that they say contributes to global warming.

The bills are part of an effort

by House Republicans to reverse what they consider job-killing policies of the administration. The bills introduced by Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia would stymie the EPA in different ways.

Poe’s measure would prohibit the EPA from using any money to implement or e n f o rc e re g u l a t i o n s t o impose a limit on global warming gases. Blackburn’s bill would change the Clean Air Act so the EPA could no longer use the law to control greenhouse gases.

A 2007 Supreme Court decision said the EPA had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming gases under the statute.

Capito’s measure would delay for two years any effort by the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. In a statement, Capito called the EPA’s actions a power grab that would have devastating effects on the economy.

“Without congressional action to say otherwise, the EPA will continue to dismantle energy and manufacturing industries through regulation,” she said.

Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Thursday she would use every tool to block the Republicans’ efforts and ensure that the EPA was allowed to follow the law.

FUNERALS TODAY Douglas Archambault, 70, McLaughlin, S.D., 11 a.m.

CST, McLaughlin Blue Gym. (Stout Family Funeral Home, Mobridge, S.D.) Donald Bohnet, 84, Hebron, 2 p.m. CST, St. John UCC, Hebron. (SpangeloStevenson Funeral Home, Hebron) Gerald Brendel, 56, Baldwin, 11 a.m., Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck.

Robert Diede, 91, Billings, Mont., 2 p.m. MST, First Congregational Church, Billings. (Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, Billings) Raymond Eisenbarth, 80, New Leipzig, 2 p.m. MST, Bethesda United Methodist Church, Elgin. (EvansonJensen Funeral Home, Elgin) Phyllis Glatt, 82, Strasburg, 10 a.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Strasburg. (Myers Funeral Home, Linton) Alvin Hummel, 86, formerly of Victoria Township, N.D., 11 a.m., Western Star Cowboy Church, Springtown, Texas. (Mount Olivet Funeral Home, Fort Worth, Texas) Wayne Johnson, 73, Mandan, 2 p.m., Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City.

Alvin Johnsrud, 76, Watford City, 11 a.m., First Lutheran Church, Watford City. (Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City) Larry Rambough, 65, Portland, 2 p.m., Baker Funeral Home Chapel, Mayville.

Robert Ramsfield, 79, Williston, 11 a.m., Calvary Lutheran Church, Alamo.

(Everson Funeral Home, Williston) Vernon Sailer, 70, Stanton, 10 a.m. CST, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Stanton.

(Barbot-Seibel Funeral Home, Beulah) Loren Uses Arrow, 23, Cannon Ball, 11 a.m., Activity Center, Cannon Ball.

(Perry Funeral Home, Mandan)

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Constitution is a fine litmus test To hear the Constitution read in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday should have sent shivers down the spine of each and every member.

The preamble speaks to the heart of democracy: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

After that, it gets into the specifics of governance. Then come the Bill of Rights — the first 10 amendments. Finally, amend-

ments 11 through 27 are the constitutionally enacted tweaks to the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, including banning slavery, adopting the authority to collect income tax, illfated prohibition, women’s suffrage and establishing presidential succession.

The reading of the Constitution may be a purely symbolic act but given the current state of the nation — a citizenry fragmented by issues and led by unbending and divided partisanship — it’s a good starting point for the 112th Congress. The Constitution is something both ends and the middle of

the political spectrum hold dear.

Unfortunately, there’s no simple black-andwhite reading of the Constitution. It’s a lesson the years and innumerable court cases since ratification have taught well.

In just the first two amendments — freedom of speech and right to bear arms — there have been decades of heated debate over the inherent meaning of the Founding Fathers’ words.

Nor does a return to constitutional primacy erase more than two centuries of legal precedent and case law. We are a democracy, and we are a nation of laws. But the bottom line

Congress was right to affirm the founding document

is the Constitution will always be a litmus test, one officially applied by the courts and not Congress.

The Republican majority in the House also requires legislation be tagged with its constitutional antecedents. Unfortunately, that probably means more work for more lawyers unless it, too, is a symbolic act.

Reading the Constitution and being constitutionally sound is never a waste of time. After all, the words signed off on by the Founding Fathers contain the essence of our nationhood and the principles of our democratic experiment. This seems like a very good time in this nation’s history to reaffirm our connection to key documents in the founding of the United States of America.

VOICES OF THE PEOPLE The reality of carbon capture

search for the best solutions going forward.

People should know the danger

By CHARLIE BULLINGER Underwood As someone who has worked to better emissions control technologies for more than 30 years at a coal-based power plant, and as an adviser to the Electric Power Research Institute’s Carbon Capture and Sequestration Committee, I would like to comment about the maturity of carbon capture technology for the current fleet of coalbased power plants in the United States.

As I read “EPA moves forward on carbon rules,” I agreed with almost everything. However, when comments were made that “clean coal technologies are available,” I think clarification should also be given that for new generation, the Integrated-Gas Combined Cycle does produce a smaller carbon footprint than our current coal-based power plants.

However, realistically, we won’t be dismantling our nearly 4,000 megawatt coalbased power plant fleet in North Dakota to rebuild with these new technologies.

For one, they are not “carbon free.” Secondly, and probably more impor-

By SUSAN WEFALD Bismarck

tantly, they are more expensive to build and operate.

The latest 600 megawatt IGCC’s will cost $3 billion to build.

For comparison, the 1,100 megawatts at Coal Creek Station cost $1 billion to build, and that included sulfur dioxide and dust collection equipment.

Regarding capture technologies for the existing fleet, nothing is ready. I repeat – nothing is ready to capture carbon dioxide.

However much is being investigated.

We need to be very care-

ful we do not engage in early deployment that will double the cost of energy and need costly re-engineering later due to its immaturity.

The governments of this globe will need to step up and provide additional funding for “first of its kind” larger scale demonstrations if they truly do believe we can affect the climate.

The $500 million needed to fund a 120 megawatt capture demonstration at a power plant in North Dakota is the most recent case in

On Dec. 16, I read the article titled, “Company wants to lock carbon dioxide in deep formation.” I noted that the mayor of Dodge said he had heard some worry that the gas is poisonous. Your article flatly stated “it’s not” poisonous, and dismissed the issue.

This safety issue is too important to dismiss with two words, since concentrated carbon dioxide is dangerous, and can cause death.

As a former North Dakopoint. The U.S. Department ta public service commisof Energy did promise sioner, I made sure the $100 million for this project. However, can we expect public knew that the the customers of this com- pipeline carrying carbon dioxide from Beulah to pany to pay for an initial Canada was classified as a step forward? hazardous pipeline and I can indeed testify to and agree with the fact that that proper procedures development costs will be a were set to protect public safety. tremendous burden on an Local and state governalready over-taxed economent officials need to recmy. ognize and share with the With that in mind, we should be clear and realistic public the dangers of concentrated carbon dioxide about what we’re saying and take a careful look at regarding the current fleet this proposed storage projof power plants and any ect. new generation as we all

We now have a priesthood of warriors I present you with a paradox. The U.S. Army that fought the Vietnam War was reviled, not spit upon (that’s an urban myth) but not much admired, either.

In contrast, the Army of Iraq and Afghanistan is embraced and praised.

Yet one was an army of the people, draftees and such, and the other is an army of volunteers, strangers to most of us.

What’s happening here?

The answer, I fear, is a cliche: Familiarity breeds contempt.

That “I fear” in the preceding paragraph is not an artsy pause but a genuine emotion.

The Vietnam War Army happened to have been my Army. I was on active duty as a reservist, not very long but long enough for the Army to have lost all its mystery. I found the Army to be no better and no worse than other large institutions. Some of its leaders were fools and some soldiers were thieves

RICHARD COHEN

and everyone wasted money like there was no tomorrow. This is the truth and everyone once knew it.

No more. I sometimes think I am the only person around who has been in the military.

This is because most people I know are college-educated professionals, many of them writers. But if I throw in politicians and even the White House staff, then still nothing much changes. Lots of people know the expression “lock ’n load” but very few know how to do it.

The military of today is removed from society in general. It is largely white and, according to a Heritage Foundation study, disproportionately Southern.

How little our country knows about war

New England is underrepresented and so are big cities, but the poor are no longer cannon fodder — if they ever were — and neither are blacks. We all fight and die just about in proportion to our numbers in the population.

The all-volunteer military has enabled America to simultaneously fight two wars while many of its citizens do not know of a single fatality or, even, of anyone who has fought overseas.

This is a military conscripted by culture and class — induced, not coerced, indoctrinated in all the proper cliches about serving one’s country, honored and romanticized by those of us who would not, for a moment, think of doing the same. You get the picture.

Talking about the picture, what exactly is wrong with it? A couple of things. First, this distant Army enables us to fight wars to which the general public is largely indifferent. Had there been a draft, the war in Iraq might never have been fought — or would have produced the civil protests of the Vietnam War era. The Iraq debacle was made possible by a professional military and by

going into debt. George W. Bush didn’t need your body or, in the short run, your money. Southerners would fight and foreigners would buy the bonds. For understandable reasons, no great songs have come out of the war in Iraq.

The other problem is that the military has become something of a priesthood. It is virtually worshipped for its admirable qualities while its less admirable ones are hardly mentioned or known. It has such standing that it is awfully hard for mere civilians — the ultimate boss, remember? — to question it. Dwight Eisenhower could because he had stars on his shoulders and when he warned of the military/industrial complex, people paid some attention. Harry Truman had fought in one world war and John Kennedy and Gerald Ford in another, but now the cupboard of combat vets is bare and there are few civilians who have the experience, the standing, to question the military. This is yet another reason to mourn the death of Richard Holbrooke. He learned in Vietnam that

stars don’t make for infallibility, sometimes just for arrogance.

Little wars tend to metastasize. They are nourished by chaos. Government employees in Nevada direct drones to kill insurgents in Afghanistan. The repercussions can be felt years later. We kill coldly, for reasons of policy — omitting, for reasons of taste, that line from Mafia movies: Nothing personal.

But revenge comes back hot and furious. It’s personal, and we know longer remember why.

The Great Afghanistan Reassessment has come and gone and, outside of certain circles, no one much paid attention. In this respect, the United States has become like Rome or the British Empire, able to fight nonessential wars with a professional military in places like Iraq.

Ultimately, it will drain us financially and, in a sense, spiritually as well. “War is too important to be left to the generals,” the wise saying goes. Too horrible, too.

(Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post. His syndicated column appears Fridays.)

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Homeless man with silky voice back with mom

By JoANNE VIVIANO Associated Press

after the Dispatch posted a clip of him demonstrating his voiceover skills while begging by the side of the road.

Williams appeared on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday morning and has been offered jobs by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and others.

At the reunion, he wore a camouflage jacket over clothes that he told his mother are all that he owns and said he just finished doing a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese that is to air Sunday during the Fight Hunger Bowl on ESPN. Williams also recorded voiceover promos Thursday for MSNBC’s Lean Forward campaign, and the spots were to begin running i m m e d i a t e l y, n e t w o r k spokeswoman Tanya Hayre said. He was being paid for the spots, Hayre said, but she declined to say how much.

In the reunion video, Williams’ mother refers to him as “my prodigal son,” and when she tells him, “Please don’t disappoint me,” Williams responds, “I’m not, Mom, I’m not. I’m through with it all.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A homeless man whose silky announcing voice has catapulted him to national fame reunited Thursday with his mother, recorded a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and agreed to do voiceover work for MSNBC. Video posted by The Columbus Dispatch shows Ted Williams walking quickly toward his 90-year-old mother at their New York reunion. Williams says, “Hi, Mo m m y. Hi , Mo m m y,” when he sees her in a hotel for the first time in about 20 years.

Brooklyn resident Julia Williams covers her face as her son approaches, and he hugs her, saying, “I feel the same way, Mommy.”

“I’m home,” Williams says. “I told you I was coming this year. I don’t look the best, but I’m home.”

Williams, 53, was left homeless after his life was ruined by drugs and alcohol, and he was living in a tent near a highway in Columbus just days ago. He quickly became an online sensation

Associated Press

The homeless man with the golden voice, Ted Williams, is reunited with his mother, Julia Williams, 90, in New York on Thursday.

“You always told me to pray, and I’ve been praying,” he says. “This has been a dream, a dream and a prayer.”

On the “Today” show, Williams described his previous 48 hours as “outrageous.”

“There’s no way in the world that I could have ever imagined that I would be — I mean, just have all of this just all of a sudden come into this portion of my life,” he

said during a live interview in the program’s studio.

But he said he was ready to handle the second chance and the job offers he was being given and predicted that in five years he’d be working as a radio program director and living in his own apartment. He said in 2010 he found a “new sense of spirituality” that would help him deal with whatever success comes.

Williams was contacted

Wednesday by the Cavaliers, who have offered him a position that could include announcing work at Quicken Loans Arena, the team’s downtown facility. Williams said the team has offered him a two-year contract and would pay his living expenses.

“They said that they’re going to give me LeBron’s old house,” Williams joked on NBC Thursday, referring to former Cavaliers star LeBron James, who left for the Miami Heat.

It’s been a shocking turn of events for the goldenvoiced Williams, who had gotten by living in shelters and occasionally with family and friends over the past few years. Williams also has been in his share of trouble.

His past includes a lengthy list of arrests. He has served time in prison for theft and forgery and has been cited with numerous misdemeanors, including drug abuse.

He was most recently arrested on May 14. He pleaded guilty to a firstdegree misdemeanor theft charge. In court records, his address is listed as “Streets

Pentagon Continued from 1A end on time and that Congress will agree to plans to cancel popular job-making programs and charge retired military families more for health care.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that projections about what the world will look like so far in the future have a troubled track record.

But the Defense Department is “not exempt” from belt-tightening just because of its charge to defend the nation, he said.

“Looking five years into the future is through a pretty cloudy crystal ball,” Gates said. “Any number of these decisions could be reversed.”

Although it took Gates more than 30 minutes to read an explanation of the reductions, he called the proposals modest and realistic.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he thinks the Afghanistan war will shrink as planned in 2014, when the United States and its allies want to hand over control of the country’s security to the Afghan government.

“There’s certainly some risk there, but we think it’s

acceptable risk right now,” Mullen said.

Almost immediately the proposal ran into opposition in Congress, including Republicans who say President Barack Obama is shortchanging the military.

“I’m not happy,” said Rep. Buck McKeon, who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee helps oversee the military budget.

“This is a dramatic shift for a nation at war and a dangerous signal from the c o m m a n d e r- i n - c h i e f ,” McKeon, R-Calif., added.

In the meantime, many newly elected tea party activists and anti-war Democrats have said the Defense Department isn’t doing enough to scale back its mammoth half-trilliondollar annual budgets.

The Defense Department represents the largest portion of the federal government’s discretionary budget.

“We have nearly doubled our military budget in the past 10 years,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told his local newspaper, The CourierJournal, this week.

“To avoid bankruptcy, we will have to evaluate all

spending — from food stamps to foreign aid to foreign wars,” Paul said.

Gates said his proposal falls between the extremes of those who want to slash the Pentagon budget and those who want to expand it.

“My view is we’ve got it about right,” he said.

The plan calls for $553 billion to be spent in 2012 on annual defense programs such as weapons modernization and troop pay. The amount, which does not include war spending, is $13 billion less than the Pentagon wanted, but still represents 3 percent growth after inflation.

But the rate of increase of spending would gradually slow before halting in 2015 and 2016. The only increase in those budgets would reflect the inflation rate.

Gates estimates doing this would cost the military about $78 billion.

To help offset the cost, Gates said the Pentagon would reduce the number of soldiers in the Army by 27,000 and trim the Marines by 20,000, saving as much as $6 billion.

The plan assumes the U.S. will be able to substan-

tially reduce its troop levels in Afghanistan in the next few years. While Obama has called for troop reductions to begin this July, the Afghan government has said it probably won’t be able to take control of its government until the end of 2014.

The cuts could meet resistance in Congress, where lawmakers repeatedly have called for increasing the number of ground troops to ensure they aren’t subject to lengthy deployments.

The plan also assumes that Congress will agree to some $7 billion in health care reforms for military families. Gates has long argued that benefits provided under the military system, known as TRICARE, are too generous. For example, he said, the basic family plan costs only $460 a year — a fee that hasn’t been increased since 1995 and would cost $5,000 a year for civilian federal workers.

Gates said he wants military retirees under the age of 65 to pay “modest” increases to fees.

Similar Pentagon spending reform plans have been defeated in the past, with lawmakers fiercely protec-

tive of any program that benefits troops.

Other savings to cover the $78 billion would be found by freezing civilian pay, cutting the size of the general officer corps and other bureaucratic steps.

Separately, about $100 billion in savings has been found in the services’ fiveyear budgets. However, Gates said, the services will mostly be allowed to reinvest that money into programs they want, including weapon modernization.

For example, the Navy and Marine Corps found ways to save about $34 billion, including by canceling a $14 billion program to develop the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. Gates said that money will be used to buy additional ships, F-18 jets and new electronic jammers.

That proposal also drew rebukes from lawmakers who feared a loss of jobs in their states.

“I’m willing to work with Secretary Gates and the president to cut wasteful defense spending, but cutting the budget on the backs of Ohio’s workers is unacceptable,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

“Even if the Garrison Dam had not been built,” Stenehjem said, “it borders on an insult to demand we pay for it.”

Dalrymple noted the corps plan only proposes a storage fee for water users in the Upper Missouri River Basin but does not charge a similar fee for downstream states that benefit from use of the water for hydropower, navigation, water supplies or flood control.

Hall said in a meeting earlier in the day with other state tribal officials, none were aware of the plan.

Hall said the corps is bound by treaty to consult

with tribes on issues that might adversely affect them.

“Has that order been re p e a l e d by Pre s i d e n t Obama?” he asked.

“I’ve been gone (as tribal chairman) for four years,” he said. “But I haven’t been gone that long. I found out about this in the newspaper.”

Hall said none of the tribes relieved notification of the study or the plan.

“It’s beyond an oversight,” Hall said. “It’s total disregard ... charging a fee for our own water. We clearly feel this would be an adverse action.”

Continued from 1A Dalrymple said the plan not only threatens future energy but also the future of agriculture and water supplies for cities through projects like the Southwest Pipeline Project.

“Financial claims have not been sought in the past and contradict states’ rights and congressional authorizations,” Dalrymple said.

“All considerations for the use of Missouri River water have been settled in the past and should not be open to further discussion.”

(Reach reporter Brian Gehring at 250-8254 or brian.gehring@bismarcktribune.com.)

State officials has provisions that allow the corps to quantify surplus water in the dam and charge a fee.

In this case, municipal and industrial uses of that water fall under that provision.

In essence, the corps would charge users a fee to store water for future use, water most believe is North Dakota’s.

Goettle said one thing the state has been trying to quantify is what constitutes natural flow of the Missouri River, something that is guaranteed under federal law.

“If all the water behind

the dam were to be released tomorrow ... what remains of the Missouri River and the natural flow ... would belong to the state of North Dakota,” Goettle said.

He said the idea of using water storage contracts more than a half century after the Garrison Dam was built to recover the cost of its construction is “beyond any rationally articulated policy; it simply does not make sense.”

Stenehjem said the U.S. Constitution gives states special legal rights to freeflowing rivers and that has repeatedly been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rough roads Continued from 1A Legislature spend $229 million repairing and improving state roads in the oil-producing region during the next two years.

Dalrymple’s plan includes $142 million in road aid for counties and townships.

The study says about $233 million in road spending is needed during the 2011-13 budget period, and another $264.8 million in the following two years.

Re p. Je f f D e l z e r, R-Underwood, the Appro-

p r i a t i o n s Co m m i t t e e’s chairman, said the panel will use the information as part of its review of Dalrymple’s budget proposal.

“I think everybody in the state certainly would love to have their roads done that way,” Delzer said of the report’s assumptions on upkeep. “It is what everybody wants, but you, at some point in time, have to decide the best economic way to do it.”

Other lawmakers said development of new

pipeline networks to carry increased oil production could take some of the pressure off state and local road networks.

The report, using estimates from the state Department of Mineral Resources, estimates that more than 20,000 new oil wells could be drilled in western North Dakota in the next 20 years.

Each well requires slightly more than 2,000 truck trips, the report estimates, including 600 to

haul water and 80 truckloads each of sand and gravel.

The report says 68 miles of paved roads that get oil traffic are in poor or very poor condition, and 334 miles that are considered to be in fair condition could deteriorate rapidly. It includes information about more than 12,700 miles of county roads that have either graveled or unpaved surfaces.

Tolliver, in an interview, said he believed the oil

industry would become “very constrained in terms of its distribution and logistics costs” if an aggressive program of road repair and upkeep were not undertaken. It would also help farmers, ranchers and others who live in the area and do not work in the industry, he said.

“Anyone using the roads will benefit,” he said. “That is ... perhaps one of the reasons that there is some urgency to these investments.”

of Columbus.”

Williams acknowledged his record during the “Today” show appearance and explained that he turned to crime so he could afford his drug habits.

Upon learning of Williams’ criminal history, the Cavaliers said their offer still stands.

“We believe in second chances and second opportunities,” said Tracy Marek, the team’s senior vice president of marketing. “The gentleman deserves an opportunity to explain certain situations. We’re not jumping to conclusions. It’s not fair.”

Williams said his life began spiraling downward in 1996, when he began drinking alcohol “pretty bad.” He used marijuana and cocaine and lost interest in his radio career. He wound up on the streets despite the best efforts of his children, seven daughters and two sons, who live in the Columbus area.

Williams said he celebrated two years of sobriety around Thanksgiving.

“I just hope,” he said, “everyone will pray for me.”

Gas prices Continued from 1A “That’s typical,” he said.

“Prices peak in May and they start to rally in March.”

By his analysis, consumers could pay between $3.45 and $3.65 in March and between $3.65 and $4.05 in May. The global economy also is driving up the price of oil, which closed at $88.38 per barrel Thursday. Signs of economic recovery in the United States and continued growth in emerging economies such as China and India are contributing to the price rise, but DeHaan thought the price might find a limit at $93 per barrel.

“We have not been able to get north of 93, so that’s a positive sign,” he said.

Drivers will be sorry to see prices approach $4, but retailers do not welcome the higher gas prices, either, said David Froelich, president of Missouri Valley Petroleum.

“They’re high based on crude oil,” he said. “And that’s the driving force behind most of our price.”

Retailers are sensitive to price increases and do not raise prices at the pump as quickly as crude prices rise on the commodities market.

Froelich buys gas at the Mandan Tesoro Refinery or can purchase from depots in Jamestown, Minot or Glendive, Mont., but the distance adds on transportation costs.

Credit card fees also chip away from stations’ per gallon profit margin, he said.

“It’s a myth that you can sell gas at cost or at a loss and make it up with candy bars,” he said. Higher gas prices usually push down what consumers spend on other things in the gas station convenience store.

Prices in the Red River Valley are typically cheaper than in the western half of the state because Fargo has access to an additional pipeline. Retailers have a higher volume of sales because of the larger population and the intersection of two interstates at Fargo, increasing their diesel sales to carrier traffic, Froelich said. All the factors allow them to keep gasoline prices lower.

“Saying it’s highly competitive would be an understatement,” he said of the Fargo market.

Rising prices might irk drivers in Bismarck-Mandan more when they see them going up along with growing oil production in North Dakota. But gas prices follow global trends, DeHaan said.

“Global demand is up, oil demand is up,” he said.

“There’s no borders to oil.”

(Reach reporter Christopher Bjorke at 250-8261 or chris.bjorke@bismarcktribune.com.)

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Careful what you say to me

Sentenced in deer killing

It’s a new year, and my resolution for this one is to actually pay attention when people are talking to me. You’re welcome.

A Burleigh County man who pleaded guilty to killing deer on his feedlot could end up spending four days in jail for 17 Class A misdemeanors.

However, South Central District Judge Bruce Haskell won’t make William Dethloff serve the sentence he handed down on Thursday until he has a chance to appeal the case to the North Dakota Supreme Court.

KELLY HAGEN

So, when speaking to me, please pay close attention to what you say. Because there are certain words and phrases that I’ve deemed awful, and I don’t like them, and I want you to stop using them because I’m like a parrot, and I’m always repeating the last thing I hear.

And I don’t want to catch me saying the following things: “At the end of the day …”

You hear this idiot idiom most often dribbling out of the mouths of sports stars or politicians. “At the end of the day, we just need to get more points on the board.” No, Tom Brady, you play a lot of games in the afternoon. You should be scoring touchdowns somewhere between noon and 6 p.m. CDT. “At the end of the day, the deficit is too high, and we desperately need to cut spending.”

Why would you do that at the end of the day? Everyone’s in bed.

This is why no one likes Congress.

“I’m just saying.”

I know that you said what you said. I wouldn’t have heard it, had you not said it. So what are you saying when you say you’re just saying? Are you implying that you’re just making random noises without reason? In which case, banana culprit road lawyer first million avocado. I’m just saying.

“I literally …”

You literally have no clue what the word “literally” literally means, do you? If you did, you’d know that when something literally happens, it actually happens. So when you say, “Political correctness is literally killing us,” you are mistaken.

Because I just went to the doctor, and I asked him if I was dying of a bad case of P.C., and he said no, all the tests came back negative. I could stand to lower my cholesterol, though.

“Are you serious?”

Perfectly legitimate question, but in the context it’s normally used, it does not fit. “I just had a flat tire out on the Interstate.” “Are you serious?”

Why would I kid about that?

I’m late, and I’m covered in dirt. What’s the punch line? But yes, you are correct, I’m totally messing with you.

“Thinking outside of the box.”

I’d actually pay more credence to someone thinking inside of a box. “There’s a guy with his head stuck in a box; I wonder what he’s thinking about?” That’s what I’d say, and that’s how you’d know that you’ve got my attention.

“My bad.”

Bad is most often an adjective, not a noun, unless you’re referring to the 1986 album by Michael Jackson. In which case, you can’t lay claim to it. That’s Michael’s. His “Bad,” not yours.

“No offense, but …”

You know what usually follows this phrase? Something offensive. If you really intend for the other person to not take offense, say something adorable. “No offense, but … kittens.”

Because, at the end of the day, I’m just saying kittens are literally outside their box.

(Whose bad? Columnist Kelly Hagen can be reached at 2508259 or kelly.hagen@bismarcktribune.com.)

Burleigh County man could serve four days in jail for dead animals

By JENNY MICHAEL Bismarck Tribune

Dethloff entered a conditional guilty plea in October to eight counts of unlawful taking of big game and nine counts of unlawful possession of big game. He has admitted to shooting numerous deer on his feedlot near the Missouri River over the past 20 years but says he did so to protect his feed from hungry deer during wintertime. Dethloff also says the North Dakota Game and Fish Department knew he was killing deer for years and did not adequately help him protect his feed from the animals.

A conditional guilty plea means a defendant could take back the plea if a higher court agrees with him over legal issues involved in the case.

Haskell sentenced Dethloff to one year in prison with all but four days suspended and two years of unsupervised probation. He ordered him to pay $8,500 in restitution for the deer and $1,350 in court fines and fees. The judge also stripped Dethloff of hunting, fishing and trapping privileges for three years. Haskell granted a stay of exe-

cution of sentence pending appeal, meaning Dethloff will not have to serve the sentence until after an appeal is resolved.

Dethloff was charged after neighbors called the Game and Fish department in February 2010.

Game wardens found some dead deer in plain sight and others buried in snow.

Dethloff, who was fined $200 in 1997 for shooting 56 deer, said Game and Fish wardens knew he was shooting deer to protect his Continued on 6B

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Travel guides for 2011

By LEANN ECKROTH Bismarck Tribune

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Gov. Jack Dalrymple jokes with North Dakota Tourism Director Sara Otte Coleman during a press conference unveiling the department’s newly designed 2011 marketing materials on Thursday morning in Bismarck.

New visitor guides released The North Dakota Tourism division is publishing new guides for visitors, officials announced Thursday.

The state agency is publishing 335,000 copies of its latest 158-page travel guide, which will be distributed at trade shows, rest

areas and visitor centers.

The 2011 hunting and fishing guide will be distributed at sports shows and by request. Tourism is publishing 60,000 copies.

The state Department of Transportation will also print 1.2 million new state highway maps.

Tourism Director Sara Otte Coleman said the agency has seen demand for the publications increase.

“The past two years demand exceeded supply, and by fall we had distributed all of our travel guides,” she said.

Mandan looks at new elementary school

By SARA KINCAID Bismarck Tribune A bond issue could be in Mandan Public Schools’ future for a new elementary school.

The proposed school is meant to ease overcrowding in the elementary schools because of increasing enrollment and to keep class sizes reasonable. It could be up to four years before a new school opens, if the district has a successful bond election. In the meantime, the old junior high could be renovated to accommodate fifth-graders.

“It’s not going to be an easy time to sell that we need space,” school board member Lee Fleischer said.

He also is a member of the district facilities committee.

It could be about a year before the district would ask voters to approve a bond, if that is the route that the school board decides to go. Then it would take two years to complete a design and then a year to build.

The district’s facilities committee considered enrollment projections and possible long-term and short-term solutions to deal with the influx of students. Long-term solution include a new elementary school, an addition at Fort Lincoln Elementary School or renovating the old junior high. The committee concluded that the addition at Fort Lincoln and the renovation at the old junior high would only be temporary fixes.

Based on a school district census, birth rates and current enrollment, the district could have an

“It’s not going to be an easy time to sell that we need space.”

School board member Lee Fleischer additional 200 elementary students in 2015. That number doesn’t account for people moving into the area, Superintendent Wilfred Volesky said. About 79 percent of children born in Morton County end up attending Mandan Public Schools. The school census conducted this fall had a 60 percent response rate, and 85 percent of respondents have children in the district. About two-thirds of the respondents who have children 5 or younger live north of Main Street.

This year, the district enrolled 116 more students than the previous school year. In addition to growing enrollment, the district will eventually need space to offer pre-kindergarten classes.

Last year it changed boundaries to ease crowding at Fort Lincoln, which ended up making Roosevelt Elementary School overcrowded this year. The district will tweak boundaries again to redistribute students.

For a new elementary school, the district would like to build a school that could accommodate at least two sections per grade. It would need 20 acres on which to build. The district already owns 30 acres in the northwest part of the district. The other area the district would consider is the southwest part of the district, but land would need to be purchased. There also is

land available near the middle school that is owned by the county and up for auction.

The district is using the cost of Sunrise Elementary School in Bismarck, plus a 10 percent inflation factor for its estimates for renovating the old junior high or building a new school. Sunr ise cost $8.8 million. The district estimates 50 cents per square foot to purchase 20 acres of land.

A shorter-term solution to accommodate growing enrollment could be to add classrooms to Fort Lincoln, renovate and reuse the old junior high or use portables. Four classrooms at Fort Lincoln Elementary School would be similar in cost to the sixth-grade wing at the middle school. That cost $2.4 million. It wouldn’t necessarily give the district the extra classroom space it needs.

Portables could be an option, but not all schools have enough space for them. That leaves the old junior high, which was previously used as a sixth-grade center until the sixth-grade wing opened at the middle school.

Even though the committee recognizes that it is not an ideal location, it’s the only place that the district has unused classrooms.

The renovation would need to include green space for recess.

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The Burleigh County Commission this week tabled a request to lower property tax values for the former Home Depot building at 3401 N. 14th St. in Bismarck to nearly half.

HD Partners LLP wants to cut its taxable assessment from $7.2 million for just under $3.7 million, near what it paid for it in a January 2010 auction.

The Bismarck City Commission denied the same abatement request in December, but recommended honoring what property value the county commission decides.

The attorney for HD Partners, Malcolm Brown, said the request to decrease the 102,000 square feet of property value was based on numbers given by a certified appraiser.

Bob Savageau, an investor in the property, said investors are marketing the building now, but didn’t wish to publicly disclose those options.

Kim Lee of the city-county planning staff said the property was compared to similar big box stores such as Lowes and Menards.

Building owners said they don’t compare because the Home Depot building is empty and not selling merchandise.

The state is studying use of the building for office space. On the table are buying it for $5 million or leasing it for $16 per square foot for 20 years.

Commissioner Jim Peluso said allowing such a big tax cut would bring protests from operators of similar-sized big box stores in town who would want the same break. “We’re not taxing it on whether the building is being used. We’ve got many warehouses that are being used for things other than they are intended,” he said.

The Bismarck Home Depot closed in May 2008. HD Partners LLP bought it during an international auction in January 2010 for $3.45 million.

Savageau said the Bismarck Home Depot closed because of “economic obsolescence” when the national economic downturn began and other Home Depots closed around the country. “They made an economic decision that this just wasn’t a good market for them to be in,” he said. “More so than anything, it was probably competition.”

In separate business, the commission agreed to seek bids for the reconstruction of the 43rd Avenue Northeast intersection. The project will improve safety by adding right and left turn lanes on all four legs of the intersection.

(Reach reporter LeAnn Eckroth at 250-8264 or leann.eckroth@bismarcktribune.com.)

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No information on missing man The Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department still has no information on the whereabouts of a man who has not been seen since Dec. 16.

William Michael Lane, also known as Michael Lane, was last seen on Dec. 16.

His employer reported him missing when he didn’t show up to work in the week prior to Christmas. Authorities asked for the public’s help in locating Lane, who has no known relatives in the area, on Dec. 23.

Burleigh County Sheriff’s Lt. Steve Hall said law enforcement has not received any new information on Lane since putting information out to the public. Officials have little to go on to find him, he said.

Lane Lane, 58, is a handyman who does snow removal. He may be driving a light blue 1989 Ford F-250 with North Dakota license plate JDZ156.

Lane is described as white, 5-feet-9-inches tall, 180 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes.

Anyone with information about Lane’s whereabouts should call the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department at 2226651.

— Jenny Michael

Fire victim’s identity confirmed The Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed the identity of a man killed in a fire in the Baldwin area.

Gerald Brendel, 56, died in the Saturday fire on the 16000 block of Highway 83 North. According to an autopsy, he died of smoke inhalation, a statement from the sheriff’s department said.

Brendel’s funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Parkway Funeral Service.

Brendel’s body was found in the crawl space under the home. Authorities believe he may have been trying to thaw pipes.

A passer-by reported smoke coming from the home at 2:52 p.m. Saturday. A Burleigh County deputy arrived on the scene just after 3 p.m., but was unable to get in through a back door because the flames and smoke had engulfed the house.

Wilton firefighters responded, and the man’s body was found after the fire was contained.

— Jenny Michael

Fire damages Bismarck home An electrical fire caused more than $30,000 in damage to a Bismarck home Wednesday night.

Bismarck Police Sgt. Mark Buschena said Dallas Scheet, 33, and Jennifer Scheet, 29, reported Dallas Scheet had been working on a ceiling fan when they heard crackling in the walls. They evacuated and called 911 at 8 p.m. after seeing and smelling smoke.

The fire department said the blaze was believed to be caused by electrical problems at the home at 156 Redstone Drive, Buschena said. He said damages were estimated at $30,000 to $40,000.

— Jenny Michael

Woman reports safe stolen A Bismarck woman says someone stole a safe containing jewelry from her northwest Bismarck home while she was out of town.

The 52-year-old woman said she was gone from Dec. 27 to Wednesday, Bismarck Police Sgt. Mark Buschena said.

On Sunday, the woman’s 18-year-old daughter had called police after being startled by someone trying to get in the home. Officers weren’t able to locate anyone in the area, Buschena said.

Police believe someone entered the home through a window. Buschena said detectives are investigating.

— Jenny Michael

‘Facebook for Seniors’ planned “Facebook for Seniors,” one-on-one instructional session with senior citizens about the functions of Facebook, is planned Jan. 15 at the Bismarck Public Library’s computer lab.

Members of the library’s Teen VIPs will offer instructions at 10 and 11 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Seating is limited. To register, call 355-1480 and ask for the Reference Desk, or stop in at the library.

Juvenile charged in fatal accident FARGO (AP) — Cass County prosecutors said they have charged a juvenile driver with manslaughter for an October traffic crash in Fargo that killed a 17-year-old passenger.

Other charges against the unidentified juvenile are aggravated reckless driving and minor in possession/consumption of alcohol.

The state’s attorney’s office said it has filed a motion to transfer the juvenile to adult court.

One dead in rollover near Minot MINOT (AP) — The driver of a pickup died Thursday in a rollover accident on U.S. Highway 83 about 10 miles south of Minot.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol said the driver lost control on the icy road and the vehicle went into the median and rolled.

The name of the woman who died wasn’t immediately released. The patrol said a passenger was not injured.

Murder suspect sent to halfway house CANNON BALL — A Cannon Ball woman accused of killing her boyfriend has been released to a halfway house while her case proceeds through federal court.

Twenty-six-year-old Ivanna Red Bow allegedly stabbed Loren Uses Arrow in the chest during an argument in her home on Dec. 30. Court documents say he was later pronounced dead at a Fort Yates hospital.

Red Bow claimed in court she was acting in self-defense.

She is due back in court for a preliminary hearing Jan. 14.

The Standing Rock Reservation straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.

— Staff and wire reports

Trial could be moved from Fargo FARGO (AP) — Attorneys for an Oklahoma man accused of hiring a hit man to kill his son-in-law in North Dakota have asked a judge to move the trial from Fargo to either Minot or Bismarck.

The defense attorneys also seek to suppress statements Gene Kirkpatrick of Jones, Okla., made to police during their investigation into the October 2009 hammer killing of Fargo dentist Philip Gattuso.

Kirkpatrick’s daughter was married to Gattuso until her March 2009 death. Authorities believe Kirkpatrick was unhappy that Gattuso was raising his granddaughter, and paid his handyman to kill Gattuso. Michael Nakvinda of Oklahoma City in December was convicted of murder.

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As the Oakdale Singers beat the drum and sing, Tex Hall, left, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, looks over at Speaker of the House David Drovdal, second from left, Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley and Gov. Jack Dalrymple as they salute the American flag and the color guard at the end of his tribal-state relationship message to legislators on Thursday in the House chamber of the state Capitol in Bismarck.

Tribal chairman: Let’s cooperate

By DALE WETZEL Associated Press North Dakota’s American Indian tribes are ready for a comprehensive approach to solving the problems shared by the state and tribal governments, Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Tex Hall said.

“We didn’t want to just call it an economic plan,” Hall said in a speech to a joint session of the North Dakota House and Senate on Thursday. “It has to include education, it has to include infrastructure, and it has to include our courts and our judicial systems.”

Hall appealed for increased state support for vocational training, which he said would help reduce high unemployment rates on reservations.

He praised the Legislature’s willingness to provide state aid for tribal community colleges. Gov. Jack Dalrymple has recommended $1 million for tribal college grants during the state’s next two-year budget, an increase from present spending of $700,000.

Hall said the Three Affiliated Tribes would ask to reopen an oil tax sharing agreement, first negotiated three years ago, that set terms for dividing up oil

revenues and outlined the responsibilities of the two governments to regulate the industry’s operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

The reservation is at the center of a boom in oil production in western North Dakota. State Tax Department data show the state has received about $43.7 million in taxes from reser vation oil since July 2008, while the Three Affiliated Tribes has received $19.1 million. The state’s share is itself divided among counties, cities, school districts and a number of state funds and programs.

The reservation presently has 87 producing oil wells and 11 wells being drilled.

Hall said oil companies are expected to drill at least another 200 wells this year.

Tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs road maintenance money is not enough to keep the reservation’s roads in good repair as a result of heavy oil industry truck traffic, Hall said. The re s e r va t i o n h a s a b o u t 1,100 miles of road, and Hall said the tribe’s annual road maintenance budget was $456,000.

The need for more money for road maintenance is one of the reasons the tribe wants to revisit the

tax-sharing agreement, Hall told lawmakers. “(Oil companies are) not all drilling as much as they can right now because of the weather,” Hall said, referring to recent frigid, snowy conditions. “But they will, and when they do, I don’t think our roads are going to be safe, and I don’t think we have the infrastructure to allow this kind of an economy to build. The last thing we want is to slow that down.”

The state and tribe are at loggerheads over ownership of the Missouri River bed, a question that affects who has the rights to oil deposits that may be beneath it.

However, the Three Affiliated Tribes and North Dakota state government have the same interest in blocking an Army Corps of Engineers proposal to charge storage fees for surplus Lake Sakakawea water, Hall said. The lake split the Fort Berthold reservation in two when it was formed by the damming of the Missouri River in the early 1950s.

The oil industry, municipal water systems and farm irrigators are interested in using the water, and the fees would greatly increase the cost of doing so.

“We stand as a tribe with the state of North Dakota to oppose, oppose the corps,” Hall said Thursday as legislators clapped and cheered.

“I think we’ve sacrificed enough.”

Dalrymple, in an interview, said the fee proposal was wrongheaded.

“Any way you want to look at it, it really is outrageous,” Dalrymple said.

“We think that the law and the treaties and every bit of precedent that has taken place over the last 50 years says that the people of North Dakota have a right to that water.”

For more than 20 years, North Dakota lawmakers have listened to a speech by a North Dakota American Indian tribal leader during the first week of each legislative session. The responsibility is rotated among the chairmen of the Standing Rock Sioux, Spirit Lake Sioux, Three Affiliated Tribes and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

Hall has given the speech once before, in 2003, when he was the first tribal chairman to deliver the address to a joint session of the North Dakota Legislature.

Before, the designated tribal chairman gave separate addresses to the House and Senate.

NUBS OF THE NEWS BIRTHS St. Alexius Medical Center Son, Tera C. Jewett, Fort Yates, 1:17 p.m., Jan. 4.

Son, Brandon and Jada Helfrich, Watford City, 2:41 p.m., Jan. 4.

Son, Rydell and Maria Schott, Herreid, S.D., 6:27 a.m., Jan. 5.

Son, Travis Silk and Valerie Minery, McLaughlin, S.D., 8:33 a.m., Jan. 5.

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Teen wonders when to tell teammates he’s gay Dear Annie: I’m a 17-year-old high-school senior and homosexual. So far, only my closest friends know, but of course, that’s not going to last long.

I’m wondering whether I should tell my track team now or wait until they ask about it. All of the guys are my friends, and we are really close, but I’m worried that when they find out, they will distance themselves from me. My closest friend tells me I shouldn’t bring it up unless they do. The problem is, I’ve already been asked awkward questions and put in difficult situations where I’ve lied to avoid having them find out.

I know I could try to postpone it until graduation, but that’s a long time from now, and track practice continues the entire year. Annie, I have no idea what to do, and I trust your opinion. Please help. — Not Sure Dear Not Sure: Your track team may already suspect that you are

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gay. You do not need to make an announcement, but if they ask specific questions, you might feel better if you tell the truth. There may be some initial fallout, but if they truly are your friends, they will come around. It will help to have the support of the coach and a school policy that encourages acceptance.

However, if you believe the team members will make your life difficult, it is OK to wait until after graduation. There is no right or wrong decision here. You should do what makes you most comfortable. We hope you have confided in your

Dear Confused: It would be nice parents, and we also suggest you contact PFLAG (www.pflag.org) for if the children wanted Dad’s girlfriend included in these family specific suggestions and support. gatherings, but they do not. You can keep arguing with him every Dear Annie: Now that the holi- year, or you can take the classy days are over, I have a gripe. I’ve approach and tell him to have a been dating “Jack” for several years, nice time with his children while and he still spends a portion of the you make your own plans elseholidays with his ex-wife and where. If you suspect he is still interested in getting back together grown children at his ex’s home.

Jack was divorced before I met with his ex, however, that is a differhim, but his children still expect ent issue and should be openly dishim to come alone to these family cussed. gatherings. When I tell him I’m unhappy about this arrangement, Dear Annie: I have a better he says he’s doing it to make the kids happy. I feel left out. I also response to “Losing it in Canada,” worry that there may be unre- whose children chew with their solved feelings between Jack and mouths open.

The next time the kids start his ex-wife.

Do you think I am wasting my smacking when they chew, the partime with Jack? We have the same ents should announce, “We have argument every year at holiday told you both repeatedly that is time, and I’m beginning to think rude and unacceptable behavior. things will never change. — Con- Since you cannot chew with your mouths closed, we will give you fused

Holidays with the ex

Chewing complaint

foods that don’t require chewing.”

Then promptly replace their solid food with a bowl of soup — preferably one that is nutritious but not appealing.

Do this consistently each time for a week. Then return them to solid foods for dinner, but let them know that at the first smacking, it’s back to the soup routine. The kids will be chewing with their mouths closed in no time. — Been There, Done That Dear Been There: Your method may be effective, but it is also rather harsh. Punishments with severe ultimatums often escalate beyond what was originally intended. We wonder what happens if they slurp their soup.

(Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. E-mail questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net or write to Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, Ill. 60611.)

Looking into the cause of twitching eyes DEAR DR. GOTT: I am a 58-year-old male. Over the last year, I have developed a twitch or spasm around my left eye.

I take hydrochlorothiazide and Accupril for my high blood pressure. Can you tell me what is going on?

DEAR READER: Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) is a diuretic (water pill) that treats hypertension and helps prevent the body from absorbing too much salt, which can lead to fluid retention. It is prescribed for people with kidney disorders, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure and other conditions.

Side effects can include loss of appetite, lightheadedness, diarrhea, dizziness, temporary blurred vision, low potassium and loss of appetite. Severe allergic reactions can produce hives, difficulty breathing, low urine output, muscle pain or

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cramps and more.

Accupril is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE inhibitor), also used to treat hypertension and heart failure. As with many drugs, it can be prescribed for other, seemingly unrelated conditions as well.

Side effects can include cough (known as an ACE inhibitor cough), lightheadedness, nausea, fatigue, headache and more. Severe allergic reactions are similar to those of HCTZ. To the best o f m y k n ow l e d g e, e ye twitching is not a side effect of either medication, but

you should seek the advice of your prescribing physician for the final word on the subject.

Most twitching is benign and not an indication of a serious medical problem. It can likely be handled without medical intervention; however, more serious and uncommon symptoms should be brought to a physician’s attention for evaluation. Technically known as blepharospasm, involuntary eye twitching is related to the nervous system. Benign twitches may be related to stress, fatigue, eyestrain, caffeine intake, allergies, a nutritional imbalance, dry eyes and alcohol use.

A year is simply too long for you to suffer from this annoying condition. Unless there has been increased stress at work or at home, you are consuming more caffeine than you should or

DEAR DR. GOTT: You stated in a previous article that biotin was needed for healthy hair and to help stop hair loss. How much biotin is safe to take? I take 1,000 milligrams twice daily, but I lose a lot of hair every time I wash it, which is every other day.

DEAR READER: Biotin, otherwise known as vitamin B7, is produced naturally in the intestines. When the body doesn’t manufacture adequate amounts, hair loss

and other conditions develop. They can occur because of excessive exercise, too much alcohol, seizure disorders, lactation and aging.

Biotin supplements are commonly available in 1,000microgram or 5,000-microgram dosages.

My guess is that you are taking micrograms, not milligrams.

The National Institutes of Health indicates an adequate intake for people 18 and over is 30 micrograms. Dosing depends on health, age and other conditions. There is a lack of scientific evidence to confirm an appropriate range of dosing for this product.

Speak with your physician for clarification.

(Dr. Gott is a retired physician and the author of the book “Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet.” Readers can write to Dr. Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., fourth floor, New York, N.Y. 10016.)

comfortable around you because you are comfortable. So if you’re feeling stressed, change the game.

Make yourself comfortable first.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Where there is a lack of community, you bring people together. The best part is, you don’t have to make a huge effort to do so.

Your smile sets a tone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). It won’t help you to execute the same actions as another person. Your success will happen because of actions that are unique to you. Use your instinct. Feel your way through.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). One of your experiments will bring the desired

result. This doesn’t happen every day, and because of the win, you feel empowered, confident and larger than life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You can use the same lines as someone else and get a completely different reaction. This is because it’s not about what you say or even what you do. It’s about who you are.

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you have a viable explanation, I urge you to see your primary-care physician, ophthalmologist or neurologist. You might be helped by allergy medication, Botox injections or drug therapy.

Perhaps your drug combination is too strong and something as simple as a dose reduction might alleviate the problem.

Healthy hair

HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21-April 19). Tardiness puts you in a position of power, but it’s a power that doesn’t reflect well on you. That’s why you hate to be late. Being on time requires an extra effort this afternoon.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You might feel overlooked, but there is a simple remedy to get things back in balance. Acknowledge yourself for all of the things you do right in a day. If you take yourself for granted, others will take you for granted, too.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Some crucial bit of selfcare has dropped by the wayside lately, and it’s time to get back on track. You expect much of yourself, and in order to deliver on

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those expectations, you must be in tiptop shape.

Take care.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll get good news about money, though it’s not a free ride. There are stipulations and there is action to take in order to make this deal work out. It will all be worth it, though.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You will encounter a temporary obstacle. You could try

to jump the hurdle, and you might succeed. If instead you wait it out for a day, the obstruction will get up and walk off the road all by itself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22). Either metaphorically or actually, your gas tank is on empty. Instead of running on fumes to see how far you’ll get, refuel. And in the future, make the halfway mark your new “empty.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Something is holding you back from completing your next move. This is a blessing in disguise. All things will unfold in due time. Ready yourself in other ways. Stay strong.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll be in a position to entertain. People will feel

EPA says Mont. air quality rules are too lax

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal environmental officials said Thursday they plan to reject Montana air quality rules that allow oil and gas companies to obtain emissions permits after they have already started drilling.

The Environmental Protection Agency said the rules do not meet requirements of the Clean Air Act. Adopted in 2005 and 2006, the rules give companies 60 days after drilling a well to register with the Montana Department of

“We don’t give out building permits after a building is built. This is the same thing.”

Jeremy Nichols, of the environmental group Wildlife Guardians Environmental Quality. No emissions permit is required.

More than 900 oil and gas facilities — each with one or more wells — have been registered to date through the state program.

But in a Thursday notice announcing its intent to

reject the state rules, the EPA said the program lacked any enforcement mechanism to ensure pollution limits are not exceeded.

Montana DEQ air resources bureau chief Dave Klemp said the program is more efficient than traditional permitting — without

any harm to air quality.

Klemp said it did not make sense for companies to apply for permits before even knowing whether a given drilling location would produce oil or gas.

“We are not sacrificing environmental protection at all,” Klemp said. “We didn’t want to be in the business of permitting dry holes.”

He added that registered wells are held to the same emission standards that would apply to a permitted well.

But a representative of an environmental group

that sued the EPA in 2009 to take action on Montana’s rules said the state program was simply too risky.

“We don’t give out building permits after a building is built. This is the same thing,” said Jeremy Nichols with WildEarth Guardians.

“We want to make sure these companies have a plan in place to meet the limits. “ I f t h e y c a n’t , t h e y shouldn’t be allowed to drill a well,” Nichols said.

BRIDGE

By PHILLIP ALDER To end the week, let’s look at a couple of deals that made the short lists for the International Bridge Press Association awards and caught my eye but not that of the jury.

If you were South, how would you plan the play in five clubs after West leads a low heart?

N o r t h ’s o n e - h e a r t response showed four or more spades; his double was for takeout; and his three-diamond cue-bid asked partner to bid three no-trump with a diamond stopper. Then North did well not to pass, because three no-trump would have been hopeless after a diamond lead.

The declarer was Yury Khiuppenen, playing for Russia in the 2009 Bermuda Bowl in Brazil. He was confident that West had the diamond ace. And if East had the spade ace, the contract was doomed. Should declarer play a spade to his nine, hoping East had the 10 and establishing three spade tricks? Maybe — but that could wait.

Khiuppenen took dummy’s two heart tricks, played a trump to his ace, ruffed his last heart on the board, noting West’s queen, cashed the club king, and played a club to his queen.

Clearly West had begun with 2-3-5-3 distribution and was a candidate for a Morton’s Fork.

Declarer led his spade nine, leaving West with no riposte. If West had played his 10, a second round of spades would have endplayed him to open up diamonds. And when West won with his ace and returned the spade 10, South took his queen, played a club to dummy’s 10, and discarded two diamonds on the kingjack of spades.

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Bismarck hospital suing over bill DICKINSON (AP) — A Bismarck hospital is suing Stark County over a felon’s hospital bill.

State’s Attorney Tom Henning said that he and city commissioners have discussed negotiating a settlement with St. Alexius Medical Center.

The lawsuit is over a $72,870 hospital bill for Jacquelin Mink, one of four Alabama fugitives involved in a standoff with law officers in southwest North Dakota in June 2009.

Stark County maintains it is not responsible for the bill because Mink was not arrested until after she was released from the hospital.

An attorney for the hospital declined comment.

Fire destroys S.D. homeless shelter ENEMY SWIM LAKE, S.D. (AP) — Fire has destroyed a building being used as a homeless shelter near Enemy Swim Lake in northeast South Dakota.

Day County Sheriff Barry Hillestad said that about half a dozen people had been staying at the shelter near Waubay, in a former school building on land owned by the SissetonWahpeton Oyate. He says they have been taken to other shelters.

David Gill at the Enemy Swim Tribal District Center said that the fire started about midday Thursday and was still smoldering late in the afternoon. He says tribal police helped monitor the situation.

Hillestad says four area fire departments responded to the blaze. He says the cause was not immediately determined.

The building had been used as a homeless shelter for about a year.

90 students still displaced after fire LIDGERWOOD (AP) — Lidgerwood students in grades 7 through 12 who were displaced by a November fire might not be back in their school until the end of February.

Principal Wayne Hinrichs said that renovation work in the heavily damaged building is ongoing. About 90 students continue to attend classes in temporary quarters in Lidgerwood and nearby Wyndmere.

The school’s elementary wing had less severe damage.

Grade-school students returned to classes there last month.

Authorities say an unused stove in a classroom sparked the Nov. 9 blaze in the school in the southeast North Dakota town.

3 sites listed on National Register A school, a roadside fountain and some stone structures are the latest North Dakota properties to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The register is the federal government’s list of properties deemed worthy of recognition and preservation.

The new North Dakota properties on the list all were built during the Depression era: the Alkabo School in Divide County, the Crystal Springs Fountain in Kidder County and Works Progress Administration stone structures at Menoken State Historic Site in Burleigh County.

— Associated Press

Plane makes highway landing JAMESTOWN (AP) — The pilot of a small plane landed on an interstate exit ramp west of Jamestown on Thursday when poor visibility forced him out of the air.

Pat Williams is flying the single-engine two-seater from Minneapolis to Oregon.

He first thought he’d have to land on Interstate 94 but then spotted the westbound exit ramp at Windsor.

Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser says a motorist witnessed the landing and notified authorities.

Minot police investigate burglaries MINOT (AP) — Minot police are investigating a string of business burglaries.

The latest was discovered by officers last weekend at the Garage Lounge nightclub.

Authorities say The Landing and the Starlite Club also have been burglarized recently, along with the China Star restaurant.

G.F. base school enrollment drops GRAND FORKS (AP) — The two elementary schools at Grand Forks Air Force Base have seen enrollment plummet more than 80 percent in the past 15 years, but officials are optimistic a new mission will bring more personnel and their families to the base.

The enrollment of 307 students is just above a threshold set by the school district for beginning discussions on consolidating the schools. The peak enrollment at the base was about 1,500 students in 1995.

The military has ended the base’s tanker mission and is replacing it with a smaller drone mission. Assistant School Superintendent Jody Thompson says base leaders expect more than 400 personnel to move to the base this year, about half of whom have children.

Tesoro IPO valued at $230 million SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tesoro Corp. expects to generate $230 million through the sale of a stake in its logistics business, up from a previous estimate last month of $200 million.

The San Antonio oil refiner on Tuesday filed an initial public offering for Tesoro Logistics with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company announced its plan to sell a stake in the partnership on Dec. 13. The number of common units to be offered and the price range haven’t been set.

Tesoro Logistics is a limited partnership that owns, operates, develops and acquires assets involving oil and petroleum products. The partnership’s assets include an oil gathering system in the Bakken Shale/Williston Basin area of North Dakota and Montana, eight fuel terminals, a storage facility and pipelines in Utah.

Proceeds of the sale will go toward general corporate purposes. The units are expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “TLLP.”

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WINTER WORK IS NEVER DONE: Last month Rick Rhone would have been clearing a landing strip for Santa Claus on his rooftop, but on Thursday afternoon, he was shoveling snow off the roof of his home in Mandan and hoping for a January thaw. “Some people call this work but I call it exercise,” said Rhone.

“Now my neighbors want me to do theirs.”

Farmers who limit losses to get insurance refunds

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The federal government proposed Thursday to reward farmers who use crop insurance and demonstrate good management practices that limit their losses.

The awards under the Good Performance Refund plan would average about $1,000 per eligible farmer, and payments would go out in the first quarter, in time to help with spring planting, s a i d W i l l i a m Mu r p h y, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency.

More than 67,000 farmers would be eligible, he said.

The plan will cost about $75 million, but the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation said the benefits will outweigh the costs by promoting sound farming practices that reduce losses, discouraging the filing of small claims and encouraging producers to keep using crop insurance. The agency also said the savings may allow for decreases in future premium rates, reducing costs to farmers and taxpayers who subsidize the federal crop insurance program.

“This is an incentive to

use the best management practices you can because then you maintain your possible refund into the future,” Murphy said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

Draft regulations for the program were published in the Federal Register on Thursday. The public comment period ends Jan. 21.

Murphy said his agency hopes to issue the final rule in mid-February and send out the checks shortly after that.

To be eligible, farmers already must be in the crop insurance program at the “buy-up” level — a step above the lower cost catastrophic risk protection. To get a payment this year, farmers would need to have been in the program for seven to 10 years from 2000 through 2009 with not more than one year with a reported loss, or have gone four to six years during that period with no reported loss. They must have paid more in premiums than they’ve collected in claims.

Certain new and beginning producers who’ve demonstrated good performance for one to three years during that period also would be eligible.

Since corn and soybeans account for about 60 percent of the crops insured through the federal program, Murphy said, many of the refunds will be concentrated in Iowa, Illinois, southern Minnesota, northwestern Indiana, eastern Nebraska and Kansas. Many growers of specialty crops in parts of California. Florida and the Red River Valley along the North Dakota-Minnesota border will also qualify, he said. About two-thirds of all counties across the country should have at least one eligible producer, he said.

The formula would change from year to year, but refunds cannot exceed 15 percent of premiums paid and will be capped at $25,000 with a minimum refund of $25, under the proposed regulations.

Murphy said the money for the refunds is coming from the $6 billion in savings over the next 10 years achieved when Risk Management Agency renegotiated its standard agreement with crop insurance companies last summer. The agency sought the reductions because it contended the crop insurance companies were making excessive profits.

Pot group defies ban on video exams

By MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — An advocacy group is defying the state medical board’s ban on using video teleconferences to examine people seeking medical marijuana cards, saying the medium is necessary for people who don’t have access to a doctor.

The Missoula-based Montana Caregivers Network connects doctors with would-be patients by using the Internet video service Skype in what the advocacy group calls TeleClinics.

The state Board of Medical Examiners ruled in November that those examinations alone do not meet standards of care for certify-

ing medical marijuana patients.

But the Montana Caregivers Network, which shut down its mass patient screenings last year after the board warned that participating physicians must make full patient examinations, is taking a stand against halting the video examinations.

“The Board’s position does not equate to law,” the group wrote in its newsletter released Wednesday. “The TeleClinic service is vital in keeping medical marijuana accessible for patients in rural areas who cannot find a physician in their limited communities.”

The advocacy group, founded by Jason Christ, has

been one of the main organizations driving Montana’s boom in medical marijuana.

There were 27,292 medical marijuana patients registered with the state Department of Public Health and Human Ser vices as of December. That’s compared to 7,339 registered patients in December 2009.

Dr. Dean Center, a board member and Bozeman physician, bristled at the group’s comments. “ This is cer tainly a provocative statement. Mr. C h r i s t h a s p re v i o u s l y demonstrated that he is more interested in notoriety than in what is in the best interest of people” who seek to use medical marijuana, Center told the AP.

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UP ON THE ROOF

A speakers’ agency said it will represent former North Dakota U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan for lecture bookings.

Leading Authorities Inc. of Washington, D.C., said in a statement Wednesday that the Democrat would be available to discuss “the current political environment, energy policy and America’s economic outlook.”

Dorgan left office this week after 18 years in the Senate.

He also served as a U.S. House member and North Dakota’s tax commissioner during a 40-year political career.

Dorgan was replaced by Republican John Hoeven, who was North Dakota’s governor for 10 years. Hoeven was sworn in Wednesday.

The speakers’ agency represents a number of former politicians and business leaders, including the former chief executives of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. — Associated Press

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Today’s weather history

Yesterday: Total month to date: Normal month to date: Year to date: Normal year to date:

0.01" 0.13" 0.1" 0.13" 0.1"

Snowfall Yesterday: Total month to date: Normal month to date: Season to date:

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Facebook agrees to modify terms DENVER (AP) — Facebook has agreed to modify its terms and conditions of use for state agencies after Colorado and 14 other states objected to some of them.

Changes announced Wednesday by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers include striking provisions that call for resolving legal disputes in California courts and compensation for liability, harm or loss.

In addition to Colorado, other states participating in negotiations with the social networking site were Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah and Washington.

1 killed in crash near Great Falls HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Highway Patrol says icy roads are to blame for a one-vehicle crash west of Great Falls that killed a 63-year-old Missoula man.

The patrol says an SUV was traveling on Montana 200 west of Great Falls at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday when the driver lost control. The vehicle went off the right side of the road and rolled.

The patrol says the victim was not wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected and died at the scene. His name has not been released.

Mandan school Continued from 1B old junior high, other options could include yearround school or offering a fifth-grade class that starts later in the day.

The committee agreed that a school needs to be built in the future and something needs to be done in the interim to accommodate

growing enrollment. The facilities committee wants to meet with the district’s finance committee before making a recommendation to the school board about what action to take.

(Reach reporter Sara Kincaid at 250-8251 or sara.kincaid@bismarcktribune.com.)

Deer killing Continued from 1B feed supplies but did nothing about it. However, Game and Fish wardens said they had no evidence of Dethloff shooting deer until February 2010, though a Bismarck-area warden said she regularly stopped to check in with the Dethloffs since the 1997 case.

After the 1997 case, the Game and Fish department gave Dethloff materials to fence in a hay yard, but he and his daughter, Julie, said the yard would have been too small so they tried to use the materials in other ways to keep deer out. After the February incident, the department gave the Dethloffs items designed to scare deer by making noise, but Julie Dethloff said they only worked for a few days before deer caught on, and neighbors called the sheriff ’s department over the noise created by them.

The Dethloffs said they offered over the years to haul the deer to Game and Fish

land or kill and process deer on their land and donate the meat to people in need.

Haskell said he was sentencing Dethloff to serve time in jail due to his previous conviction for the same thing, the “sheer number” of animals killed and the fact that the deer were killed and left to rot.

Haskell had ruled earlier that Dethloff could not use the defense of protecting his land and feed from deer because the offenses were “strict liability” crimes in which the state only had to prove that Dethloff had shot the deer. His attorney, Daniel Oster, has indicated that is what will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

“I’m certainly not unsympathetic to landowners who have these issues,” the judge said.

(Reach reporter Jenny Michael at 250-8225 or jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.)

Associated Press

Assistant Attorney General Sandy Petell, center, helps patients from Allcare Dental and Dentures get their records on Thursday in Nashua, N.H.

Dental company shuts down

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press N A S H UA , N . H . — A national dental chain that unexpectedly shut down this week and left patients in the lurch in more than a dozen states reopened some New Hampshire offices temporarily Thursday under government pressure, while at least one care provider stepped in to fill a void in Ohio.

About two dozen people were crowded into a small waiting room at Allcare Dental and Dentures in Nashua 15 minutes after the office opened, and a steady stream of patients came and went throughout the morning.

Most of their frustration was muted, though tempers occasionally flared.

“I’m not leaving here without my stuff. I went through hell with this company,” said Korryn Cristini, who drove nearly two hours from Claremont to get her records and was disgusted to hear that X-rays were being sent to other dentists’ offices to be copied and wouldn’t be available until late afternoon.

Clarence, N.Y.-based Allcare unexpectedly closed

offices in more than a dozen states this week. According to the Michigan attorney general’s office, the affected states included Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wisconsin, but officials hadn’t been able to confirm the list with Allcare.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said his office would create a multistate task force to coordinate the mediation of consumer complaints against Allcare, protect patient records and review business practices for possible lawbreaking.

After being contacted by the New Hampshire attorney general, the company opened its two locations there for one day Thursday so patients could retrieve records. Allcare executives have not returned repeated calls seeking comment.

In West Virginia, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Stonestreet said the state had received about 40 complaints about Allcare before the shutdown and was bracing for more calls. In New Hampshire, many customers complained of

receiving shoddy treatment well before the company closed.

Cristini, 37, said she had to have all her teeth pulled in March because of an infection. The first two sets of dentures she got at Allcare were too big, she said, describing how a dentist jammed them into her mouth while she screamed.

Cristini, who estimated she paid $6,000 for her dentures and a three-year warranty, said she was out of work for four months.

Incorporated in 2001, Allcare had 52 locations and employed 772 people in 15 states a year ago, but an employee said closings and consolidations since then had brought the number to about 38 offices at the time of the shutdown.

In Ohio, a network of 14 dental offices has agreed to take on patients from Allcare’s Boardman, Ohio, practice. Kenneth Cooper, chief executive officer of Dental Express Practice Management Services LLC and Refresh Management Services LLC said the network will give free treatments to patients who had prepaid Allcare but had not finished treatment.

“It would be very difficult to pay for a second time,” said Cooper. “We’re prepared to do whatever it takes. It’s the right thing to do.”

Dr. Matthew Messina, consumer adviser for the American Dental Association, said federal law requires Allcare to forward patient records to the dentist of the patients’ choice or give them directly to the patient.

For patients with incomplete care, he said, Allcare is going to have to either complete the treatment or see that another dentist does. “ Yo u c a n’t a b a n d o n patients. You can’t close up the doors and say to a patient, ’You’re on your own because that’s abandonment and that’s illegal,“’ the Cleveland dentist said.

He encouraged patients to file complaints with their state attorney general and contact their state dental boards. The attorney general in Pennsylvania did the same, and representatives from the New Hampshire attorney general’s office were at the Allcare office helping patients and urging them to file complaints with the state.

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DRAMA ‘The Mikado’ at MHS Jan. 21-23 The Mandan High School Drama Department will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” Jan. 21-23 in the Mandan High School Auditorium.

Programs start at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21-22 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 23.

Doors open a half-hour before the show.

Tickets are available at Eckroth Music, Mandan Dan’s Supermarket and at the door. The cost is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for students.

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BOOKS BookTalk begins Sunday at BSC The BookTalk 2011 discussions at Bismarck State College begin Sunday with Hillary Jordan’s “Mudbound.”

The book series is organized around the theme, “What Divides Us” — race, religion, caste, class, gender and more. Discussion takes place from 1 to 3 p.m. on selected Sundays in the BSC Library.

Janelle Masters, dean of academic affairs, leads the discussion.

BookTalk is open to all. Each session has a discussion leader and concludes with refreshments. Other books and dates in the series are “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar on Feb. 6 and “The Book of Dead Birds” by Gayle Brandeis on March 6.

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ABOVE and BELOW: Gwyneth Paltrow is seen as country singer Kelly Canter in scenes from the new film “Country Strong.”

ARTS BSC ‘Conversation’ focuses on Custer Conversations at BSC continues Sunday with a look at Lt. Col. George A. Custer’s time at Fort Abraham Lincoln and Bismarck’s legacy from the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

The conversation between Clay Jenkinson and Bismarck State College President Larry C. Skogen begins at 3 p.m. in the Sidney J. Lee Auditorium.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.bsctalk.com or call 224-5600.

Pine needle basket workshop planned Bismarck Art & Galleries Association will offer a Pine Needle Basket Workshop, taught by Eileen McEnroe, from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Jan. 15. The workshop cost is $45, with a supply fee of $15 to be paid to the instructor for a materials kit on the first night of class.

For more information on the workshop or to preregister, contact the Bismarck Art & Galleries Association at 223-5986, or visit the gallery at 422 E. Front Ave.

MUSIC Puccini opera to be performed Saturday Puccini’s opera, “La Fanciulla del West,” will be presented live for one day only at 12 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Theatres in Bismarck.

The opera is part of the Met Live in HD series. Running time is 3 hours, 30 minutes.

Puccini’s “wild west” opera premiered in 1910; on its centennial, American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of “girl of the golden west,” opposite Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Also at the Grand Theater, for the first time, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will bring a live performance of “Dudamel Conducts Beethoven” at 4 p.m. Sunday.

The performance is broadcast from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

By CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Movie Critic ome of the best country songs are the ones that tell a story — ones that feature vivid imagery, a strong narrative drive and a killer emotional payoff.

In telling the story of a selfdestructive singing superstar, “Country Strong” hints at the possibility of delivering that kind of moving experience, but ultimately it’s too meandering and uneven to ever truly tug at your heart.

Writer-director Shana Feste’s film occupies an uncomfortable sort of middle ground. It’s not rich enough, and its characters aren’t developed enough, to be a searing drama or a portrait of artistic torment; “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” this is not. But at the same time, it isn’t over-the-top enough to be enjoyed as a divalicious guilty pleasure like “A Star is Born” or “The Rose.”

Still, “Country Strong” has its moments, mainly in the music, all of which is enjoyable if not

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earth-shattering and is actually sung by its stars. We already knew Gwyneth Paltrow had a voice on her from the dubious 2000 film “Duets,” which her father, the late Bruce Paltrow, directed. It even spawned a hit song for her and Huey Lewis: their remake of Smokey Robinson’s “Cruisin’,” cheesy as it was. Here, you’d actually like to hear more from her: It would help us better get to know her character, six-time Grammy winner Kelly Canter, and the songs she does sing on stage are so massively overproduced, it’s hard to tell what she actually sounds like.

Instead, Kelly comes off as a jumble of cliches that could apply to any country star, rock star, actor or artist — any performer whose creative gifts are weighed down by internal baggage. She’s in and out of rehab and her boozy benders are legendary; she was drunk, and five months pregnant, when she fell off the stage in Dallas, prompting her latest attempt to dry out.

That’s where she is at the film’s Garrett Hedlund is seen as Beau Hutton in a scene from “Country Strong.” start, and where she’s having an

extramarital fling with one of the rehab center’s employees, Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund), who has his own musical aspirations.

Kelly’s husband and manager, James (Tim ‘COUNTRY McGraw), STRONG’ pulls her out ■ CAST: Gwyneth of treatment Paltrow, Garrett a month early Helund, Leighton Meester, Tim McGraw to get her ■ DIRECTOR: Shana back on the Feste ■ RUNNING TIME: road, and 1 hour 52 minutes insists that a ■ RATING: PG-13 for beauty queen thematic elements and wannabe involving alcohol abuse and some country starsexual content let named Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester) come along as her opening act. Kelly wants Beau to open for her, and so they all end up embarking on a three-city Texas tour.

From there, “Country Strong” plays out as a series of flirtations and dalliances, breakdowns and inebriated episodes, none of which seems to carry any more significance than any other. And of course, there is the obligatory Continued on 2C

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W H AT ’ S G O I N G O N Friday, Jan. 7 ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC: ■ Community concert, 10:15-11 a.m., New Salem High School.

■ Ben Suchy Music, 5 p.m., Captain Freddy’s, Mandan.

■ Bluegrass Blizzard Weekend, The Chapmans from St. Louis, Mo., and opening group, Spirit Wood Creek, 7:30 p.m., BSC Sidney J. Lee Auditorium.

■ Dance to Victor Wald, 7:30 p.m., VFW, 1326 E. Broadway Ave. $5 cover charge with proceeds donated to N.D. National Guard Family support group and N.D. Army Reserve Family support gGroup.

■ The San Haven Chuckle, 8 p.m., Mysteria Theater.

Tickets: $10.

ORGANIZATIONS: ■ Capital City AA, noon, 8 and 10 p.m., 1351 S. 12th St., door 1202.

■ Keep It Simple AA, noon, Serenity Place.

■ Missouri Slope Shrine Club, noon, AMVETS. ■ New Hope AA, noon, New Freedom Center, 905 E. Interstate Ave. ■ Bismarck Duplicate Bridge Club, 1 p.m., Elks Club.

■ Moms in Touch for Bismarck High School, 2-3 p.m., First Lutheran Church, 800 N. Seventh St. Info: Deb, 5274262.

■ Happy Hour AA, 6 p.m., Serenity Place.

■ Bismarck-Mandan Bird Club, 6:30 p.m., Dakota Zoo. ■ Singles 50 Plus pinochle and whist cards, 7 p.m., Bismarck Senior Center, use east door.

■ Courage to Change AA, 7:30 p.m., Serenity Place, 1525 E. Thayer Ave. ■ Hazen AA, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Lodge, Hazen.

■ Knife River Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Lodge, Hazen.

■ Keep the Faith NA (OP), 8 p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 1402 E. Ave. C. ■ Twin City AA, 8 p.m., Serenity Place.

PUBLIC EVENTS: ■ Curling: 2011 U.S. Nationals Men’s Qualifying Round, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Capital Curling Club, 1200 N. Washington St. ■ Dakota Zoo open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. with weather permitting. Info: 223-7543 or www.dakotazoo.org.

■ Ancestry Library Edition, 2:30-4 p.m., Bismarck Public Library. Register: 355-1480.

SCHOOLS: ■ West River Head Start accepting applications for children ages 3-4. Free pre-school program. Info: 663-9507 or 1-888-327-4670.

SERVICES: ■ Free screenings for children who may be at risk for speech-language disorders, St. Alexius Speech Therapy Department. Info: 530-8200.

■ Blood drive, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., United Blood Services. Info: 258-4512.

Saturday, Jan. 8 ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC: ■ Bluegrass Blizzard Weekend workshops with The Chapmans, 2-4 p.m., BSC Leach Music Center.

■ Square Dance with Jim Lizakowski calling, 7:30-10 p.m., Burleigh County Senior Center.

■ The San Haven Chuckle, 8 p.m., Mysteria Theater.

Tickets: $10.

FAITH: ■ Men’s prayer group, 6 a.m., Christ the King Adoration Chapel, 505 10th Ave. N.W., Mandan, followed by coffee and fellowship in the Parish Life Center. Info: Jim Froelich, 663-4538.

ORGANIZATIONS: ■ Lewis and Clark AA group, 8:30 a.m., Spirit of Life Church, Mandan.

■ Keep It Simple Open AA, 9:30 a.m., Serenity Place, 1525 E. Thayer Ave. ■ Prairie Textile Arts Guild (PTAG), 9:30 a.m., Marillac Manor. Info: Karen, 258-6996.

■ Saturday Morning Al-Anon, 9:30 a.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Use north door, to basement. Handicapped access, south door.

■ Saturday Morning AA, 9:30 a.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

■ Take It Easy AA group, 9:30 a.m., Trinity Lutheran Church.

■ Capital City AA, noon, 8 and 10:30 p.m., 1351 S. 12th St., door 1202.

■ Women’s Step Study AA, 11 a.m. First Presbyterian Church.

■ Bismarck Duplicate Bridge Club, 1 p.m., Elks Club.

■ Women’s NA, 5:30 p.m., Spirit of Life Church, Mandan.

■ Keep It Simple Open AA, 7 p.m., Serenity Place, 1525 E. Thayer Ave. ■ Saturday Night Social open AA, 7 p.m., 111 Sixth Ave. N.W., Mandan.

■ Saturday Night Live NA (WC, OP), 8 p.m., New Freedom Center, 905 E. Interstate Ave. PUBLIC EVENTS: ■ Curling: 2011 U.S. Nationals Men’s Qualifying Round, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Capital Curling Club, 1200 N. Washington St. ■ Public gym hour, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Dakota Star Gymnastics, 205 Second Ave. N.W., Mandan. Fee: $3 members, $5 non-members.

■ Papa’s Polar Patch, noon-5 p.m., Papa’s Pumpkin Patch, 5001 Fernwood Drive. Cost: $2.50.

SERVICES: ■ Child Care Resource and Referral, can help find child care for your infant, preschool or school-age child.

CCR&R will assist you in evaluating your child care needs and give you a customized list of available child care providers in your area. Info: 223-1510 or 888-223-1510.

■ Blood drive, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., United Blood Services. Info: 258-4512.

■ Prepared childbirth class, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Outpatient Services, 414 N. Seventh St. $40/couple. Info: Moe Bentz, 323-6584.

Sunday, Jan. 9 ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC: ■ Bluegrass (acoustic) jam session, 1-5 p.m., Former Governors’ Mansion, 320 E. Ave. B. Free. Sit and listen or join in. Sponsored by Blue Grass Association of N.D. ■ Sensational Second Sundays with country western singer Greg Hager, 2 p.m., Heritage Center.

FAITH: ■ Healing service, 6 p.m., Cowboy Community Church, 1051/2 Third Ave. N.W., Mandan. Info: 400-5936.

ORGANIZATIONS: ■ Keep It Simple AA, 11 a.m., Serenity Place.

■ Open AA, 11 a.m., Ridge Hotel, Mandan.

■ Missouri River Freethinkers, 1 p.m., Bismarck Public Library.

■ Wing Dingers AA, 2 p.m., Fire Hall, Wing.

■ Center AA, 5 p.m., St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Center.

■ Gamblers Anonymous, 7 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, corner of Washington Street and Divide Avenue.

■ Hazen AA, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Lodge, Hazen.

■ Knife River Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Temple basement, Hazen.

■ Capital City AA, 8 p.m., 1351 S. 12th St., door 1202.

■ Pick A Stick NA (OP, WC), 8 p.m., New Freedom Center, 905 E. Interstate Ave. ■ Square Foot 12 X 12, 8 p.m., Serenity Place, 1525 E. Thayer Ave. ■ Washburn AA group, 8 p.m., First Lutheran Church, Washburn.

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Tyson shares love of pigeons PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — As a kid growing up in a bad Brooklyn neighborhood, Mike Tyson was fascinated by the pigeons that flocked around his apartment building.

The birds, considered a dirty nuisance to most people, were beautiful to him.

“The first thing I ever loved in my life — the pigeon,” he said. “They’re so much like people.”

The former heavyweight champion reconnects with his childhood passion in “Taking on Tyson,” a six-part docudrama that debuts March 6 on Animal Planet.

“This ain’t no hobby,” Tyson said Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s winter meeting. “It’s a cultural thing.”

He keeps his pigeons at a coop in New Jersey, tended by Vinnie Torre, Tyson’s pigeon trainer and a racer himself.

The boxer takes pride in having his birds appear clean and healthy.

“If your pigeons are healthy,” he said, “you must be a clean and healthy guy.”

Asked by a New York-based reporter how to rid pesky

Associated Press

Former heavyweight champion and novice pigeon racer Mike Tyson, right, and his manager Mario Costa, cast members in the docudrama series “Taking On Tyson,” take part in a panel discussion on the show during the Discovery Communications Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday. pigeons from her windowsill, Tyson drew laughs when he replied, “We don’t want those birds.”

“We’re dealing with the creme de la creme of the pigeon world,” Tyson said.

“You want the best bloodline and you want your name attached to the best bloodline so everyone wants to buy

your birds.”

Much to his wife’s dismay, Tyson can spend hours at the coop, staring at the birds as they flap their wings and hop around.

“I’m trying to look for two dominant personalities I want to breed,” he explained.

Tyson said he thinks the show will give him a chance to

broaden the horizons of people who don’t know anything about the birds that have given him solace in his tumultuous life.

“There’s never been a case of anyone catching a deadly disease from a pigeon,” he said.

Torre added, “They’re actually the thoroughbreds of the sky.”

“The pigeons are man’s first feathered friends, before chickens,” Tyson said. “They were money in ancient times.”

Although he’s a longtime pigeon fancier, Tyson is a novice at racing the birds. Typically, they begin racing a mile and build up to 500 miles or more, with owners monitoring vaccines, vitamins and medication given to the birds.

“There’s nothing like seeing a bird coming home,” said Helder Rodrigues, a competitive racer from New Jersey who appears in the show.

The show takes Tyson back to his childhood neighborhood and touches on what he calls his “pretty colorful past.”

“There’s going to be some interesting things about my past you’re going to find out,” he said.

Singer tackles gay bashing in new video NEW YORK (AP) — R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius tackles gay bashing, suicide and homophobia in the urban community in her latest music video.

Her song, “Far Away,” is one she initially wrote after a close friend attempted suicide.

“Because they’re in such a bad place in their lives,

there’s nothing you can do to help someone if they can’t help themselves,” she said.

In the clip, a man seen with Ambrosius appears to be her boyfriend. They walk in a park, say hello to a group of men and to a woman and her children. Later, the video shows the man kissing another man. When the men return to the same park, now

WEEKEND DIGEST sheet music in the corAuditions set for rized, rect key and easy to follow for the provided accompa2011 Musical nist. They may bring a

Performers who can sing, dance and act are being sought for the 2011 Medora Musical. Each season’s cast includes 12 singer-dancers, six musicians, a host and several variety and comedy acts.

Auditions for the cast are planned as follows: ■ Grand Forks, 1 p.m. Jan. 22, Burtness Theatre, University of North Dakota; ■ Fa r g o - Mo o r h e a d , 1 p.m. Jan. 23, Hvidsten Hall of Music, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.; ■ Williston, 1 p.m. Jan. 29, Room 216, Williston State College; ■ Bismarck, 1 p.m. Jan. 30, Lynne Center, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Washington and Divide; ■ Minneapolis, 6 p.m.

Jan. 31, Plymouth Playhouse, Plymouth, Minn; ■ Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 57, Playhouse on the Square.

Those auditioning should bring an 8-by-10 photo and a typed performance resume that includes contact information. Performers must prepare two country songs, one up-tempo and one ballad to show their vocal range.

All music must be memo-

karaoke CD to sing with if they wish. A boom box will be provided.

For the dance portion of the audition, performers should wear or bring clothes and shoes that are comfortable for dancing. Auditioners should dress professionally; western attire in acceptable.

Technicians should send resumes to StageWest Entertainment, a subsidiary of Troupe America, Inc. 3313 Republic Ave., Minneapolis, Minn 55426.

Call 612-333-3302 for audition information.

‘Screwtape’ to run at Dakota Stage Dakota Stage Ltd. begins 2011 with “Screwtape,” adapted from the classic novel by C.S. Lewis.

The dark comedy will feature DSL regulars Austin Flemmer, David Puma and Amanda Pitzer along with newcomers John Clemo as Screwtape and Amber Rae Bernhardt, DSL executive director. The director is Anne Green.

The plot concerns Screwtape, a senior devil, who has

Country Strong moment in which a vodka bottle gets thrown against a wall mid-tantrum.

As a sensitive honky-tonk hipster, Hedlund gets a chance to show a bit more personality than he was afforded in the recent “Tron: Legacy,” and Meester is endearing as a Taylor Swiftstyle up-and-comer whose peppy, insipid lyrics belie a damaged past.

McGraw, the real-life country star who should, in theory, ooze authenticity in this setting, instead comes off as a bit of a cipher — and he’s the only actor who doesn’t get to sing. Feste’s script never gives James and Kelly the opportunity to discuss the loss of their unborn child, which devastated both their marriage and her career. Instead, she relies on a painfully clunky metaphor: a wounded baby bird, which Kelly finds at rehab, carries around in a

Continued from 1C box and feeds with a dropper. Seriously.

What’s frustrating is that “Country Strong” has its moments. A scene in which Kelly offers her veteran’s advice to Chiles has an honesty that the rest of the film often lacks, and Paltrow reminds us she really can act — and not just over-emote with her face covered in smeared mascara — when Kelly visits the classroom of a little boy with leukemia.

But when she’s saddled with trite lines like, “Don’t be afraid to fall in love, it’s the only thing that matters in life,” even the multitalented Paltrow can’t make them sing.

“Country Strong,” a Sony Screen Gems release, is rated PG-13 for elements involving alcohol abuse and some sexual content. Running time: 111 minutes. Two stars out of four.

holding hands, the mother pulls her kids away. And when Ambrosius’ friend is alone, he’s assaulted while the American flag stands tall in the background. The clip concludes with the man lying on his couch; a suicide letter and dozens of pills are visible.

Ambrosius says the video will speak for those who

don’t have a voice.

“I lost a friend and I’ve had friends that have attempted suicide. There are people that don’t have a voice to speak out and show what is happening and what can happen, so I just wanted people to see the honesty in it and be aware,” she said in an interview from Philadelphia on Wednesday.

assigned his negligent nephew, Wormwood, a junior fiend, the task of seizing the soul of a young man in a contest of temptation, manipulation and frustration.

Performances at 412 E Main Ave. in Bismarck are at 7 : 3 0 p. m . We d n e s d a y s through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays Jan. 27-30 and Feb. 2-6. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students, seniors, and military

personnel. Reservations can be made online at www.dakotastageltd.com, by calling 258-4998, or at the door before each show.

Immediately following both Friday night performances of “Screwtape,” a panel of experts in theater, literature and theology, along with cast members, w i l l d i s c u s s t h e p l a y ’s themes. “Lectures on Lewis” are free and open to the public.

Exhibit Dates

January 4-29

Bill Kingsbury, Photography &

Bill Kingsbury Bismarck Art & Galleries

Jason Lindell, Glass Artist

422 E. Front Ave., Bismarck www.bismarck-art.org • 223-5986 Hours: Tues.-Fri. 10AM-5PM • Sat. 1-3PM

Bill Horton, Member Artist

Exhibit Sponsored by: Clare & Lisa Carlson and Mark Zimmerman, Director of ND Parks & Recreation

Elizabeth Fockler, Memorial Exhibit

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Central Dakota Humane Society is Accepting applications for PT Cleaning Positions (9am-noon) Both include weekends.

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•HOUSEKEEPING Apply in person at: 1400 E. Interchange Avenue 701-258-7000

FedEx Ground Admin Associate Part-Time - 25 hrs/wk

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Performs routine clerical duties, customer assistance, data processing & record keeping.

Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent, administrative experience, excellent oral & written communication skills, & ability to multi-task.

To apply, visit us at

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FedEx Ground is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer (M/F/D/V), committed to diversifying its workforce.

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SALARY: $ 26,000plus/year CLOSING DATE: 1/14/2011

BUSINESS OFFICE ADMIN CLERK

#11-175 Requires 3 years experience in medical billing and coding and insurance processing. Knowledge of ICD-9 diagnosis and CPT procedural coding. Must have knowledge of registration procedures, excellent computer skills, data entry experience, telephone skills and etiquette.

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SALARY: $ 24,000plus/year CLOSING DATE: 1/14/2011

In reply, please refer to position name & number, send letter of application and resume to: Human Resources Twamly Hall Rm. 313 264 Centennial Drive Stop 8010 Grand Forks, ND 58202-8010 www.human resources.und.edu EOE/AA

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Taking applications for the following:

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BISTRO

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Wallwork Truck Center of Bismarck is currently looking for a

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Please send a resume or complete an application on-site by 01/21/2011 Heartview Foundation Attn: Janice Briese, Residential Manager 101 East Broadway Ave Bismarck, ND 58501

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NOT TOO SHABBY

Gateway Mall NEW EXTENDED HOURS!!

Thursday 10-6 Friday 10-6 Saturday 10-7 Sunday 12-6 Monday 10-6 We’ve been unpacking recently acquired estate items & are adding tons of new merchandise EVERY day. Lots of neat and unusual old stuff! Over 4,000 sq. ft. of unique gifts and eclectic treasures. Restored, restyled, and refinished home furnishings and decor. New spring decor including gorgeous pictures, vases, pottery, shabby accent pieces, loads of home accessories, bedspreads and pillows, tapestries, architectural pieces, enamelware, green Depression glass, salt and pepper shakers, Tiara dishes and canisters, coca cola items, metal tins, floral arrangements, vintage Chalkware, baskets, cup and saucer sets, crystal and china, cookie jars, bar sets, crystal, pretty dishes, and much more.

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Dozens & dozens of wonderful, floral tablecloths & antique quilts, chenille bed spreads, very old linens and lace, doilies, hankies, embroidered aprons, buttons, sewing notions & baskets. Pioneer clothing, quilts, fancy embroidered dresses, old corsets, ivory linen skirts & dresses, and museum quality clothing.

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Hundreds of old books, magazines, sheet music & Native American collectible baskets.

Over 2,000 like-new books to include best sellers, fiction, cookbooks, spiritual, Western, romance, political, vintage, cookbooks, and children’s. One of the best selections of used books around!

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7’ Tree Cultivator. $600.00 220-4469

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Piano - 1907 McPhail upright grand. Moved & don’t have room. Free - you haul.

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USED FOR BREATHING: complete aerosol therapy pulmo-aide. 701-258-1506

FLOW MOBILE of Dickinson is looking for a

Dish Network Installer

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Contact Crystal at: cneumann@ flowmobile.com or call (701)225-9182

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER for giveaway. Pecan wood, glass doors, good condition!

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540/1000rpm PTO with fendor mounted hitch and PTO controls. Tractor is loaded with many options! only 65hours asking $130,000 or best offer. 701-739-2890.

9 BLACK, first calf, 2 year old heifers, bred black, due to calf Feb/Mar. Asking $1200 ea. Call 663-7176.

234 W Broadway Antiques & Collectibles. Open Fri & Sat. 10-5, Sunday Noon-5.

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Merchandise/Ag

4-Wild Trac M+S Radial X/RS Tires. 3/4 Tread, on Chevy S10 pickup wheels.

Size 215X75X15 $160 for all.

258-5352

BARGAIN HUNTERS: Any item priced $500 or less is FREE. Special Excludes tickets, food, animals, crafts or side businesses.

Call 258-6900 or tollfree 1-866-I-SOLD-IT! BED: QUEEN size waterbed with bookcase headboard/ etched glass, dresser, night stand $250. 701-667-2061

402-504 1920 JEWELERS trade catalog of grape/mining/western design jewelry, illustrated $22; two books on nature crafts and other hobby crafts 700 plus pgs w/photos, $10 for both. 605-745-4548 1989 JEEP REAR DANA 35 AXLE. 3.55 RATIO $150 OBO FRONT AND REAR DRIVESHAFTS $100 OBO 701-202-0750 1996 YAMAHA VIRAGO PARTS. SEAT, SHOCKS, TURN SIGNALS, TAILLIGHT, BAG SUPPORTS. $200 OBO 701-202-0750 2 large springs for garage door $15; Presto 6 quart pressure cooker canner holds 5 pints for canning $10; 1 1/2 dozen quart canning jars $6; 701-667-4199

Bedside Commode / Toilet Seat / Safety Rails all in one.

Never used. Retails for $33; will sell for $10. Call 226-7011

40,000 BTU all pro forced air heater, new $125. Box heater, burn wood or coal, new, $125. Call 223-6708

BOB GRAY International Harvester Farmall F-30, 8 inches long, 4 1/2 inches tall, $65. Call (701) 258-4585

Bedspread: Chenille white Queen size. Antique but looks nearly new. Use as spread or for crafts. $24 Call 701-258-3020

BOLENS SNOWBLOWER gears shot, everything else in A1 shape, good engine, electric start, tires with chains, sell for parts $175. 258-6885 BOOKCASE, SOLID wood, revolving, for office or home, $395.Custom made, Excellent Condition, Collector.

Call (701) 319-1917

CASE - NEW TECH Solutions 64 CD/DVD storage case with handle. Individual sleeves protect discs from damage. First $10 Cash...

255-1351 CHEVY PARTS: Front and rear differential with 3.73 gears, $300. 3 core radiator, $50. CALL 220-2583

COIN SET: 10 Statehood quarter sets, uncirculated, compete in coin holders, or individuals, great for gifts, $27.50 for set in folder. Call 255-2636.

CHRISTMAS LIGHTSwhite, blue & multi-colored.

Exc. cond. Indoor lights $1/set; $5/set outdoor. Still in boxes. 701-319-1917 Christmas tree: 7ft. tall Artificial Christmas tree. Beautiful, but upgrading. $60 OBO Call 701- 943-2420

Air compressor: OLDER AIR compressor with attachments, works great $40.

701-751-2629

Bench. Old but sturdy. $10.

222-4954

AIR HOCKEY table- Brunswick Brand, Deluxe and full size. Good cond. $200 obo.

Call 701-224-0412

BOW- new Browning 60# recurve hunting bow with arrows, $285. Call 400-6740 BUMPER JACKS, 2 with lug wrenches, 1980’s series $10 ea. Call 701-255-1761

ANTIQUE WROUGHT iron bed frame, $65. Couch, 3 cushion, $25. Entertainment center, oak, $25. 663-6667

BALDWIN PIANO, good for beginners, $450.

Call 258-1467 BED FRAME: full size bed frame w/wooden headboard, good cond. No box or mattress $25 OBO. 701-224-0412

Boots. Beautiful Girls Suede boots, Fur top. Never Worn.

Size 3M. $10 Call 226-7011.

BI-FOLD CLOSET doors, 3 total, 2’x6”-1 3/8” $50 for all 3.

36” Steel door like new, $90.

Call (701)426-6715 BIKES: Iron Horse mountain bike with approx. 18” frame. $100. 1 Clash Lazer mountain bike aluminum with front shocks, 24” wheels, $30 701-223-7428 Binoculars: NEW SIMMONS 10x50 binoculars, $25. Call 701-400-6740

BURN BARRELS:

55 gallon steel barrels, $5 each. Call 400-7618.

CLAY PIGEON Thrower, bought new, never used, Trius D-4 by Lyman, with 90 targets, $65. Call 258-9508.

Coat: ladies lrg brown long leather coat, like new, asking $30. Call 223-5268 COFFEE POTS, Gevalia, 2 total, brand new. 12 cup=$30.

8 cup=$25. Snow boots, red made in Norway, women’s size 7 1/2, $40. Call 223-8673

CHEVY FENDERS (PAIR) 77 CHEVY K10.. GREEN. $75 OBO. 701-202-0750 CHEVY PARTS: 400 Turbo transmission, 208 transfer case, $200. Chevy hood fits ‘82 - ‘87 $75. Right front fender ‘82-’87 $35. Call 701-220-2583 after 5pm.

CHINA CABINETS, 2, $100 and up. Call 223-0744

FRIDGE- KENMORE DORM FRIDGE ONLY $69.99 CALL 663- 4415

COMFORTER- Queen sized comforter for sale, no longer need it. $20 firm, hardly used 258-2297 after 9 am COMPUTER DESK & sewing machine cabinet, both in good cond. $25 OBO ea.

701-222-0015 COOKIE JARS $10-$20 and up. Large variety.

Call 223-0744 COOKIE JARS, Turtle, Dog, Lion, and Cat, $10ea.

Call 258-3020.

Couch. Like New. Comfortable. Comes from a nonsmoking home. 222-4954 $400.

Crock Pot, Rival Brand NEW $15. 2- Step ladder $20, Call (701)355-7512

TABLE SAW- Sears 10” with 3/4hp motor. Has a Jet fence system and a metal stand with wheels. $160. Call 701-258-3740

GLIDER- TELL CITY MAPLE GLIDER IN GOOD CONDITION ONLY $50.00 CALL 663-4415

Multiple items of apple decor for sale $50 for all to go.

Canisters, pictures, wall hangings. 258-2297 after 9 am.

GLOVES - Greenbay mens winter gloves, never worn, $20. Call 701-223-0699

NETGEAR NETWORK disk drive, ready NAS Duo 2 TB system. Gigabit speed, like new share files over network $250. 701-223-1721

GRAIN AUGER 4”x16’ with 1/2 hp Farm Duty motor, light weight good cond. $275. Call 701-690-8712

Hockey skates, RBK Fitlite, size 3 $10. CALL 319-1917.

INDOOR PLAY tent for children 2 1/2’ wide, 5’ long, 38” high. $10 obo. Complete w/paperwork.

Call 701-224-0412 JACK STAND - 6PC GARAGE SET.NEW IN BOX. CREEPER, HYD JACK, 2 JACK STANDS, 2WHEEL CHUCKS $100 OBO 701-202-0750

NEW! CEN-TECH Digital multi-tester. This 7-function meter is great for testing anywhere. First $10 Cash...

Call 701-255-1351 Oak entertainment center with 24” Sanyo flat screen TV. Excellent condition. $200.00. Can be sold separately. 701-258-5308 OFFICE CHAIR- swivel.

Good condition $10. Call 701-223-8419

Easy Puzzle

DOLL: SHIRLEY Temple doll $115. Call 701-223-8419 DORM FRIDGE: LARGE white with freezer, $100.

4 End tables with glass tops, $15 ea. TV stand, black, with glass doors $25. White fireplace, $150. 701-471-8810

Tuesday Intermediate Puzzle

Wednesday More Intermediate Puzzle

Thursday Challenging Puzzle

Friday Tough Puzzle

Saturday Super Tough Puzzle Solution to last Sudoku puzzle

Sunday

DRILL - New DC730 Dewalt 14.4 V cordless drill kit: 2-speed LED drill, 1 hour charger, 2 batteries, manual & case. First $140 cash.

701-255-1351

JACKET: NEW XL Carhart winter coat, asking $30, new $50. 701-223-3697

POKEMON CARDS and binders, back pack on wheels, $5ea.

Call 319-1917.

JEEP DANA 30 AXLE 3.55 RATIO W/ CONTROL ARMS & STEERING BOX, ARMS $150 OBO 701-202- 0750

Electronic Collar. BRAND NEW Innotek Ultrasmart half mile range $190 (701) 425-7623

JEEP NP242 TRANSFER CASE, (PART TIME AND FULL TIME FEATURES) $250 OBO 701-202-0750

ELIXIR ACOUSTIC Guitar strings. Light gauge, last longer than regular strings and sound great. $15/set. Call 701-223-1721

JEEP TRANSMISSION AISIN 30-40LE 4 SPEED AUTO $300 OBO 701-202-0750

End table excellent condition, all wood with matching lamp, $75. 701-400-6740 EVERGREEN CONES, 2 bags full for $5.

Call 258-1467.

EXERCISER - Tony Little Gazelle Exercise Machine with resistance pistons. $100 obo. 701-667-2061

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PINTO. FRT & REAR SEATS, GLASS, DASH, GAUGES, RIMS, TAIL & MARKER LIGHTS $100 701-202-0750

JEEP CHEROKEE. 4.0L RADIATOR & ELEC FAN $75, BUMPERS $100 PAIR, FENDER FLARES $50.

701-202-0750

FANNY FARMER CANDY Silliutte. One of a kind. Collector’s item $150.00.00 cash call 701-663-9391 FAUCET - new Delta bathroom faucet. Single handle. retail $212. Will sell for $50.

Call 701-258-8851 Fish House, Eskimo Quick Flip III, good condition, $325 OBO. Call 223-5659.

FRIDGE- 19 CU. ft. Fridge, good shape. $75 obo. Call 701-258-9952 GLASSWARE: Fine stemmed glassware, never used, gift perfect. 12 for $36.

701-255-1761

JET PERFORMANCE Modual/increase gas mileage and performance, new easy to install $150.

Call 400-6740 KEROSENE HEATER, 15,200 BTU’s Per Hour.

1 1/3 gal tank Burns 12-16 hours, includes 5 gal kerosene can, both in very good condition. $35. Call 223-0910 Kitchen table set white, 4 chairs, 1 leaf, $300 OBO. Porcelain dolls $10 & up. Call 223-3466 or 226-5589.

TH350 transmission, 2WD 4000 miles on rebuild, shift kit. $400 OBO 701-202-0750

TIRES - 4-205x75x15 Radial tires with 3/4 tread on small bolt pattern GM rims, fits Olds, Buick, and more. $125.

Call 701-258-5352 TIRES - 4-31x10.50x15 Radial Tires on Ford 1/2 ton 2 wheel drive pickup rims. $60.

Call 701-258-5352 TIRES - Like new 4 Firestone FR380 Radial Tires on stell rims. Size 205x65x15 $160. call 701-258-5352 TIRES - Set of 4 195/60/15 Fuzion HRI $50. Call 701-250-9705 lv.msg.

TIRES, 2 Bridgestone Blizzak M & S Tires. P245/50R20 under 4000 miles. Cost $375.

Make offer, Call 222-7509

Jacket, Girls Size Large 14 Rothchild jacket. Never worn, pink and brown color. $10, Call 226-7011.

JEANS: MENS, 30x34, 31x32, & 30x32, very good shape. $3 ea. 701-223-3697

TAILLIGHT ASSEMBLYleft rear for Dodge Grand Caravan, used, part no.

4857601AH, $75.99 obo.

701-222-0729

TIRES - used, size P125/60/R17 Continental, two each. $20/each.

Call 701-222-0729

PICTURE - My grandfather invested in ND oil 1920’s, enlarged matted framed copy of his original photo of Townley oil drilling camp near Robinson, North Dakota. Clear and detailed. 18x22 overall $45.

Call 701-258-9508

DOC MARTENS “ Air Wair” Mens Size 8, very nice shape, $70. Call 258-4585

Table: Old heavy 30” square table pedestal, wood & metal top, cast iron frame, model T958-28 self adjusting legs, $55. Call 255-1761.

TIRES - (4) Z28 rims for 1970-1075 Camaro $500 obo Call 701-255-0230

HIGH CHAIR $25; Forward facing carseat $25; Extension mirrors for pickup $15; 2 Gun rack for pickup $5: Lennox sound digital compact radio player $45. 701-667-4199

JACKET tan with fur collar, XL, new $25. Leather jacket size large, good condition, $30. Call 701-223-1995

Monday

TABLE AND 6 ROLLER CHAIRS IN GOOD CONDITION ONLY $225.00 CALL 663-4415

MEN’S BOOTS: Western boots, good cond., $35. New homemade pony bead necklaces, assorted colors, $14ea.

1 set of 3 antique jewel tea bowls, $95. 223-8419

COMFORTER- Full size comforter for sale, turquoise, purple and lime green squares. 258-2297 after 9 am. $20 firm

Hypertech Max Energy Power Programmer for 96-04 Ford Gas/Truck/SUV. $350 OBO Call 701-943-2420

COIN SET, 10 uncirculated quarter coin sets with D of C and territorial in folders, $35.

Call 255-2636.

Leather Jacket, Women’s Size Small - Medium, Wilson Leather, Excellent Condition $25. Call 226-7011 MAXI-HEAT COAL or wood furnace, shaker grate, large blower, exc. cond. New $1500, asking $450. Will heat 2,000 sq. ft. easily. 223-8324

Girls snowboots pink and black; never worn; size 4; Chill Chasers by Buster Brown. $10. Call 226-7011

ACETYLENE BOTTLE, $300. Call 663-6667

ARM CHAIR with ottoman $25; Porcelain doll w/wicker chair $100; Girls clothes 20 blouses, jeans size Large 16 jeans JcPennys brand $75.

Call 701-258-6885 28 INCH dual stage Lambert snow blower, needs engine $175. Call 258-4585

STORM CASE model 2720 hard shell case to protect your valuable equipment.

Foam interior $150.

701-223-1721

BOBBLEHEAD THRUSH roadrunner woodpecker figure, new in box, 5.75” tail. $20. Retail is $45.99. Call 667-5620.

64 Chrysler 4sp car tranny.

Complete with the shifter rods. Good core. Case does have one broken ear, easily repaired. $100. 226- 0717

96 Ford F150 pickup box trailer. 8’ box, Not all rusted out! New paint, jack, 2” coupler, safety chains,& spare tire. Quality built. $350 / obo.

(701)226- 0717

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QUEEN SIZE box spring and mattress, $100. Good condition. (701)255-7398

Transfer board 24” $30, 30” transfer board $35 crutches. 52-60”, $5.

Call 258-1467

T-shirt: Black collector tee XL 2004 Western Conference Champions LAKERS. Printed front & rear. $9 Call 701-258-3020

RCA, 25 inch TV also 20” Panasonic TV. $30 ea or $50 for both! Also nice rocker chair, light rust color, $25.

Call 751-4848 REBOUNDER EXERCISER approx. 40” diameter, like new, $50 obo. Call 701-222-0729

T-Shirt: Black Collector tee XL Colorado University.

Printed front & rear. $9 Call 701-258-3020

RIFLE SCOPES: New Simmons 3x9x40 variable power rifle scope $125; New Tasco 3x9x40 variable power rifle scope $125. 400-6740

TV - 24” Zenith console TV, wood cabinet, works good.

FREE. You haul. Call 701-223-2163

SIRIUS SATELLITE radio magnetic car antenna. Lightly used, working condition. Half of new cost. $15.

701-223-1721

WEIGHT BENCH, DUMBELLS, BARBELLS. 300+LBS OF WEIGHTS, PLUS OLDER HOME GYM. $250 701-202-0750

SNOW BLOWER, MTD, 5hp, 22 inch, two stage, electric start, used one season, moving south. $295.

Call 255-0332

Wheel covers: 8 ~ 15” Cadillac metal wheel covers.

1980 series, nice condition, take all for $75. Call 255-1761.

SNOWBOARD: RAGE snowboard with SHIMANO boots size M9. Lightly used and a deal at $150 for package. Call 701-223-1721

WHEELS 15” Truck steel wheels. 5.5 bolt pattern Ford, Chevy or Dodge, $20 ea.

Call 400-6740.

SOCCER: MANCHESTER United soccer clothes. Jacket $10, Tshirt & 2 sweatshirts $5 ea. 701-319-1917.

WHEELS- 5 Rally wheels w/tires for Chevy pickup. 1st $75 takes all; set of running boards for 2003 Ford Super Crew, like new $195.

663-6964, 527-5061.

WHITE 5 SHELF, $100.

Call 701-223-3466

Lap Dog Trainer. Innotek e-collar. Brand New! Great for Big and Little Dogs! $85 701-425-7623 LAPTOP: COMPAQ laptop computer, Windows XP 14.1” screen. AMD Turion 64x2, very good condition $250.

Call 701-223-1721 Lexicon Universal 21 volume encyclopedia $30.

701-667-4199 NINTENDO GAMECUBE with power pack cord. $15.

Call 701-319-1917

SPEAKERS, TECHNICS, model SB-SL701, 10 inch, 15”W, 27 1/2”Hx 10 1/2” D, $125 ea. New, never used.

Call 223-4496 STAINLESS STEEL electric Coffee Pot, $20. Portable Telephone, $10, Cheese Tray with glass cover, $15. Call 258-1467 TABLE: BEAUTIFUL 3 level read oak corner occasional table 33”W and D X 25”H $70 OBO. Must see. 224-0412.

WOODEN CHAIRS: 4 wooden chairs, $75. 2 large brown recliners, 2 years old, $95 each.

Call 701-673-3432

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GIVEAWAY - 3 baby kittens approx. 6 wks. old. Call 701-516-0252.

GIVEAWAY - 3 month old Tortoise Shell female kitten, litter box trained, very playful.

701-333-7134 PRINTER- HP 7350 Photosmart Printer: new ink, memory card slots, USB cable, driver CD, LCD display. Easy to operate. First $50 Cash...

255-1351

Entertainment Center solid oak excellent condition $150.00 222-0015

GIVEAWAY. FARM cats, good hunters, Call (701)323-7651 or 391-6043 GIVEAWAY: 2 little kittys, litter box trained.

Call 701-387-4312.

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FRESH HOME GROWN FRYERS

Chapter 7 & 13

for sale. Call 701-584-3200

BANKRUPTCY

12 cup Hamilton beach coffee maker 1 yr old comes with filter 391-0579. $10.00

Over 35 Years Experience

Ed Dyer Brand new 2 1/2’ pink tinsel tree with clear lights and silver and pink bulbs and cute tree skirt. 391-4501 $12.00

DYER & SUMMERS, PC

223-2099

A simple reminder: Just as it is important to use caution when replying to suspicious offers in email or on the phone, you should also use caution when replying to classified advertisements that require advance payment. The North Dakota Attorney Generals’ Consumer Protection Division is available to offer assistance and answer questions if you think an offer or company is questionable. If you have any questions, you can reach them at 701-328-3404 or 1-800-472-2600.

MANDAN

Extra cash is just around the corner with a paper route. Call today!

(Rt. 3059) 16th St NW, 5th Ave NW. . . . . . . .24 papers. . . .$100 (Rt. 3068) 1st Ave NE, 3rd St NE............55 papers. . . .$220 (Rt. 3086) 12th ave Se, 19th St SE.........46 papers. . . .$160 (Rt. 3087) 9th Ave SE, Emberland Rd. . . . . .44 papers. . . .$155 (Rt. 3073) 14th Ave SE, 19th St SE.........93 papers. . . .$320 (Rt. 3017) Collins, 15th St. NE..............108 papers. . . .$375 (Rt. 3084) 11th St. NW, Division.............28 papers. . . . . .$95 (Rt. 3021) Collins Ct, 6th-9th Sts. NW. . . . .56 papers. . . .$180

(All route pricing subject to change based on paper amount) Ron at 250-8215 ron.mosbrucker@bismarcktribune.com Laurel at 355-8826 laurel.faber@bismarcktribune.com

Toll Free: 1-888-695-4936 We are a debt-relief agency.

Entertainment Center, solid oak, opening 26w / door closure. Excellent condition. $200 701-255-0939

FIND A JOB. FILL A JOB. Obedience classes for Puppy, Basic,. Enhanced & CGC with testing. 663-4441

ZENITH 36” STEREO TV: has 2-tuner color P-I-P for sports fans; great picture & features, universal remote.

First $150 Cash... 255-1351

Schnoodle Pups. Great pets. Don’t shed. Males $250. call (701)442-5346

SYMPHONIC 27 IN COLOR TV, 181 CHANNEL vhf / uhf + 125 CABLE CHANNELS, REMOTE. $100 CALL 701-255-0939 23” RCA TV with remote excellent condition 391-0579 $50.00

PICK UP box Sander, self contained, 12HP motor, new, only 10hrs, $2950.

Call 220-1473

27” jvc colored tv with remote $40.00.

Call 701-391-4501

Old nail barrels turned into stools $10.00.

Call 222-4954

Over 30 yrs exp. We are a Debt Relief Agency.

We help people file for Bankruptcy Relief under the Bankruptcy Code.

Flat fee in most cases.

Call 701-222-8131 coleslaw@btinet.net

red aluminum topper to fit 1994-2003 Chevy S-10 or GMC Sonoma.interior light. $500.00 call 663-0306

Health Oxy-twist device for joint pain relief- New-$150.00 (Jiggling George) $150.00 222-0015

WANTED: ‘73 3/4 ton, 250 Ford pickup box, good shape, Also wanted horse drawn wagon with wooden spoked wheels. Call 701-223-3697

Announcements

Bankrupt?

Call for a precise quote. Payments on your terms accepted.

LaRoy Baird

Missing An Animal? check: www.petfinder.com

Attorney at Law

Wanted to buy-Rosette Irons.

Call Bismarck 701-222-2866.

120 Bass Electric Symphonic Iorio Accordian With amplifier. Good condition plays very nice First $500 Takes It. John 290-4130

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LOST: ON Dec 16 Diamond & Amethyst pendant at or Dans South.

Call 701-222-0007

Wanted to buy arrowheads: DISABLED VETERAN wants to buy authentic arrowheads. 701-663-0344

Nintendo system with 8 games excellent condition 391-0579. $75.00 TCK Video sport game with 2 controls and 4 games 391-0579. $100.00

HEAT YOUR SHOP with waste oil. New & used waste oil furnaces, Lanair parts & service, Jim Grothe Electric 701-223-2311.

CHAP. 7/13 BANKRUPTCY COLES LAW FIRM

Found - 4 Nintendo DS Games. South Walmart parking lot on Dec 31. Please call 426-3542 to identify.

Debt Relief Agency 30 years experience.

223-6400

Found black lab? female puppy (6-8 wks old) on 1/2/11 near Taco Bell (by Menards).

Please call 202-0533 to claim.

120 N 3rd St. Suite 210 Bismarck, ND

Need to make a car payment?

Want to save for vacation?

Getting married/saving for wedding?

Buying furniture?

GUN SHOW:

2 Lazy Boy Rocker / Recliners, excellent condition, $150 each OBO. 701-7511034 BED: QUEEN size mattress & box brand new, still in plastic, never used $175. Also brand new King PT set $395. Call 221-3011 or 400-9157.

ACCORDION: Like brand new, mens full size Accordion. Morelli 120 BASS with Ruby’s played one time. This is new, my loss your gain. $650. 701-290-4130

Dakota Territory Gun Collectors Association, Annual Winter BISMARCK Gun Show Saturday, Jan. 22nd, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday, Jan. 23rd 9:00 am - 3:00 pm BISMARCK Civic Center Roger Krumm, 701-336-7533, or 701-851-0129 FREE PARKING

Rentals

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506-556

Your connection to great singles. Meet someone special! Profile matching, no computer needed.

Great success for middle age & seniors too!

Find friendship or love.

701-952-0456 www.dakotadates.com

GREAT SECOND INCOME! $100-$400+ per month • Must have reliable car

Couch and Loveseat: Excellent condition; from a non-smoking and no-pets home. $375 for the set. Call 391-3700

Papers must be delivered by 6:00 am 7 days a week

for sale: APRI puppies. 6 maltese 2 Pomeranians 2 black& tan Dachshund. All have Papers, shots. Females 300 Males 250 (701) 324-2861 DINING TABLE and 6 chairs, 42”x62” plus 18” leaf. Queen Anne Style legs, parquet table top, $395. Call 250-0751

GIVEAWAY - 2 1/2 year old female Pitbull, spayed, shots.

Call 701-220-9136

WHITE GAY male.

Average looking. Being lonely is no fun. Looking for companionship and possibly more.

Heat Gun: NEW 1500W DUAL-TEMP. Remove paint, decals, varnish. Shrink wire wrap, thaw pipes & more.

First $20 Cash... 255-1351

If interested respond to: FF#20488679 in c/o The Bismarck Tribune, PO Box 5516, Bismarck, ND 58506

602-646

INFANT Daycare in Mandan, Newborn-1yr.

Alicia 701-391-7412

For more information on routes, contact: Ron at 250-8215 ron.mosbrucker@bismarcktribune.com

KING’S KIDS has FT & PT openings ages 1-12 available now. Call 701-258-3088.

Laurel at 355-8826 laurel.faber@bismarcktribune.com

WILL BABYSIT in my home, days, nights & weekends. $1.75/hour. Call 751-3688

FURN. EFFIC. all util paid, including cable, $350 mo, 1 yr lease. Call 701-391-8864

$172,900

3421 Roosevelt Dr., Bismarck, N.D.

Super clean home in great location. This 2 bedroom-with walkout lower level to huge yard is ready to move into.

2 stall with heaters and extra pad on driveway. Dual heat system and sprinklers.

$479,000

1031-E. INTERSTATE AVE, BISMARCK

$369,900

608 Mustang Dr, Bismarck

$149,900

605 Crescent Ln, Bismarck

8,000sf. OFFICE BUILDING IN NORTH BISMARCK. HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE. ACROSS FROM COMFORT INN MOTEL. 6 LEASE SPACES

OPEN HOUSE JAN 9TH 12-1:30 PM. NO SPECIALS! Located in NW Bismarck, 5 bedrooms,4 baths, main floor large master bedroom suite, main floor laundry, 1000 sq ft 4-stall garage. Walk-out basement.

NEW LISTING! OPEN HOUSE JAN 9TH 2-3:30 PM. Charming ranch home with 3 bedrooms on main floor.

Stainless steel appliances, 2 bathrooms, a fully finished basement and a large private backyard.

$432,900

$349,900

$139,900

12765 52nd St , NE of Bismarck

1605 Farwest Dr, Bismarck

233 Lake St, Mandan

Quality built home on 10 acres. Adjacent to indoor horse boarding facility with roping arena. Home has 4172 sq ft finished. 4 bedrooms,beautiful master bath, gorgeous kitchen. 6 car garage. Great Views!

Country living with city advantages, only 10 minutes from Bismarck. This immaculate home boasts a main floor master suite, a beautiful 2 story living room and much more. Call your agent to see it.

Nicely updated 4 bed 2 bath home just west of Mandan.

You’ll enjoy this home with .50 acres including 2 stall garage and heated workshop! Maint free exterior, 2 patios, trees, fire pit and fish pond!

$419,000

$209,900

$52,900

1205 Voyager Drive, Bismarck

MAJOR PRICE REDUCTION, New construction, unique, contemporary rustic design, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, knotty alder cabinets/woodwork, gas fireplaces in great room & patio, geothermal heat pump system.

$400,000

309 Collins Ave, Mandan

Excellent commercial investment opportunity located in Mandan’s Renaissance Zone! 14,852 SF building on 21,000 SF corner lot, zoned RM. Perfect for apartment conversion or executive office suites.

806 Canada Ave., Bismarck

Huntington Homes new construction walk-out lower level home in North Bismarck. 2 bed/2 bath with laundry on upper level. Maple cabinets & flooring. Call today to choose finishing! Owner/Realtor

$199,900

1309 - 33rd St N, Unit #4, Bismarck

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1-2:30 NO STEPS, NO SPECIALS! Beautiful, hard to find GROUND LEVEL CONDO almost 1700sf! This condo has 3Bed/2Bath & office. Open floor plan. Enclosed walkway to OVERSIZED 3 Car Garage.

North View # 65, Garrison

Like new (2005) 3 bedroom 16x80 w premium features, upgraded appliances,new carpeting,sheltered deck and partially fenced yard on attractive rented lot near schools. Payments could be less than rent.

$550 & $1550 1031-E. Interstate Ave #3&5, Bismarck

FOR LEASE...2 OFFICES ON INTERSTATE AVE., 684sf. & 1538sf. ACROSS FROM COMFORT INN. GROUND FLOOR, REMODEL TO SUIT. YOU PAY MDU, HANDICAP ACCESS, OWN DOOR, PLENTY OF PARKING, Owner/Agent

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Real Estate 1 BDRM., Nice, Lndry., Prkg., Prvt. entrance, no smoking/ pets. $360 +lights. 222-0136.

2 BDRM 10 plex, near hospitals. Call 223-8568 Rocky Gordon & Co. 2 BDRM, 1 bath, single stall gar., W/D, no pets/smoking.

Near hospital.

701-471-6874.

2 BDRM., avail. now! No smoking or pets. Incl. Gar. & Lndry.

226-2119 or 258-6808.

RJR Maint. & Mgmt.

701-663-1736

➦ For Rent

Apts. (1, 2 & 3 Bdrms.), Homes & Duplexes Some W/D. Small Pets Welcome (in some bldgs.)

Availability 8:30am-5pm rentlinx.com or ndaa.net UPDATED 2 bdrm, in 4 unit, lwr lvl, no smoking/pets, $475 +util. 701-220-3935 Lve Msg.

HIGH RIDGE NORTH MANAGER ~ 222-2918 2 bdrms, garage, frplc., well maintained, very nice grounds! Pool & Tennis Courts. ROCKY GORDON & CO. 701-223-8568

2 BDRM. apts. with W/D, with or without gar., Also Luxurious Lakewood Apts., Call 663-7975 or 226-8964.

2BR Dplx. Must See-Many updates, parking, W/D, A/C, Yard. $650+utl. 425-4694

Lrg. 2bdrm, new appl & cabinets, no smoke/pets. $550+ lights. 471-6618, 258-8831 Rent Your Home, Own your Life!!

Many floor plans to choose from!

701-255-5452 EHO www.goldmark.com

Downtown FURN. 1 bdrm. $425 includes util. cred check req. 663-5165 or 220-2779.

LARGE 2 bdrm, upper lvl in NW Mandan. Single garage, W/D, $740. Utilities Paid. Call 701-667-5546 or 220-0467.

SPACIOUS APTS / GREAT LOCATION!!

1 Bdrm; 1 Bdrm. Corp; 2 Bdrm; 3 Bdrm., 2 ba.

Apts. Avail. NOW. Incl. WD, DW, Micro. Gar.

2 BDRMS Now 12-plex. Call Marvin 222-3749 or Rocky Gordon & Co. at 223-8568.

MARINA BAY AREA SE Mandan. Newer 1 & 2 bdrms, Double Garage, W/D, Heat & Water Paid.

Call 701-663-2600.

Call Today for private showing! 701-250-7110 EHO www.immapartments.com

Calgary & Century East Apts. have openings for 2 & 3 bdrms. 255-2573 MAPLETON APT’S 2 &3 bdrm,2 bath, garage W/D, C/A, heat & water pd. 391-5795 / 222-8171

PARKWOOD APTS. Manager • 255-4472

2 Bdrm - Garage & Swimming Pool ROCKY GORDON & COMPANY • 223-8568

2 BDRM,. 2 bath, security bldg, dbl gar, W/D hook-ups, balcony. $895+ H&L 223-8568 Rocky Gordon Co. ARIKARA APT’S. 2 bdrm.

Spacious, gar. avail., near Arrowhead & Capitol.

255-2880 Rocky Gordon & Co. 223-8568.

Spacious 1 & 2 Bdrm. apts., Avail. NOW Elevator, CA, microwave, DW, sec. bldg.

Breakfast island, heat incl., in unit Lndry hookup, coin Lndry on each floor, reserved off st. prkg. Comm room. (water, sewer, garbage pd). No pets/smoke.

710-1175 sq. ft. EHO IMM Apts, Mandan Place, 101 1st Ave NW & Main Ave. Mandan 701-250-7110

TOP TEN REASONS to live at an

IRET Property..

10. Award Winning Properties 9. Heat Paid 8. Garage Included 7. 24/7 Emergency Maintenance 6. No Shoveling!

5. Care-free Living 4. Spacious floor plans IRET Properties Various Locations 701-221-0500 701-222-8992 701-223-9165

immapartments.com TEMPORARY HOUSING FOR RENT FOR EIGHT MONTHS OR MORE; furnished 2 bdrm duplex; all utilities pd. $500 663-1577 or 425-2394

EHO

iretproperties.com

2 BDRM., off street parking, private entrance, no pets. Call 701-663-8502.

DISPLAY MODEL CLOSEOUT!!

Samples: 28x52 $59,900; 32x64 $79,900; 32x80 $99,900.

All homes total drywall, primed & painted. Delux trim packages, upgrade appl. Call for details Liebelt Homes 1-605-225-3222 ask for Don *10 more to choose from, all at discounted prices!

3 BDRM., 2 ba., sngl. detach gar. w/extra prkg., Mandan. $895. Call Dan 721-2277.

We List, We Sell, We Buy, We Trade, We Finance! Call Liechty Listing Service, LLS. 223-0555 or 202-1640

702-732

SE BISMARCK, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fenced yard, garage. $1200/mo. + all util. $1200 deposit. PET- FRIENDLY Call 701-258-4036 EHO

Recreation

Never been lived in

2 BDRM, private entry, off-st prkg, Call 223-8568 Rocky Gordon & Co.

NICE CONDO & near Capitol. 3 bdrm, balcony & gar. No smoking or pets. 1st & last mo. rent at $875 & $400 sec. dep. Call 701-223-8593.

ROOMMATE WANTED to share 2 bdrm., 1 bath apt. approx. $425 includ. util., off st. prkg. 701-226-0181.

2 BDRM, off street parking, no pets, Call 663-8502

$550-$650 +util., $300 dep,, pets $150 dep. Bismarck Mobile home park. 391-8864.

PET STOP: local dealership w/ national company.

For details contact Larry (701) 220-2858

2 BDRM, Bis. WD, CA, shed, deck, fncd yard, no pets /smoking. 258-6205

2002 BUICK Lasabre Limited Liberty Addition, fully loaded, heated seats, 65K miles, $8900.

Call Ed at 701-336-7822 or 400-0264.

CAN-AM, 2 up, limited edition, 300 miles, heated handlebars, windshield, Navigation, wench, with county plow. $8000. Call (701)400-7701.

1997 ARCTIC CAT 600 ZRT very excellent condition.

Call 701-321-1333

COMING SOON!! 3 bdrms & 1 bath, $700 + utilities, $700 Deposit. Call 701-663-2600

802-818

2009 CAMRY LE, 4dr, auto, A/C, PS, PW, PL only 24K, like new, factory warranty.

Only $17,999. Wentz Auto Napoleon. 226-1114

Transportation

NICE USED MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT. Call 663-9219 or 391-0633

04 Dodge Intrepid SE Local Trade Nice Car Sharp Black Color and now just $4488.00.

Wentz Auto-Napoleon 800-767-3596 226-1114 or 390-3040

902-926

2900 Sq. Ft. located in prime shopping area in North Dickinson. Great location w/plenty of parking.

Call 701-290-6137

WANT TO trade? Do you have a vacant farmstead with acreage near Bismarck. I have a new 3 bdrm., 2 ba home, gated 55+ community 30min from Disney World.

Lets talk. 406-249-0629

Professional Building 5th & Rosser ph. 258-4000

BRENDEL HOMES New Condos & Homes Available. www.brendelhomes.com or call Pete anytime for showing at 701-471-9571

Newly Opened!

Gold Arrow Storage.

106 1/2 Schlosser Ave. Mandan. Units 10x20, 8x6 1/2, (701) 202-3020

98 Chrysler Town & Country Van good runner great price range for only $2388.00 Wentz Auto-Napoleon 800-767-3596 226-1114 or 390-3040

Cheap Insurance, great gas mileage, ‘05 Sunfire, 2 dr., 30,000 actual mi. $4500 OBO. Call 701-426-4637.

Open House Jan. 9, 1~4 2542 Berkshire Dr. NE Bis. 2482 sqft. 5 bdrm, 3 stall gar. fenced yrd. w/sprinklers, in new Sunrise Elementary School District $209,900 ~ 255-9296

Scottsdale AZ condo 2 bdrm. 2 ba, great loc. avail Jan-May 701-226-9823

2005 CHEVY Malibu Max LT, 3.5 V6, auto, 64K, maroon ext. leather tan int. loaded w/ rear DVD. factory remote start, $9500 OBO. 391-4502

2007 CHRYSLER 300C Touring. 3.5 V6, auto, 31K, Nav., sun roof, rear DVD, leather int. 20” wheels & new tires. $15,900 OBO. 391-4502

2005 BUICK LeSabre, 4dr, 3.8 V6, air, dual pw seats, full power, like new, 83K, $9988.

Wentz Auto Napoleon (701)226-1114

1 USED 2007 Artic Cat 650 XT Prowler, 2 used 2009 Artic Cat 550 EFI Prowlers one with blade & winch. 3 used M1000’s, Used F570LX. 701-228-3762 Johnson Sport Center, Bottineau ND.

2 or 3 Bdrms. W/D, Close to School. HAP Welcome!

VCZ, INC. 258-9404.

NEW HEATED SHOPS for rent: 24x60. Available now. Call 701-663-2600 AVAIL 2/1, 3 Bdrm. side by side, gar, C/A, 107 W Interstate Ave. $850+util & dep.

220-9710

Trailer: FULL SIZE 8 ft pickup box trailer, no rust $480. Call 701-426-6715

2003 DUTCH Star- Newmar, 40ft. Motorhome, 330HP, Cat, Diesel. 48K miles. 3 slide outs. New tires all around, have the build sheet. Upgrade ceramic tile in bathroom area, kitchen area, between driver and passenger seats. Couch and recliner are leather as are driver and passenger seats. Couch makes into a bed, 8 way pwr seats, washer/dryer combo, Satellite equipped, CB radio, 10 Disc CD system, Peacan maple hardwood cabintry, power weather awnings, SBS refrig. special full paint, 7.5 diesel gen. And much more. Transferable service plan. Excellent Condition. Asking $101,500.

Call 701-751-1542. In Storage and READY TO GO!

2000 Chevy Cavalier $1999, 35 MPG, NEW TIRES, 4cyl auto. Call 701-663-5381 1989 CHEVY Celebrity, 2.8 V6, auto trans, 160K, grey, 4dr. Used engine 110K, new front tires, windshield, $1450 OBO. 222-4396 or 391-0598

1967 FIBERGLASS GT40 Avenger, no motor, good cond., wire wheels, Goodyear Eagle tires. $3500. Call George 701-212-4703.

2006 CHEVY Impala LS, 4dr, 3.5 V6, A/C, 60-40 power seat, CD, Chrome wheels, new tires, 41K, 1 owner, BV $12,800. Only $11,800.

Wentz Auto. 226-1114

‘93 BUICK LaSabre Custom, 4 dr., V6 3.8 L, auto., new tires, good cond. 1 owner, 65K. $3000. Call 701-223-7051

2002 Ford Escort ZX-2 SALE $3999 WARRANTY, LEATHER, PWR ROOF, NEW TIRES, 35MPG, trades welcome. 701-663-5381

2006 FORD Freestyle SEL Crossover, 54,000 miles, 23 MPG, good condition. Call 701-260-2593

First 12 People Through The Door Get a Free Can Of Sardines!

THE CARS ARE PACKED INSIDE LIKE SARDINES!

701-214-6370

schwanGMautocenter.com 3812 Memorial Hwy., Bismarck/Mandan

Schwan GM Auto Center’s 14th Annual Huge Used Car

INDOOR SALE! One Day Only! Saturday, Jan. 8, 8am-5pm

FREE CAR

‘99 Chevy Monte Carlo to be given away at 9:00 am!

Register @ 8am Saturday Must be present to win!

Shop In 71º Comfort And Get Red Hot Savings On Over 100 Quality Used Vehicles In Stock! Now’s The Time To Buy!

All Vehicles Under $5000 Will Not Be Sold Until 8 AM Saturday!!

RED HOT SAVINGS ON 20 VEHICLES USED CARS & VANS UNDER

$5000

01 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP 4Dr

5999

$

95 Buick Riviera Coupe 2Dr

93 Toyota Corolla LE 4Dr

#309602. 6 cyl.

#302403. 4 cyl., Cloth

99

97 GMC 1500 Suburban SLE 4x4

01 Ford Excursion XLT 4x4

#519201.

#314802. Cloth, 3rd Row Seating

#316403. Cloth, 3rd Row Seating, Bench

6988

WAS $6999

87 Ford Ranger Reg Cab 4x4

99 Ford Taurus SE 4Dr

98 Pontiac Bonneville SE 4Dr

#435203. 6 cyl., Cloth

#520103. 6 cyl., Cloth

#302304. 6 cyl., Cloth

788

850

7980

$

8999

$

88 Chevy K1500 Reg Cab 4x4

#951402. Diesel, Cloth

#309701. Cloth

999

$

02 GMC 1500 Yukon XL SLT 4x4 #439202. Leather, roof, Captains Chairs

9999

9999

$

94 Lincoln Town Car Executive 4Dr

91 Nissan Pathfinder SE 4x4

#307401. Leather

#307701. 6 cyl., Leather

11,880

WAS $16,999

1480

$

#438001. 6 cyl., Cloth

05 Dodge Magnum SXT 4Dr #955401. 6 cyl., Cloth

14,999

$

06 VW Passat VR6 Sport #947701. 6 cyl., Leather, roof, NAV

WAS $18,999

15,980

$

WAS $14,999

13,980

$

WAS $3999

2980

$

96 Nissan Altima GXE 4Dr #936301. 4 cyl., Cloth

WAS $4999

3980

$

04 Pontiac Montana Ext Wagon 4Dr

01 Chrysler Town & Country LX AWD

#311801. 6 cyl., Cloth

#316202. 6 cyl., Cloth, 3rd Row Seating

#432503. 6 cyl., Cloth, 3rd Door

15,980

$

WAS $7345

3980

$

WAS $5999

3980

$

#300301. 6 cyl., Cloth

15,999

$

#310802. 6 cyl., Leather

WAS $5245

3980

$

99 Cadillac Escalade 4Dr #438301. Leather

WAS $7999

4980

$

08 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS AWD

07 Toyota RAV4 Sport 4x4

#950401. Auto, 6 cyl., Cloth

#311602. 4 cyl., Cloth, roof

16,980

$

08 Dodge Nitro R/T 4x4

03 Pontiac Sunfire SE Coupe 2Dr

03 Cadillac DeVille 4Dr

#315002. 6 cyl., Cloth

#946203. 4 cyl., Cloth

#519603. Leather

WAS 5999

4980

$

WAS 5999 $

4980

$

WAS 7995 $

4999

$

18,999

$

07 Chevy X-Cab 4x4

#433502. 6 cyl., Leather, roof

WAS $24,999

19,980

$

03 Chevy 2500 Silverado Ext Cab 4x4 99 Buick LeSabre Custom 4Dr $

13,980

$

WAS $14,999

01 Buick LeSabre Ltd 4Dr

09 Chevy Impala LT 4Dr WAS $17,999

05 GMC Yukon SLT 4x4 #313402. Leather, roof, 3rd Row, Captains Chairs

WAS $18,999

07 Buick Lucerne CX 4Dr WAS $17,995

01 Chevy 1500 Suburban LT 4x4

10,999

#436801. 4 cyl., Cloth, Remote Start

10,999

$

#308302. Leather, 3rd Row Seating, Captains Chairs

$

98 Plymouth Breeze 4Dr 08 Buick Lacrosse CX 4Dr

#958701. 6 cyl., Cloth

WAS $12,490

#521203

2800

$

12,980

#303303. 6 cyl., Leather, roof

12,999

2180

$

06 Chevy Trailblazer LS 4x4

99 Olds Aurora

#312903.

WAS $3000

$

04 Pontiac Bonneville SLE 4Dr $

#316601.

1280

$

$

#306401. 4 cyl., Cloth

9999

$

94 Pontiac Grand Prix SE 4Dr

#308902. 4 cyl., Leather, roof

WAS $10,999

08 Chevy Impala LTZ 4Dr

$

#311503. 6 cyl., 3r Row, Bench, DVD

04 Saab 9-3 Series Linear 4Dr

09 Chevy Malibu LT1 4Dr WAS $15,999

07 Dodge Caravan SE 4Dr

#941002.

19,980

$

94 GMC Sierra Ext Cab 4x4

8880

$

04 Chevy Crew Cab

#439403

7988

999

#305303. 6 cyl., Cloth

WAS $9999

$

$

$

05 Pontiac Bonneville SE 4Dr

5880

$

985

$

06 Chevy Impala

#312601. 6 cyl., Cloth, roof

WAS $9999

$

$

$

05 Chrysler Sebring GTC Conv.

780

$

03 Cadillac DeVille 4Dr

#312802. 6 cyl., Leather, roof

WAS $6999

RED HOT SAVINGS ON USED TRUCKS & SUVS

#956801. HD LS Longbed, Cloth, Diesel

24,999

$

#3113101

20,995

$

08 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4x4 #948101. Cloth

WAS $29,998

25,980

$

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2001 Hyundai Sonata, V6, Auto, air, cruise. Includes remote starter & Blizzak tires.

NADA $2500 selling $2300.

Call 258-7224 or 426-9129.

2005 Lexus ES330, 41K miles, all options, no nav. ex. cond. $16490 one owner.

Call 701-255-1367

07 Buick Terraza Van CXL Local Trade Excellent Balance Factory Warranty Books for $16000.00 now just $11488.00. Wentz Auto-Napoleon 800-767-3596 226-1114 or 390-3040

2008 HONDA Odyssey Minivan. Low miles 29K. Fussy lady’s van. Factory Warranty. No accidents or smoke. Must Sell $22950 Consider trade 701-390-3166 Bismarck.

2001 GMC Yukon SLT 4X4 $8999, Leather, 3rd row seat, WARRANTY, 135000 miles, 5.3L Vortec, trades welcome 701-663-5381.

2007 GMC Yukon XL, 6L V8, htd leather, 3 seats, air, full power, NAV, DVD, like new. factory warranty, 52K, new tires,Priced below book, $32,888.Wentz Auto Napoleon 226-1114

‘03 GMC Yukon 4x4 V8 5.3L flex fuel, 130k miles, well maintained, very good cond., air, cruise, tilt, PW, third seat, running boards, factory Bose, $12,800. Call 471-9930.

1999 Pontiac Grand Am SE $2999, REMOTE STARTER, LIKE NEW TIRES, loaded, V-6 auto, trades welcome.

Call 701-663-5381

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2005 CHEVY CARGO VAN Shelves, Divider, Ladder Rack. Nice Condition $9500.

Call 701-223-8000 Bismarck 2006 DODGE Caravan SLE, 77K, $7,950.

Call (701)720-0599

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‘03 BUICK Rendezvous, AWD, A1 shape, extra clean, 102K mi., loaded $7000. Call 701-663-7418

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2005 TOYOTA Highlander 4x4, 59K miles, V6 auto, $11,795. 2007 Honda Fit Sport, 5 doors, 24K miles, auto, $8,895 OBO. Call 701-258-5721

2003 TOYOTA 4 Runner 4X4 Sun-Roof. Nice Condition. $16,950 or best offer. Call 701-471-6000 Bismarck.

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03 Chevy Avalanche 1500 4X4 cab, SALE $14999, Very low miles, wrnty 5.3L vortec, loaded, Chrome wheels, trade welcome 701-663-5381

2008 CHEVY Colorado Z71 4X4 XCab 4 Door. Local truck Factory Warranty only 8,088 miles. New Condition $19,950 Call 701-223-8000 Bismarck

1999 Chevy Silverado 1500 X-cab 4X4 SALE $6999.

LOW MILES, loaded, very clean, FRESH TRANS. Trade welcome. 701-663-5381

2001 Chevy Tahoe LT, SALE $9499 WARRANTY, LEATHER, 3rd row seat, loaded, air ride, trades welcome 701-663-5381.

01 Ford F-150 X-cab XLT SALE $6999, 4X4 Offroad 4dr Xcab, 5.4L V-8, auto, loaded, toneau cover, 140K mi, trade welcome 701-663-5381

05 Ford F150 4x4 SuperCrew XLT SALE $12,999.

New tires, loaded, warranty.

Trades welcome. Call 701-663-5381

97 GMC Sierra 1500 Ext 4x4 3RD Door Really Nice Truck Local Trade Excellent now just $6488. Wentz AutoNapoleon 800-767-3596 226-1114 or 390-3040

‘04 TOYOTA Tacoma X- Cab 4X4. Only 24,000 miles, TRD, Alloy Wheels and more. LIKE NEW!! $18,450. Call 701223-8000 Bismarck.

2003 DODGE Reg Cab, 1/2 ton, short box, 4x4, matching topper, sprayed bedliner, 5,7 Hemi, 66K, $10,400.

(701)720-0599.

#1841 - 1985 CHEVY Ward 47 passenger – 366,4/2 manual, 163,676 miles, $1,800. Call Mon - Fri, 8am-5pm • 800-450-1767

97 Ford F350 crewcab 4x4 xlt 7.3 dies, 5spd, exc condition $7995 Jim Weber Ford Wishek 701-452-4288 or 701-226-6360. #4887- 1992 IHC Thomas 60 passenger – DT360, 170HP, Air Brakes, 257,345 miles, $3,500. Call Mon - Fri 8am-5pm • 800-450-1767

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06 Chevy Silverado 2500HD LT3 4x4, $18999 Warranty, LEATHER, NEW TIRES, Bose system, crew cab, 6.0L, trade welcome 701-663-5381

‘07 BLACK Hummer H3 Excellent Condition. PS, PB, AC, 4x4. 47,000 miles. $19,995 obo. 701-527-4739

2008 Chevy Tahoe LT 4dr 4x4 5.3v8,3rd seat 53k fact warranty $25900. Jim Weber Ford Wishek 701-452-4288 701-226-6360.

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1989 FORD 1 ton Van, used for cargo, 460 motor, auto trans, lots of power, poor MPG, remote start, HD hitch, $1400. or trade for car hauling trailer, (701)824-2040

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2008 SATURN Aura XR sedan, V6, air, htd leather, full power, like new, factory warranty, 32K, Only $14,888.

Wentz Auto Napoleon.

226-1114

1995 CHEVY 3/4 ton heavy duty cargo van. Over $4000 invested in mechanical. 114k miles. $2000. 701-527-2724

2006 CHEVY Trailblazer, ext,3rd seat, 4 dr, 4x4, V6, Air, Full power, DVD, new tires, 80K, 1 owner, $15,688.

Wentz Auto Napoleon, 226-1114

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07 PONTIAC Grand Prix 3.8 54K miles, Full Pwr, PW, PL, CD, priced w/ winter wheels & tires, $9,475. Call Ed at 701-336-7822 or 400-0264.

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00 Ford F-150 4X4 Lariat, $10,000, SUPER CHARGER, 4dr,low miles, loaded, leather, new tires, exc. cond. trade welcome 701-663-5381

‘09 ERSKINE skidsteer snowblower, 73 in with pistol grip control, 4 spout & shoot.

Used 2 hrs, $5700 OBO. Call 701-391-7152

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ROTARY WRESTLING TOURNAMENT

S ECTION D

Bismarck-Mandan split BHS boys, MHS girls victorious at Civic Center

By STEVE THOMAS Bismarck Tribune

Rapid City Journal

Sturgis wrestling coach Steve Keszler has guided the Scoopers to South Dakota Class A titles in five of the last six years.

Scooping up championships Sturgis enters Rotary field

By STEVE THOMAS Bismarck Tribune A crucible. A gantlet. Throughout its 43year-history the Bismarck Rotary tournament has severely tested the wrestling merits of hundreds of combatants.

Winning the Rotary, as a team or an individ-

ual, serves notice that you bear watching. So they made it tougher.

St u rg i s, t h e So u t h Dakota Class A champion five of the last six seasons, jumps into the fray for the first time when the Rotary heats up today.

Hardly a newcomer to the Bismarck-Mandan wrestling scene, Sturgis has dominated the early-season Mandan Lions tournament.

Continued on 4D

Reis on the roll

By MICHAEL WEBER Bismarck Tribune Barry McCleary has coached many outstanding wrestlers during his more than quarter-of-a-century tenure a t Na p o l e o n Hi g h School.

Bu t t h e v e t e ra n mentor said he has never coached anyone quite like junior Jared Reis.

“I’ve coached kids who love wrestling, but no one’s ever loved it m o re t h a n Ja re d ,” McCleary said. “I’ve never had a kid who has put more time into (wrestling) than he does. It’s his life. From the time he was little,

it’s been all about wrestling. He’s a kid who’s never satisfied.

He has a real desire to learn all he can about it, and be one of the best.”

Reis is already one of the best high school wrestlers in North Dakota — Class A or B. He’ll be one of the favorites in the 145pound weight class at the Bismarck Rotary Wrestling Tournament today and Saturday at the Bismarck Civic Center.

L a s t y e a r, R e i s defeated four Class A wrestlers on the way to the 140-pound championship match.

Continued on 4D

Playing with a lead is not Bismarck’s strong suit.

The Demons frittered away most of a 15-point lead before settling for a 61-57 boys basketball victory over Mandan on Thursday.

With the victory at the Civic Center, Bismarck improved to 4-0 in the West Region and 5-2 overall. Mandan slipped to 1-3 and 4-3.

Mandan’s girls won the first game of the night, overwhelming Bismarck 80-61.

Late in the first half Bismarck’s boys looked like they were going to pull away to a decisive victory. However, they were unable to sustain their good fortune.

“I thought we played hard.

We’ve just got to finish a little better,” said Bismarck forward Dexter Werner, who scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. “We’ve got to play hard-nosed defense and we’ve got to make some free throws down the stretch.”

Mandan, after trailing by up to 12 points in the first half, Mandan found itself 15 points in the hole shortly after halftime. A 3-pointer by Jaxon Fitterer put the Demons up 44-29 with 13:40 remaining.

From that point on, Bismarck had no rhythm, thanks in large part to a combination of turnovers, personal fouls and poor free throw shooting.

Mandan chipped away at the deficit, closing to within five at 46-41 on a 3-pointer by Casey Kautzmann with 7:23 remaining.

The Braves kept on Bismarck’s trail, but could never pull even. Mandan cut the shortfall to 61-57 on a pair of Devin Coyle 3-pointers with 42 seconds to play.

A BHS turnover followed, giving Mandan a final posses-

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Mandan’s Aaron Janz, left, puts up a shot over Bismarck’s Kendall Kautz during Thursday night’s West Region boys basketball game at the Civic Center. sion. Erron Collins and Coyle missed 3-pointers in the final 10 seconds, enabling Bismarck to escape.

The numbers told the story.

Bismarck shot 52 percent the first half and 33 percent after the break. The Demons were 9for-23 at the free-throw line for

the game, 6-for-17 the second half.

For the game, Bismarck outshot Mandan 42 percent to 40 percent, controlled the boards 34-29 and had 13 turnovers to Mandan’s 17. The Demons had just four turnovers at intermission.

DeWayne Liggins scored 14 points to join Werner in double figures for Bismarck.

Coyle sank three 3-pointers and scored 21 points for Mandan. He was the only Braves player to reach double figures in scoring.

Continued on 4D

Petersen returns to lead Mystics

By CINDY PETERSON Bismarck Tribune It’s going to take more than a meniscus injury to keep Bismarck State all-around player Lacey Petersen off the court for the season.

Even though Petersen hadn’t played in a game for the last three weeks because an injury to her right knee, the Mystics still needed big production from the 5-foot-7 sophomore from Grand Forks. Petersen dumped in 25 points — 19 in the second half — to lead Bismarck State to an 80-68 victory over the Dawson Buccaneers in Mon-Dak women’s basket-

BSC women 80, Dawson 68 BSC men 98, Dawson 84 ball action at the BSC Armory on Thursday night.

The Bismarck State men cruised to a 98-84 victory over the Dawson men.

Petersen never got an MRI

on her knee — she would rather play than sit. Even though she practiced this week, she did need some time to chisel away the rust from not competing and to become accustomed to contact once again. Petersen was one rebound away from recording a double-double. She scored in a variety of ways, from posting up to attacking the hoop to knocking down long- and midrange shots.

“My knee gets tired quicker,” said Petersen, who celebrated her 20th birthday on Thursday night. “It is still sore, but it’s something you have to play through. I’m more timid.

It’s a natural body instinct to protect yourself.”

Petersen came up big in the second half and got help from her teammates. The Mystics trailed 45-42 with 14:50 left in the contest. Bismarck State center Alyssa Hummel started a 14-2 run with a short jump shot from the left side. BSC guard Carlie Buechler put the Mystics up 56-47 with 10:34 to go when she drove the right side of the hoop. BSC led the rest of the way.

“A lot of it was us getting settled into our game,” BSC coach Kylee Wilson said. “I think we ran one play correctly in the Continued on 4D

Century skaters roll to second rout of Braves in 17 days Patriots stay perfect in West Region

By LOU BABIARZ Tribune Sports Editor

Century 8, Mandan 1

The Century boys hockey team picked up right where it left off Thursday, and Mandan has the scars to prove it.

After spotting the Braves and early goal, the Patriots rolled to an 8-1 victory over

Mandan. It was the first outing for the West Region leaders since Dec. 21, when they beat the Braves 10-0.

“We like to play them,” said Century’s Zach Holmen, who had two goals and an

assist. “We like to go harder against a rival team — Bismarck and them.”

The Patriots, who improved to 7-0-0 in the region, 8-4-0 overall, will get their chance against the Demons on Saturday. Thursday was a pretty good tuneup.

In all 12 different Patriots were on the score sheet. Alec Rauhauser contributed two goals and an assist, and D ylan Kadr mas scored twice. Tanner Megal had a goal and two assists.

“It’s kind of a tough spot for us after being off for a while and playing (Mandan) back-to-back,” Century coach Troy Olson said. “It wasn’t a perfect game, but all in all, I thought our guys played pretty hard and did some good things.”

Rider Cupido (44 saves) kept Century at bay for a long time, stopping 19 of 20 shots in the first period. In fact it was the Braves that got on the board first.

With 1:08 remaining in the opening period, Trevor

Huck scored on the rebound of a Brady Winking shot, giving Mandan a lead.

It didn’t last long. Zach Holmen scored 12 seconds later, tying the game up heading into the first intermission.

“I just threw it on net,” Holmen said. “It hit a couple of people in front of the net, a defenseman, and it went five-hole.”

That was all the spark Century needed. Just 24 seconds into the second period Alec Rauhauser let fly from

the right point, beating Cupido.

The Patriots kept firing from the blue line, and it kept paying off.

At the 4:55 mark, Kadrmas was parked on the doorstep when he redirected Nash Anderson’s shot from the left point.

Just 34 seconds later Century scored a power-play goal on a similar play. This time it was Logan Rauhauser shooting from the left side, and Holmen tipping it from Continued on 4D

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NAHL: Aberdeen at Bobcats. Prep wrestling: Rotary Tournament. Prep basketball: Turtle Mountain at Century.

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NBA’s Wizards assign rookie center to Dakota

By LOU BABIARZ Tribune Sports Editor For four-and-a-half seasons, the Dakota Wizards and Washington Wizards shared little more than a nickname.

That changed Thursday when the NBA’s Wizards opted to use their affiliation with Dakota for the first time, assigning rookie center Hamady N’Diaye to the D-

League.

N’Diaye is expected to be in the lineup for the Dakota Wizards tonight for their road game against the Maine N’Diaye Red Claws.

N’Diaye is the sixth player assigned to Dakota in franchise history

and second this season.

DeMarre Carroll’s assignment with the Wizards ended Wednesday when he was recalled by the Memphis Grizzlies.

The 7-foot, 235-pounder from Senegal was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the 56th pick in the 2010 NBA draft and dealt to Washington later that night.

The 23-year-old N’Diaye

has played very sparingly for Washington, playing just 12 minutes spread across four games. N’Diaye has scored three points, all on free throws, and has not attempted a field goal or grabbed a rebound.

N’Diaye played collegiately at Rutgers, where he was named the Big East defensive player of the year last season. He ranked third in the nation and first in the

AREA SPORTS MAINE 99, WIZARDS 95, OT

STANDING ROCK 60, GRANT COUNTY 44

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1-40-1 3, Kyle Locken 2-7 3-4 8, TarDeShawn Sims scored 26 MAxon Statistics unavailable. ryn Macpherson 3-4 2-2 8, Melanie Russell points for the Red Claws. 0-1 0-0 0, Toni Johnson 5-8 0-0 10, Shari Hewson 3-9 2-2 10, Rachel Mehus 2-6 1-3 CLASS B GIRLS BASKETBALL Tiny Gallon had 13 points 5, Domenique Whitmore 2-6 0-3 4, Dani Sad- STUTSMAN COUNTY TOURNAMENT owsky 1-5 0-0 2, Kinsi Olson 0-1 0-0 0. and 16 rebounds.

At Jamestown Wizards 22 54 69 92 95 Maine 28 42 69 92 99 WIZARDS (95): Anthony Good 6-14 3-5 18, Darren Cooper 4-8 5-5 14, Renaldo Major 6-15 7-12 19, Mike Hall 4-13 3-3 11, Chris Johnson 7-10 0-0 14, Mike Anderson 5-7 0-0 10, Walter Sharpe 3-10 0-0 6, Vernon Hamilton 1-7 1-2 3. Totals: 36-84 19-27 95.

MAINE (99): Matt Janning 8-17 1-2 17, Mario West 4-11 1-2 9, Champ Oguchi 4-10 3-3 11, DeShawn Sims 10-23 4-5 26, Tiny Gallon 5-13 3-4 13, Eugene Spates 4-7 0-0 11, Paul Harris 4-8 2-3 10, Lawrence Westbrook 1-2 0-0 2, Kenny Hayes 0-3 0-1 0.

Totals: 40-94 14-20 99.

3-pointers: W 4-13 (Goods 3-6, Cooper 13, Major 0-1, Hall 0-3), M 5-21 (Spates 3-4, Sims 2-5, Westbrook 0-1, Hayes 0-1, Harris 0-1, Oguchi 0-2, West 0-3). Fouls: W 19, M 21. Fouled out: None. Rebounds: W 49 (Johnson 11, Major 10), M 44 (Gallon 16).

Assists: W 14 (Cooper 6), M 16 (Janning 4).

Turnovers: W 15, M 10. Steals: W 6 (Johnson 2), M 6 (Sims 2, Gallon 2). Blocks: W 14 (Johnson 8, Anderson 4), M 3 (three with one).

STANDINGS East Conference

W L Pct Iowa 14 5 .737 Erie 11 6 .647 Fort Wayne 11 6 .647 Maine 9 9 .500 Springfield 5 12 .294 Dakota 4 14 .222 Sioux Falls 2 12 .143 West Conference W L Pct Tulsa 12 6 .667 Bakersfield 10 7 .588 New Mexico 10 7 .588 Reno 10 7 .588 Utah 8 6 .571 Rio Grande Valley 9 7 .563 Texas 8 7 .533 Austin 7 9 .438 Idaho 3 13 .188 Wednesday’s games Tulsa 115, Fort Wayne 86 Springfield 99, New Mexico 90 Iowa 124, Reno 109 Thursday’s games Maine 99, Dakota 95, OT Today’s games Sioux Falls at Erie, 6 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Tulsa, 7 p.m.

Springfield at Texas, 7 p.m.

Austin at Rio Grande Valley, 7 p.m.

Dakota at Maine, 7 p.m.

Reno at Utah, 8 p.m.

New Mexico at Idaho, 8 p.m.

Iowa at Bakersfield, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s games Sioux Falls at Fort Wayne, 6:30 p.m.

Tulsa at Texas, 7 p.m.

Austin at Rio Grande Valley, 7 p.m.

Reno at Utah, 8 p.m.

New Mexico at Idaho, 8 p.m.

Iowa at Bakersfield, 9 p.m.

GB — 2 2 4½ 8 9½ 9½ GB — 1½ 1½ 1½ 2 2 2½ 4 8

Totals: 24-61 12-20 66.

3-pointers: D 11-31 (Allarad 7-13, Mindt 39, Brandt 1-2, Dammen 0-1, Smith 0-3, Scherr 0-3), W 6-19 (Hewson 2-5 , Heier 26, Maxon 1-3, Locken 1-4, Johnson 0-1).

Fouls: D 17, W 16. Fouled out: None.

Rebounds: D 40 (Smith 11), W 52 (Heier 14).

Assists: D 13 (Allard 5), W 14 (Heier 3, Locken 3). Turnovers: D 10, W 18.

CLASS B BOYS BASKETBALL BEACH 75, HETTINGER 60 Beach 16 35 55 75 Hettinger 12 37 49 60 BEACH (75): Danny Skoglund 3, Trevor Sime 1, Jake Hardy 26, Brady Zachmann 6, Lloyd Weinreis 14, Jade Bishop 6, Landon Lechler 19. Totals 29 17-41 75.

HETTINGER (60): Justis Caldwell 14, Chris Sayler 3, Cory Christman 4, Ben Laufer 28, Stephen Kristy 4, Ander Thompson 4, Matt Schneider 3. Totals 23 11-23 60.

3-pointers: H 3 (Lauper). Fouls: B 23, H 27.

Fouled out: Caldwell, Kristy, Chadwick.

SOLEN 79, NEW SALEM-ALMONT 43 NS-A 8 19 27 43 Solen 13 31 55 79 NS-A (43): Camden Toepke 6, Skyler Rebel 15, Jared Bauer 3, Eathen Hager 5, Duncan Beth 8, Andrew Kreidt 4, Andrew Hulm 2.

Totals 19 4-14 43.

SOLEN (79): Kendrick Eagle 21, Christian Mutchler 6, Dystyn Luger 10, Justin Black Cloud 8, David Red Stone 6, Kendall Lester 19, Erick Long Feather 4, Chekotah American Horse 2, Allen One Horn 3. Totals 31 79 79.

3-pointers: NS-A 1 (Rebel), S 10 (Eagle 4, Lester 4, Black Cloud 1, One Horn 1). Fouls: NS-A 12, S 17. Fouled out: none.

LINTON-HMB 54, KIDDER COUNTY 37 KC 17 24 31 37 L-HMB 20 30 37 54 KC (37): Cody Wahl 10, Norm Nicholson 9, Jordan Leier 8, Ben Stroh 4, Keagen Foss 4, Luke Benz 2. Totals 15 4-6 37.

L-HMB (54): Kelsey Larson 21, Tanner Purintun 11, Ryan Dralle 8, Derek Roemmich 6, Tobie Wald 4, Nathan Weiser 2, David Schuetz 2. Totals 21 8-13 54.

3-pointers: KC 3 (Nicholson 2, Wahl 1), LHMB 4 (Larson 3, Purintun 1). Fouls: KC 16, L-HMB 11. Fouled out: KC, Benz.

FAITH, S.D. 66, HETTINGER 54 Faith 22 36 46 66 Hettinger 7 18 36 54 FAITH (66): Jade Keffeler 20, Kolbi Selby 17, Cody Trainor 17, Skyler Hulm 6, Jhett Williams 4, Royce Haines 2. Totals: 26-53 1122 66.

HETTINGER (54): Ben Laufer 24, Justis Caldwell 11, Cory Christman 7, Stephen Kristy 6, Dylan Chadwick 6. Totals: 23-53 11 54.

3-pointers: F 3 (Selby 3), H 7 (Laufer 4, Christman 1, Caldwell 1, Chadwick 1). Fouls: F 8, H 19. Fouled out: None.

MEN’S BASKETBALL NDSU 80, ORAL ROBERTS 74 OR (74)-Roundtree 4-11 1-2 9, Bell-Holter 7-8 3-5 17, Pearson 4-8 1-2 11, Holdman 59 5-5 15, Niles 5-10 0-0 12, Morton 0-0 0-0 0, Nasarre 0-3 2-2 2, McClintock 2-4 2-2 8.

Totals 27-53 14-18 74.

NDSU (80)-Tveidt 6-9 4-4 18, Bjorklund 02 0-0 0, Coleman 5-11 2-2 12, Lundberg 24 1-3 5, Braun 3-3 0-0 6, Felt 4-6 10-10 22, Zastrow 1-4 0-0 3, Carlson 7-9 0-2 14, Wright 0-1 0-0 0, Nagel 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 2850 17-21 80.

Halftime: NDSU 41, OR 38.

3-pointers: O 6-15 (Pearson 2-4, McClintock 2-4, Niles 2-5, Nasarre 0-2), N 7-17 (Felt 4-6, Tveidt 2-3, Zastrow 1-4, Lundberg 0-1, Coleman 0-3). Fouled Out: Niles. Rebounds: OR 25 (Roundtree 8), N 23 (Carlson 9).

Assists: O 10 (Pearson, Roundtree 4), N 17 (Coleman 7). Total fouls: O 17, N 19. Technicals: O bench 2. A—2,774.

WILLISTON STATE 112, DAKOTA COLLEGE-BOTTINEAU 82 DC-B (82): Jordan Ralph 3-5 2-2 8, Cobrette Parisien 2-6 0-0 4, Tyson Harding 1-6 0-0 3, Tyler Fischer 0-2 2-2 2, Adam Hunt 10-18 2-2 29, Jabari Martin 3-9 1-1 9, B.J. Belgarde 2-5 0-0 6, Josh Vedaa 2-7 0-05, Tyler Ystaas 1-3 1-2 3, Tony Balbirnie 1-2 12 3, James Odneal 1-1 2-4 4, Kody Keysor 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 28-68 12-19 82.

assigned players from the NBA’s Wizards.

The Chicago Bulls assigned Martynas Andriuskevicius to the Wizards in 2006.

The Memphis Grizzlies replaced Chicago as Dakota’s other affiliate the following season and have assigned four players — Hamed Haddadi, Hasheem Thabeet, Lester Hudson and Carroll — to the Wizards.

ON THE ICE WSC (112): Thad Perry 1-2 1-4 3, Derik Hawkey 6-9 2-2 15, Blake Nash 13-18 4-4 35, Charles Ward 9-14 5-6 24, Moriba Defreitas 0-1 3-5 3, Matt Kvernum 5-6 0-1 10, Jake Reynen 3-4 1-1 9, C.J. Vinger 3-6 2-2 9, Nick Markovich 2-5 0-0 4, Marc Price 0-1 0-2 0. Totals: 42-66 18-27 112.

3-pointers: D 12-19 (Hunt 7-13, Blegarde 2-5, Martin 2-5, Chambers 1-2, Vedaa 1-2, Harding 1-5, Balbirnie 0-1, Ralph 0-1), W 1022 (Nash 5-6, Reynen 2-3, Ward 1-2, Vinger 1-3, Hawkey 1-3, Perry 0-1, Rice 0-1, Markovich 0-3). Rebounds: D 26 (Hunt 7), W 37 (Defreitas 7). Fouls: D 19, W 17. Fouled out: Kvernum. Assists: D 17 (Ralph 3), W 20 (Hawkey 5). Turnovers: D 16, W 15.

D-LEAGUE

conference with 4.5 blocked shots per game. N’Diaye averaged 9.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game as a senior.

N’Diaye didn’t take up the game of basketball until age 16, before that competing as a soccer goalkeeper.

The Wizards have been affiliated with Washington since joining the D-League in the 2006-07 season, but had not received any

NAPOLEON 70, SOUTH BORDER 58 South Border 15 32 44 58 Napoleon 21 39 55 70 SB (58): Ross Knoll 7, Phillip Wanner 5, Adam Jacobson 2, Michael Jacobson 11, Matt Kretschmar 7, Skylar Helfenstein 24, Talon Petersen 2. Totals 23 4-6 58.

NAPOLEON (70): Jonah Schwartzenberger 18, Donovan Gross 10, Trent Fettig 3, Grant Weigel 6, Elijah Hilzendeger 8, Wade Rath-Wald 25. Totals 27 13-23 70.

3-pointers: SB 8 (Helfenstein 4, Knoll 1, Wanner 1, M. Jacobson 1, Kretschmar 1), N 3 (Helzendeger 2, Gross 1). Fouls: SB 20, N 10 Fouled out: none.

CENTER-STANTON 45, FLASHER 38 C-S 2 17 28 45 Flasher 12 22 29 38 C-S (45): Joey Barth 16, Jesse Henke 8, Wendlin Berger 7, Jacob Kraft 5, Brian Alderin 5, Adam Berg 4. Totals: 15 12-23 45.

FLASHER (38): Kol Harsche 14, Justin Brenz 13, Shelby Schmidt 5, Taylor Krenz 4, Cody Pfleger 1, J.W. Froelich 1. Totals: 14 815 38.

3-pointers: C-S 3 (Henke 1, Barth 1, Kraft 1), F 2 (Harsche 1, Schmidt 1). Fouled out: Schmidt.

Napoleon 80, Central Prairie 31 Central Prairie 6 15 22 31 Napoleon 17 38 56 80 CP (31): Shelby Larson 2, Jordan Spitzer 8, Lindsay Anderson 8, Noelle Moser 2, Alecia Krapp 9, Courtney Heupel 2. Totals 14 2-9 31.

HETTINGER (80): Kendra Weigel 13, Rikki Schmidt 10, Shenille Laber 2, Mikayla Young 6, Sheridon Sewald 16, Brenna Schmidt 13, Mariah Jangula 12, Heather Wolf 2, Kecia Ellison 4, Kayla Gross 2. Totals 36 7-9 80.

3-pointers: CP 1 (Krapp), N 1 (Weigel).

Fouls: CP 6, M 14. Fouled out: none.

South Border 53, Edgeley-Kulm 27 E-K 8 17 23 27 SB 14 29 38 53 E-K (27): Jessa Lindgren 11, Miranda Brandenburg 8, Kaitlin Ost 4, Megan Haag 2, Roxanne Mathern 2. Totals: 12 3-7 27.

SB (53): Karly Wald 26, Emilee Rath 10, Kaylee Ketterling 8, Carla Schulz 4, Madison Schnabel 2, Kalli Scherbensky 2, Raisha Meier 1. Totals: 23 7-14 53.

3-pointers: E-K 0, SB 0. Fouls: E-K 13, SB 13. Fouled out: None.

Ellendale 42, LaMoure 21 LaMoure 5 12 17 21 Ellendale 12 19 29 42 LAMOURE (21): Mackenzie Bickford 5, Courtney Klever 4, Courtney Good 4, Sarah Holen 3, Hailie Gentzkow 2, Erika Armitage 2, Tyla Aberle 1. Totals: 9 2-4 21.

ELLENDALE (42): Meg Martin 17, Ashley Herman 8, Kiley Fuller 6, Mackenzie Betting 4, Jamie Diemert 2, Kinsey Holm 2, Brianna Vance 2, Emily Wang 1. Totals: 17 7-15 42.

3-pointers: L 1 (Holen 1), E 1 (Fuller 1).

Fouls: L 14, E 8. Fouled out: None.

Midkota 55, Pingree-Buchanan-Kensal 52 P-B-K 10 20 32 52 Midkota 13 32 43 55 PBK (52): Kelly Carlson 23, Amanda Beckley 9, Jacie Pfaff 8, Morgan Thomas 6, Shelby Backer 4, Codi-Lyn Trangsrud 2. Totals: 20 6-10 52.

MIDKOTA (55): Shaye Ronningen 17, Kallie Frappier 9, Emily Berge 8, Caitlinn Hardin 7, Callie Harding 6, Sadie Harding 6, Brandi Ehlers 2. Totals: 24-51 6-11 55.

3-pointers: PBK 6 (Carlson 4, Thomas 2), M 1 (S Harding 1). Fouls: PBK 12, M 13.

Fouled out: None.

MCLEAN COUNTY TOURNAMENT At Underwood Quarterfinals Max 45, Wilton-Wing 38 W-W 8 23 31 38 Max 7 17 23 45 W-W (38): Mandie Bauer 6, Alley Heck 2, Kaeley Schatz 2, Jocelyn Bergquist 3, Brianna Weisenburger 3, Sammie St. Claire 11, Teddy Lyn Bergquist 4, Heidi Clausen 7.

Totals 13 11-20 38.

MAX (45): McKayla Huesers 10, Brianna Johnson 1, Whitney Huesers 8, Mikali Jo Talbott 23, Mekenszie Scheresky 3. Totals 16, 7-17 45.

3-pointers: W-W 1 (Clausen), M 6 (Talbott 3, M. Huesers 1, W. Huesers 1, Scheresky 1).

Fouls: W-W 21, M 23. Fouled out: Bauer, Schatz, Johnson, Kimberly Delzen.

Underwood 29, Mandaree 27 Mandaree 13 15 20 27 Underwood 7 20 28 29 MANDAREE (27): Jada Charging 4, Kaelani Iu 10, Alyssa Baker 5, Hailey Lincoln 8.

Totals: unavailable.

UNDERWOOD (29): Alix Auck 13, Miranda Pochant 6, Tami Heidelberger 2, Chlorisa Hirschkorn 1, Taylor Sorenson 2, Abby Landenberger 5. Totals: unavailable.

3-pointers: unavailable. Fouls: M 13, U 12.

Fouled out: Lincoln.

Washburn 53, Hazen JV 26 Washburn 17 30 40 53 Hazen 2 13 18 26 WASHBURN (53): Spanky Clayton 21, Kayla Loutzenhiser 1, Candy Ankenbauer 2, Brittany Schell 2, Sam Schell 12, Sam Tweeten 1, Kennedy Retterath 4, Cori Moberg 10.

Totals 18 16-26 53.

HAZEN (26): Shelby Lemer 4, Rachael Hansana 15, Sadie Bolton 2, Kelsey Mohl 5.

Totals 11 4-12 26.

3-pointers: W 1 (Clayton), H 0. Fouls: W 14, H 18. Fouled out: none.

Turtle Lake-Mercer-McClusky 54, Garrison 32 TLMM 20 33 45 54 Garrison 4 14 26 32 TLMM (54): Kelsey Everett 3, Jamie White Bear 12, Taylor Fylling 4, Sabrina Rust 4, Jacy Hausauer 8, Chloe Bayless 2, Kimberly Tkach 21. Totals 25 3-9 54.

GARRISON (32): Liz Mehlhoff 2, Briana

Johnson 2, Macie Johnson 3, Libbi Hasenwinkel 4, Sommer Johnson 4, Jess ica Stumvoll 5. Totals 12 7-21 32.

3-pointers: TLMM 1 (Everett), G 1(M. Johnson). Fouls: TLMM 20, G 11. Fouled out: none.

Bismarck Bobcats vs. Aberdeen Wings

MOTT-REGENT 44, NEW ENGLAND 29 New England 5 12 18 29 Mott-Regent 8 16 28 44 NE (29): Bryanna Rasch 8, Hannah Nordby 7, Gabbi Hanson 4, Erin Volk 4, Kristen Neprash 2, Heather Kuntz 2, Autumn Wolf 2.

Totals: 10 9-18 29.

M-R (44): MacKenzie Hertz 12, Alexis Roth 10, Kim Miller 8, Naomi Meier 4, Shelby iller 4, Marah Friez 2, Abby Honeyman 2, McKayla Roll 1, Brandi Poehls 1. Totals: 15 14-24 44.

3-pointers: NE 0, M-R 0. Fouls: NE 20, MR 14. Fouled out: NE, India Fitterer.

CARRINGTON 51, HARVEY-WELLS COUNTY 29 Carrington 14 31 45 51 H-WC 8 15 21 29 CARRINGTON (51): Emily Thompson 16, Becca Scherr 15, Sierra Rosenau 9, Brittany Roundy 5, Brittany Indegaard 2, Noelle Braaten 2, Megan Harrington 2. Totals: 23 13 51.

H-WC (29): Maggie Lorenz 13, Sheyenne Schneider 6, Haley Fornshell 4, Kristen Meland2, Rachel Nyhus 2, Sam Maxwell 2.

Totals: 12 4-12 29.

3-pointers: C 4 (Scherr 3, Roundy 1), H-WC 1 (Schneider 1). Fouls: C 13, H-WC 6. Fouled out: None.

NEW ROCKFORD-SHEYENNE 45, BARNES COUNTY NORTH 37 BCN 8 12 21 37 NR-S 11 17 28 45 BCN (37): Lyndsey Erker 2, Allison Windish 9, Saralin Petersen 5, Sydney Reimers 5, Jenna Gullickson 8, Sara Heinze 2, Emily Albrecht 6. Totals 14 8-13 37.

NR-S (45): Cassidy Weber 18, Taryn Jacob 14, Katie Jo Demester 3, Lacey Grann 10.

Totals 16 1-19 45.

3-pointers: BCN 1 (Albrecht), NR-S 3 (Jacob). Fouls: BCN 13, NR-S 13. Fouled out: Grann.

When and where: Today, 7:15 p.m. at VFW Sports Center; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. at Aberdeen, S.D. On the air: KLXX (1270 AM).

Records: The Wings are 11-17-3 and fifth in the Central Division. The Bobcats are 19-8-1 and tied for first in the Central.

Series: Aberdeen and Bismarck play 12 times this season. The Bobcats are 4-3-0 against the Wings.

Notes: The Bobcats finally return to the ice after a Christmas break that was extended by two postponements last week. ... The Bobcats have won five straight and are 13-2-0 in their last 15.

Aberdeen is 3-7-2 in its last 12. ... The Bobcats have added former Alexandria goalie Alex Fons and former Austin forward Mike Fazio. Fons was 1-2-0 with a 4.09 GAA for the Blizzard. Fazio had a goal and two assists in 18 games with the Bruins.

Quotable: “As well as we were playing before Christmas, it would have been nice to play last weekend. But it was good that the players got to go home and take advantage of the break.” — Bobcats coach Layne Sedevie.

— By Lou Babiarz STANDINGS CENTRAL DIVISION Team BOBCATS Coulee Region Owatonna Alexandria Aberdeen

W 19 18 17 12 11

L OTL 8 1 9 3 12 4 12 4 17 3

Pts 39 39 38 28 25

BEACH 58, HETTINGER 36 Hettinger 8 18 30 36 Beach 17 34 48 58 HETTINGER (36): Tess Kilwein 16, Samantha Kristy 10, Alix Pearson 8, Paige Gravning 2. Totals 14 5-13 36.

BEACH (58): Brittney Dietz 20, Abby Weinreis 14, Bobbi Jo Nielson 6, Jill Rising 5, Kiffin Howard 5, Bailey Waldal 4, Lacee Vollum 4. Totals 22 11-16 58.

3-pointers: H 3 (Kristy 2, Kilwein 1), B 3 (Weinreis 2, Howard 1). Fouls: H 15, B 13.

Fouled out: None.

SCRANTON 43, BOWMAN COUNTY 25 Scranton 7 27 33 43 BC 9 16 18 25 SCRANTON (43): Shelby Burns 15, Kaitlyn Olson 13, Kaitlin Reitz 6, Taylor Kelner 3, Courtney Anderson 3, Cassie Holt 3. Totals: 16 10-17 43.

BC (25): Kayla Palczewski 6, Haley Sabe 6, Kit Miller 5, Kaitlyn Brooks 3, Morgan Woodly 2, Miranda Miller 2, Erika Olson 1. Totals: 10 5-12 25.

3-pointers: S 1 (Olson 1). Fouls: S 9, BC 16. Fouled out: Sabe.

HEART RIVER 58, RICHARDTON-TAYLOR 41 HR 16 27 42 58 R-T 6 14 28 41 HR (58): Mary Hlbechuk 13, Jenessa Schmidt 10, Alicia Palaniuk 9, Hannah Rodne 8, Quinn Steffan 8, Shea Shypkowski 4.

RT (41): Sadie Gjermundson 14, Halle Olson 9, Brianna Steiner 8, Amber Rebel 6, Logan Olson 4.

GIRLS HOCKEY JAMESTOWN 6, MANDAN 3 Jamestown 0 2 6 — 6 Mandan 1 2 0 — 3 First period: 1. M, Teddi Shwagler (Bri Marman), 8:00.

Second period: 2. J, Amber Schaak (Stephanie Kamlitz), 1:08. 3. M, Maddie Huber (Payton Bryan), 2:20. 4. J, Mataya Olson (Brenna Pritchert, 3:50 (pp). 5. M, Brooke Lillis (unassisted) 11:19.

Third period: 6. J, Torri Kamlitz (Olson, Kamlitz), 3:08. 7. J, Olsen (Schaak), 5:28. 8.

J, Schaak (unassisted), 5:34. 9. J, Schaak (empty net), 16:34.

Goalie Saves: J — Carrisa Finck 4-3-6— 13, M — Dani Taylor 11-17-6—34.

Penalties: J 3 minors, M 5 minors.

Thielges, SB, pinned Wyatt strength and conditioning James 4:21. coach at SDSU. He served as athletic director at Fargo CURLING USA NORTH QUALIFIER Shanley in 1997 and 1998.

At VFW Sports Center Baalke was promoted to Draw 1 Roland (Minot) 10, 49ers general manager this Jerod Travis Kitchens (Devils Lake) 4 130 111 03 — 10 week. He most recently had Roland Kitchens 002 000 20 — 4 been the NFL team’s vice Owen Sampson (Edmore) 8, Berg (West Fargo) 1 president of player person- Ryan Sampson 211 010 3 — 8 Berg 000 001 0 — 1 nel.

CLASS A WRESTLING WILLISTON 43, ST. MARY’S 27 119 pounds: Matt Cleary, SM, won by forfeit. 125: Paul Michaelson, W, def. Dane Fischer by major dec., 9-1. 130: Kirby Kane, W, def. Josh McCormick by major dec., 9-1.

135: Eddie Maisey, W, pinned Jason Richter 1:46. 140: Josh Schwartz, SM, def. Joe Rice 16-10. 145: Calvin Sandberg, W, pinned Alex Willey 1:36. 152: Brock Krumm, SM, pinned Alex Haaland :52.

160: Christian Boechler, SM, def. Skylar Moe 3-1. 171: Jacob Sargeant, W, won by forfeit. 189: Adam Stevens, W, won by forfeit. 215: Brandon Sandberg, W, pinned Norman Randle 3:34. 285: Ty Bakken, W, won by forfeit. 103: Tate Barnhardt, SM, def. M. Sammy 8-6 OT. 112: Austin Huck, SM, won by forfeit.

CLASS B WRESTLING NAPOLEON 40, LINTON-HMB 23 103 pounds: Chase Jacob, Linton-HMB, def. Austin Becker, 10-4. 112: John Grunefelder, N, def. Josh Schlosser, 11-1, major dec. 119: Andrew Leier, L-HMB, def. Mathew Gross, 13-8. 125: Jared Schumacher, LHMB, def. Trenton Jangula, 4-3. 130: Alec Mann, N, pinned Logan Gross, 1:06. 135: Ryan Becker, N, pinned Garret Roemmich, 1:19.

140: Brock Nagel, L-HMB, def. Nick Becker, 17-2, technical fall. 145: Jared Reis, N, pinned Clay Jacob, 2:24. 152: Sheldon Dewald, N, pinned Mike Oien, 1:18. 171: Steven Weigel, N, won by forfeit. 189: Ethen Roemmich, L-HMB, pinned Nic Caldwell, 2:51. 215: Cole Breidenbach, N, won by forfeit. 285: Levi Roemmich, L-HMB, def.

Andrew Beine, 2-1.

FOOTBALL

SOUTH BORDER 52, LISBON 21

NEW 49ERS GM HAS TIES TO THE DAKOTAS

At Lisbon 215 pounds: Devin Olson, South Border, pinned Kasey Gorettum, 4:31. 285: Justin Deede, SB, pinned Dylan Opatz, 5:34. 103: Jacob Aberle, Lisbon, pinned Andy Nolz, 1:17. 112: Jace Berg, L, def. Tucker Meidinger, 7-1. 119: Blacke Bosche, SB, pinned Taylor Busche, 3:27. 125: Dylan Urbach, L, pinned Nash Bettenhausen, 2:52. 130: Brayden Kuntz, SB, def. Wyatt Aberle, 7-4.

135: Michael Wolf, SB, pinned Taylor Olson, 3:49. 140: Taylor Ketterling, SB, pinned Tyrel Long, 5:35. 145: Drew Dockter, SB, pinned Garrett Johnson, 3:56. 152: Andrew Jochim, SB, def. Joe Nelson 5-4.

160: Michael Nord, L, pinned Trevor Meidinger, :50. 171: Tyler Meidinger, SB, def.

Antonio Anguiano, 11-0, major dec. 189:

FARGO (AP) — The new general manager of the San Francisco 49ers has ties to the Dakotas.

Trent Baalke was a graduate assistant and defensive line coach at NDSU in 1989.

From 1990 to 1995, he was the defensive line and

Austin 9 17 2 NORTH DIVISION Team W L OTL St. Louis 23 8 4 Motor City 20 9 1 Janesville 19 11 2 Michigan 18 10 3 Traverse City 18 12 1 Springfield 17 15 2 Chicago 7 20 4 Port Huron 1 26 1 SOUTH DIVISION Team W L OTL Amarillo 21 5 3 Texas 20 7 5 Topeka 21 8 2 Wichita Falls 16 14 3 Corpus Christi 13 18 2 New Mexico 8 20 3 WEST DIVISION Team W L OTL Fairbanks 23 10 2 Alaska 22 14 1 Wenatchee 20 11 2 Kenai River 15 13 3 Fresno 12 17 3 Dawson Creek 11 22 2 Wednesday, Jan. 5 Michigan 5, Traverse City 3 Thursday, Jan. 6 Janesville 5, Motor City 0 Topeka 7, Corpus Christi 1 Alaska at Kenai River, n Friday, Jan. 7 Aberdeen at BOBCATS, 7:15 p.m.

Austin at Owatonna Coulee Region at Alexandria Topeka at Corpus Christi Chicago at Traverse City Springfield at St. Louis Fresno at Wichita Falls Michigan at Port Huron Motor City at Janesville Amarillo at New Mexico Wenatchee at Dawson Creek Alaska at Kenai River Saturday, Jan. 8 BOBCATS at Aberdeen, 7:15 p.m.

Owatonna at Austin Alexandria at Coulee Region Motor City at Janesville St. Louis at Springfield Port Huron at Michigan Topeka at Corpus Christi Chicago at Traverse City Fresno at Wichita Falls Amarillo at New Mexico Alaska at Kenai River Wenatchee at Dawson Creek

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Smith,

Zach Jacobson (Langdon) 9, Dave Jensen (Bismarck) 7 Jacobson 002 103 030 — 9 Jensen 110 020 102 — 7 John Benton (St. Paul, Minn.) 8, Matt Stevens (St. Paul), 4 Stevens 200 001 01 — 4 Benton 031 110 20 — 8 Draw 2 Craig Disher (Rolla) 8, Jerod Roland (Minot) 1 Roland 010 00 — 1 Disher 002 42 — 8 Jason Larway (Seattle) 9, Owen Sampson (Edmore) 4 Sampson 020 001 010 — 4 Larway 300 210 102 — 9 Zach Jacobson (Langdon) 8, Mike Farbelow (St. Paul) 6 Jacobson 100 103 021 0 — 8 Farbelow 011 020 100 1 — 6 Ryan Berg (West Fargo) 10, Dave Jensen (Bismarck) 9 Berg 041 101 002 01 — 10 Jensen 100 020 320 10 — 9

NORTH DAKOTA SCOREBOARD THURSDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Carrington 52, Litchville-Marion-Mont. 24 Central Cass 80, Finley-Sharon-HopePage 25 Eureka-Bowdle, S.D. 41, Stras.-Zeeland 23 Four Winds-Minnewaukan 62, Grafton 55 Hillsboro 63, Dakota Prairie 58 Minot Our Redeemer’s 92, Kenmare 66 New Rockford-Sheyenne 76, Barnes County North 45 North Star 82, Benson County 36 Rolla-Rock Lake 69, Langdon 52 Rugby 50, Westhope-Newburg 44 Sawyer 41, Anamoose-Drake 36 Solen 79, New Salem 43 St. John 57, Rolette-Wolford 49 Thompson 65, Griggs County Central 49 GIRLS BASKETBALL Central Cass 61, Finley-SHP 21 Central Valley 61, Ford-Lank-Park River 38 Eureka-Bowdle, S.D. 51, Stras.-Zeeland 31 Kindred 55, Enderlin 39 Milnor 61, Lidgerwood 41 North Sargent 57, Sargent Central 41 Northern Cass 55, May Port CG 43 Oakes 40, Hankinson 38 Tioga 46, Trenton 26 Devils Lake Tournament First Round Dak. Prairie 60, Lakota-Adams-Edmore 36 Devils Lake JV 68, North Star 47 Four Winds 79, Munich-Starkweather 34 BOYS HOCKEY East Grand Forks, Minn. 3, GFRR 2, OT Fargo Davies 5, Kittson Co.Central, Minn. 0 Grafton-Park River 2, Devils Lake-Cando 1

SCOREBOARD FOOTBALL NFL PLAYOFFS Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 8 New Orleans at Seattle, 3:30 p.m.(NBC) N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.(NBC) Sunday, Jan. 9 B a l t i m o r e a t K a n s a s C i t y, Noon(CBS) Green Bay at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m.(FOX)

BOWL GLANCE Friday, Jan. 7 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Texas A&M (9-3) vs. LSU (10-2), 7 p.m.(FOX)

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 27 7 .794 New York 20 14 .588 Philadelphia 14 21 .400 Toronto 12 23 .343 New Jersey 10 25 .286 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 28 9 .757 Orlando 23 12 .657 Atlanta 24 14 .632 Charlotte 12 21 .364 Washington 8 25 .242 Central Division

GB — 7 13½ 15½ 17½ GB — 4 4½ 14 18

W L Pct GB Chicago 23 11 .676 — Indiana 14 18 .438 8 Milwaukee 13 20 .394 9½ Detroit 11 24 .314 12½ Cleveland 8 27 .229 15½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 29 6 .829 — Dallas 26 9 .743 3 New Orleans 21 15 .583 8½ Houston 16 19 .457 13 Memphis 16 19 .457 13 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Utah 24 12 .667 — Oklahoma City24 13 .649 ½ Denver 20 14 .588 3 Portland 19 17 .528 5 Minnesota 9 27 .250 15 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 25 11 .694 — Phoenix 14 19 .424 9½ Golden State 14 21 .400 10½ L.A. Clippers 11 24 .314 13½ Sacramento 7 25 .219 16 Wednesday’s games Toronto 120, Cleveland 105 New Jersey 96, Chicago 94 Orlando 97, Milwaukee 87 Philadelphia 109, Washington 97 Boston 105, San Antonio 103 Charlotte 108, Minnesota 105, OT Golden State 110, New Orleans 103 Portland 103, Houston 100 Atlanta 110, Utah 87 L.A. Clippers 106, Denver 93 L.A. Lakers 99, Phoenix 95 Thursday’s games Oklahoma City 99, Dallas 95

We’re On THE ROAD AGAIN! Saturday Jan. 8 Sunday Jan. 9

Marauders vs. Minnesota State-Moorhead Women – 2 PM, Men – 4 PM in Moorhead

Marauders vs. U-Minn Crookston Women – 2 PM, Men – 4 PM in Crookston

Next home stand is Jan. 14-15 when the Marauders meet Southwest Minnesota State and Minnesota State-Mankato. See you at the MAC! Listen to the games with Voice of the Marauders Jack Michaels on ESPN 710 AM.

Denver at Sacramento, n Friday’s games San Antonio at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Washington, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Houston at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTPts GF GA Pittsburgh 42 26 12 4 56 136 97 Phildlpha 40 25 10 5 55 135106

N YRangers 41 23 15 3 49 121104 NYIslanders 38 12 20 6 30 90122 New Jersey 40 10 28 2 22 71128 Northeast Division GP W LOTPts GF GA Boston 39 21 12 6 48 111 88 Montreal 41 22 16 3 47 102 97 Buffalo 39 16 18 5 37 108118 Ottawa 40 16 19 5 37 90121 Toronto 39 15 20 4 34 96118 Southeast Division GP W LOTPts GF GA Tampa Bay 41 24 12 5 53 123130 Washngtn 41 23 12 6 52 120107 Atlanta 43 22 15 6 50 134127 Carolina 39 18 15 6 42 112117 Florida 38 18 18 2 38 104 98 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W LOTPts GF GA Detroit 40 25 10 5 55 138113 Nashville 39 20 13 6 46 99 94 St. Louis 39 20 13 6 46 106110 Chicago 42 21 18 3 45 130122

Columbus 40 20 17 3 43 103118 Northwest Division GP W LOTPts GF GA Vancouvr 39 26 8 5 57 134 96 Colorado 41 21 15 5 47 136130 Minnesota 40 20 15 5 45 103114 Calgary 41 18 20 3 39 108118 Edmonton 39 13 19 7 33 100132 Pacific Division GP W LOTPts GF GA Dallas 41 24 13 4 52 118113 San Jose 40 21 14 5 47 118112 Phoenix 40 19 13 8 46 112115 Anaheim 43 21 18 4 46 110123 LosAngeles 39 22 16 1 45 116 96 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s games N.Y. Rangers 2, Carolina 1, OT Pittsburgh 8, Tampa Bay 1 Atlanta 3, Florida 2 Dallas 4, Chicago 2 Vancouver 3, Calgary 1 Nashville 4, Anaheim 1 Thursday’s games Minnesota 3, Boston 1 Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 2 Toronto 6, St. Louis 5, SO Montreal 2, Pittsburgh 1, SO Phoenix 2, Colorado 0 Edmonton 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Nashville at Los Angeles, n Buffalo at San Jose, n Today’s games Toronto at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Columbus at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

WILD 3, BRUINS 1 Minnesota 0 1 2— 3 Boston 0 1 0— 1 First period—None.

Second period—1, Minnesota, Havlat 9 (O’Sullivan), 4:45 (pp). 2, Boston, Kampfer 3 (Seguin, Bergeron), 10:50.

Third period—3, Minnesota, Clutterbuck 12, 2:22. 4, Minnesota, Koivu 10 (Madden, Clutterbuck), 19:17 (en).

Shots on Goal—Minnesota 9-169—34. Boston 13-10-13—36.

Goalies—Minnesota, Theodore.

Boston, Rask. A—17,565 (17,565).

T—2:21.

TRANSACTIONS THURSDAY BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Agreed to terms with 1B Derrek Lee on a oneyear contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Designated INF-OF Jordan Brown for assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with OF David Murphy on a one-year contract and with LHP Zach Jackson and OF Erold Andrus on minor league contracts.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms with 2B Dan Uggla on a fiveyear contract.

CINCINNATI REDS—Agreed to terms with RHP Jared Burton on a one-year contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Agreed

to terms with OF Caleb Gindl, C Anderson Delarosa, OF Logan Schafer and INF Zelous Wheeler on minor league contracts.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Agreed to terms with LHP J.C. Romero on a one-year contract and with RHP Brian Bass, C Tuffy Gosewich, C Joel Naughton, INF Robb Quinlan, RHP Michael Schwimer, RHP Michael Stutes and INF-OF Delwyn Young on minor league contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT—Reassigned C Dexter Pittman to Sioux Falls (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Fired Bill Davis defensive coordinator.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed OL Branndon Braxton, OL Pat Murray, OL Phil Trautwein, RB Tyler Clutts and RB Quinn Porter, TE Tyson DeVree and DB DeAngelo Smith from practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS— Assigned D Jassen Cullimore to Rockford (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS— Waived D Mike Commodore and C Kyle Wilson. Placed LW Ethan Moreau on injured reserve. Recalled LW Matt Calvert from Springfield (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES—Recalled G Matt Climie from San Antonio (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Assigned D Marc-Andre Bergeron to Norfolk (AHL).

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Cowboys pick Garrett as 8th head coach

By JAIME ARON AP Pro Football Writer ARLINGTON, Texas — Jason Garrett nailed his audition. He gets to remain coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

O w n e r Je r r y Jo n e s took the interim label off Garrett on Thursday and made him — officially — t h e e i g h t h Garrett head coach in the history of this proud franchise. He’s the first head coach who also played for the Cowboys, as he was a backup to Troy Aikman in the 1990s.

“He’s truly one of our

own,” Jones said during a news conference at Cowboys Stadium. “We know him well for the qualifications he has for this position. I know that he has spent his entire life preparing for this day. And he is well-qualified.”

Garrett made the choice easy for Jones by going 5-3 during his half-season in charge. He took over a club that had been 1-7 and was asked to merely make them competitive. He not only compiled a winning record, but his losses were by a total of seven points. Having seen what Garrett could do, Jones didn’t even interview him.

He considered receivers coach Ray Sherman and Miami assistant head coach Todd Bowles, who could still join the staff as defensive

coordinator.

“I was fortunate to be on teams here in the ’90s that went to the top of the National Football League,” Garrett said. “I understand how those teams played. I like to refer to it as the Cowboy way.”

The Cowboys needed new leadership when a season that began with legitimate aspirations of becoming the first team to play in the Super Bowl at their home stadium went rotten. Jones fired Wade Phillips at midseason and turned to Garrett, the 44-year-old assistant head coach and one of the highest-paid assistants in the league.

The deck seemed stacked against him. The team was coming off consecutive

blowout losses, playoff hopes were gone and quarterback Tony Romo was out with a season-ending injury.

It also was Garrett’s first time as a head coach on any level.

And, as offensive coordinator, he was partly to blame for the mess. But the Princeton grad had spent years preparing for the opportunity and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He started the workday earlier, added hitting to midweek practices, required players to jog between drills and cracked down on rules, including ones he added. He had huge digital clocks installed around the locker room to avoid any excuses about being late to a meeting. He was constantly upbeat.

The Cowboys responded,

cutting down on turnovers and penalties, and began forcing other teams into mistakes. They won four games with 38-year-old backup quarterback Jon Kitna and another with third-stringer Stephen McGee making his first start.

Jones believes the Cowboys have enough key players in place to bounce back quickly. Despite the lousy record, Dallas had five players make the Pro Bowl, most from any team.

Garrett will have a say in who stays and who goes, including the coaches. The defense is especially likely to be overhauled after allowing the most points and yards in franchise history. Jones remains committed to a 3-4 alignment.

You want mercurial? Then you want Bud Adams We’re barely a week into 2011, but Tennessee’s Bud Adams just locked up my vote for NFL Owner of the Year.

When was the last time an 88-year-old boss decided to teach his team’s 27-yearold star quarterback a lesson in what “mercurial” really means?

Never.

Yet that’s just what Adams did Wednesday night by fiat from his office in Houston, telling the Titans’ former No. 1 draft pick and fellow Texan Vince Young to hit the road.

“These kinds of decisions are never easy and this is especially true for this particular player,” Adams said in a statement. “I certainly wish that things would have worked out better, but I think it is best for the franchise that we move on at this point.”

You could have made a fortune during the last decade betting who would win every time a “him-orme” argument between player and coach percolated to the very top of any pro organization. That’s because it’s always cheaper to chuck the coach, and it was almost certainly true in this case.

Jeff Fisher, the longest-

JIM LITKE

tenured coach in the league, is set to collect $6.5 million next season in the final year of his contract; Young was scheduled to make as much as $13 million —including a roster bonus of $4.5 million — in the fifth and final year of his.

Adams can be a tightfisted owner and until a new collective bargaining agreement is in place, it’s impossible to say how much the Titans will owe Young — if anything at all — when they cut or trade him early next month. But enough money was still at stake so that Young, following Adams’ lead, decided to temper his parting shot. He thanked Adams, Fisher, his coaches, teammates and fans and said, LeBron-like, that he looked forward to “bringing my talents to a new team.”

But every one of them — save for Adams and a handful of teammates who were fellow Longhorns — would

have volunteered to drive him to the airport long ago.

During five oft-injured seasons, Young was 30-17 as a starter, but a much moretelling 13-13 against opponents who were .500 or better. Fisher simplified the offense to accommodate the quarterback in his rookie year, but was never able to make much progress afterward.

It was no secret that Young watched only so much film, studied less, rarely played hurt and often showed up late for practice and rehab sessions, or skipped them altogether.

Despite the grumbling at the lower levels of the organization, and with Adams’ tacit approval from above, Young still behaved like the hotshot he was in college, prone to mood swings and still determined to get by on talent and little else. But by the end of his second major meltdown in November — during which Young memorably tore off pieces of his uniform and tossed them into the stands, then punctuated it by cussing out his coach — one thing had changed: Fisher was finally tired of covering up for him.

He made clear Young

wasn’t going to start another game so long as he was coach, “even if he’s healthy,” and then kicked the can upstairs. It was a gutsy move, considering Fisher was far from blameless for the Titans’ disappointing 610 finish and orders to take Young with the No. 3 pick in the 2006 draft came down directly from Adams’ office.

Besides, Fisher’s boss can be an imperious guy, as Adams proved little more than a year ago by celebrating a win over Buffalo with an obscene gesture that earned him a $250,000 fine from the league.

Asking him to give up on Young — who engineered the Longhorns’ 2006 run to the national championship — was a little like asking your parents to turn over the car keys.

Then again, Adams’ desk was piled high with evidence. Besides the dire reports from his front-office staff, a newspaper poll earlier this week showed a majority of Titans fans wanted Fisher back over Young and reports of unhappy sponsors squeezed whatever little wiggle room remained in his heart for Young.

Adams tried to salvage

some pride by saying he still intended to review the “direction of the coaching staff.”

That means Fisher, assuming he does come back next season, will have to make sacrificial lambs of one or more of his assistants. Likely among the first to go will be his close pal, Chuck Cecil, who moved up from defensive backs coach to coordinator only two years ago and still looks overmatched.

Even so, it’s a small price to pay. You could cobble together a long unemployment line of coaches who got saddled with petulant stars and walked confidently into the owner’s den saying “him or me” — only to walk out clutching a pink slip.

But this time, even Young’s closest friends on the team had a hunch things would end differently.

“Some things you might not be able to fix” said tight end Bo Scaife, Young’s teammate at Texas and Tennessee, “so you just move on.”

Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org

ed last Sunday against the Rams and helped the team to a 16-6 win that clinched the NFC West title.

Carroll is going with the more experienced Hasselbeck in the playoffs. He has nine career playoff starts and has led Seattle to wins in its last four home playoff games.

March, two months after Garrett Hartley’s field goal won the NFL championship game for New Orleans over Minnesota on the opening series of OT. Coaching staffs have put plenty of thought into how to deal with the new rule.

the AP poll for the first time since the unbeaten 1940 team finished No. 2.

NFL DIGEST Texans hire Wade Phillips to run defense HOUSTON (AP) — Wade Phillips faces a challenge in fixing the Houston Texans’ defense.

Phillips was hired as Houston’s new defensive coordinator on Wednesday, assigned to revamp a unit that dropped to the bottom of the league this season.

The former Dallas Cowboys coach joins Gary Kubiak’s staff two days after the Texans fired defensive coordinator Frank Bush, secondary coach David Gibbs, linebackers coach Johnny Holland and assistant linebackers coach Robert Saleh.

The Texans (6-10) lost eight of their last 10 games, mostly due to a defense that ranked as one of the NFL’s worst. Houston finished 30th in yards allowed (386.6 per game) and last against the pass (267.5 yards per game).

Phillips becomes the third defensive coordinator in Kubiak’s tenure, which

began in 2006 and was on tenuous ground until owner Bob McNair said this week that he was sticking with his head coach.

The 63-year-old Phillips, a defensive coordinator for the bulk of his 35-year career, ran the defense in Denver from 1989-92, overlapping Kubiak’s playing career as John Elway’s backup for the Broncos.

Seahawks to start Matt Hasselbeck vs. Saints RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Matt Hasselbeck will be the starting quarterback Saturday when the Seattle Seahawks host the New Orleans Saints in the NFC playoffs.

Seattle coach Pete Carroll announced after practice Thursday that they were going with Hasselbeck. Carroll said he told Hasselbeck on Monday he would be the starter, but needed to see how the quarterback was in practice after missing most of last week with a hip injury.

Charlie Whitehurst start-

New overtime rules in effect this weekend NEW YORK (AP) — When the NFL playoffs begin this weekend, they will feature a new rule for overtime.

If a team wins the coin toss and receives the overtime kickoff, it does not automatically win the game if it kicks a field goal on the opening series. The team that kicked off then gets a possession.

If the trailing team also kicks a field goal, the game continues. If it scores a touchdown, it wins. And if it does not get any points, it loses.

The tweak was made last

Stanford’s Luck to remain in school STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck says he will stay in school for another year instead of entering the NFL draft.

Luck was widely considered to be the No. 1 pick by Carolina if he chose to leave school early. But he made his announcement Thursday that he wants to remain at Stanford so he can graduate as scheduled next year.

Luck led the fifth-ranked Cardinal to a school-record 12 wins, including a 40-12 victory over Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl on Monday night. Stanford is set to finish the season in the top five of

Arkansas’ Mallett declares for NFL draft FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett has declared for the NFL draft.

The junior led the Razorbacks to their first BCS bowl game this season, his second with Arkansas.

Mallett led the Southeastern Conference in passing this season, throwing for 3,592 yards and 30 touchdowns. He added to that in Arkansas’ 31-26 loss to Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl, throwing for 277 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

The 6-foot-6 Mallett began his college career at Michigan before transferring to Arkansas after Rich Rodriguez was hired by the Wolverines. He threw 30 touchdowns in his first season for Arkansas, leading the school to an 8-5 finish and a win in the Liberty Bowl.

Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh led The Cardinal to a 12-1 record this season.

Harbaugh meets with Dolphins MIAMI (AP) — Jim Harbaugh’s blowout victory in the Orange Bowl made a big impression on Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross.

The Stanford coach met Thursday with Ross in the San Francisco area about the Dolphins’ job, two people with knowledge of the situation said. But Harbaugh was still considering staying put at Stanford late Thursday, one person said.

Stanford was “still in the mix,” the person said, and Harbaugh also met Thursday with the president of the university and the provost.

The school has made an amended offer to the coach with enhancements from the original deal presented to Harbaugh in early December.

Both people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the matter was to remain confidential.

ESPN was first to report Harbaugh’s meeting with Ross. Harbaugh met Wednesday with the San Francisco 49ers about their coaching vacancy. He may consider other suitors as well and hasn’t ruled out remaining at Stanford.

A late-season collapse by the Dolphins left Tony Sparano’s job in jeopardy.

While Stanford may lose Harbaugh, Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck opted to stay in college to get his degree instead of immediately cashing in on the riches of being the likely No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. Luck announced his decision T h u r s d a y. H a r b a u g h returned Tuesday to the Bay Area following Stanford’s 4012 Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech in the stadium Ross owns. Ross, Dolphins CEO Mike Dee and general manager Jeff Ireland were on the Stanford sideline before the game.

Harbaugh was a star quarterback at Michigan, which also has a coaching vacancy. But Wolverines athletic director Dave Brandon has said he expects Harbaugh to take an NFL job.

Ross is also a Michigan graduate and a major contributor to the university.

The school of business carries his name.

Landing Harbaugh will require a significant financial commitment. New Denver Broncos chief football executive John Elway has said he hopes to interview Harbaugh for their job, and new 49ers general manager Trent Baalke is looking for the coach to replace Mike Singletary, who was fired.

If Harbaugh reaches an agreement with the Dolphins, he would become their sixth coach since 2004.

They haven’t won a playoff game since 2000 and haven’t reached the Super Bowl since 1984.

MORNING KICKOFF Trivia answer FROM 1D: Detroit’s Richard Hamilton is the first and only NBA player to lead his team in scoring without making a field goal. Hamilton scored 14 points, but went 0for-10 from the floor, in a 101-79 loss to Memphis on Jan. 6, 2005.

Playback 10 YEARS AGO (2001): The dragon is slain. The witch is dead.

The monkey is on nobody’s back.

After eight years in the wilderness, Bismarck High, North Dakota’s most dominant wrestling program, has regained custody of the Bismarck Rotary Tournament championship.

Three BHS wrestlers garnered individual titles and eight Demons placed en route to 204.5 points.

That left runner-up Rapid City (S.D.) Stevens five points behind with 199.5. Two-time defending champion Frazee, Minn., placed

third with 172.5.

Travis Lang (112), Math Bitz (135) and Elliott Piper (189) won titles for the Demons. Ryan Stockert (119), Kyle Mahlum (130) and Aaron Silbernagel (215) placed second.

20 YEARS AGO (1991): Statistics don’t always tell the whole story.

But the numbers didn’t lie in Virgil Hill’s fight at the Civic Center.

Hill was relentless in throwing punches at challenger Mike Peak.

The amazing punch count — 885 to 306 — said it all. By landing 237 to Peak’s 98, it made it all the easier for the judges to give Hill a unanimous decision in his 10th successful defense of the World Boxing Association’s light heavyweight championship. Hill, improving to 30-0, used his best punch — the left jab — to his advantage. His jabs landed 117 times. Peak’s jabs landed only 37 times.

50 YEARS AGO (1961): ASHLEY

p.m.

— Vernon Werre singed the nets for 9:30 ESPN — New York at Phoenix 32 points as Ashley downed St. RADIO TODAY Anthony’s of Linton 61-43.

D-LEAGUE Tom Schwartz had 16 points for 8 p.m.

KFYR (550 AM) —Wizards at Maine St. Anthony’s.

TV TODAY BOXING 9 p.m.

ESPN2 — Ruslan Provodnikov (17-0-0) vs. Mauricio Herrera (15-1-0), for the vacant WBC Continental America’s and USBA light welterweight title, at Las Vegas

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 6 p.m.

ESPN2 — NCAA, FCS tournament, championship game, Delaware vs. E. Washington, at Frisco, Texas 7 p.m.

FOX — Cotton Bowl, LSU vs. Texas A&M, at Arlington, Texas

COLLEGE HOCKEY 7:30 p.m.

Channel 26 — Robert Morris UND

GOLF 8 a.m.

TGC — European PGA Tour, Africa Open, second round, at East London, South Africa (same-day tape) 4:30 p.m.

TGC — PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions, second round, at Maui, Hawaii

NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m.

ESPN — Houston at Orlando 7 p.m.

FSN — Portland at Minnesota

NAHL 7:15 p.m.

KLXX (1270 AM) — Aberdeen at Bobcats

COLLEGE HOCKEY 7:30 p.m.

KXMR (710 AM) — Robert Morris at UND

GIRLS BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m.

Cool 98.7 (98.7 FM) — Minot at Mandan

SCHEDULE FRIDAY D-League: Wizards at Maine, 8 p.m. EST. NAHL: Aberdeen at Bobcats, 7:15 p.m.

College hockey: Robert Morris at UND, 7:30 p.m.

Boys basketball: Turtle Mountain at Century, 7:45 p.m.; Williston at St. Mary’s, 7:45 p.m.; Shiloh New Year’s Invite.

Girls basketball: Minot at Mandan, 7:30 p.m.; Turtle Mountain at Century, 6 p.m.; Williston at St. Mary’s, 6 p.m.; Shiloh New Year’s Invitational.

Gymnastics: Bismarck, Century at Jamestown Invitational.

Girls hockey: Bismarck at Devils Lake, 7 p.m.

Boys swimming: Mandan at Fargo South, 5:30 p.m.; Bismarck, Century at Fargo North Quadrangular, 4 p.m.

Wrestling: Bismarck Rotary Tournament, 10:30 a.m.

SATURDAY NAHL: Bobcats at Aberdeen, 7:15 p.m.

College hockey: Robert Morris at UND, 7 p.m.

Men’s basketball: U-Mary at MSU-Moorhead, 4 p.m.; Dawson at United Tribes, 8 p.m.

Women’s basketball: U-Mary at MSU-Moorhead, 2 p.m.; Dawson at United Tribes, 6 p.m.

Boys basketball: Turtle Mountain at Bismarck, 6 p.m.; St. Mary’s at Valley City, 5 p.m.; Shiloh New Year’s Invite.

Girls basketball: Turtle Mountain at Bismarck, 4 p.m.; St. Mary’s at Valley City, 3:30 p.m.; Shiloh New Year’s Invitational.

Boys hockey: Bismarck at Century, 7:15 p.m.; Bottineau at Mandan, 7:30 p.m.

Girls hockey: Mandan at Fargo South.

Boys swimming: Manley Invitational at Fargo North, 11 a.m.

Wrestling: Bismarck Rotary Tournament, 10 a.m.

SUNDAY D-League: Wizards at Springfield, 5 p.m. EST. Men’s basketball: U-Mary at Minnesota-Crookston, 4 p.m.; Miles at United Tribes, 4 p.m.

Women’s basketball: U-Mary at Minnesota-Crookston, 2 p.m.; Miles at United Tribes, 2 p.m.

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Napoleon’s Jared Reis Continued from 1D He then fell 7-1 to Bismarck’s Joe Schumacher, who went on to win his second Class A championship six weeks later. Reis didn’t lose again after the Rotary, winning his first state crown and finishing 38-1.

Reis carries a 22-0 record and a 41-match winning streak into the Rotary. He’s looking to put himself in a class of Napoleon wrestlers who have won Rotary championships in recent years — namely Kriss McCleary, Jordan Dewald, Shannon Fettig, Taylor Grunefelder and Damon Weigel.

“One of my goals is to go undefeated, and one of the things I have to do to accomplish that goal is get through the Rotary,” he said. “I’m pumped for it. It’s a tournament we always go to, and to win a championship there is a really big accomplishment.

It’ll be tough. It always is.

That’s why I like it so much.

It really brings out the best in you.”

Reis is coming off a sparkling championship performance at the Rumble on the Red Tournament in Fargo, Dec. 29 and 30. The tournament field consisted of 56 teams, mostly from Minnesota.

Reis went 6-0 in the tournament, defeating Minneso-

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Napoleon’s Jared Reis, left, fell to Bismarck’s Joe Schumacher in last year’s Rotary Tournament 140pound final. Reis hasn’t lost since. ta’s top-ranked Class AA 145pounder in the semifinals, and Minnesota’s No. 1 Class AAA grappler in the finals.

“Winning that tournament was probably my proudest accomplishment,” Reis said. “The Rumble is deeper than the Rotary because the top eight in each weight class are pretty even.

I knew I had a chance to win if I wrestled aggressive and smart. It was an awesome feeling when I did win. It was a big confidence booster. It

made me think that I could compete with anybody.”

Reis became a varsity regular as a seventh-grader and is a four-time state placewinner. He finished seventh at 103 in 2007, third at 112 in 2008 and fourth at 125 in 2009. He won at least 34 matches in each of his first four seasons, and now has a 166-29 career mark. His state tournament record is 17-5.

Reis will compete in his fifth Rotary tournament this weekend. He finished eighth

in 2008 and third in 2009.

“Jared has built up quite a resume, and he’s far from d o n e,” Mc C l e a r y s a i d .

“Because we’re a small school, we start them really young at the varsity level here. Normally, that’s a lot to put on a young kid, but Jared was a legitimate varsity starter as a seventh-grader.

He was ready to step right in.

He had a very good first year, and he’s continued to get better and better.”

Last year, Reis became the third member of his family to win a state championship.

His father, Jacque, won a title in 1982. His older brother Dominique won in 2002.

“Wrestling has always been big in our family. It’s a tradition,” Reis said. “My brother was probably my biggest influence. I grew up watching him compete, and I always wanted to be like him. He taught me a lot.”

Reis has also learned plenty training with Schumacher during the summer months.

“We’ve been friends for about five, six years. We’ve spent a lot of time wrestling in tournaments, and training together,” he said. “Joe’s one of the best. He really pushes you and he’s a great teacher.

You can’t help but get better from that.”

Sturgis, Rotary Continued from 1D The Scoopers have won the last two Lions title, five of the last six and eight overall.

“It will be a new situation for us. I know it’s a tough tournament,” Sturgis coach Steve Keszler said.

Last year’s Rotary was the wildest on record. Rapid City S t e v e n s edged West Fargo 200-199 and Bismarck placed third with 193.

L a s t month, Sturgis edged archrival Stevens by a Keszler half point in the Lions Tournament. Keszler can guarantee no such extraordinary finish this week.

“I guess what I’m looking for is some great matches,” Keszler cautioned. “Hopefully our kids can stay in there, battle and get as many matches as possible against some great competition.”

“This is an opportunity to wrestle some opponents we might never otherwise see and, hopefully, we’ll improve our team,” Keszler added.

Twenty-four teams from North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana are scheduled to weigh in this morning at the Civic Center. The South Dakota delegation promises to add some real firepower to the field.

“We have two different rankings (in South Dakota),” Keszler said. “We’re second in one and third in the other. ... Stevens is first in one and Rapid City Central is first in the other. Pierre is fourth or fifth.”

Sturgis brings back lots of scoring ability from the team that set a state record with 222 points last winter and crowned six individual champions.

State titlists Morgan Engbrecht (103 pounds), Tanner Bothwell (112 pounds in 2009), and Clint Wilson (189) will be in the Scooper lineup this weekend. So, too, will be state placers Terrance Maier

(third at 171) and Chris Vinson (third at 285).

Stevens boasts multiple state champions — Kris Klapprodt and Jarrett Jensen.

Klapprodt won his second state title last season at 171 and Jensen garnered his third state title at 152. Both are gunning for Rotary title No. 4.

Sturgis has been wrestling in The Clash, a strong dual tournament in Rochester, Minn., on the Rotary weekend.

When graduation swept away seven of Keszler’s wrestlers last spring, he had to rethink his approach to scheduling.

“We had some strong teams and decided to get into The Clash in Rochester,” Keszler said. “The last two years we’ve graduated seven seniors so we didn’t feel we had the dual strength to fight the Clash. ... The Rotary happens to coincide with The Clash weekend, so this was kind of a no-brainer.”

Sturgis has won two of three tournaments thus far, taking titles at Mandan and in the Floyd Farrand Invitational at Sioux Falls. The Scoopers finished third in the Rapid City Invitational behind champion Gillette, Wy o. , a n d r u n n e r- u p Stevens.

Keszler said Sturgis is currently hampered by some duplication in the lower weights. “It seems we’ve been battling injuries and trying to get people into the lineup. ... We’ve got some new kids on the mat who have been going through growing pains. We’re battling and working, trying to get better.”

New-look Demons Defending state tournament champion Bismarck opened the season with a patchwork lineup, suffering the effects of injuries and ineligibilities.

At the Rotary, the Demons will display a lineup that’s beginning to round into form.

Jo e S c h u m a c h e r, a defending Rotary champion and three-time state titlist, returns to the lineup for the first time since the Lions Tournament. He’s been sidelined with a shoulder injury.

1 8 9 pounder Talon Johnson and 152pounder Ethan Dockter will be seeing their first Knowlen action of the season. Dockter was last year’s state runner-up at 145 pounds and Johnson placed seventh at 189.

Knowlen said he and cocoach Jeff Schumacher are interested in seeing what their preferred lineup can do.

“We can project and predict how we’re going to do by the end of the year, but until you get everybody in there and wrestle in live competition you don’t know how they’ll perform,” Knowlen said. “So we’re anxious to see just where we are with these extra kids.”

What Knowlen expects to see is a Demon team that’s deep in the fight the second day of the Rotary.

“If we’re not in the mix by the end of the tournament I’d consider it a letdown,” Knowlen said.

The dudes Eight 2009 Rotary champions return to the tournament, most prominently Rapid City Stevens senior 152-pounder Jarrett Jensen.

Jensen is looking for his fourth straight Rotary championship. If he can pull it off, he will join a select group of just four four-time Rotary champs. There’s been only one five-time winner — Travis Lang of Bismarck who closed his half-decade run with the 125-pound title in 2004.

St e v e n s s e n i o r 1 7 1 pounder Kris Klapprodt is also gunning for Rotary title

No. 4. Klapprodt’s shot at five titles was derailed last season when he lost in the finals to Bismarck’s Joe Latham.

Other returning champions are Century’s Izec Neer (103 pounds) and Timmy West (112), Fargo South’s Eric Forde (119), Turtle Mountain’s Kameron Hamley (130), St. Mar y’s Brock Krumm (135), Bismarck’s Joe Schumacher (140) and Miles City’s Shane Cooley (145).

A tradeoff

“We have a pretty talented corps of defensemen, and we try to get pucks on the net. We got some nice rebound goals out of it, and some tips.”

Century coach Troy Olson onds apart. Dan Bihrle wrapped up the scoring later in the period.

Century goalie Ryan Hanson stopped 18 of the 19 shots he faced.

“I don’t want to overlook Hanson’s performance in net,” Olson said. “He did a

nice job for us. When they had a few opportunities, he came up with some nice saves.”

The Patriots are six points up on Minot and seven ahead of Bismarck, although Century has played one more game plus a four-

Demons-Braves Werner said Bismarck’s second-half woes can be traced in large part to the opponent.

“Mandan is a very good team,” he said. “We knew it wasn’t going to be easy. The second half was more on us than on them. Our defense sagged off and we played too fast on offense. We needed to slow down and run our offense better.”

And while it may not have been a thing of beauty, Werner said it was a fulfilling win.

“It was a rivalry game, there were a lot of people here and it was fun to play. It seemed almost like a tournament game.”

MANDAN (57): Seth Westby 2-4 1-3 5, Aaron Janz 3-11 2-2 8, Mark Zinke 2-4 1-2 5, Erron Collins 3-8 1-3 8, Devin Coyle 7-17 4-6 21, Phaden Marcellais 1-2 0-0 2, Kenny Haugen 1-1 2-2 4, Trey Fitzsimmons 0-1 0-0 0, Casey Kautzmann 1-2 1-2 4. Totals: 20-50 12-20 57.

BISMARCK (61): Dexter Werner 9-21 6-11 24, DeWayne Liggins 6-15 2-7 14, Leighton Talmadge 2-4 0-0 4, Jaxon Fitterer 3-6 0-0 8, Devin Schirado 1-6 0-4 3, Kendall Kautz 2-2 0-0 5, Mack Keller 0-0 0-0 0, Dalton Dewald 1-3 1-1 3. Totals: 24-57 9-23 61.

Halftime: Bismarck 37, Mandan 26 3-pointers: M 5-17 (Coyle 3, Collins 1, Kautzmann 1), B 4-13 (Fitterer 2, Schirado 1, Kautz 1). Rebounds: M 29 (Janz 6), B 34 (Werner 13, Schirado 5). Fouls: M 20, B 18.

Fouled out: Westby, Janz. Turnovers: M 17, B 13. Assists: M 9 (Coyle 4), B 9 (Werner 3).

Steals: M 9, B 13 (Liggins 5).

Records: Mandan 1-3 West Region, 4-3 overall; Bismarck 4-0, 5-2.

Sturgis opted out of The Clash in order to wrestle in the Rotary, but two other schools went in the opposite direction.

West Fargo, last year’s Rotary runner-up and state dual champion, is bound for Mandan 80, Bismarck 61 Aggressive defense and The Clash as is Frazee, an array of sharpshooters Minn., which finished fifth in enabled Mandan’s girls to last year’s Rotary.

Schedule Friday 10:30 a.m. — First round begins, followed by second round, quarterfinals, and firstsecond- and third-round wrestlebacks, all on 8 mats. 5:30 p.m. — Championship semifinals and fourth-round wrestlebacks (4 mats).

Saturday 1 p.m. — Fifth-round wrestlebacks (4 mats), followed by fifth- and sixth-round wrestlebacks (4 mats). 2 p.m — Sixth-round wrestlebacks (4 mats). 3 p.m. — Championship, third place, fifth place and seventh place matches (4 mats).

Entrants West Region: Bismarck, Century, St. Mary’s, Mandan, Dickinson, Minot, Williston, Turtle Mountain, Jamestown. East Region: Fargo North, Fargo South, Grand Forks Central, Grand Forks Red River, Valley City, Wahpeton. Class B: Napoleon. South Dakota: Aberdeen, Pierre, Rapid City Central, Rapid City Stevens, Sturgis. Montana: Glendive Dawson County, Miles City Custer County, Sidney.

Team Champions 1967-68 through 1970-71: No team scores.

1971-72: Bismarck. 1972-73: Bismarck.

1973-74: Bismarck. 1974-75: Bismarck.

1975-76: Bismarck. 1976-77: Bismarck.

1977-78: Bismarck. 1978-79: Bismarck.

1979-80: Bismarck.

1980-81: Bismarck. 1981-82: Mandan.

1982-83: Bismarck. 1983-84: Bismarck.

1984-85: Century. 1985-86: Bismarck. 198687: Century. 1987-88: Century. 1988-89: Bismarck. 1989-90: Bismarck.

1990-91: Bismarck. 1991-92: Bismarck.

1992-93: Minot. 1993-94: Century. 1994-95: Century. 1995-96: St. Michael-Albertville, Minn. 1996-97: Jamestown. 1997-98: Jamestown. 1998-99: Frazee, Minn. 19992000: Frazee, Minn.

2000-01: Bismarck. 2001-02: Frazee, Minn.

2002-23: Frazee, Minn. 2003-04: Inver Grove Heights, Minn., Simley. 2004-05: Inver Grove Heights, Minn., Simley. 2005-06: Sidney (Mont.) 2006-07: Napoleon. 2007-08: Bismarck. 2008-09: Bismarck.2009-10: Rapid City, S.D., Stevens.

Individual Champions (Returnees from 2010) 103 pounds: Izec Neer, Century. 112: Timmy West, Century. 119: Eric Forde, Fargo South. 130: Kameron Hamley, Turtle Mountain. 135: Brock Krumm, St. Mary’s. 140: Joe Schumacher, Bismarck. 145: Shane Cooley, Miles City, Mont., Custer County. 152: Jarrett Jensen, R.C. Stevens.

Century-Mandan hockey the left circle for his second of the night.

“We have a pretty talented corps of defensemen, and we try to get pucks on the net,” Olson said. “We got some nice rebound goals out of it, and some tips.”

Alec Rauhauser netted his second of the game with 48.1 seconds remaining in the period, giving the Patriots a 5-1 lead heading into the third.

Century sent the game to running time early in the third when Megal and Kadrmas scored just eight sec-

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Going after a loose ball are, from left, Mandan’s Mic Longtin, Bismarck’s Erin Haugen and Mandan’s Steph Pedersen.

Continued from 1D pointer — meaning the Demons and Magicians essentially have two games in hand.

Mandan 1 0 0 — 1 Century 1 4 3 — 8 First period: 1. M, Trevor Huck 7 (Jon Dobier, Brady Winking), 15:52. 2. C, Zach Holmen 5 (Brady Spooner), 16:04.

Second period: 3. B, Alec Rauhauser 5 (Logan Rauhauser), :24. 4. C, Dylan Kadrmas 3 (Tanner Megal, Nash Anderson), 4:55. 5. C, Holmen 6 (L. Rauhauser, A. Rauhauser), 5:29 (pp). 6. C, A. Rauhauser 6 (Holmen, Spooner), 16:12 (pp).

Third period: 7. C, Megal 6 (Jacob Dehne), 1:26. 8. C, Kadrmas 4 (Joey Fuher, Nick Bohrer), 1:34. 9. C, Dan Bihrle 6 (Megal, Nick Bianco), 10:25.

Goalie saves: M — Rider Cupido 19-1312—44. C — Ryan Hanson 9-6-3—18.

Penalties: M 7 minors; C 5 minors.

Records: M 2-4-1 West Region, 2-7-1 overall; C 7-0-0, 8-4-0.

Continued from 1D pull away from Bismarck.

T h e w i n n i n g Br a v e s forced 21 turnovers and outscored Bismarck 65-48 from the floor. On the attack, Mandan swished nine 3pointers distributed among five different shooters.

Up 42-33 at the break, Mandan blew the Demons away with a 7-2 run to start the second half. With a 49-35 advantage the Braves were in command. Bismarck drew no closer than seven points the rest of the way.

Mic Longtin and Steph Pedersen were Mandan’s offensive leaders with 22 and 15 points, respectively. Anna Helmers added 11.

Anna Hruby scored 22 points and pulled down 11 rebounds for Bismarck.

MANDAN (80): Amber Riopelle 4-6 2-2 12, JaeLyn Russell 2-8 2-2 6, Steph Pedersen 611 2-5 15, Mic Longtin 5-13 8-9 22, Anna Helmers 5-8 0-1 11, Lexi Goldade 1-4 1-2 3, Taylor Miller 0-3 0-0 0, Courtney Goetz 3-12 0-1 6, McKayla Howling Wolf 2-2 0-0 5.

Totals: 28-67 15-22 80.

BISMARCK (61): Anna Hruby 10-13 2-2 22, Naomi Rust 1-5 3-10 5, Erin Haugen 2-5 0-1 4, Ally Sweep 2-5 4-4 8, Paige Nustad 15 3-6 5, Lexie Hilzendeger 3-7 0-0 6, Alek Haugen 1-2 0-0 2, Rylee Meier 1-4 1-1 3, Jordan Luger 0-4 0-0 0, MacKayla Feeney 26 0-0 6. Totals: 23-56 13-24 61.

Halftime: Mandan 42, Bismarck 33 3-pointers: M 9-23 (Longtin 4, Riopelle 2, Helmers 1, Pedersen 1, Howling Wolf 1), B 211 (Feeney 2). Rebounds: M 37 (Longtin 7, Russell 7, Goldade 7), B 48 (Hruby 11, Rust 10, Nustad 7). Fouls: M 17, B 18. Fouled out: None. Turnovers: M 9, B 21. Assists: M 22 (Longtin 5, Pedersen 5), B 18 (Sweep 5).

Records: Mandan 2-1 West Region, 3-3 overall; Bismarck 1-3, 2-3.

Mystics first half. We did a better job of executing in the second half. We didn’t force things as much.”

Buechler and Macie Harris added 17 points apiece for the Mystics. Harris, a freshman from Kenmare, carried the Mystics in the first half by netting 15 of her points, including BSC’s first 10. Buechler, a sophomore from Bismarck, drained a key 3 with 6:40 to play in the second half that gave the Mystics a 62-58 advantage.

DAWSON (68): Emily O’Callaghan 3-8 2-3 8, Christel Enriquez 6-12 0-0 12, Montora Jones 4-8 0-0 9, Casey Grace 3-10 3-4 9, Britnee Dyrland 4-10 0-0 8, Ariel Boone 0-1 0-0 0, Juliane Faltus 2-5 0-0 4, Jenny Marshall 2-6 0-0 6, Ieisha Williams 3-3 0-0 6, Kallie Madler 3-4 0-0 6. Totals 30-67 5-7 68.

BSC (80): Lacey Petersen 9-20 6-11 25, Macie Harris 4-9 7-7 17, Carlie Buechler 515 5-6 17, Amanda Vander Wal 2-6 0-0 4, Alyssa Hummel 3-6 0-2 6, Chelsea Carlson 1-5 3-4 5, Libby Forster 0-0 0-0 0, Emily Hardy 2-4 0-0 6. Totals 26-65 21-30 80.

Halftime: D 34, B 33.

3-pointers: D 3 (Marshall 2, Jones 1), B 7 (Harris 2, Buechler 2, Hardy 2, Petersen 1).

Rebounds: D 38 (Grace 13), B 44 (Petersen 9). Assists: D 20 (O’Callaghan 8), B 19 (Carlson 7). Steals: D 11 (Jones 3), B 9 (Harris 4).

Turnovers: D 23, B 19. Fouls: D 22, B 11.

Fouled out: None. Technical fouls: Dawson bench.

Records: D 2-2 Mon-Dak, 6-7 overall; B 10, 11-4.

BSC 98, Dawson 84 The Mystics fielded a nice 1-2 punch with point guard Devin Yellow Wolf and forward Jalen Finley. Both freshmen tacked up 26 points to lead the Mystics in scoring.

Finley snapped up nine rebounds and Yellow Wolf handed out eight assists.

“Devin sees the floor so well,” BSC coach Jason Harris said. “The way he passes the ball, our guys are starting to understand that if they get themselves in a place where they can succeed on the floor, he will find them. Finley is just a tough matchup.

The kid can take you off the bounce, and he can post really well for a kid his size.

He’s hard to defend down there.”

Isiah Kampeska and Kyle

Continued from 1D Weisbeck added 14 points each for the Mystics.

A 3-pointer from Weisbeck with 17:39 to play in the first half gave Bismarck State a 6-4 lead, and the Mystics never trailed after that. Bismarck State led 50-37 at halftime.

The Mystics led by as many as 21 in the second half. The Buccaneers managed to narrow the deficit to 11 points, 93-82, with 1:36 to go. Kampeska nailed a key pull-up jumper with 1:19 remaining to give the Mystics the momentum they needed to finish the contest.

Harris would have liked a better finish by his team, but was pleased with the way it held on.

“We were up 20 with about four or five minutes left,” Harris said. “That’s when we really have to rely on good strong execution.

We were a little hesitant with a couple passes. It’s hard when these guys are so used to going up and down the floor as quick as they can and get the first good shot. All of the sudden now they need to make four or five good passes. It’s something we have to work on and something we will get better with.”

Mario Davis had 29 points for Dawson.

DAWSON (84): Demarlow Simmons 3-8 00 8, Mario Davis 12-19 5-6 29, Austin Sheppick 2-3 2-2 6, Andy Hopson 2-7 0-0 5, Keegan Border 1-6 0-0 2, Isaac Pedroza 0-4 00 0, Joe Hebert 0-1 0-0 0, Tanner Barth 2-4 0-1 4, Kyle Davis 3-4 0-2 7, Dylan Whiting 14 2-2 4, James Steen 3-6 1-3 7, Henry.

Williams 5-9 2-2 12. Totals 34-75 12-18 84.

BSC (98): Isiah Kampeska 4-10 4-7 14, Kyle Weisbeck 4-9 3-4 14, Martin Wind 2-7 3-4 9, Jalen Finley 10-23 6-6 26, Devin Yellow Wolf 9-17 2-2 26, Andy Ganje 0-3 0-0 0, Jordan Maurer 2-2 5-6 9, Sheldon Weisbeck 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 31-73 23-29 98.

Halftime: B 50, D 37.

3-pointers: D 4 (Simmons 2, Hopson 1, Davis 1), B 13 (Yellow Wolf 6, K. Weisbeck 3, Kampeska 2, Wind 2). Rebounds: D 48 (Davis 11), B 39 (K. Weisbeck 9, Finley 9).

Assists: D 22 (Hopson 4, Whiting 4), B 19 (Yellow Wolf 8). Steals: D 6 (Hebert 3), B 8 (Kampeska 2, Yellow Wolf 2). Turnovers: D 21, B 16. Fouls: D 26, B 13. Fouled out: None. Technical fouls: D bench.

Records: D 2-2 Mon-Dak, 8-5 overall; B 10, 10-5.

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Tournament of Champions opens KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Jonathan Byrd and Carl Pettersson didn’t miss a beat in the PGA Tour opener Thursday, both enjoying the views and surprisingly calm conditions in the Tournament of Champions to share the lead at 7-under 66.

That wasn’t the case for others.

Kapalua was missing its two-time defending champion when Geoff Ogilvy had to withdraw with 12 stitches in his right finger, making him the first defending champ in 50 years to miss the winners-only event.

Stuart Appleby was missing his putter. It wasn’t in the bag when he showed up Thursday morning, and he sent caddie Scott Sajtinac to a nearby golf shop to get the closest he could find. With the price tag still glued to the shaft, Appleby opened with a 69.

Jim Furyk was missing a playing partner when Ogilvy withdrew, so he brought along Scott Carroll as a marker. The popular head pro at Kapalua got the loudest ovation of anyone on the first tee.

Above all, the Plantation Course was missing its notorious wind, which allowed for a gentle start to the PGA Tour season.

“It’s quite an adjustment going out there with no wind,” Byrd said.

It was Byrd’s first tournament since he qualified for the Tournament of Champions by winning in Las Vegas

tion Wednesday, and his driver again was the key club on the finishing hole Thursday — only this one was a driver off the fairway, setting up a 10-foot eagle putt for a 70.

The conditions were so serene that a dozen players shot in the 60s, and only two players failed to break par.

One of them was Rocco Mediate, who made the turn in 41 and shot 79. The other was Justin Rose at 75.

Ernie Els, who set the tournament record in 2003 Associated Press with a 31-under 261, opened with back-to-back bogeys Jonathan Byrd follows his drive from the third tee and rallied to get back into during the first round of the Hyundai Tournament of the game until a three-putt Champions golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, bogey on the final hole for a Thursday.

1-under 72. with the best finish of the year, a hole-in-one in a three-man playoff. After making five birdies on the front nine, Byrd holed out another shot. This was only a wedge from 111 yards that caught the grain perfectly and rolled sideways about 4 feet and into the cup.

If the only the rest of the day could have gone as well.

“From there on, got a little shaky,” Byrd said. “I didn’t play great for about a threeor four-hole stretch.”

Ben Crane was a stroke behind the leaders. He played bogey-free in the calm, overcast conditions with the sun trying to break through the clouds but never quite succeeding.

Furyk, one of only three players to have won at Kapalua still in the field, also

got off to a quick start before he stalled and had to settle for a 5-under 68, leaving him tied with Bill Haas and Charley Hoffman.

Joining Appleby in the group at 69 was Anthony Kim, determined to plot his way through each round at each tournament, and doing a pretty good job of it except for the par-3 eighth. He chose a 4-iron, then changed his shot at the top of his swing and pulled it into the high weeds to take a double bogey.

“All of a sudden, I decided to try to make birdie — from 215 yards away,” Kim said.

“Mental error. I committed to every shot I hit today except for that one.”

Bubba Watson hit the longest tee shot on the 18th during a long drive competi-

TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS Thursday At Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course Kapalua, Hawaii Purse: $5.6 million Yardage: 7,411- Par 73 (36-37) First Round Jonathan Byrd 31-35 — 66 -7 Carl Pettersson 34-32 — 66 -7 Ben Crane 33-34 — 67 -6 Bill Haas 35-33 — 68 -5 Charley Hoffman 35-33 — 68 -5 Jim Furyk 32-36 — 68 -5 Robert Garrigus 35-34 — 69 -4 Stuart Appleby 33-36 — 69 -4 Anthony Kim 34-35 — 69 -4 Francesco Molinari 34-35 — 69 -4 Steve Stricker 34-35 — 69 -4 Matt Kuchar 34-35 — 69 -4 Bill Lunde 35-35 — 70 -3 Heath Slocum 32-38 — 70 -3 Ian Poulter 33-37 — 70 -3 Ryan Palmer 33-37 — 70 -3 Bubba Watson 35-35 — 70 -3 Hunter Mahan 34-36 — 70 -3 Graeme McDowell 34-37 — 71 -2 Zach Johnson 36-35 — 71 -2 Dustin Johnson 33-38 — 71 -2 Arjun Atwal 34-38 — 72 -1 Cameron Beckman 37-35 — 72 -1 Derek Lamely 35-37 — 72 -1 Jason Bohn 36-36 — 72 -1 Tim Clark 37-35 — 72 -1 Camilo Villegas 33-39 — 72 -1 Ernie Els 36-36 — 72 -1 Matt Bettencourt 35-38 — 73 E Adam Scott 36-37 — 73 E Jason Day 37-36 — 73 E Justin Rose 36-39 — 75 +2 Rocco Mediate 41-38 — 79 +6

SPORTS DIGEST Yao Ming has ankle surgery, weighs options

2 Heat, 2 Celtics on pace to earn All-Star starts

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Rockets center Yao Ming underwent surgery Thursday to repair a stress fracture in his left ankle, a procedure he says may end his career.

The 7-foot-6 Yao has been out since Nov. 10, and played in only five games this season before the team declared him lost for the season. The seven-time All-Star missed all of last season following reconstructive foot surgery.

Team doctor Tom Clanton performed the procedure in Houston.

“I know this will be another long rehab,” Yao said in a statement. “But I’m looking forward to beginning my recovery. I will use this time to consider all of my options, and will make a decision regarding my career plans as I get closer to the end of my rehab.”

The Rockets drafted Yao with the top overall pick in 2002, but his NBA career has been derailed by a rash of injuries, mostly to his left foot and ankle.

His contract with Houston expires after this season, and the Rockets are still awaiting word from the league if they’ll be granted a disabled player salary exception for Yao. That would allow Houston to acquire a free agent, or trade for a player without having to match salaries, up to the value of the midlevel exception (about $5.75 million).

NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James and Dwyane Wade of the Heat and Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo of the Celtics are on pace to be voted as starters for the NBA All-Star game.

Garnett and Rondo remained in second place at their positions behind the Heat duo in the third voting returns announced Thursday. Orlando center Dwight Howard is the other leader among Eastern Conference players and has the most votes of any player in the conference.

The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant is the top overall vote-getter for the game in his home Staples Center on Feb. 20. The Hornets’ Chris Paul at the other guard and Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant and Denver’s Carmelo Anthony at forward are the other West leaders, while Houston’s Yao Ming has a sizable lead at center despite being out for the season with a foot injury.

Boosted by the huge online vote total he receives from fans in his native China, Yao was voted as a starter the first seven years of his career, from 2003-09. He was not on the ballot last season, when he was out for the year with an injury.

If an injured player is voted to start, Commissioner David Stern chooses an injury replacement for the roster and the conference’s coach tabs a reserve to start.

Starters will be

announced Jan. 27.

Derrek Lee finalizes $7.25M contract with O’s BALTIMORE (AP) — First baseman Derrek Lee finalized a $7.25 million, oneyear contract Thursday with the Baltimore Orioles, who hope he can provide punch to a lineup that ranked 21st in home runs last season.

The 35-year-old free agent, who can earn an additional $2.75 million in performance bonuses, had 19 homers and 80 RBIs in 148 games with the Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves last year. He has 312 career home runs, including 35 with the Cubs in 2009.

Luke Scott led the Orioles last season with 27 homers.

First baseman Ty Wigginton (22) was the only other player to top 20. Lee has hit at least 20 home runs in nine of the last 11 seasons.

The two-time NL All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner agreed to terms last week and signed a contract after passing a physical. Lee fills the void left by the departure of Wigginton, who signed as a free agent with Colorado.

lion this year and $13 million in each of the following four seasons.

The 30-year-old was acquired from Florida in November for infielder Omar Infante and left-hander Mike Dunn. The twotime All-Star turned down a $24 million, three-year offer from the Marlins last summer.

Uggla batted .287 with 33 homers and 105 RBIs last season, when he made $7.8 million. Without the new deal, he would have become a free agent after the 2011 World Series.

He h a s a v e r a g e d 3 1 homers, 100 runs scored and 93 RBIs over his five-year career.

Phillies sign reliever J.C. Romero to 1-year deal

ATLANTA (AP) — Second baseman Dan Uggla and the Atlanta Braves finalized a $62 million, five-year contract Thursday that avoided salary arbitration.

Uggla receives a $1 milllion signing bonus, $9 mil-

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies have re-signed left-handed relief specialist J.C. Romero to a one-year, $1.35 million contract.

The 34-year-old Romero was 1-0 with three saves and a 3.68 ERA in 60 appearances for Philadelphia last season.

In 213 appearances with the Phillies since 2007, Romero has a 2.60 ERA and has held opposing hitters to a .192 batting average. Lefthanders have been held to a .166 average.

Romero is 33-28 for his career, with seven saves and a 4.08 ERA in 628 appearances. He’s also played for Minnesota, Boston and the Los Angeles Angels.

Mid-American Conference title and finish this season on a six-game winning streak.

MTSU (6-7) won three games in a row to become bowl eligible, but was hurt by five turnovers.

Miami’s Dayonne Nunley was responsible for two of

them, recovering a fumble and returning an interception 52 yards for a touchdown. Thomas Merriweather rushed for 100 yards and two touchdowns.

MTSU’s Dwight Dasher threw four interceptions — all in the second half.

Uggla, Braves finalize $62 million, 5-year deal

COLLEGE BOWL GAME GoDaddy.com Bowl MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Austin Boucher threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns in his fourth career start and Miami of Ohio capped a historic turnaround season with a 35-21 win over Middle

Te n n e s s e e i n t h e GoDaddy.com Bowl.

The RedHawks (10-4) are the first team in Football Bowl Subdivision history to win 10 games one season after losing 10. Miami finished a dismal 1-11 in 2009, but recovered to win the

TOP 25 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP No. 7 Villanova 83, South Florida 71

No. 20 Illinois 88, Northwestern 63

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Corey Stokes scored 19 of his gamehigh 22 points in the second half, helping the seventhranked Villanova Wildcats pull away to an 83-71 victory over South Florida on Thursday night.

Dominic Cheek had 17 points and Maalik Wayns added 16 to help the Wildcats (13-1 overall, 2-0 Big East) win for the eighth straight time since losing to Tennessee in the final of the NIT Season Tip-off.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Demetri McCamey scored 14 points and Illinois routed Nor thwester n 88-63 to improve to 3-0 in Big Ten play.

Mike Tisdale added 13 points, Mike Davis had 12, Meyers Leonard and Jereme Richmond had 11 each and D.J. Richardson finished with 10.

No. 23 Washington 87, Oregon 69 SEATTLE (AP) — Fresh-

man Terrence Ross scored a season-high 25 points and No. 23 Washington shut down Oregon in the final 12 minutes, pulling away for an 87-69 victory.

Ross made up for a slow night from leading scorer Isaiah Thomas — although Thomas closed strong — and the Huskies (11-3, 3-0 Pac-10) won their first three conference games for the first time in six seasons.

high 22 points, and 24thranked Cincinnati extended the second-best start in school histor y, beating Xavier 66-46 on Thursday night to win back the city’s backyard bragging rights.

Cincinnati’s 15-0 start matches the 1998-99 team for second-best in school history.

None of Xavier’s Musketeers could stop Gates, a 6foot-9, 265-pound power forward who scored most of No. 24 Cincinnati 66, his points on outside Xavier 46 jumpers. He went 10 of 16 CINCINNATI (AP) — from the field and had 14 Yancy Gates scored a season- rebounds.

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NHL ROUNDUP Wild 3, Bruins 1 BOSTON (AP) — Cal Clutterbuck scored the go-ahead goal on a giveaway from Marc Savard in the Bruins zone, and the Minnesota Wild held on to beat Boston 3-1 on Thursday night.

The Wild have never lost in Boston, and they are 9-2 overall against the Original Six franchise since joining the NHL in 2000.

Jose Theodore stopped 35 shots, and Martin Havlat also had a fluky goal for the Wild, converting four seconds into a power play when Shawn Thornton was sent off on a misguided hooking call. Replays showed that Wild defenseman Brent Burns merely slipped and fell.

Flyers 4, Devils 2 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Danny Briere and Scott Hartnell scored two goals apiece to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-2 victory over the fast-fading New Jersey Devils. Ville Leino had a career-high three assists, and Brian Boucher made 18 saves for the Flyers.

Leafs 6, Blues 5, SO TORONTO (AP) — Tyler Bozak scored the shootout winner for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who bounced back from blowing a threegoal lead and beat the St. Louis Blues 6-5. Bozak beat Ty Conklin with a wrist shot in the shootout, but that didn’t compare to the move by teammate Mikhail Grabovs-

ki, who made a 360 while cutting across the top of the crease and tucked the puck into the net. Kris Versteeg also scored in the tiebreaker for Toronto.

Canadiens 2, Penguins 1, SO MONTREAL (AP) — Benoit Pouliot scored on Montreal’s fifth shootout attempt to give the Canadiens a 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, who were missing injured captain Sidney Crosby. Carey Price, who made 31 saves through overtime, was perfect in the shootout. He denied Kris Letang, Pascal Dupuis, Evgeni Malkin and Mark Letestu before stopping Chris Kunitz on Pittsburgh’s final attempt.

Coyotes 2, Avalanche 0 DENVER (AP) — Jason LaBarbera made 34 saves for his second shutout of the season and Taylor Pyatt scored twice as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Colorado Avalanche 2-0. The Coyotes were without goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, who missed the game because of a family medical issue.

Oilers 2, Islanders 1 EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Dustin Penner had a short-handed goal and an assist for the Edmonton Oilers, who broke a seven-game losing streak with a 2-1 victor y o v e r t h e N e w Yo r k Islanders. Gilbert Brule also scored for the Oilers.

NBA ROUNDUP Thunder 99, Mavericks 95 DALLAS (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 28 points, Russell Westbrook had 15 points and nine assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 99-95 on Thursday night.

Jeff Green had 16 points and nine rebounds, and Serge Ibaka added with 13

points and eight rebounds.

Shawn Marion had a season-high 25 points for the Mavericks, who were without top scorer Dirk Nowitzki for a career-high sixth straight game with a sprained right knee. Tyson Chandler added 14 points and matched a season high with 18 rebounds. Jason Terry had 19 points for Dallas, 2-4 during Nowitzki’s absence.

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Bismarck Renaissance Zone Authority will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in the second floor conference room, City-County Office Building, 221 North 5th Street, Bismarck, North Dakota on the following issue; • Request of Spaces, Inc. for designation of the lease of space in the building at 122 East Main Avenue as a Renaissance Zone Project. The property is owned by Main Avenue Properties, LLC and is legally described as Lots 7-12, Block 54, Original Plat.

At the hearing, the Renaissance Zone Authority will provide an opportunity for all interested persons to comment on the project. Interested persons may also submit comments or questions regarding the project prior to the meeting to Jason Tomanek in the Community Development Department – Planning Division at PO Box 5503, Bismarck, North Dakota 58506-5503, phone: (701) 355-1849, fax: (701) 222-6450, e-mail: jtomanek@nd.gov.

Carl D. Hokenstad,AICP Director of Community Development City of Bismarck Dated this 22th day of December, 2010.

12/31 & 1/7 - 606214 PUBLIC NOTICE The ND Department of Human Services (Department) Developmental Disabilities (DD) Division submitted a 1915(c) waiver amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to request the combining of the DD Self Directed Supports Waiver and the Traditional MR/DD Home and Community Based Services Waiver into one waiver.All services that are currently in the DD Self Directed Supports Waiver will be added to the Traditional MR/DD Home and Community Based Services Waiver. The Developmental Disabilities Division will also request that the slots (number of spots) that were available in the DD Self Directed Supports Waiver be added to the Traditional MR/DD Home and Community Based Services Waiver.

The Developmental Disabilities Division does not feel that this amendment would have a negative impact on individuals.

The 1915(c) waiver amendment to CMS is available for review on the Department’s website at the following link: http://www.nd.gov/dhs/services/disabilities/dd.html. If you cannot access this document via the Web, a copy can be mailed to you.

Please be aware that the posted waiver amendment is a draft. The final document will be posted on the Department’s website when it is approved by CMS. If you have questions about the waiver amendment, please contact Tina Bay at (701) 328-8930 or via e-mail at tbay@nd.gov.

1/7 - 606236 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Bismarck City Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 5:15 p.m. in the Tom Baker Meeting Room, City-County Building, 221 North 5th Street, Bismarck, North Dakota, to consider the following item: • Request of Garret Woodruff for approval of a zoning change from the A-Agricultural zoning district to the RR-Residential zoning district for Woodruff Subdivision.

The property is located west of 66th Street NE, south of 71st Avenue NE and north of Rocky Road (a replat of Auditor’s Lot A in the S1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 7,T139N-R79W/Gibbs Township).

At this public hearing, the Board of City Commissioners will provide an opportunity for all interested persons to be heard with respect to this item. Interested persons may also submit written comments regarding this request prior to the meeting

to the Community Development Department - Planning Division, PO Box 5503, Bismarck, North Dakota 585065503, fax: 701- 222-6450, or e-mail cobplan@nd.gov. Interested persons may also call 701-355-1840 with questions or for additional information.

Description of this request is on file and may be viewed or copied any working day between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at the City-County Community Development Department – Planning Division, 221 North 5th Street, Bismarck, North Dakota.

BOARD OF CITY COMMISSIONERS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA Attest: W.C.Wocken City Administrator Dated this 22nd day of December, 2010.

12/31 & 1/7 - 606216 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA IN DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF BURLEIGH SOUTH CENTRAL JUDICIAL DISTRICT Federal National Mortgage Association, ) Plaintiff, ) vs, ) Jason P. Frohlich aka Jason Frohlich; ) Sarah A. Frohlich aka Sarah Frohlich; ) Arrow Financial Services, LLC; ) Washington Mutual Bank; Credit ) Bureau of Bismarck, Inc; Capital One ) Bank; and any person in possession, ) Defendants. ) Civil No. 08-10-C-02903 SUMMONS THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: 1.You are hereby summoned to appear and defend against the Complaint in this action, which has been filed with the Clerk of Court and is herewith served upon you, by serving upon the undersigned a copy of an answer or other proper response within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The original Complaint is filed with the Clerk of the District Court in the County in which this action is commenced.

2.This action relates to the foreclosure of a mortgage upon the following described real property in the County of Burleigh, State of North Dakota: Lot Ten (10), Block Four (4), Apple Valley Subdivision in the North Half of the Northwest Quarter (N1/2NW1/4) of Section Thirty-Six (36), Township One Hundred Thirty-Nine (139) North, Range Seventy-Nine (79) West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, Burleigh County, North Dakota aka 11936 Johnathan Avenue, Menoken, North Dakota 58501.

3. The Plaintiff is not seeking a personal judgment against the above-named Defendants.

Dated December 2, 2010.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for the Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address: 38 Second Avenue East Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 Tel: (701) 227-1841 Fax: (701) 225-6878 By: /s Bethany Abrams Sandra K. Kuntz,Attorney #05186 Bethany Abrams,Attorney #06344 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE REFERENCED DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. 1/7, 14 & 21 - 606235

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ous month.

“At worst unemployment is flat. At best it’s coming down,” said James O’Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global in New York.

MF Global is optimistic about the jobs report.

Despite the increase in claims last week, O’Sullivan noted that the four-week average fell to 411,000, the lowest since July 2008.

Many retailers fell after reporting weaker sales in

NONFERROUS METALS

December. Target Corp. fell 7 percent to $54.93 and Gap Inc. fell 7 percent to $20.70.

Macy’s Inc. fell 4 percent to $23.97.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 25.58 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 11,697.31.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 2.71, or 0.2 percent, to close at 1,273.85. The Nasdaq composite index rose 7.69, or 0.3 percent, to 2,709.89.

Selected world gold prices, Thursday.

London morning fixing: $1376.00 up $8.00.

London afternoon fixing: $1368.50 up $0.50.

NY Handy & Harman: $1368.50 up $0.50.

NY Handy & Harman fabricated: $1477.98 up $0.54.

NY Engelhard: $1371.48 up $0.50.

NY Engelhard fabricated: $1474.34 up $0.54.

NY Merc. gold Jan Thu. $1371.40 off $2.00.

NY HSBC Bank USA 4 p.m. Thu. $1372.00 off $3.00.

Australia .9942 .9998 1.0058 1.0002 Britain 1.5474 1.5494 .6463 .6454 Canada 1.0038 1.0037 .9962 .9963 China .1509 .1511 6.6273 6.6203 Denmark .1746 .1764 5.7274 5.6689 Euro 1.3014 1.3151 .7684 .7604 Hong Kong .1286 .1287 7.7736 7.7712 Japan .012008 .012004 83.28 83.31 Mexico .081713 .081917 12.2380 12.2075 Russia .0325 .0327 30.7503 30.5904 Sweden .1457 .1477 6.8634 6.7705 Switzerlnd 1.0366 1.0340 .9647 .9671 CANADIAN EXCHANGE $1 Canadian = 93 cents U.S. for sale to customer and 90 cents U.S. purchase from customer At the Bank of North Dakota Thursday

OIL PATCH Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 Posted price for N.D. Sweet Crude (40 gravity) SEMCRUDE ’11 BULLETIN 11-004 (Jan. 6), price per barrel .......... $67.05 NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE Crude oil, light sweet (NYM) 1,000 barrels, price per barrel February Last Change Open High Low 88.08 -2.22 90.47 90.71 87.85 NUMBER OF RIGS OPERATING Thursday (Dec. 30, 2010) Year ago 156 74

SILVER NEW YORK (AP) — Handy & Harman silver Thursday $29.285 up $0.205.

H&H fabricated $35.142 up $0.246.

The morning bullion price for silver in London $29.080 off $0.130.

Engelhard $29.190 up $0.230.

Engelhard fabricated $35.028 up $ NY Merc silver spot month Thursday $29.110 off $0.063.

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Strong holiday for retail

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

GOLD

NEW YORK (AP) — Spot nonferrous metal prices Thu. Aluminum -$1.1087 per lb., London Metal Exch.

Copper -$4.2908 Cathode full plate, LME. Copper $4.3210 N.Y. Merc spot Thu. Lead - $2568.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch.

Zinc - $1.0922 per lb., London Metal Exch.

Gold - $1368.50 Handy & Harman (only daily quote).

Gold - $1371.40 troy oz., NY Merc spot Thu. Silver - $29.285 Handy & Harman (only daily quote).

Silver - $29.110 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Thu. Platinum -$1735.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract).

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Stocks down on jobless claims NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped Thursday after the government reported an increase in applications for unemployment benefits last week.

The Labor Department said Thursday that 409,000 people made claims for benefits for the first time. That’s up 18,000 from the previous week, when applications fell to their lowest level in more than two years.

The report came a day after ADP estimated that companies added nearly 300,000 jobs last month, far more than the 100,000 economists expected. That pushed stock prices higher and Treasury prices lower as investors became more optimistic about the job market.

The most important news on the job market will arrive on Friday morning when the Labor Department releases its monthly survey of all U.S. payrolls and the unemployment rate. Economists expect the rate fell to 9.7 percent in December from 9.8 percent the previ-

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NEW YORK — The holiday shopping season was the best since 2006, as a strong November more than offset spending that tapered off in late December.

The strength of holiday sales from Oct. 31 through Jan. 1 suggests a recovery in consumer spending. For investors, whose expectations were riding high after a stronger-than-expected November, the December figures were disappointing.

That hurt retail stocks Thursday.

Early holiday discounts, which started in late October, drove big sales early in the season but also had shoppers finishing more gift-buying before December. A lull early in December and a blizzard Dec. 26 in the Northeast also took bites out of sales.

From Oct. 31-Jan. 1, revenue at stores open at least a year rose 3.8 percent over last year, according to an index compiled by the International Council of Shopping Centers. That’s the biggest increase since 2006, when the measurement rose 4.4 percent.

The index tailed off to a 3.1 percent increase in December after a 5.4 percent rise in November.

“The overall season was good, but the strength came from the beginning of the season,” said Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at International Council of Shopping Centers.

December’s gains came on top of a solid 3.6 percent gain in December 2009; November’s figures compare with a 0.2 percent decline.

Thursday’s figures are based on revenue at stores open at least a year. That’s long been considered a key indicator of a retailer’s health, because it excludes revenue at stores that open or close during the year.

However, changes in shopping habits and other factors have led the figure to lose some of its luster as a yardstick. Some stores exclude online revenue, which soared 12 percent overall and accounts for 8 to 10 percent of total holiday spending. Online spending

spiked 17 percent the week after Christmas, according to comScore, possibly getting a boost from shoppers cooped up by snow.

In addition, many retailers have stopped reporting monthly figures, including some of the biggest chains: Walmart, Best Buy Co. and Sears Holdings Corp. Only about 30 merchants report now, down from about 60 at the end of 2005.

Nevertheless, the figures offer what analysts believe was a fair picture of the holiday season, according to Ken Perkins, president of RetailMetrics LLC. Analysts say that the holiday 2010 season also marked the time that spending in many categories returned to pre-recession levels. Online spending, as well as spending on groceries, auto parts and clothing, are now above the prerecession peak, according to Ma s t e r Ca rd Ad v i s o r s’ Sp e n d i n g P u l s e , w h i c h tra c k s a l l tra n sa c ti o n s including cash.

Jewelry, home furnishings and luxury goods are still below peaks, according to the data service.

Niemira says he’s confid e n t s p e n d i n g g r ow t h should continue in 2011.

“What really has to kick in is the employment story to keep the momentum going,” Niemira said. A government jobs report due Friday is expected to show the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7 percent in December from 9.8 percent in November.

For Jerrie McKennon, a retiree in Burleson, Texas, 2010 was a good year. “I loosened up in 2010. The money we lost came back,” said the retiree, who was at

Manhattan Mall on Thursday.

Nearly all of McKennnon’s investments regained their pre-recession value last year, with the exception of her home. After watching her spending for two years, she allowed herself some large splurges in 2010, including two elaborate vacations and a new Lexus.

For December, many retailers including Target Corp., Costco Wholesale Co r p. a n d Ma c y ’s In c. reported gains below Wall Street expectations. Clothing chain Gap Inc. suffered a surprise 3 percent drop in December. Analysts had expected a 2.6 percent increase.

Their shares took a beating. Target’s stock fell almost 7 percent, while Macy’s fell 4 percent. Gap’s shares fell almost 7 percent.

More expensive retailers saw better-than-expected sales. Abercrombie & Fitch Co., which saw robust gains that beat Wall Street estimates, though it had to discount to lure shoppers in.

Luxury stores, including Saks Inc. and Nordstrom Inc., also reported big increases as the rallying stock market kept affluent customers spending.

O v e ra l l , d e p a r t m e n t stores fared better than mall clothing chains. Discounters such as Target, which were among the top performers in November, saw sales slow in December.

D e c e m b e r ’s s m a l l e r increases underscore the challenges retailers face in getting shoppers back in the malls in the coming months when there are no holidays giving them reasons to spend.

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