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Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear
- Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business - if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers - or buying new ones - to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say."Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the gas prices," said Barry Dahl, who opened Barry's Bikes in Bismarck in April. He sold more than 50 bicycles in the first month, double the projections in his business plan. Bobcat using Minnesota as worldwide distribution center
- Bobcat Co.'s new worldwide distribution center in Minnesota will not derail plans for the company's involvement in a proposed $20 million public-funded shipping facility in Bismarck, city and company officials say."Nothing has changed," said Chris Weishaar, a spokesman for West Fargo-based Bobcat, which is known for its skid-steer loaders. Imation to leave Wahpeton by year's end
- Imation Corp. plans to close its floppy diskette plant in Wahpeton by the end of the year, a few months sooner than expected, after a group of former employees have taken over some of its contracts.Imation, based in Oakdale, Minn., announced one year ago that it would phase out the plant's near 390 jobs by mid-2009, as part of a company-wide restructuring. Plane lands in Fargo after fire in restroom
- A Compass Airlines flight landed in Fargo after a fire was reported in a restroom. No one was hurt.The plane landed at the Fargo airport about 11:30 p.m., Wednesday without incident. Passengers were questioned by police and the FBI. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Judge grants delay in Carlson case
- Relatives of a teenage boy accused of killing his sister say they're frustrated by court delays in the case. They had to deal with another one Wednesday.Fifteen-year-old Sergei Carlson has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and a deviate sexual act in the July 13 death of his 16-year-old sister, Whitney Carlson, of Fargo. The case is being tried in adult court. Federal appeals court rejects appeal in drug case
- A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of a woman convicted in a wide-ranging drug conspiracy known as Operation Speed Racer.Soledad Ybarra was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and conspiracy to unlawfully use communications facilities. Red River Basin map to be launched
- A $5 million project to develop a digital elevation map of the Red River Basin is expected to turn flood forecasting into a game of inches.The aerial laser imaging should be accurate within a half a foot or better and provide enough detail to detect the contours of a golf green, officials said Monday. Man sentenced for Moorhead credit union robbery
- A 47-year-old man has been sentenced for an armed robbery last August at a credit union in Moorhead, Minnesota.Prosecutors say David Dornbach was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $8,000 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of armed bank robbery. Comments on NAWS environmental study
- A sampling of the public comments submitted on the Northwest Area Water Supply draft environmental study. ND water project opposed north and south
- Parts of northwestern North Dakota have been waiting more than 20 years for a pipeline that will bring a stable supply of Missouri River water. It has run into opposition from north of the border, where Canadian officials are calling for an expensive treatment system, and from the south, where the state of Missouri says it could harm an already dry river basin.The Northwest Area Water Supply Project was first authorized by Congress in 1986 and has been under construction since 2002. A more extensive environmental study was ordered by a federal judge as the result of an October 2002 lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., by the province of Manitoba. Construction unrelated to treatment of the pipeline water can continue with the judge's permission, but the project cannot be finished until the treatment question is resolved. |
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