Grand Forks Central student dies after crash

A Grand Forks Central High School student died Wednesday night after sustaining injuries in a motorcycle accident earlier that afternoon, just after students had left school for the day.

• Motorcyle accident in Grand Forks

Evacuated Cavalier residents may be allowed to return home soon

“We are seeing water recede at Renwick Dam. It’s dropped a foot since 6 p.m. Wednesday,” Pembina County Emergency Manager Andrew Kirking said this morning.

Crystal Sugar employees head back to work

American Crystal Sugar union workers will be reintegrated into factories on Tuesday, as a rough season in the sugar beet business becomes even tougher.

• American Crystal Sugar

7-year-old boy struck by car in Williston

A 7-year-old boy was struck by a car Wednesday just as school concluded for the day. Police, EMTs and witnesses surrounded the victim, who was placed on a body board before being loaded onto a stretcher in the ambulance.

• Students watch from the playground

Body of 2nd child found in deadly St. Paul landslide

Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a second child killed when a rockslide hit a group of fourth-graders in a St. Paul park a day earlier, and announced that the popular fossil-hunting area would be closed indefinitely.

• Rescue personnel work near the scene of a rockslide

Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

As protesters made one last stand, the Boy Scouts of America's leadership began a conference Wednesday that was expected to culminate in a long-anticipated vote on whether to allow openly gay Scouts — a decision that, either way, could deeply affect the organization's membership and funding.

• Boy Scouts raise their hands at the close of a news conference held by people against the change in the Boy Scouts of America gay policy

McConnel AFB chosen over Grand Forks for Air Force tanker mission

We begin with breaking news. The Grand Forks Air Base has been passed over for a new tanker mission. Wichita's McConnell Air Base has been selected to be the main operating base for the new air refueling tanker.

• Air Force tanker aircraft

Three ex-Bison football players allegedly skip community service

Three of the 15 people who pleaded guilty to petition fraud charges in Cass County last fall – all three of them former North Dakota State University football players – failed to complete the community service required by their probation agreements, authorities allege in court records.

• Clockwise from top left: Darren (D.J.) McNorton, Aireal Boyd, Don Carter and Joshua Gatlin