espite the horrible price being paid by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the lives of most Americans are disconnected from the war in a way that has personal and political implications for veterans, the Grand Forks Veterans Day program speaker said.

"Can you remember a period of war that has asked so little of the American people?" said Mike Dobmeier, a national judge advocate f...

David Sprynczynatyk, director of the North Dakota Department of Transportation, recently was named vice president by the board of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials during the annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn.

Sprynczynatyk will assist AASHTO with local, state and federal agencies to share best practices; use the 50th anniversary of the interstate high...

The federal government plans to maintain indefinitely its faster level of testing for mad cow disease, rather than scaling back testing in December as originally envisioned.

With the lucrative Japanese market poised to reopen to American cattle, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says he wants government scientists to continue testing about 1,000 cattle a day.

Johanns said his decis...

One thing that Ellen Brisson takes away from her 2-year ordeal with identity theft is that like with other crimes, there often is no warning and no way to stop it.

Brisson, a Berkley resident, had her identity stolen in 2000 through documents taken from an insurance company. The woman who stole her identity was able to get a driver's license in Tennessee and use that along with Brisson'...

FAITH IN ACTION: FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF LOUISVILLEChurch sets up food pantry to help needy in community

Prospect is better known for its prosperity, but there are pockets of poverty and hunger in every community, according to the Rev. Brian Gerard, pastor of First Christian Church of Louisville in Prospect.

First Christian began a monthly Dare to Care food pantry at the church la...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 11 - Márcia Regina da Cruz, a 40-year-old janitor and mother of three, decided to splurge.

Ms. da Cruz, who lives in São Vicente, a coastal town an hour's bus ride from São Paulo, made a purchase in September equal to one-fifth of her monthly salary. She bought three irons - one for herself and two as gifts for her mother and sister - for 72 reais, or ...

TOKYO — Garry Evans has been a busy man lately, jetting off to meetings in the United States to advise enthusiastic fund managers on one of the hottest topics in investing: this year's big rally in the Japanese stock market.

"There are two types of views on Japan — there's bullish and there's very bullish," says Evans, a Hong Kong-based Asia equity analyst for HSBC Securiti...