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STERLING – A pair of benefits are planned this weekend to help a rural Sterling man with lung cancer.

The condition of a rural Dakota woman involved in a serious two-vehicle crash is unknown at this time.

A state resolution asking Congress to repeal the 1863 act that banished Dakota Indians from Minnesota can help heal wounds nearly 150 years after a bloody war between the tribe and white settlers, a representative of the state's Indian communities said Thursday.

Dillon Stoner's one-out infield single in the bottom of the seventh drove in Nate Asbury with the winning run Wednesday as Sterling topped Moline 8-7 at Gartner Park.

USDA a s most recent Crop Progress report shows U.S. sorghum planting is right on schedule while corn and barley fall behind the nationa s five-year average.

Nate Asbury pitched six strong innings and ripped a pair of doubles, but it wasn't enough to help the Sterling Golden Warriors on Monday in a 2-1 loss to Alleman in Rock Island.

Does he have a sealed divorce file? 2 posted on 05/01/2009 9:02:08 PM PDT by Last Dakotan To: yongin I know some like to throw the RINO description on Kirk and all, but having heard a number of interviews with him on Chicago area talk stations, I think he would be a good choice.

Did you know that North Dakota was almost named Pembina? I didn't either. Read on... There was a great deal of objection from influential quarters, including societies interested in philological subjects, and from various parts of the Union, to calling Dakota by any other name, and particularly to adding a prefix such as "North" and "South," and ...

Submitted by Journal Staff on February 27, 2009 - 1:11pm. Harriett Z. Boyer, 91, of Dakota, formerly of Beloit, Wis., died Wednesday, Feb.

The executive director of the Springfield Park District was arrested Tuesday night for driving under the influence after rolling his truck on an entrance ramp to Interstate 55.

In the Dakota tradition, the number four represents a completed cycle. So the fourth year of the Reconciliation Ride is special numerically, and geographically: At 340 miles, it's the longest.

Not so fast, Illinois! Lots of states can claim the title of America’s Most Corrupt.At or near the top of some lists is Louisiana, certainly no slouch in the derby of the dirtiest.

Today the New York Times reports on Washington bureau cutbacks by major media corporations.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 12/16/2008 8:21 AM An eager reader alerts me to the Dakota 38 Reconciliation Ride , a project started by Lakota spiritual leader Jim Miller to commemorate.

It's hard to lose a bad reputation, especially when it's well deserved. And Chicago and Illinois politicians certainly have done enough over the decades, and in the past few days judging by the federal case ...

WASHINGTON - Its largest city is legendary for machine-style politics and its elected leaders have been under investigation for years, but by one measure, Illinois is not even close to the nation's most-corrupt ...