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North Dakota's already burgeoning oil production could soar another 50 percent next year as the state's capacity to export crude catches up with its ability to pump it, state regulators and industry officials say.

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Townships will gain access to oil-tax revenue and counties and cities are less likely to reach caps as quickly under changes in the state formula for distributing revenue from an oil and gas gross production tax.

Defense Ministers Meeting gets under way in Slovakia BRATISLAVA, Slovakia NATO officials have been signaling that they won't ask their own nations to send more troops to Afghanistan until the Obama administration decides whether it will.

NATO's chief says time is not on the alliance's side in Afghanistan and that the allies must quickly endorse Gen.

Authorities are investigating the stabbing death of an 18-year-old from New Town.

A father and son from rural Mission died after they were thrown from their pickup truck in a rollover crash along a western North Dakota highway.

'It could be the start of winter' Minot had about an inch of snow as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, said Jim Tarasenko, research specialist at the North Central Research Extension Center south of Minot.

Weather conditions are being blamed for three deaths in North Dakota. Two of the victims were from Mission.

An early shot of winter in North Dakota has contributed to at least three fatalities.

The White House says the latest three-hour meeting on the United States' next moves in Afghanistan dealt at length with strengthening the civilian mission and training of Afghan police and army.

Oct 11 2009 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php Washington - Gen. Stanley McChrystal's troop request for Afghanistan includes an option to send at least 60,000 additional American forces to buttress the war effort there - a higher troop request than previously known.

The Minot State golf invite wrapped up today at the Minot Country Club. In the men's division, Minot State carried a 7 shot lead into today's final round.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he's focused on cutting back on the number of his country's troops in Afghanistan.

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A confidential report from the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says the situation is growing worse and the U.S. war is at risk of failure without more troops on the ground.

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Summer is always a popular time for centennial celebrations in North Dakota , and as the season nears its end, residents of one century-old county are going out with a bang.

Alice Louise Goodall, 91, New Town, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in a Watford City hospital.