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N.D. (AP) – A major highway in western North Dakota’s
oil patch is back open after being shut for nearly six months
because landslides and shifting ground made it nearly impassable.
Workers moved State Highway 22 about 600 feet to the west and gave
it a temporary asphalt surface. Permanent repairs are planned next
year.
    
WASHINGTON (AP) – A high-level Justice Department official says
tribal courts should have the authority to prosecute people who
aren’t American Indians in reservation domestic violence cases.
Associate attorney general Tom Perrelli says the lack of that
authority often leads law officers on reservations to mistakenly
believe they can’t arrest non-Indians.
    
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota House shot down a
proposal yesterday to set up a state-run health insurance exchange.
North Dakota lawmakers had to choose whether to set up a state-run
agency or let the federal government do it. The exchanges will be
used to offer subsidized health insurance for small businesses and
people who don’t have coverage. It’s part of a new federal health
care law.
    
  
FORDVILLE, N.D. (AP) – The small northeastern North Dakota town
of Fordville is without a grocery store for the first time in 106
years. A grocery-butcher-hardware store building and the equipment
inside is being auctioned off tomorrow. Longtime owners Curt and
Jan Iverson hung up their aprons this fall after operating the
Walsh County business for 35 years.

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