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North Dakota

33-34
82-91
14-22
29-36
120
586-598
429-440
299-310
452-457
895-908
347-364
529-535
816
169-176
Apr 2001Number of tries it took a blind North Dakota man to pass a shooting test last fall before receiving a gun permit: 2
Source:

Cass County Sheriff's Department (Fargo, N.D.)

Nov 1998Amount for which a North Dakota town has agreed to rename itself after a brand of schnapps for four years: $100,000
Source:

Sazerac Company, Inc. (New Orleans)

Sep 1998Percentage change since 1996 in the income of North Dakota farmers: -98
Source:

Bureau of Economic Analysis (Washington)

September 12, 2007Near Grand Forks, North Dakota, at least 1,600 catfish died of unknown causes, ruining the fishing season.
Source:

Minneapolis Star Tribune

November 29, 2006Hunters in Michigan, North Dakota, shot a female deer with a “well-developed rack” of antlers.
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Yahoo News

June 1, 2006The United States declared a moratorium on wind farms in Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Source:

PhysOrg.com

January 1, 2005thirty-six children in North Dakota were injured in a New Year's Eve sledding accident,
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Associated Press

June 10, 2004Officials in North Dakota were searching for 27,000 missing pelicans.
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New York Times

July 3, 2001A movement was afoot in North Dakota to change the state's name to “Dakota” because of fears that the word “north” was giving people the wrong idea.
May 15, 2001In Bismarck, North Dakota, police cited a seven-year-old boy for stealing $6 from his mom to buy a Beanie Baby.
March 20, 2001A North Dakota man was convicted of “contact by bodily fluids” and sentenced to five years in prison for urinating on a deputy sheriff's leg.
January 9, 2001 North Dakota issued a concealed-weapons permit to a blind man.

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