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Tax season bringing out the fraud artists 
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — How do you know that the sender of an e-mail that has landed in your inbox is trying to steal your money or your identity? The message comes right out and asks for it.
March 08, 2010
Obama to appeal for public support on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Barack Obama is taking his last-ditch push for a health care overhaul on the road.
March 08, 2010
Toyota moves past apologies, aims for sales
NEW YORK (AP) — New ads for troubled automaker Toyota Motor Corp. are skipping the apologies and easing back into sales pitches — too soon, some say.
March 08, 2010
Database can crack missing person cases — if used
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.
March 08, 2010
Unemployment rate unchanged as 36K jobs lost
The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than expected. The figures suggested the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur.
The Labor Department said it wouldn’t quantify how the snowstorms that hammered the East Coast last month affected job losses. Some data in the report signaled the storms didn’t reduce payrolls as much as had been feared.
March 05, 2010
Gunman killed after shooting 2 Pentagon police
A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived at the military headquarters’ subway entrance armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said today. The shooter apparently left behind Internet postings resentful of the government and airing suspicions about the 9/11 attacks.
March 05, 2010
Multiple people killed in bus crash near Phoenix
Rescuers are breaking out windows to get to victims on a passenger bus that crashed on an Interstate south of Phoenix.
Multiple people were killed in the accident early this morning.
March 05, 2010
Standoff ends with arrest after police go into mobile home, man arrested in hidden shotgun case
A Grand Forks man wanted on charges related to the loaded shotgun found last week in the Herald’s building was arrested just before midnight after a several-hour standoff at a south Grand Forks mobile home.
March 04, 2010
GOP holdout gives in, Senate OKs jobless benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting a lone senator's cantankerous challenge behind it, the Senate is back to work on a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits through the end of the year.
March 03, 2010
NW Iowa man dies from shooting injuries
ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa - Authorities say a northwest Iowa man who was shot in the head at his home in Rock Rapids has died.
March 03, 2010
Bus carrying ND basketball team hits cow
MINOT, N.D. - Eight members of a Minot middle school boys basketball team suffered minor injuries when the school bus they were in hit a cow on the road and went into the ditch Monday night.
March 03, 2010
Postal Service wants to end Saturday home delivery, raise postage rates to stem massive financial losses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The post office is renewing its drive to drop Saturday delivery — and plans a rate increase — in an effort to fend off a projected $7 billion loss this year.
March 02, 2010
Champion auctioneer charged with murdering Minnesota man in N.D. incident
WISHEK, N.D. (AP) — Bond has been set at $75,000 for a South Dakota man accused of murdering a Minnesota man in North Dakota.
March 02, 2010
Iowa jury convicts man in football coach killing
ALLISON, Iowa - A jury has convicted an Iowa man of first-degree murder in the killing of a nationally known high school football coach.
March 02, 2010
Sandbags fall through Fargo storage facility floor
FARGO, N.D. - No one was hurt when the floor collapsed at a city-leased sandbag storage facility in Fargo, but the bags broke a gas line while falling to the basement of the building.
March 02, 2010
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