Aug 30, 2008 - 04:06:42 CDT
NDSU may change ticket policyFARGO (AP) — North Dakota State University allotted more than 4,000 free student tickets for the school’s football opener, but it wasn’t enough.
Student who still were waiting after the allotted tickets were gone had to fork over $15 for general admission tickets. About 50 students will be eligible for reimbursement.
Athletic director Gene Taylor says 4,000 student tickets were enough for most games in other years. Taylor says officials plan to watch ticket sales for each home game this year and release more tickets when possible.
Man pleads guilty to porn charge
FARGO (AP) — Authorities say a Milnor man has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
Shane Knudsvig is accused of paying a subscription fee to download child pornography images from the Internet.
Authorities say pornographic images were seized from the 38-year-old man’s home in Milnor last October.
United States District Court Judge Ralph Erickson scheduled Knudsvig’s sentencing for Nov. 7 in Fargo.
Knudsvig faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Judge rules against man in riot case
FARGO (AP) — A Fargo man convicted of engaging in a riot at the 2006 Red River Valley Fair has been denied a bid to clear his name and avoid deportation.
Mevludin Hidanovic, a native of Bosnia, was convicted in January 2007 for engaging in a riot while armed. He has served his state sentence and is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Hidanovic’s attorney told East Central District Judge Wade Webb on Friday that he should get a new trial, but Webb turned downed a motion for post-conviction relief.
Woman excited to have met Obama
FARGO (AP) — A West Fargo woman was among those who got to meet Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention on the night he accepted his party’s nomination for president.
Kayla Whitaker was among 10 people chosen from around the country to spend 10 minutes with the Democratic presidential candidate. She says he was kind and gracious.
Whitaker says Obama asked where she was from and told her, “I love Fargo, North Dakota.”
Whitaker said she started to cry, and she got a hug. She calls Obama a “great man.”
She says the group of 10 people who met with Obama was a “diverse crowd” ranging from military veterans to students.
The 20-year-old Whitaker is a Minnesota State University Moorhead photojournalism student. She says she took hundreds of photos at the convention.
U.S. oil and gas rig count up by 33
HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States rose by 33 this week to 2,031.
Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. reported Friday that of the rigs running nationwide, 1,606 were exploring for natural gas and 416 for oil. Nine were listed as miscellaneous.
A year ago, the rig count stood at 1,829.
Of the major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas gained 27 rigs, New Mexico 14, Oklahoma three and Wyoming two. Louisiana lost 11 rigs and Colorado lost one. Alaska, North Dakota, California, Arkansas and Alaska were unchanged.
Baker Hughes has tracked rig counts since 1944. The tally peaked at 4,530 in 1981, during the height of the oil boom. The industry posted several record lows in 1999, bottoming out at 488.
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