PHOENIX Devin Booker and Kevin Durant showed up in Game 4 on Sunday in Phoenix, clearly determined to not get swept. Booker poured in 49 points on 13 for 21 shooting. Durant had 33 points, nine rebounds and five assists. The Suns’ best players brought their best effort and delivered their best fight of the series. And yet they were still knocked out by the best player on the floor over the last week. That was Anthony Edwards, who’s been brilliant all week, and saved his best for last. Edwards was spectacular in every sense Sunday, not only putting the Suns to bed, but tucking them in an ..read more

FARGO The Fargo Force picked up a playoff win on Sunday with a familiar face returning to the lineup after missing the last series. The Force defeated the Sioux City Musketeers 3-1 in Game 1 of the USHL Western Conference Finals at Scheels Arena. Fargo holds a 1-0 lead in the five-game series. The win came four days after the Force earned a series sweep of the Tri-City Storm in the conference semifinals. Throughout the series, Force forward Brandon Svoboda watched from afar due to injury. But on Sunday, Svoboda returned to the Force lineup and made a spectacular play in front of 3,764 in ..read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. - For the first three innings of Sunday’s game, the Twins’ offense was held quiet. While that might have been a cause for concern earlier this season, these days, it’s impossible to keep Minnesota down for too long. The suddenly surging Twins offense broke out in the middle innings of Sunday’s game on the way to the team’s major league-leading seventh straight win. With a 11-5 win against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium, Minnesota finished a second-straight series sweep and is now over .500 at 14-13. “We’re seeing the ball better. You can just see it,” manager Rocco ..read more

GRAND FORKS After winning the President's Athletic Conference's Newcomer of the Year honor during cross country in the fall, freshman success has continued in the spring season for former Grand Forks Red River runner Lauren Dosch, now at NCAA Division III Franciscan University in Ohio. At the PAC Championships in Morgantown, W.V., over the weekend, Dosch broke the school record in winning the 800. She later ran a leg on Franciscan's runner-up 4x400 team, which beat the school record, as well. Dosch's winning time in the 800 was a personal-best 2 minutes, 14.29 seconds. In the 4x400, Dos ..read more

Will Reichard has long been known for his accuracy as a kicker. Not necessarily his power. Yet, when Alabama absolutely needed Reichard to come through from distance this year against Michigan in the Rose Bowl, he converted from 50 yards, then from 52 yards. He always seems to be at his best when the lights are bright. “It’s super important to be able to kick well in big-time pressure situations,” Reichard said. “That’s something that I take a lot of pride in.” That should serve Reichard well as he steps into the pressure cooker that is being a kicker in Minnesota. He was selected by the ..read more

Every stage in the development of your garden is important, but nothing matches the excitement of getting your plants into the ground once spring comes around. In this episode, Don and John go over spring planting methods that will give your plants their best shot at a successful growing season. ]]> ..read more

GRAND FORKS As a collaboration between UND's history and music departments, and in honor of the city's 150th anniversary, the "UND Voice Recital: Grand Forks 150" was held on Sunday afternoon, April 28, at the Hughes Fine Arts Center. Music students played various instruments, sang and recited 150-word essays that were written by their peers in the history department the previous semester. "One of the beauties of being in the College of Arts and Sciences is that we get to do stuff like that where the humanities and the arts can really intermingle, and describe one another and complement eac ..read more

At least four people died, including a four-month-old baby, and scores were injured in Oklahoma this weekend after dozens of twisters swept the U.S. Southern Plains, while weather alerts on Sunday put more than 7 million Americans under tornado warnings. =Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Sunday declared a disaster emergency for the state, freeing up more money for first responders and recovery operations. "Definitely the most damage since I've been governor," Stitt said in Sulphur, one of the hardest-hit communities, on Sunday afternoon as he provided an update on fatalities and damage. Stitt ..read more

Although the number of reported sexually transmitted infections dropped 3 percent from 2022 to 2023, health officials say Minnesota’s infection rates are still high and that new HIV and congenital syphilis cases are surging. The figures, from the new Annual Summary of Reportable STIs in Minnesota, show there were 32,072 cases reported in 2022. In 2023, that number dropped to 31,232. However, during that same time, 324 cases of HIV were reported, marking a 24 percent increase in the number of HIV infections and the largest number of new cases in a decade. In addition, there were 29 cases of ..read more

LITCHFIELD As the communities of Litchfield and Hutchinson commemorate the closure of their two historic newspapers the Litchfield Independent Review and the Hutchinson Leader news has broken that the void left behind is to be filled much sooner than probably expected. CherryRoad Media, the media division of CherryRoad Technologies of Parsippany, New Jersey, has announced it will be opening two new community journalism operations, the Litchfield Rail and the Hutchinson Station, with publication of the new newspapers to begin May 9. “We wanted this to be seamless, without a break in community ..read more