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Burke Central High School Team won the state LifeSmarts championship and will be representing North Dakota in the national competition in Florida in April.

Fifteen teams of students from nine North Dakota High Schools will compete in the LifeSmarts state finals in Bismarck on Wednesday this week announced Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem. 

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem announced that 151 North Dakota former students of the for-profit education company Career Education Corp will receive student loan debt relief totaling more than $340,000. 

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem issued Cease and Desist Orders banning  unlicensed contractors Timothy Jacobson of Fairmount, Tyler Giles of Fargo, and Patrick Peltier of Bottineau, from conducting any further business in the state.

North Dakota will receive $1.2 million from Wells Fargo Bank under the terms of a national settlement agreement, announced Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem. The state's share of the $575 million settlement fund is for civil costs and attorney fees.

Transfers from the highway tax distribution fund to the ethanol production incentive fund to provide incentive payments to ethanol plants pursuant to statute are presumed constitutional until declared otherwise by a court.

The city of Belfield violated the law because its special meeting notice did not provide sufficient details about the topic to be discussed or the legal authority for holding an executive session, and the city failed to provide notice to the official newspaper, as required.

The City of Mandan did not violate the open records law because it promptly responded to the open records request when it was received.

A public entity has no obligation to provide personal notice of its meetings unless an individual submits a request to that public entity. The Bismarck-Mandan Mayors’ Committee for People with Disabilities did not violate the law because Mr. Jordan has never made a request to the Committee to receive personal notice of its meetings. 

A public entity is required to provide personal notice to anyone who has asked to receive notice of its meetings. Mr. Jordan did not ask to receive notice of meetings of the Morton-Mandan Public Library Board, and therefore it had no obligation to provide him with notice.