Friday,  August 31, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 047 • 36 of 48 •  Other Editions

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• Lowrance, who has also lived in California, Houston and Panama, has been on the Internal Revenue Service's radar at least as far back as 2007, according to an affidavit in the Illinois case.
• Two undercover IRS agents met with Lowrance in Panama in 2008, and Lowrance said his company had 419 clients and was managing about $37 million. He told them that First Capital paid interest rates of 3 percent to 5 percent per month through the foreign exchange trading program, according to the affidavit.
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• DOJ awards Dakotas tribes $1 million in grants
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Department of Justice has awarded more than $1 million to four Native American tribes in the Dakotas to enhance sex offender registration and notification programs.
• The North Dakota congressional delegation announced Thursday that the grants have been awarded to the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe.
• The congressional delegates say in a news release that the tribes will use the money to help implement and comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006, which seeks to close gaps and loopholes in sex offender registration and notification programs.
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Bison plan to put championship season behind them
DAVE KOLPACK,Associated Press

• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- It wasn't that long ago, North Dakota State coach Craig Bohl says, that BIson football fans were complaining to athletic director Gene Taylor about spectators standing up during games and blocking their view.
• No longer is the atmosphere inside the Fargodome like a dog show.
• Fresh off their first Division I football championship, the Bison have sold out every home game for the first time in school history. They open the season Saturday against visiting Robert Morris, after a brief ceremony planned to commemorate the Championship Subdivision title.
• "It's going to be really loud. The dome is going to be rocking," NDSU quarterback Brock Jensen said.
• Bohl, now in his 10th year, guided the team through a transition from NCAA Divi

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