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Farm Rescue nonprofit helps 50 families in 2013
• JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) -- The nonprofit Farm Rescue organization has wrapped up its year after helping 50 families.
• The North Dakota-based nonprofit provides planting and harvesting help free of charge to farm families in the region stricken by a major illness, injury or disaster.
• Since 2006, Farm Rescue has helped more than 250 farm families in the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Iowa. The 50 families helped this year was the organization's highest annual total to date.
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Extreme cold blankets Dakotas after days of snow
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Some organizations in the Dakotas are canceling holiday events as bitter cold settles over the region.
• A "Christmas at the Zoo" fundraising event in the North Dakota city of Minot and "Parade of Lights" events in the South Dakota cities of Yankton and Sturgis are among those being called off.
• The National Weather Service has posted advisories in the two states for wind chills as low as 40 degrees below zero. Temperatures that cold can quickly freeze exposed skin and cause hypothermia.
• It can lead to other problems as well, like frozen water pipes.
• The weather service says it's also keeping an eye on possible rapid rises on the Missouri River caused by ice formation.
• The cold comes on the heels of heavy snowfall. Some cities set records Wednesday.
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Shrugging off winter's bite in N. Dakota oilfields
JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Some people were choosing to stay indoors as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains, but the prospect of temperatures not cracking single digits had a different effect on the roustabouts, roughnecks and thousands of others working outside in western North Dakota's oil patch.
• For them, it was just another challenge to face as they go about the task of pulling nearly a million barrels of oil a day out of the ground.
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