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Tracy Briggs

Tracy Briggs has been a journalist for more than 35 years, starting as a television news reporter, producer and anchor in 1988. She is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer/host, was named The Forum’s 2007 “Person of the Year” for founding the WDAY Honor Flight program (now Veterans Honor Flight of ND/MN) and has won numerous awards from the Minnesota Newspaper Association and the North Dakota Newspaper Association. These days, her specialty is historical and feature news with her column “Back Then with Tracy Briggs,” which takes both a lighthearted and serious walk down memory lane. You can reach Tracy at 701-219-0748 or tracy.briggs@forumcomm.com.

When America lost 18 of its best figure skaters in a plane crash in February 1961, 'Fargo's First Family of Skating' mourned the loss of friends and partners.
After nearly a century, questions remain over why Winnie Ruth Judd killed Hedvig Samuelson and stuffed her body in a suitcase.
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Here's a look at where Bob Dylan spent his days in Fargo in 1959, when he was like a rolling stone.
Fourteen people, including prominent CEOs and politicians, died on Oct. 30, 1941, when a Northwest Airlines plane crashed just outside Moorhead, Minnesota.
A look back at the Minnesotan who inspired more than one of his songs and how the state's cold spring inspired another.
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Lost in Burma in 1944, 1st Lt. Herman Sundstad — one of Merrill’s Marauders — has been identified through DNA from the daughter he never met. This Veterans Day, he’ll receive a hero’s farewell.
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If this election season has left you stressed, nervous and on edge, consider the remedies that got our ancestors through the tough times.
Some people claim the devil himself visited the tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, that summer night in 1912, when 8 people were killed by an ax murderer.
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Horsemaning became all the rage following a Hollywood movie, but its roots go back to Queen Victoria’s time
The so-called "Coya Come Home" letter insinuated a women’s place is in the house, not the U.S. House.