In North Dakota, state and American flags flew at half staff from sunrise to sunset the day of Senate Majority Leader Bob Stenehjem's funeral.

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In North Dakota, state and American flags flew at half staff from sunrise to sunset the day of Senate Majority Leader Bob Stenehjem's funeral. Remembered as a generous, strong leader whose contributions to the state are "immeasurable," Stenehjem, 59, died in Alaska when the SUV he was riding in lost control and overturned. He had been on a halibut fishing vacation. An avid fisherman who believed plaid shirts went with everything, Stenehjem joined his two brothers in the legislature--believed unprecedented--when he was elected to the Senate in 1992. He became majority leader...