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Power Restored to East Grand Forks After Substation Problem
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (AP) _ An outage that left half the city of East Grand Forks without power for a couple of hours when a substation exploded has been fixed.
The outage began at about 9 p.m. Thursday and ended around 11:30 p.m., but not before disrupting a high school hockey game when the lights went out at the Civic Center.
The city of East Grand Forks, on the border with North Dakota, has about 8,600 residents.
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