Growing up in Homer, Jacob Fisher felt a calling to the ministry. It would have to wait. We were at war -- World War II. He enlisted in the Navy at age 17, and would ...

Jacob Fischer, Horace, N.D. and Nicholas Reitan, West Fargo, have earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Both are members of Boy Scout Troop 279 of West Fargo and are juniors at West Fargo High School.

For a day and a half, Jacob Fischer lay trapped, face down in his car, hidden in a brush-covered ravine while relatives and friends searched frantically for him. The 17-year-old from Independence was ...