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No sign of drinking before ND senator's death
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   FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ A police report says former North Dakota Republican Senate majority leader Bob Stenehjem (STEN'-jum) didn't have alcohol or illegal drugs in his system when he was killed in an SUV rollover.
   Stenehjem was in Alaska on a family fishing trip when he died last July. The 59-year-old Stenehjem was driving north of Homer, Alaska when his SUV went off the road and overturned.
   Stenehjem wasn't wearing a seat belt, and he was thrown from the vehicle. Stenehjem's son suffered a broken right wrist, and his grandson was treated at a hospital and released.
   The group had been out fishing late the night before. An Alaska state police report  on the crash had been obtained; it quotes a witness as saying the SUV was weaving before the accident.