ND's Heitkamp to speak at McGovern Day Dinner

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — North Dakota U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp will speak at this year's McGovern Day Dinner in Sioux Falls.

The event is an annual celebration of the late senator and a fundraiser for the South Dakota Democratic Party. McGovern, who died in October at age 90, spoke at the dinner last year.

The Daily Republic reports (http://bit.ly/14GtCC0) that this year's event is scheduled for April 20.

Sen. Tim Johnson will also speak at the dinner, which will be held at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.

The 57-year-old Heitkamp is a former two-term North Dakota attorney general who also ran for governor in 2000. She defeated Republican Rep. Rick Berg to win the Senate seat last fall.

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