Allan Peterson, left, of the North Dakota Association of the Blind, listens to Carol Sawicki of the North Dakota League of Women Voters on Oct. 12, 2024, in Fargo. Sawicki was providing information about voting in the general election for people with visual impairments. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Erin Hemme Froslie – North Dakota Monitor) Trevor Vannett likes the…
Dr. Dennis Lutz, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Dakota Medical School, shares updates about the school’s maternal mortality program. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) A state-funded group that researches maternal mortality wants the Legislature to increase its funding five-fold to $240,000 for the 2025-2027 budget cycle. North Dakota’s 26-member…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A missionary from Detroit Lakes was killed Friday in Africa. Lakes Area Vineyard Church Lead Pastor Troy Easton says Beau Shroyer was killed in an act of violence while serving Jesus in Angola. Shroyer was there with SIM USA, which has been involved in cross-cultural missions for over a century. He was married with five…
Kaitlyn Carroll (Otter Tail County Detention Center)FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A woman has been charged with 3rd degree murder in the drug overdose death of a man in rural Fergus Falls in early August. Kaitlyn Carroll, 26, of Elizabeth, is accused in of supplying a mixture of methamphetamine and fentanyl to a 28-year-old man, who was found unresponsive in…
Timothy Windels (Cass Co. jail)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A man who caused thousands of dollars in damage to internet and cable lines in Fargo in August has been sentenced to 180 days in jail. Timothy Windels pleaded guilty and admitted to using an angle grinder to cut Midco lines at seven locations around Fargo causing significant outages to residential and business customers….
MINOT, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Officers from the Minot Police Department were dispatched to a residence in southwest Minot following a reported domestic disturbance Friday morning. The department says central dispatch received a call at 7 a.m. with sounds of an argument between a male and a female. During the call, dispatch overheard threats of a firearm. Officers responded to the…
BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) The Attorney General’s Office has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to keep the state’s abortion ban in effect while it mulls over a lower court’s decision finding the law unconstitutional. The ban outlawed abortion except when a pregnancy poses a serious health risk to the mother, and in cases of rape…
Voters check-in and cast ballots during Burleigh County’s first day of early voting for the 2024 election at the Bismarck Event Center on Oct. 24, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Michael Achterling – North Dakota Monitor) Burleigh County kicked off early in-person voting Thursday with a line of voters snaking out of the Bismarck Event Center. Auditor-Treasurer Mark Splonskowski…
From left to right, David White, Martin White, and 57-year-old Mark Watson. MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Police arrest three men for trafficking drugs from the Twin Cities into Moorhead. David White, 45, and Martin White, 54, both of St. Paul, and Mark Watson,57, of Moorhead, are in the Clay County Jail for felony drug charges for possession and distribution. An…
Attorney Derrick Braaten asks a question June 11, 2024, in Bismarck during a hearing on the Summit Carbon Solutions project. Braaten also represents landowners in a lawsuit that challenges state laws related to carbon dioxide storage that is being appealed to the state Supreme Court. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Amy Dalrymple – North Dakota Monitor) The North…
