MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead Police Department has just launched a local chapter of ‘PAL’, the Police Athletics and Activities League. They are combining this new program with favorites from the past to prevent juvenile crime. Moorhead Police Department is mixing some of the old with the new. “We used the inspiration behind the cops and kids game to start the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Enrollment is down at most Minnesota state colleges and universities and that means fewer dollars for those schools. Records released by the MnSCU Board of Trustee’s show last school year as the sixth straight that MnSCU institutions saw a drop in enrollment. Full-time students at those schools is at 132,000. That’s a 17% decline…
STUTSMAN CO., ND — Authorities have released the name of a man who was killed when his vehicle struck three horses standing on a county road west of Ypsilanti, North Dakota. The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office identifies the victim as 24-year-old Cruz Schumacher of Jamestown. The crash happened just before 5 a.m. Saturday. After striking the horses, Schumacher’s Pontiac Grand…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson says she plans to run for re-election as attorney general instead of running for governor. Swanson was widely expected to launch a bid for governor. But the three-term Democrat told supporters in an email that she is running instead for re-election. In her email, Swanson wrote that the work of her…
GRAND FORKS, ND — Police in Grand Forks are searching for a man who robbed Valley Dairy at 1401 South Washington Street at gunpoint. Officers were called to the store around 6:51 p.m. Thursday. They say an African American male in his early twenties displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk complied and the man ran. …
FARGO, ND — The TSA has fully implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Hector International Airport in Fargo. Training began in late November and the rules went into effect Thursday. Travelers must place all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for x-ray screening. Passengers should continue to remove their one-quart bag containing liquids, gels…
Letter Sent To Parents COLFAX, ND — Richland County Sheriff Larry Leshovsky anticipates the investigation into alleged student misbehavior at Richland 44 school should be finished next week. It will then be turned over to the state’s attorney for possible charges. In a letter sent to parents by Superintendent Tim Godfrey, he said the district will protect and preserve…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Miss America Cara Mund will attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday as the guest of Sen. John Hoeven. Mund is the 23-year-old Bismarck native who won the Miss America crown last September. She’s the first winner from North Dakota in the history of the nearly century-old scholarship pageant. Mund interned at Sen….
DOUGLAS CO., Minn. — A pickup broke through the ice on Lake Ida about 400 yards from the access. It happened around 7:45 Wednesday evening. 37-year-old Brent Jensen of Burnsville called the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office to report the incident. He says he was fishing with a friend north of the Sugar Sand Lane lake access when the front end…
BISMARCK, ND — Randy Christmann is running for re-election to the North Dakota Public Service Commission. He has served as a PSC Commissioner since 2012 and is currently its chairperson. Christmann said that during his time as commissioner, North Dakotans have enjoyed some of the lowest utility rates in the nation. Prior to the PSC, Christmann served in the North…
