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MINOT -- With summer winding down, many families will escape to area lakes in coming weeks. To make sure such outings don’t end in tragedy, Safe Kids Minot is teaming up with Brady Martz and the Minot Park District to give families easy access to life jackets.   Amber Emerson, RN, Safe Kids Minot coordinator, […]
by The Dakotan
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August 18, 2022

Tobacco Compliance Checks

On August 18 the Minot Police Department administered Tobacco Compliance Checks on 39 licensed tobacco retailers in the city. We are pleased to announce that ALL retailers passed the check by refusing to sell tobacco products to our underage volunteers.   Tobacco Compliance Checks are required by ordinance to be performed by the police department […]
by The Dakotan
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August 18, 2022

Veteran Leads the Pledge

MINOT – With the controversy of the Pledge of Allegiance and whether it should be recited, one man took to the podium with confidence to say it.  At the Minot City Council meeting Monday, Paul Stroklund, a retired 30-year active duty and combat veteran with the Army and Army National Guard, led the council and […]
by Lydia Hoverson
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August 18, 2022

Search Warrant in Term Limits Tussle

MINOT – A search warrant was executed this week at the home of Charles Tuttle, an advocate for the North Dakota Term Limits Committee and general watchdog over agencies and officials of state government. The Bureau of Criminal Investigation conducted the search of Tuttle’s Minot residence.  “They did a Mar-a-Lago raid at my house,” said […]
by Kim Fundingsland
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August 18, 2022

You'll See

MINOT--“I see you here a lot,” said the man who held the door for me as we simultaneously left the library.  “Yeah,” I replied, while shoving my now-empty coffee mug into my bag. “I come here to work when my husband is home with our kids. I’m close enough that I can be home in […]
by Amy Allender
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August 18, 2022

Burgum Seeks Red Tape Reduction

Burgum creates Red Tape Reduction Working Group to reduce burdens, lower costs of regulation   BISMARCK – Gov. Doug Burgum has issued an executive order creating a Red Tape Reduction Working Group to bolster ongoing efforts to identify antiquated, unnecessary and burdensome regulations, rules and policies that could be changed or eliminated to reduce burdens […]
by The Dakotan
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August 18, 2022

More Controversy for Fargo Schools

FARGO—Fargo Public School District is once again in the national news, this time over a letter that FPSD Superintendent Rupak Ghandi sent to teachers in Florida who resigned over the recently-passed parental rights bill.  The letter was authored by Gandhi, FPSD Director of Equity and Inclusion Dr. Tamara Uselman, Fargo City Commissioner John Strand and […]
by Charlene Nelson
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August 18, 2022

Minot School Board Reacts to Fargo's No Pledge Decision 

MINOT – A few members of the Minot Public School Board expressed their disagreement with a Fargo School Board’s recent decision. After the Fargo School Board voted 7-2 to remove the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance before its board meetings, four of Minot’s five school board members had something to say about it. “If […]
by Lydia Hoverson
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August 17, 2022

NDHP – Bismarck PD Aircraft Operation

On the evening of Aug.15, 2022, the North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP) partnered with the Bismarck Police Department (BPD) to conduct a joint traffic detail utilizing the NDHP airplane to monitor area traffic stops and track fleeing motorists, if needed. An officer with the Bismarck Police Department initiated a traffic stop on a motorcyclist that […]
by The Dakotan
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August 17, 2022

Report Faults Prison Guard's Checks in ND Murderer's Suicide

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An investigation into the prison suicide of a man convicted in a 2019 quadruple slaying in North Dakota found that he had covered his cell window with cardboard and a guard failed to follow proper procedures in conducting required checks.The investigation report from the state Highway […]
by AP - The Dakotan
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August 17, 2022
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