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Driver takes flight

Dave Caldwell/MDN
Scrapes and paint transfer up the top of the concrete retaining wall on the south side of the East Burdick viaduct are evidence of a spectacular crash Sunday night. A man fleeing from police lost control of his vehicle and went over the side, causing the man serious injuries.
May 13, 2008

A Minot man was injured Sunday night in a car crash that occurred because he was fleeing from police.

Jared Gillespie, 39, was driving east on Burdick Expressway East around 10:40 p.m. when Officer Aaron Ottmar attempted to make a traffic stop. Police say Gillespie sped away from the officers toward the viaduct, running a red light and crashing into the rear end of a car being driven by Terry McCarty, 63, of Minot.

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Power line diverter study in final phase

May 13, 2008

COLEHARBOR – During the early morning and late evening hours, summer employees at Audubon National Widlife Refuge carefully traverse the large and often slippery rocks that protect the 3-mile-long Snake Creek embankment from the waves of Lake S

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Woman sentenced to 10 years in 1998 infant death

May 13, 2008

BISMARCK — A federal judge, choked with emotion, sentenced a woman Monday to 10 years in prison for leaving her newborn son alone for about two weeks to die, then putting his body in a suitcase in a ditch near her home.

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Pottery on display

May 13, 2008

Those with an appreciation for fine pottery will have a chance to see excellent examples of some work produced in North Dakota at the North Dakota Pottery Collectors Society’s annual convention in June.

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