Don Wunderlich was a helmsman on a ship with Admiral William Halsey Jr.’s Third Fleet when the Enola Gay B-29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago on Aug. 6, 1945. Wunderlich, of Voltaire, said his ship, the USS Wadleigh, a destroyer, was “in the vicinity” of ...
DUNSEITH – Blooming is well under way at the International Peace Garden. The floral displays for which the facility has become so famous have had an excellent growing season due to abundant rainfall and temperatures agreeable for colorful growing. Visitation to the famed garden that ...
COVID-19 Test Results Results listed are from the previous day. COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY Barnes County – 1 Benson County – 6 Bottineau County - 6 Burke County - 2 Burleigh County - 28 Cass County – 25 Dunn County – ...
WASHINGTON – Two current tribal government officials and one former tribal government official of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation) were charged by criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday for their alleged acceptance of bribes and kickbacks ...
A draft plan for the start of classes later this month will be released to the public on Monday afternoon, Minot Public Schools Assistant Supt. Kim Slotsve said Friday. Slotsve said times and dates for planned virtual meetings next week with Supt. Mark Vollmer will also be announced on ...
POWERS LAKE – Put the brakes on your old furniture and head to Powers Lake for the furniture races during Powers Lake Days 2020 from Aug. 7 to 9. The Burke County Historical Society also will be holding its annual open house activities Aug. 8 and 9, including a basket silent auction and an ...
The Ward County State’s Attorney’s office made errors that resulted in Judge Todd Cresap ruling in favor of GSI defendant John Paul Moquin in various motions on Friday. Moquin, 39, has consistently maintained his innocence to the Class AA felony gross sexual imposition, Class C felony ...
Minot police say they have identified the people who were involved in a shooting early Sunday in downtown Minot. According to a police press release, the incident occurred as one group that was leaving the Ice Cold Ryders “Blacked Out Night” after party confronted a group that was ...
Ward County will be closing down the intersection of County Road 16 at the junction of 93rd Ave. SE and 42nd St. SE starting Monday, Aug. 3, through Aug. 7. The closure is to remove the existing intersection as the new curve and access road for the roadway realignment is completed, according ...
A ribbon cutting and open house will be held on Monday, Aug. 3, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. for one of the first electric vehicle superchargers in North Dakota, according to information provided by Verendrye. The event will take place in Minot at the Enerbase Travel Plaza at 4750 Hwy. 83 North. The ...
Culture differences, language and often other barriers can stand in the way of immigrant business owners who could benefit from assistance programs to help them navigate the new world created by COVID-19. A newly organized New American/Foreign Born/Immigrant Advisory Board to the state ...
COVID-19 Test Results Results listed are from the previous day. COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY Benson County – 12 Billings County - 1 Burke County - 2 Burleigh County - 38 Cass County – 25 Cavalier County – 1 Dickey County - ...
Lt. Scot Redding has retired from the Minot Police Department after 30 years, according to information provided by the MPD. Redding started his career as a police officer with the MPD in 1990. He was later promoted to senior patrol officer and then to sergeant. He was deployed to Iraq from ...
Tyquan Markeez Graham, 22, Minot, is accused of robbing another man in the Sports on Tap bar parking lot at 1:41 a.m. on Sunday and stealing a firearm from his vehicle. He is charged with Class B felony robbery with a firearm and Class C felony felon in possession of a firearm in district court ...
Larissa Rose Monson, 33, Minot, is charged in district court in Minot with Class B felony intent to deliver amphetamines on Wednesday. According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Monson was stopped for failing to yield and failing to use her turn signal at 1:11 a.m. ...
Coty James Wolverton, 36, Minot, is accused of fracturing several bones in another inmate’s face during a fight at the Ward County Jail on July 5. Wolverton is charged in district court in Minot with Class C felony aggravated assault. According to the probable cause affidavit filed with ...
Matthew Duane Fixsal Jr., 31, Minot, is accused of accidentally shooting both himself and his friend, Taylor Bliven, on March 15 while he was showing his friend the new trigger on his Springfield Hellcat Micro Compact 9mm pistol. Fixsal shot himself in the hand and Bliven was shot in the ...
Alberto Moreno, 36, Minot, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison, all suspended but the 10 days he already served in the Ward County Jail, and two years of supervised probation for punching a nurse at Trinity Hospital in the face on Dec. 21, 2019. Judge Richard Hagar also ordered ...
David Robert Kunkel, 29, was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison, with a requireement that he serve 18 months, and three years of supervised probation for Class B felony delivery of methamphetamine on May 23, 2019. The sentence is concurrent with a sentence that Kunkel is already ...