BISMARCK – Gov. Kelly Armstrong urged legislators meeting in special session Wednesday, Sept. 2, to act decisively in regulating a substance that acts as an opioid. Armstrong called the special session to pass laws addressing kratom. “We are here to address a public safety and public ...
From the Western Governors' Association BISMARCK –On the first day of National Suicide Prevention Month, North Dakota Gov.Kelly Armstrong sat down for a discussion about how to deliver robust mental health services across North Dakota and other rural western states. Armstrong joined ...
GRAND FORKS – North Dakota’s only mobile medical simulation program, UND’s Simulation In Motion-North Dakota (SIM-ND), is coming to western North Dakota. In July, the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) traveling program announced the arrival of two new "sprinter" style simulation vans — modeled on the slightly smaller, more agile ambulances typically seen on the streets of larger cities. Funded in part through a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the two new simulation vans will be based in Minot and Grand Forks/Fargo, respectively. “We ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Wednesday following a fifth day of deliberations and twice saying they can't agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The jury will return again Thursday morning. The judge told jurors to keep deliberating Wednesday when they said for a second straight ...
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Adam Hamilton has spent decades trying to bring people to Jesus as founder of the nation's largest United Methodist church. Now he wants to bring Kansas voters to the polls as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. A first-time candidate, Hamilton faces an unusual balancing act between political ambition and spiritual obligation. His pastoral role has given him rare prominence for a Democrat in a state where Republicans have won every Senate race for nearly a century, and some in his party are hoping for an upset victory over incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall. But ...
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities rescued dozens of people from stranded cars, homes surrounded by floodwaters and an assisted living facility Wednesday as former Tropical Storm Edouard lingered over rural parts of the state and dumped nearly 2 feet of rain in some places. Heavy rains from the storm, which weakened into a tropical depression after making landfall Tuesday, were expected to threaten the eastern part of the state through Thursday morning, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, a burst of tropical weather persisted in the Pacific Ocean, where two ...
