Domestic violence is one of the most difficult crimes to address, experts say, because it involves a tangle of factors: intimate details of both the perpetrators’ and victims’ lives, troubled histories and – at its heart – a fundamental misunderstanding of healthy emotional skills. ...
Jennifer Anne Waldner, 33, Minot, is charged with Class C felony child abuse in district court in Minot. According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Waldner roughly grabbed a young girl by the arm on Monday evening. The girl had pain in her upper right arm and said it hurt ...
Blake Cody Lund, 37, Minot, made an initial appearance Tuesday in Minot Municipal Court on misdemeanor charges that he tampered with a Verendrye Electric meter on Jan. 25 and stole electricity from the company. Lund is charged in municipal court with Class B misdemeanor criminal mischief and ...
The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center will host “The Insider Tour,” an opportunity to see behind-the-scenes at the Interpretive Center, on Saturday, March 9, at 2 p.m. The tour will be led by the Center’s site manager and interpretive coordinator. It will reveal how traditional and ...
When Loretta Boehm stared working at the Capitol Cafe, they sold cigarettes and cigars at the counter. Egg salad sandwiches were 50 cents. Coffee and candy bars cost a nickel each. “Except for Mounds and Almond Joys. Those were a dime,” Boehm said. Loretta Boehm has been serving up ...
The State Auditor’s Office has begun an audit of the Turtle Mountain Community Schools in Belcourt. According to a press release from the office, the audit was requested by a citizen in the school district. “My office will conduct an audit of the financial records of Belcourt Public ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are beginning the second day of their high-stakes nuclear summit with a one-on-one discussion. Trump and Kim met Thursday, the morning after they opened the summit in Vietnam.
TOWNER – He claimed his crime was justified. A district judge and a church deacon strongly disagreed. After listening to remarks from the prosecution and defense attorneys, along with the accused, Northeast District Judge Donovan Foughty, Devils Lake, ordered that Chad Legare be sentenced ...
Cody Lee Payne, 29, originally charged with Class C felony aggravated assault and accused of punching his girlfriend in the face and fracturing her nose on June 3, pleaded guilty on Feb. 23 to a reduced charge of Class B misdemeaor simple assault - domestic violence. North Central District ...
Alexander James Hand, 26, Minot, was sentenced to two years in prison, with all suspended but the 60 days he has already served, and two years of supervised probation for disposing of a firearm his co-worker had used in an alleged burglary and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hand ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — After long journeys to Vietnam, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are in place for their second summit to address perhaps the world’s biggest security challenge: Kim’s pursuit of a nuclear program that stands on the verge of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators grilled CEOs of seven major drug companies on Tuesday over high prescription drug prices that are a drain on Medicare and Medicaid and a burden to millions of Americans. The extraordinary public accounting was a sign that Congress and the White House are moving ...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government’s fight to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from next-generation internet networks appears to be flagging. The two sides faced off Tuesday at the world’s biggest mobile technology trade fair, in Barcelona, Spain, where they sought to win over ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — High winds howled through much of the eastern U.S. for a second day Monday, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, closing schools, and pushing dramatic mounds of ice onto the shores of Lake Erie. Wind gusts of hurricane force — 74 mph — or ...
Kent Hinkel made his first pilgrimage to Israel when he was a student in his last year of ministry training in 1994. “In the years now as a pastor, especially as a teaching pastor, I have found it invaluable to have immersion into the context of scripture – the land of the Bible. It’s so ...
Confidence is key. Getting through life, the more self assured a person is, the better a person’s life is likely to be. For many young girls, being confident and self-assured can get harder as they grow and get older. BIO Girls is working to help fix that. BIO Girls is an organization that ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United States is planning new ways to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to give up power and other means to provide assistance to the people of the economically devastated South American nation after a weekend effort failed to deliver aid. Vice ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — With North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on an armored train barreling through China toward Vietnam’s capital, and U.S. President Donald Trump about to board a jet for Hanoi, Vietnamese officials scrambled Monday to finish preparations for a rushed summit that will capture ...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s stock market surged Monday after President Donald Trump’s decision to postpone a tariff hike on Chinese imports and state media expressed hopes the fight with Washington over Beijing’s technology ambitions can be resolved. Other financial markets in Europe and ...
Joe King’s morning routine includes a stop at Minot Public Library, where dozens of magazines beg to be read and staff have a cup of coffee waiting for him. Most libraries will have their “regulars” like King, and Minot Public and Ward County Public libraries are no different. From the ...