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01/06/2009 01:31 PM
In his State of the State address to the North Dakota Legislature today in Bismarck, Gov. John Hoeven said the state remains strong despite problems in the national economy.
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01/06/2009 01:20 PM
A woman sleeping with a shotgun in bed rolled over on it, discharging the gun and sending a pellet through the wall and into the headboard of her neighbor’s bed, police say.
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01/06/2009 01:15 PM
About 100 soldiers from the North Dakota Army National Guard’s 191st Military Police Company serving in Iraq have arrived back in the United States. The 191st MP Company is based in Fargo with detachments in Mayville and Bismarck, although its members come from 40 different cities.
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01/06/2009 01:14 PM
Even as Federal Reserve officials slashed their key interest rate to a record low and pledged to use other unconventional tools to fight the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, they still feared the economy would be stuck in a painful rut for some time.
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01/06/2009 12:43 PM
A 31-year-old Bemidji man was injured Monday morning when the Chevrolet Cavalier he was driving collided with a horse that was in the roadway.
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01/06/2009 12:30 PM
A 21-year-old man accused of robbing a Fargo credit union last month sent a text message to his girlfriend confessing to the crime as police were interviewing her, court documents state.
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01/06/2009 12:16 PM
The new Democratic-controlled Congress opened for business at the stroke of noon Eastern Time today, eager to join President-elect Barack Obama in tackling the worst economic crisis in generations.
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01/06/2009 12:13 PM
Former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson says Republican Norm Coleman should concede to Democrat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate race. Carlson says Coleman shouldn’t sue over the results of the recount.
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01/06/2009 12:08 PM
A Superior man whose foot was amputated when he slipped under train wheels Saturday in the Union Pacific rail yard in Itasca remains in serious condition at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth.
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01/06/2009 11:49 AM
A Walcott, N.D., man has been charged with negligent homicide for the death of a 72-year-old woman who was killed July 25 when her SUV struck the tires of a combine being hauled across a Traill County bridge.
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01/06/2009 11:48 AM
One Brampton, Ont., man is furious that tickets he thought were worth a combined $135,000 are actually duds.
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01/06/2009 11:19 AM
The victim’s names have not yet been released. Authorities say both are from Palermo, N.D., but they could not tell which one was driving.
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Illinois' Burris arfives on Capitol Hill |
01/06/2009 10:57 AM
Roland Burris announced today he was rejected for Barack Obama's Senate seat in a bizarre rainy-day scene on the Capitol grounds as lawmakers awaited the gaveling of the 111th Congress into session.
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01/06/2009 10:52 AM
Bail for Paul Smestad of Bismarck has been set at $5,000 cash on a felony theft charge. Authorities say Smestad got the pennies from a Michigan man through an eBay transaction but never paid for them.
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01/06/2009 12:01 PM
Virginia state police say the boy suffered only minor injuries and eventually arrived at school after being evaluated at a local hospital.
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01/06/2009 10:50 AM
A Bismarck couple whose home was described as one of the worst officers have seen pleaded not guilty to child abuse or neglect charges. Dwayne and Sharee Hanson entered their pleas Monday. Police Detective Glen Ternes testified that officers found garbage throughout the house.
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01/06/2009 10:44 AM
A scorned 21-year-old told her ex-boyfriend that he couldn’t prove she was the one who vandalized his apartment on three occasions — but then, police say, she posted a picture of the damage on MySpace.
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01/06/2009 10:39 AM
The White Earth Nation acquired the former Episcopal Community Services Gilfillan Center in Bemidji last summer as the site for Oshki Manidoo. The tribe bought the 40-acre campus that includes five lodges, basketball courts, a sweat lodge and a lighted ski trail for $5.6 million, in part with money from the state Legislature with matching funds from the Mdewakanton Sioux and additional donations.
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01/06/2009 10:17 AM
A 26-year-old Raymond, Minn., woman made her first court appearance Monday on a felony criminal damage to property charge for allegedly using her Cadillac to ram her boyfriend’s car 20 times, pushing it into a garage door and another vehicle.
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01/06/2009 10:10 AM
A man whose Toyota Camry was warming up this morning walked outside to go to work and saw a teenage boy driving off with the vehicle, Fargo police Sgt. Jeff Skuza said.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
Rick Bye, operations manager, said the outage was an underground cable failure that has been isolated, and he hopes to have it fixed permanently sometime today. But it caused some tough work for his employees in the some of the coldest weather that happens around here. “People are really understanding,” Bye said. “We were out there at 25, 30 below and trying to fix it. But by the same token, their houses were getting cold.”
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01/06/2009 07:08 AM
The Burlington Liars Club in Burlington, Wis., revealed its 2008 Champion Lie on Monday as part of an annual contest. The winner was Garth Seehawer of Oconto Falls, Wis.: "My grandson is the most persuasive liar I have ever met. By the time he was 2 years old he could dirty his diaper and make his mother believe someone else had done it."
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01/06/2009 07:53 AM
Despite the sense of optimism, troubling realities threaten the Democratic agenda. Perhaps most dangerous is the spiraling budget deficit. On Wednesday, lawmakers will get some very sobering news: New budget deficit projections from congressional estimators project a flood of red ink - likely to exceed $1 trillion for the current budget year - that could threaten other initiatives like extending health care to millions of the uninsured.
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Travolta and son (undated photo) |
01/06/2009 11:22 AM
Husband-wife actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston are back in Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son.
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01/06/2009 09:03 AM
Stanley Schultz was ordered to serve five years in prison for intentionally driving his car into a group of people in Minot in October 1999. Officials said one man was run over twice and another was pinned against a tree, and both died of their injuries.
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01/06/2009 08:51 AM
The Agriculture Department says that as of Sunday, snow cover protection for alfalfa was rated 41 percent adequate and 58 percent excellent. For winter wheat it was rated 43 percent adequate and 56 percent excellent.
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01/06/2009 09:11 AM
A retiree and a college student both won $1 million from the Minnesota Millionaire Raffle held on New Year's Day. Lindsey Iskierka of Oak Grove and Daryl Schmidt of Blaine both collected their checks Monday.
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01/06/2009 09:16 AM
Their court motion alleges Michael Zabawa shot 40-year-old Tracy Kruger and Kruger's 13-year-old son, Alec, of Waseca, Minn., on Feb. 3, 2007, because he had been drinking before crashing his vehicle into a ditch near the Krugers' country home. It says the Matawan, Minn., man didn't want to be caught driving drunk again.
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01/06/2009 06:59 AM
The Associated Press sent an issues survey to North Dakota legislators after Gov. John Hoeven presented his budget recommendations on Dec. 3.
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01/06/2009 06:58 AM
How North Dakota legislators responded to Associated Press survey questions about Gov. John Hoeven's proposal to provide state funds to reduce local school property taxes.
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01/06/2009 06:46 AM
Gov. John Hoeven's plan to earmark $300 million for school property tax cuts enjoys broad support in the Legislature, while his initiative to cut North Dakota's income tax is less popular, an Associated Press survey of lawmakers shows.
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01/06/2009 07:47 AM
Firefighters braved the late Monday night cold while battling a blaze that damaged a Moorhead mobile home.
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01/06/2009 06:21 AM
Michael Gamboa, sentenced to two life prison terms for running a drug ring out of his Fargo auto-detailing shop, filed papers challenging an opinion in his case.
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01/06/2009 06:02 AM
A rural Oriska, Minn., man is recovering in a Fargo hospital after a hay bale that weighed nearly 1,500 pounds fell on him.
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01/06/2009 06:28 AM
Here’s another entry for the annals of noteworthy winter weather: The dogsled race near Frazee, Minn., has been canceled because there’s too much snow.
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01/06/2009 06:37 AM
Weak low pressure tracking south and east of the Grand Forks region today is expected to provide little or no snow accumulation, but there's a better chance of measurable snow late Thursday into Friday, although not from a huge weather system, the National Weather Service office in Grand Forks says.
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01/06/2009 11:38 AM
UPDATED 11:37 A.M.
The North Dakota National Guard says the first group of soldiers from the 191st Military Police Company has arrived in the U.S., after about a year in Iraq.
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01/06/2009 05:21 AM
The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
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01/06/2009 05:09 AM
Despite a state budget crisis and a crumbling national economy, Iowa legislators will nonetheless take on one of the most expensive problems in state history - flood recovery. No one is sure of the price tag, but all agree it's enormous. And it comes at a time when Gov. Chet Culver is cutting the current budget and legislators are facing a shortfall in the upcoming budget that could top $600 million.
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01/06/2009 05:32 AM
A Fargo man escaped injury after rolling his vehicle Sunday morning on an icy stretch of Highway 2 about two miles east of Fisher, Minn. Also: Two drivers escaped injury in a broadside collision Monday morning near Warren, Minn.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON — Consumers who apply for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of next month’s transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not receive their vouchers before the switchover, the Commerce De-partment said Monday.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
BOSTON — Eleven Eastern states have agreed to adhere to a new fuel standard that they hope will reduce greenhouse gases.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. — State budget cuts are forcing some of the nation’s youngest criminals out of counseling programs and group homes and into juvenile prisons in what critics contend is a shortsighted move that will eventually lead to more crime and higher costs.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
FARGO — Julie Lovaas rented for years before buying a fixer-upper house on Fargo’s south side four years ago.
The 48-year-old Kmart cashier said making the $900 monthly mortgage payment wouldn’t be possible without the paycheck brought home by her husband, a welder and pipe fitter.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
BISMARCK — Former North Dakota workers compensation director Sandy Blunt should be acquitted of a felony charge that he misspent agency funds because a judge threw out a key piece of evidence against him, Blunt’s attorney says.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
Crookston’s Wayne Hotel is likely on its last leg.
Although demolition is not imminent, tearing down the historic building in downtown Crookston will be discussed today at the Polk County Commission meeting, according to Polk County Administrator Jack Schmalenberg.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
The North Dakota Public Service Commission will conduct a Zap the Gap wireless communication service hearing Jan. 19 in Hatton, N.D.
The hearing, which was postponed in December because of poor driving conditions, begins at 6 p.m. in the Hatton Community Center, 500 Railroad Ave. E.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
Nearly 740,000 Americans have ordered passport cards, a new document being offered by the State Department to speed border crossings by U.S. citizens traveling to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was “bad and getting worse” and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
CRYSTAL, Minn. — Police in Crystal are investigating the discovery of a man’s body.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS — A former Albertville man who never served any prison time for driving drunk and killing a Scott County sheriff’s deputy in 2003 admitted violating his probation Monday.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
The trial of a Grand Forks man charged with attempted murder has been postponed until March 3.
Jury selection had been scheduled to start today in the case of Johnny Bob Mendez, but a judge delayed the trial after prosecutor Carmell Mattison requested a continuance because of the death of her father.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
A woman charged with making methamphetamine the night of a fire that destroyed a duplex near Highway 2 in Grand Forks pleaded not guilty to manufacturing and possession charges Monday morning in district court.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
In 2008, Minnesota saw the fewest fatalities in traffic accidents in 64 years, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety in its preliminary report for 2008.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL — The engineering firm and the construction company that worked on the Interstate 35W bridge before it collapsed are asking a judge to dismiss parts of four lawsuits from victims.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire Monday and said it won’t stop its crippling 10-day assault until “peace and tranquility” are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire. Three Israeli soldiers died in a friendly fire incident.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson |
01/06/2009 12:00 AM
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s gold-plated resume had never been tarnished as he moved up the political ladder from congressman and diplomat to governor. But a day after backing out of consideration for U.S. commerce secretary, Richardson faced a murky political future as a grand jury probed a possible pay-to-play deal involving one of his big political donors.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
LAS VEGAS — Don’t let the smell of beer and the rock music fool you: Beer pong is a serious game. Some dare say a sport.
Granted, they tend to be grinning and drinking when they say it.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major U.S. cities are eliminating questions from their job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of a crime.
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01/06/2009 12:00 AM
Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we’ll give you a chance to win cash and prizes.
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Caroline Kennedy wants U.S. Senate seat |
01/06/2009 12:00 AM
Caroline Kennedy’s missteps and halting speech patterns have been replayed endlessly since she announced her bid to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate. None of it may matter.
That’s because she’s playing to just one voter — the Democratic governor with the power of appointment — who has plenty of reasons to pick President John F. Kennedy’s daughter.
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01/05/2009 04:29 PM
'It looks like we’re going to proceed with demolition in mind'
Tearing down the historic building in downtown Crookston will be discussed Tuesday at the Polk County Commission meeting.
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01/05/2009 04:29 PM
'It looks like we’re going to proceed with demolition in mind'
Tearing down the historic building in downtown Crookston will be discussed Tuesday at the Polk County Commission meeting.
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01/05/2009 04:41 PM
Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico.
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01/05/2009 04:47 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A drug investigator says authorities delayed the arrest of a woman tied to Gov. Sarah Palin’s family until after the November election, in which Palin was the Republican vice presidential candidate, a newspaper reported.
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01/05/2009 04:55 PM
Authorities combing through 60 tons of trash, searching for the body of a baby allegedly dumped by his 16-year-old mother, found a dead infant in the garbage Monday.
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01/05/2009 06:27 PM
Making North Dakota airspace friendlier to unmanned aircraft will be at the top of the agenda for a new Grand Forks group headed by Mayor Mike Brown and County Commissioner John Schmisek.
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01/05/2009 07:55 PM
Police say a man found dead after a three-vehicle crash in Fargo apparently died of health problems and not the crash. Police identified the man as 63-year-old Paul Sande, of Moorhead.
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01/05/2009 07:19 PM
MONTERREY, Mexico — Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico.
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01/05/2009 07:29 PM
Snow pileup on corners makes it hard to see
“Some of the snowbanks are awfully high, and I know that drivers are not really good at stopping before the crosswalk,” said Carma Hanson, Safe Kids Grand Forks coordinator at Altru Health System. “I just really want to heighten peoples’ awareness.”
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01/05/2009 07:31 PM
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A man who allegedly squatted in the attic of a Pennsylvania family’s home over Christmas and helped himself to their belongings is “sorry and upset” it happened, his lawyer said Monday.
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01/05/2009 08:01 PM
The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry in coming months by regulating cigarettes, raising per-pack sales taxes and ratifying an international anti-tobacco treaty, according to aides for key lawmakers and experts who expect the Obama administration to break a logjam on smoking issues.
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01/05/2009 08:07 PM
ASHLAND, Ore. — Art was laced up with political statement as a gallery opened an exhibit with a paint-splattered fundraiser that featured a “shoe throw” at an image of President George W. Bush.
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01/05/2009 08:14 PM
Police in Jackson, Ohio, say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his babysitter, who's 18.
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01/05/2009 08:20 PM
SEATTLE — Authorities combing through 60 tons of trash, searching for the body of a baby allegedly dumped by his 16-year-old mother, found a dead infant in the garbage Monday.
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01/05/2009 08:16 PM
HOUSTON - The five-month slide in gasoline prices has come to an abrupt halt, with gasoline rising by several cents in recent days amid indicators that the national average could jump to $2 a gallon or higher this spring.
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01/05/2009 08:21 PM
EL DORADO, Kan. — The Kansas parents who failed to report their 11-year-old adopted son missing nearly a decade ago are “people of interest” as authorities search for him nationwide, a sheriff said Monday.
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01/05/2009 08:49 PM
Nathan Bowie, spokesman for the department, said the death count last year was 424, down 16 percent from 2007 and the lowest since 1944 when 356 were killed.
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01/05/2009 08:54 PM
A jury convicted Samantha Kematch, 27, and her common-law husband Karl Wesley McKay last month. Jurors heard that Kematch and McKay subjected Phoenix to months of horrifying abuse and cruelty, including regular beatings, choking her to the point of unconsciousness and shooting at her with a BB gun.
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01/05/2009 09:19 PM
LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for Roman Polanski is accusing the Los Angeles Superior Court of bias and prejudice against the movie director, and is seeking removal of his case to the California Judicial Council for resolution.
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01/05/2009 09:25 PM
GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire Monday and said it won’t stop its crippling 10-day assault until “peace and tranquility” are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire. Friendly fire killed three Israeli soldiers.
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01/05/2009 09:26 PM
PHILADELPHIA — The former president of Verizon Pennsylvania testified Monday that a powerful state lawmaker gave him a list of demands worth $50 million during negotiations over phone-industry deregulation.
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01/05/2009 11:25 PM
“We’re alleging that it’s discrimination. It’s racial: He was singled out because he was black,” said attorney Tom Omdahl, referring to his client, Jason Hickman.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty |
01/05/2009 11:21 PM
Pawlenty: 'It's not wise'
To raise taxes or not to raise taxes — that is becoming the primary question for the 2009 Minnesota Legislature when it begins its 86th two-year session today. The state’s $4.85 billion deficit, which is expected to grow, is forcing the tax debate.
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01/05/2009 03:17 PM
The FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a snowdrift on the Spirit Lake Reservation.
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01/05/2009 03:22 PM
President-elect Barack Obama's top pick to become national intelligence director won high marks for countering terrorism in southeast Asia after 9/11, but he will preside over an agency that may be downsized under the new administration.
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01/05/2009 04:24 PM
The North Dakota Public Service Commission will conduct a Zap the Gap wireless communication service hearing Jan. 19 in Hatton, N.D. The hearing, which was postponed in December because of poor driving conditions, begins at 6 p.m. in the Hatton Community Center, 500 Railroad Ave. E.
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01/05/2009 04:28 PM
President-elect Barack Obama’s two daughters were whisked quietly past waiting photographers into their new schools Monday. If custom is any guide, the news media will keep their distance now that they have captured 10-year-old Malia in her puffy pink jacket and 7-year-old Sasha with her pigtails, pink camouflage backpack and turquoise Uglydoll.
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01/05/2009 11:32 PM
Two-month recount ended Monday, but lawsuit looms.
A state election board on Monday certified results of the two-month recount that gave Democrat Franken a 225-vote advantage over Coleman. "It ain't over," official says.
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01/05/2009 02:35 PM
Two drivers were not injured in a broadside collision near Warren, Minn., Monday morning.
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01/05/2009 02:16 PM
Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA.
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01/05/2009 01:23 PM
A Grand Forks woman charged with making and possessing meth the night of a November 15 fire that destroyed a duplex near downtown pleaded not guilty to the charges this morning in district court.
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Travolta and son (undated photo) |
01/05/2009 12:52 PM
A family doctor for John Travolta was at the autopsy today of the actor’s teenage son, who died unexpectedly in the family’s Grand Bahama island vacation home.
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01/05/2009 12:56 PM
First lady Laura Bush has sealed a deal worth millions with Scribner to publish a memoir that will encompass her recollections of personal and historical moments, including her eight years in the White House.
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01/05/2009 01:20 PM
Fire tore through a small-town homeless shelter early Monday, partially collapsing the building and killing five men, fire officials said.
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01/05/2009 12:36 PM
Johnny Bob Mendez accused in February 2008 bar fight stabbing
Jury selection had been scheduled to start this morning in the case of Johnny Bob Mendez, but a judge delayed the trial after the prosecution requested a continuance.
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01/05/2009 12:30 PM
UPDATED 12:30 P.M.
President-elect Barack Obama, commencing face to face consultations with congressional leaders today, is embracing an unexpectedly large tax cut of up to $300 billion. Obama said the country faces an "extraordinary economic challenge."
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Boom TimesPrices have risen for most grains, corn and soybeans may be becoming dominate crops, oil exploration, drilling and production is rallying back. And, the Canadian dollar is at a 20-year high.
On Christmas Eve, I must go home
Marilyn Hagerty
Here’s a Herald column I wrote for Christmas Eve more than 40 years ago. Its reprinting has become an annual holiday tradition.
Excuse me, please. But it’s Christmas Eve, and I must go home.
If only for five minutes and only in my thoughts, I have to go back on Christmas Eve. I haven’t been there in person for many years. Still, I have never really been away.
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Roland Burris failed in his bid to take President-elect Barack Obama's Illinois Senate seat on Tuesday in a scripted piece of political theater staged just before the opening of the 111th Congress.
