Author Archives: Madison Quinn
Blackouts cause North Dakota oil and gas production to fall
BISMARCK- The winter storms that paralyzed Texas and other south-central states and resulted in rolling power blackouts elsewhere caused North Dakota's oil and gas production to fall more than expecte...
Apr 17, 2021
Expert blames George Floyd's death on heart rhythm problem
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A retired forensic pathologist says George Floyd died from a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police officers, not because former Offic...
Apr 14, 2021 Dr. David Fowler testifies in the Derek Chauvin Trial
Dakota Access asks for full appeals court review on permit
BISMARCK - Owners of the Dakota Access pipeline have asked the full Washington D.C. circuit court to review a panel's decision that essentially said the North Dakota project is operating without a key...
Apr 14, 2021 Dakota Access Pipeline
Luick chosen North Dakota Senate's president pro tempore
BISMARCK - Fairmount Republican Larry Luick has been chosen as the North Dakota Senate's new president pro tempore. The job involves presiding over Senate sessions when the lieutenant governor is abse...
Apr 14, 2021 Fairmount Representative Larry Luick
Minnesota cop will be charged in shooting of Daunte Wright
BROOKLYN CENTER - A Minnesota prosecutor says he will charge former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright with second-degree manslaughter....
Apr 14, 2021 Former Officer Kim Potter
Deaths in vehicle crashes up 38% in South Dakota last year
PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says 141 people died in traffic crashes in 2020, increasing 38% from a year earlier. The number of crashes in which the fatalities occurred ...
Apr 14, 2021 South Dakota Department of Public Safety
Several injured when SUV rear-ends South Prairie school bus
MINOT, N.D. - Authorities say several people were injured when an SUV rear-ended a South Prairie school bus five miles south of Minot. The North Dakota Highway Patrol said the school bus had slowed do...
Apr 14, 2021
Man sentenced to 5 years in prison for crash that killed 2
BISMARCK - A Cannon Ball man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for driving drunk and causing a crash that killed two people on the Standing Rock Reservation. Thirty-seven-year-old Mat...
Apr 14, 2021 (Image: MWC)
Brooklyn Center police chief, cop quit after driver's death
BROOKLYN CENTER - A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb and the city's chief of police resigned Tuesday. Officer Kim Potter and Police Chief T...
Apr 13, 2021 Kim Potter & Tim Gannon
Noem asks Biden to allow fireworks at Mount Rushmore in July
KEYSTONE, S.D. - Gov. Kristi Noem has sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking that he intervene and allow a Fourth of July fireworks display at Mount Rushmore. The National Park Service has denied...
Apr 13, 2021 South Dakota Division of Tourism
