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DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – A man who was in custody at the Lake Region Correctional Center, part of the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center, was found dead on Tuesday, Jan. 27.

BISMARCK, N.D. – On Jan. 28, Gov. Kelly Armstrong issued the following statements after North Dakota House Majority Leader Mike Lefor of Dickinson and House Appropriations Chair Don Vigesaa of Cooperstown both announced they will not seek another term in the state Legislature in November.

DEVILS LAKE – Spirit Lake Tribe Public Relations Specialist Vicki Alberts just returned from a trip to the Twin Cities, where she coordinated an event to help tribal members get identification. “Tribal IDs and Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB), as well,” she said on Monday, Jan. 26. “We actually assisted about 72 tribal members from ages 4 on up.”

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As Minneapolis mourned the intensive care nurse killed by Border Patrol officers in a hail of gunfire, those who knew Alex Pretti came forward Sunday to dispute the narrative of top Trump administration officials that he was a violent “domestic terrorist” and would-be assassin.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday, Jan. 24 in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.

A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent weeks.

BISMARCK, N.D. – On Thursday, Jan. 22, Gov. Kelly Armstrong appointed Michelle Kommer of Fargo to a vacancy on the State Board of Higher Education, effective immediately.

BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s rural health care challenges demand bold action and new approaches, Gov. Kelly Armstrong said in the annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, Jan. 21 as the 69th Legislative Assembly convened in a special session to appropriate $199 million in federal funding for a statewide Rural Health Transformation Program.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The aurora was visible across Canada and much of the northern tier of U.S. states Monday night following a major disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field, predicted by a forecast.

FARGO, N.D. – On Thursday, Jan. 15, State Senate Minority Leader Kathy Hogan (D-Fargo) announced that she would not seek reelection, retiring this year at the end of her term with the North Dakota Legislature, according to a press release from the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party.