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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.

BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Kelly Armstrong will deliver a State of the State address to a special session of the North Dakota 69th Legislative Assembly on Jan. 21 in the House of Representatives chamber of the State Capitol.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — A man died Wednesday morning, Jan. 14, after becoming trapped in a grain elevator pit near Devils Lake, N.D.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican Doug LaMalfa, a California rice farmer who served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a reliable vote on President Donald Trump’s agenda, has died at age 65. LaMalfa’s death reduces the GOP’s narrow control of the House to 218 seats to Democrats’ 213.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – Lawyers for plaintiff Werner Kunkel, a 65 year-old Devils Lake resident convicted over 30 years ago of murder, appeared with him in a two-day evidentiary hearing that began Jan. 7 at the Ramsey County Courthouse. They’re alleging that evidence from the original trial had been suppressed, including witness statements that allege Fassett was still alive past the date the state said he had been killed.

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – Authorities are investigating a homicide that occurred Sunday, Jan. 11 on the Spirit Lake Reservation. A juvenile male suspect has been apprehended and is currently in custody.