North Dakota

BISMARCK

As retailers cut back cities confront 'ghostboxes'

1 day ago

Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town.The building, sitting derelict and silent on acres of asphalt, is now listed for sale at $10.5 million. But there's been little interest in the near windowless warehouse-like building that occupies a lot the size of a dozen football fields.

FARGO

Fargo hoping to repair parks, golf courses

2 days ago

Fargo-area parks and golf courses have taken a hit from Red River flooding, and officials are working on reseeding and repairing them.The Park District's finance director, Jim Larson, estimates about $450,000 in lost revenue, on top of $600,000 spent on contractors, supplies and labor. He says the federal government will cover some of those costs but he does not yet know how much.

BISMARCK

Ohio Reserve unit wages war on ND mosquitoes

2 days ago

An Ohio Air Force Reserve unit charged with controlling mosquitoes during wartime is using bug-bitten North Dakota as a practice ground again this summer.Huge gray military airplanes flying as low as 100 feet from the ground sprayed Minot and, for the first time, Williston to kill mosquito larvae this spring. Another mission aimed at adult mosquitoes, which can carry diseases such as West Nile virus, is planned for later this month.

MANDAN

ND man accused of threat against Arlen Specter

3 days ago

Authorities say a Mandan man is accused of making a telephone threat to Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.Mandan Deputy Chief Paul Leingang says the man was interviewed on Tuesday, at the request of the U.S. Capitol Police.

GRAND FORKS

Woman pleads guilty to child abuse

3 days ago

A woman accused of exposing her barefoot daughters to subzero temperatures in Grand Forks has pleaded guilty to two counts of abuse or neglect of a child.Authorities say 22-year-old Breanna Prather, of East Grand Forks, Minn., was drunk on Feb. 26 when she dragged her 5-year-old through the snow and carried her 2-year-old under her arm. The complaint says the air temperature was 13 degrees below zero and the wind chill was 37 below.

VALLEY CITY

Visitor fixing Valley City flagpoles

3 days ago

Warren Hinrichs says he's painted flagpoles in 48 states over the past 50 years. One woman compared him to Johnny Appleseed.The 68-year-old Spokane, Wash., man said he started in the business after his father, Bill, began painting flagpoles in 1935. Warren Hinrichs estimates he has painted about 4,000 flagpoles.

WAHPETON

Arrests made in Wahpeton shooting

3 days ago

Two people are in custody after an incident that Wahpeton police describe as a "drive-by style" shooting.Authorities say a man in a car fired several shots from a handgun toward a mobile home shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. A woman and eight children were in the home and yard, but authorities say no one was hurt.

DICKINSON

Texas man pleads not guilty in ND killing

4 days ago

A Texas man accused in the shooting death of a Dickinson man has pleaded not guilty to murder.Thirty-nine-year-old Shane Miller is accused of shooting 49-year-old Neal Matejovsky twice, in the arm and chest and the second time in the neck. Matejovsky's body was found April 10 in a Dunn County field.

BISMARCK

4 companies in $5M soybean deal with South Korea

4 days ago

North Dakota's lieutenant governor says four Midwestern companies have a $5 million deal to export about 275,000 bushels of soybeans to South Korea for tofu products.Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple said SB&B Foods of Casselton, Brushvale Seed of Wahpeton-Breckenridge, SunOpta of Moorhead, Minn., and The DeLong Co., Inc., of Clinton, Wis., will sell the so-called "identity-preserved" soybeans to the Korean Federation of Soybean-Curd Industry Cooperatives, which represents 12 Korean tofu-processing groups.

LARIMORE

900 turn out for biker's funeral

5 days ago

More than 900 people turned out at the school gym in Larimore to pay tribute to a fallen biker.Longtime residents say it was the largest funeral in the history of the town of 1,400 people. More than 200 motorcycles lined the street.

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