Don Mitchell, the aide to the wheelchair-bound Raymond Burr on the 1970s NBC police series Ironside, died Sunday in Encino of natural causes. He was 70. Mitchell played Mark Sanger, an ex-con who is persuaded by Robert T. Ironside to become his driver and assistant after the San Francisco chief […]

 WASHINGTON (AP) – IKEA is recalling millions of children’s lamps following the death of a child who choked on the lamp’s cord and another was injured.        The “SMILA” series wall-mounted children’s lamps were sold at IKEA from 1999 through 2013 for $10 to $13. There were 2.9 million […]

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether a law aimed at limiting abortion drugs violates the state constitution.        A district judge ruled in July that the 2011 state law is unconstitutional and called it “simply wrongheaded.” He’d previously granted an injunction […]

 MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota woman feared someone had lost their Christmas shopping money when she found an envelope stuffed with $2,800 worth of crisp $100 bills in a McDonald’s parking lot in Moorhead.        Nineteen-year-old Erica Clark, of Dilworth, says she never had any second thoughts about trying […]

Bismarck (CSi)  Gov. Jack Dalrymple Tuesday celebrated with Edgeley Public School for earning a 2013 National Blue Ribbon School designation. Three North Dakota schools were named National Blue Ribbon School Awardees this year, Edgeley Public School, Gussner Elementary School in Jamestown, and Wyndmere Elementary School. “North Dakota’s three National Blue […]

 OAKES, N.D. (AP) – A prosecutor has decided against filing any charges against the high school principal and athletic director in the southeastern North Dakota town of Oakes.        Don Warren resigned late last month after being accused of twice entering the home of a student without permission after […]

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) has asked the state Department of Labor and Human Rights to dismiss a complaint filed by a white supremacist.        Stenehjem said during a radio news interview last month that Craig Cobb and his supporters “are not […]

Bismarck (CSi)  The North Dakota Department of Transportation warns the public with the below zero temperatures North Dakota is experiencing, travelers need to be aware that compacted ice and black ice may be encountered on roadways across the state. Some areas have recently experienced freezing rain and snow, along with […]

EDGELEY, N.D.  (CSi) – Following their selection as one of the top schools in the nation, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp Friday congratulated Edgeley Public School students, faculty and the entire community on the honor. During a speech at the school, Heitkamp credited the award as a National Blue Ribbon School […]