Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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For two nights in a row last week, severe weather rolled its way through Eddy County, offering a downpour of much needed rain, an epic lightning show and a fair sprinkling of hail. During the early morning hours of Monday, Aug. 5, the National Weather Service issued a severe storm warning for Eddy and surrounding counties. The severe thunderstorm was reported near Fessenden at 1:06 a.m., and was moving east at 40 mph. The storm posed hazards such as 60 mph wind gusts and hail up to an inch, or...
This fourth installment is a kind of "the problem we face today" piece. As we pivot away from tracing the history of our prison/parole/probation capacity issues, we're going to look at the nature of crime in North Dakota today – especially drug/behavioral health issues – and explore gaps in resources that might cause the problem. Sources continue to state that a big burden on the criminal justice system is a profound lack of resources for drug addicts and the mentally ill, especially in rur...
Editor's Note: This is the "what are we going to do about it" piece. It follows up on a lot of recent legislation, like the Justice Reinvestment bills, and ask both if they're doing enough and if anything more needs to be done. This will put a bow on the series. Every year, Attorney General Wayne Stehnehjem's office releases a report on crime data from around the state. Running dozens of pages, it's a mountain of information, with spreadsheets of murders, kidnappings and arsons, indexed to...
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