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Record North Dakota verdict awards more than $1 billion to crash victims

A new chapter begins for the families of the June 27, 2015, drunk driving incident that took the lives of two young women and dramatically injured another.

Four years and four months later, a jury has now awarded the families a combined $1,157,000,000 in past and future and non-economic punitive damages. The verdicts stem from a collision between a car driven by Shayna Monson and defendant Jordan...