A jury awarded $3.5 million in damages to a woman who suffered a stroke after a major artery was accidentally severed during surgery at St. Alexius Hospital. On Friday, at the end of a two-week trial in Burleigh County, a nine-person panel decided Dr. Allen Michael...
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After oil, ex-ND Indian leader Tex Hall forms marijuana firm
WILLISTON, N.D. – The former chairman of a North Dakota Indian nation that controls one-third of the state’s oil Tex “Red-Tipped Arrow” Hall, who until last fall led the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation, has formed Native...
Law enforcement organizes efforts in Bakken
More than 2,200 miles separate Williston and Culiacán, Sinaloa, but that hasn’t stopped that Mexican state’s namesake cartel from setting up shop in the Bakken, according to state and federal law enforcement officials. To combat the rise of cartels and other organized...
Spell to be sentenced today
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A mentally disabled Colorado man was set to be sentenced Friday for the murder of a Montana teacher whose death highlighted the downsides of an oil boom that has brought thousands of newcomers to the remote Northern Plains. Prosecutors...
For the First Time Ever, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man
Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed...
Woman, 23, Wins $1.5 Million Lawsuit After Car Crash Brain Injury Turned Her Into Sex-Crazed Dominatrix
A bright and promising high school student who was in the top two percent of her class was in a car wreck that left her with traumatic brain injuries. After years of dealing with poor impulse control and increased sexual desires, the girl became a dominatrix. Now 23,...
North Dakota workplace deaths examined in TV report
WILLISTON, N.D. – Before North Dakota oil worker Dustin Payne died last fall, he sent text messages to his girlfriend about safety conditions on the worksite. “I’m literally going to be welding something that’s full of oil. … Don’t (feel) comfortable welding this at...
In North Dakota, a Tale of Oil, Corruption and Death
FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. — Tex G. Hall, the three-term tribal chairman on this remote, once impoverished reservation, was the very picture of confidence as he strode to the lectern at his third Annual Bakken Oil and Gas Expo and gazed out over a stuffed,...
Husband And Wife Attorney Duo Accused Of Stabbing Law Firm’s Managing Partner
Workplace disputes at law firms usually end in an empty bottle of liquor, but not this time. On Sunday night, a pair of attorneys allegedly knocked on the door of a law firm managing partner’s home, and forced their way inside. The married couple stands accused of...
Can Authorities Cut Off Utilities And Pose As Repairmen To Search A Home?
Some legal cases do more than raise eyebrows — they push the legal envelope to change the law. Such is a federal case in Las Vegas now working its way through the courts. The question is whether federal agents can disrupt service to a house and then, masquerading as...
