Jamestown Sun

GRAND FORKS — A state district judge in Grand Forks sentenced Ronald Samdahl on Tuesday to serve two years in prison because of a drunken driving law that took effect only 45 days before he was arrested. A jury convicted him last week after a short trial and an hour of deliberation...

NOONAN, N.D. — Authorities are investigating the discovery of radioactive waste piled into an abandoned gas station in this small Divide County town. The waste consists of hundreds of bags of “filter socks,” oilfield waste that contains naturally occurring radioactive material. Jody...

A verbal spanking administered to a Bismarck-based engineering firm provides a glimmer of hope that the North Dakota Legislature has not yet become a wholly owned subsidiary of the oil and gas industry. Sen. Connie Triplett, D-Grand Forks, let fly at KLJ because the company has not...

I would like to thank Dwight Grosz for his fanciful, speculative portrayal in Tuesday’s edition of The Jamestown Sun of the administrative and budgetary chaos that will befall North Dakota by enacting the Clean Water, Wildlife and Parks Amendment. This is America, after all, and...

The Jamestown Public School District’s principal selection committees — one for Gussner Elementary and another for Jamestown Middle School — each met separately on Monday to narrow the field of candidates who applied for the two open positions for principal of the two schools. Superintendent...

The Jimmies finished a perfect 6-for-6 on the first half of their trip to the desert. With two wins over Olivet Nazarene, Ill., late on Monday, and a sweep of previously unbeaten Dordt, Iowa on Tuesday, the Jimmies have won seven straight overall and are 6-0 in Tucson heading into...

COOKE CITY, Mont. – An 18-year-old man from Lake Lillian, Minn., died Tuesday afternoon after being buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling in the Yellowstone area of south-central Montana. The victim was identified as Zach Joseph Junkermeier by family members through the...

  WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is expected to start raising U.S. interest rates in the third quarter of next year as the unemployment rate falls and the economy charts a new path of stronger growth, a Reuters survey of economists showed. The...

  March 12 (Reuters) - King Digital Entertainment Plc, the maker of hit mobile phone game Candy Crush Saga, expects to be worth up to $7.6 billion when it goes public this month as the Irish company looks to take advantage of strong demand for technology investments. The...

  RED LAKE, Minn. -- A woman was taken into custody after a Red Lake Tribal Council member was found dead Saturday with a gunshot wound. About 7:40 p.m. Saturday, Red Lake tribal police received a call regarding a shooting at a Red Lake residence, said a news release...

COOKE CITY, Mont. – An 18-year-old man from Lake Lillian, Minn., died Tuesday afternoon after being buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling in the Yellowstone area of south-central Montana. The name of the man has not yet been released. The Yellowstone Park Dispatch received...

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to increase the number of people who earn overtime pay by updating regulations that exempt broad swaths of supervisors, managers and office workers from making overtime, a White House official...

    NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - New York City firefighters are investigating reports of a building collapse in upper Manhattan, according to a spokesman for the fire department. The spokesman said the department is responding at a building at East 114th Street...

After a rough start in Arizona, the Jimmies got a sweep Tuesday in Tucson. The University of Jamestown defeated Wisconsin Lutheran 9-2 and then beat Missouri Valley in a wild 7-5 extra inning game. Tied 1-all after seven innings, the Jimmies scored six runs in the top of the eighth...