No Wild West in N.D.

Some might argue that Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem was trying to sugarcoat a bad situation when he announced crime statistics for 2011. North Dakota’s crime rate increased 10.9 percent last year, 9 percent when adjusted to the population, but remains lower than a decade ago, when the state had some 50,000 fewer residents.

By: The Bismarck Tribune , The Jamestown Sun