Two brothers who operated a North Dakota potato farm pleaded not guilty to charges they intentionally spoiled their spud crop after the 2006 harvest in order to collect federal disaster payments. Aaron Johnson, 50, and Derek Johnson, 47, along with …
The wife of a man convicted of bilking millions of dollars out of people in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and elsewhere in an investment fraud scheme cannot collect proceeds from his insurance policy, a federal judge ruled. Verlin Swartzendruber, …
A prominent North Dakota potato farmer, businessman and philanthropist who’s among a group of people accused in an alleged price-fixing scheme is suing his insurance company for failing to cover his defense costs. Ron Offutt, of Fargo, is among the …
Although spring flooding in North Dakota wasn’t as bad advertised in some areas, officials who are totaling the damages say the costs are piling up. The question is whether the final figure will impress the federal government. Federal, state and …
A Red River flood that a week ago was predicted to challenge the record is now unlikely to reach the 100,000-plus sandbags and the miles of clay levees built for defense, Fargo, N.D., officials said on April 29. The National …
Fargo, N.D., officials made one last call for sandbaggers on April 27 to help residents in a southwest Fargo neighborhood that’s a mile away from the rising Red River but needs protection from a nearby coulee. The final preparations came …
North Dakota faces another possible major flood this spring, federal officials are frustrated by the number of people in the state who lack insurance for such a disaster. Along the Red River and its tributaries, in flood-prone Fargo and Cass …
Residents along the Red River in Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., should prepare for one of the top five floods in their history, the National Weather Service said. Its latest flood outlook included a 50 percent chance that the …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it needs formal approval from state and local officials in two states by April 11 to keep alive the latest version of a planned Red River diversion around Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. …
An appeals court has reversed a ruling that would have allowed family members of two people killed in a 2002 house fire on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota to sue an insurance company. A dissenting judge called …
