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11/27/2024

Terrel, Dufner mentioned on Class A All-State Volleyball roster

The 2024 North Dakota High School Coaches Association (NDHSCA) Class A All-State volleyball roster was released and two Minot High girls made the team. Minot High senior Raegen Terrel made the first-team All-State roster. Terrel led the Majettes with 269 digs this season, averaging 14.85 digs per ma...

11/27/2024

Lights in, snow out

Lights in, snow out Local News Nov 27, 2024 Jill Schramm/MDN Grace Rockwell with Pretty Lights attaches a string of lights to a Main Street light fixture as she prepares to decorate the pole with holiday lighting Tuesday. Snow piles, particularly on curbs, are a concern as the downtown prepares to h...

11/27/2024

Local family has much to be thankful for https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2024/11/local-family-has-much-to-be-thankful-for/
See more Thanksgiving stories in today's edition of The Minot Daily News and online.

Our oldest daughter, Addi, was born four days before Thanksgiving in 2022. We had a lot of ideas about what our first big holiday with our newborn would look like, but our plans changed rapidly when we experienced a traumatic birth and our daughter was quickly flown to the Sanford NICU in West Fargo...

11/27/2024

Free community Thanksgiving feast planned at local church

On Thanksgiving Day, there will be a meal at The Pursuit Church for anyone who needs a place, said Eric Bonness, who heads the Celebrate Recovery program there. The meal will be from 6-7 p.m., followed by a 7 p.m. Thanksgiving service for those who would like to take part. Dessert will follow at 8 [...

11/26/2024

Class B All-State Teams announced, Trader Senior Athlete of Year

The 2024 North Dakota High School Coaches Association (NDHSCA) Class B All-State volleyball roster was released and several local players made the team. The runner-up state champion South Prairie-Max and local teams Our Redeemer’s, Des Lacs-Burlington, Kenmare-Bowbells and Towner-Granville-Upham w...

11/26/2024

Ten teams attend Minot Early Bird

The Minot High girls wrestling team has started their season with a bang. Ten girls teams attended the event at Minot High with the Majettes being one of the more dominant teams at the meet. Monica Boakye, a junior at the 106-lbs classification was the first wrestler of the season to win her weight....

11/26/2024

Senior Santa program sees first season success

There was a single ornament hanging from a Christmas tree in the waiting room at Minot Home Instead on Monday. The tree, when fully decorated, had about 50 ornaments hanging from its branches, each with a list on the back of wants or needs of a senior or disabled community member as part of a […]

11/26/2024

Update:
The N.D. Highway Patrol has identified the victim of the crash as Rance Bennett of Kansas.
Augustin Munoz of Washington was driving the Kenworth.

Fatal crash
A Kansas man died in a two-vehicle crash on N.D. Highway 23, about 14 miles west of New Town on Tuesday.
According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, about 3:36 a.m. a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado pickup, driven by a 43-year-old man from El Dorado, Kansas, was traveling east on Highway 23 and rear ended a 2012 Kenworth truck that was also going east on Highway 23.
The pickup driver died from his injuries on scene. The driver of the Kenworth, a 34-year-old man from Westport, Washington, was not injured.
Names of those involved in the crash will be released pending notification of next of kin.
The stretch of Highway 23 between N.D. Highway 22 and 104th Avenue Northwest was closed for about three hours.
The crash remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol.

11/25/2024

MHA Nation shares culture with Minot AFB

MHA Nation shares culture with Minot AFB Local News Nov 25, 2024 Submitted Photo Gary Snow, center left, Earth Lodge supervisor for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Tourism, accepts a gift from Col. George Chapman, center right,, deputy commander of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Bas...

11/25/2024

Royals finish second, Honkers fifth at state volleyball tourney

FARGO – The final games of the 2024 NDHSAA Class A and Class B Volleyball State Tournament took place on Saturday, November 23, at the Fargodome. The Class B title game was the top seeded Langdon Area/Munich against the second seeded South Prairie-Max team while the Class A title game was the top ...

11/25/2024

Workforce programs recruit nationally

Bolstering North Dakota’s workforce by recruiting immigrants already in the country and international students already in the state is a strategy that is seeing some success for the state’s Office of Legal Immigration. Janna Pastir, deputy director of the Office of Legal Immigration, spoke to th...

11/25/2024

ND reaches new all-time high in producing wells

BISMARCK – North Dakota has a new all-time high of 19,200 producing wells, according to the assistant director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources. Mark Bohrer announced the most recent oil and gas production numbers this past week. The numbers are for September, the most recent nu...

11/24/2024

New Town man arrested for DUI, assault on officer

The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports on Saturday, Nov. 23, at around 1:30 p.m., a Highway Patrol trooper responded to
a dispatched report of a vehicle driving recklessly eastbound on Interstate 94. The trooper contacted the vehicle on Interstate 94, four miles east of Medina.
The driver and suspect in this incident was identified as Angelo White, 37, New Town.
According to the Highway Patrol, White was determined to be under the influence of alcohol. During the arrest, White assaulted the state trooper and they fought for several minutes before backup could arrive. A Foster County Sheriff’s deputy was traveling through, stopping to assist upon hearing the request for help over the radio. White also assaulted the deputy. Other state
troopers and Stutsman County deputies arrived several minutes later. White was subsequently taken into custody.
White was charged with the following offenses:
-- Driving while license suspended, B misdemeanor.
-- Driving under the influence/actual physical control, B misdemeanor.
-- Driving under the influence/refusal to submit to chemical test (B misdemeanor)
-- Simple assault on a peace officer, C felony) – two counts.
-- Contact by bodily fluids against law enforcement, C felony.
-- Resisting arrest, C felony.
White was remanded to custody at the Stutsman County Jail.
The trooper sustained minor injuries and is recovering at home.
In an unrelated event, at about 2:30 p.m., a trooper responded to a
dispatched report of a vehicle driving recklessly eastbound on Interstate 94. The trooper contacted the vehicle on Interstate 94, two miles east of Casselton.
The driver of this vehicle was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol without incident.
Both drivers were removed from the roadway through the diligence of the motoring public who recognized a dangerous situation and reported it to law enforcement, according to the Highway Patrol.

11/23/2024

Bowbells man dies in two-vehicle crash
CASSELTON – A Bowbells man died in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 94, about 12 miles west of Casselton, on Wednesday.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol identified the victim as Rolf Aufforth, 75. A passenger in his vehicle, Vickie Aufforth, 72, Bowbells, was seriously injured. The crash occurred about 6:20 p.m.
According to the Highway Patrol, a 2013 Freightliner, driven by Sahardid Guhad, 37, St. Cloud, Minnesota, and towing a van trailer was eastbound on Interstate 94. The Freightliner approached two other commercial motor vehicles that were jackknifed in the median and not blocking the road.
Guhad applied the Freightliner’s brakes and lost control of it. The Freightliner and trailer jackknifed, and the Freightliner semi-tractor entered the median and came to rest upright.. The van trailer remained attached and came to rest across both eastbound lanes of the Interstate, facing in a northwest to southeast direction.
Rolf Aufforth, driving a 2024 Volkswagen Tiguan, was eastbound on Interstate 94 in lane two and approached the jackknifed Freightliner. The Volkswagen struck the driver’s side of the van trailer in lane two and became wedged under the trailer.
Rolf Aufforth was pronounced dead at the scene. Vickie Aufforth was transported to a Fargo hospital for serious injuries.
The occupants of the two vehicles were wearing their seat belts, the Highway Patrol said.
Snow was falling at the time of the crash, with strong northwest winds causing blowing snow
and reduced visibility, and the highway was ice covered, according to the Highway Patrol.
The crash remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol.

11/23/2024

Royals rebound from scare, face Cardinals for first place

Day two at the 2024 North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA) Class A and Class B Volleyball State Tournament is in the books. The semifinal games are done and the order of play for each bracket from seventh place to state title matchups is set. South Prairie-Max will face Langdon Are...

11/23/2024

Fire dept. graduates new class, promotes members

A group of five probationary firefighters earned “black helmets” and became full fledged members of the department on Friday at Minot City Hall. Tyler Ghent, Trent Meyer, Alec Rice, Kayden Staples and Matthew Taylor graduated their training and probationary periods to join the ranks of the Minot...

11/23/2024

Minot couple brings holiday cheer

Don and Nancy Carter love to see the children smile and watch their eyes twinkle when they greet the youngsters as Santa and Mrs. Claus. They also love the mission of Dakota Hope Clinic, where they are volunteers. When they learned a few years ago that Dakota Hope’s Christmas extravaganza, Festiva...

11/22/2024

North Dakota Outdoors: Great outdoors successes lead to fine dining

I spend a lot of time talking about the outdoors and one of the more recent conversations connected with old timers eating everything “but the squeal” from a pig to acknowledge how our generations couldn’t afford to waste anything consumed as food. It was a generation and time through the Depr...