OCTOBER 7–Days after federal officials agreed to an $85 billion bailout of American International Group, the insurance firm spent more than $440,000 for a corporate retreat at a swanky California resort. An invoice from the week-long getaway, a copy of which you’ll find below, was obtained by the congressional panel that has been holding hearings […]
In an elaborate robbery scheme that’s one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities. It gets better: He then escaped in a creek headed for the Skykomish River in […]
Beginning Tuesday, September 16, 2008, the City of Bismarck Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Recycling Center will open. Bismarck residents will be able to bring household quantities of hazardous waste and electronic equipment to the City of Bismarck’s Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Recycling Center. “The citizens of Bismarck have shown a great deal of […]
1922 bridge facts * Work began in 1920 * Completed Sept. 1922 * Cost $1.375 million * Length 2,550 feet * Two four-foot sidewalks * Deck width (including sidewalk), 38 feet * Traffic count, estimated 2,570 vehicles/day * Materials, 2,800 tons steel, 467 tons concrete, 80,000 rivets * Workers, 200-plus 2008 bridge facts * Work […]
Mandan Police Lt. Chris Miller said Stubbs was involved in a motor vehicle wreck at the intersection of Eighth Street Northwest and Fourth Avenue Northwest at 2:35 p.m. Saturday. She failed sobriety tests and was arrested. He said Stubbs is seven months pregnant. Bismarck Tribune – Local News – Pregnant woman arrested for DUI.
PRETTY Sarah Carmen is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything. The rumble of a train on the tracks, the purr of a hairdryer, the rhythmic drone of a photo-copier are all enough to make her go oh oh oh, ahhhhh. She had FIVE orgasms during our 40-minute interview. […]
Thanks to additional federal funding, 41 North Dakota law enforcement agencies across the state will receive $127,000 to crack down on alcohol-related driving incidents, especially around Labor Day. Starting today and lasting through Sept. 1, the campaign will be the most far-reaching enforcement campaign ever in North Dakota, said Linda Butts, deputy director for Driver […]
DETROIT — One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald’s, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit. The fact that a home on the city’s east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America’s poorest big cities. And […]
MIAMI (WSVN) — A man who police arrested for stealing a 40-foot-long street lamp pole said the economy made him do it. Miami Police stopped Elio Valero, 42, just as he was driving up to the recycling center located at Northwest Seventh Avenue and 21 Street with the aluminum pole belonging to Florida Power & […]
Alice Dewitz is a resident of Golden Manor, a nursing home in Steele. By the middle of next year, Golden Manor will be a basic care and assisted living facility. Medcenter One leases Golden Manor, a 50-bed nursing home in Kidder County. About six months ago, Medcenter officials started talking to the Golden Manor Inc. […]
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