crime and courts

After deliberating for nearly two full days, a Hettinger County jury found a Reeder man not guilty of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment charges Ross Thomas was originally charged with felonious restraint, terrorizing, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault, all of...

A Dickinson man has been charged with two felony counts of child pornography. Lanny Schiele, 46 of Dickinson, has been charged with promoting or directing an obscene sexual performance by a minor, a Class A felony, and possession of certain prohibited materials, a Class C felony....

BOWMAN—The Bowman County School Board has put its district superintendent on paid administrative leave indefinitely after the superintendent was recently charged with four drug-related crimes. David Mahon, the Bowman County Schools superintendent, has been charged with two counts...

Authorities caught up with the alleged fugitive self-help guru behind the walls of a luxury gated community near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The villas inside, according to court documents filed this week, had a price tag of up to $10,000 a week, not a place to expect a man who claimed...

A 50-year-old man accused of gross sexual imposition and other charges appeared in Southwest District Court on Monday afternoon in Dickinson. Stephen Wynn, 50, has been charged with gross sexual imposition, a Class AA felony, terrorizing and criminal trespassing, both Class C felonies,...

In the weeks since Amy Yu disappeared, the 16-year-old's family has replayed eight years of warning signs about the intensifying relationship between the high school student and the 45-year-old father of four with whom she fled to Mexico. Police say the girl and her "secret boyfriend,"...

With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier allegedly reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed. According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better. Below snoozed Alex Lovell....