May 12, 2021
BOTTINEAU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Dakota College at Bottineau will receive a $358,500 Brownfields grant to clean up contamination at Old Main and Milligan Hall buildings located on campus.
Dakota College at Bottineau is among 151 communities nationwide selected to receive 154 grant awards totaling $66.5 million in EPA Brownfields funding.
“EPA is pleased to support Dakota College at Bottineau’s plans to revitalize these buildings so they may better serve the campus community,” said Mark A. Smith, EPA Region 8 director of Land, Chemicals, and Redevelopment Division. “The renovation of these facilities as state-of-the-art instruction and residence spaces for the college’s growing nursing program will benefit Bottineau and nearby rural communities for many years to come.”
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The City of Craig will receive a $300,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to advance the cleanup and revitalization of property at priority sites downtown.
The city is one of 151 communities nationwide selected to receive 154 grant awards, which totaled $66.5 million in EPA Brownfields funding through the agency’s Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup Grant programs.
The grant will be awarded once all legal and administrative requirements are fulfilled.
The funding will support underserved and economically disadvantaged communities across the country, allowing them to assess and clean up contaminated and abandoned industrial and commercial properties.
“The City of Craig has identified several key sites where redevelopment will provide great benefits to the community,” said Mark A. Smith, EPA Region 8 director of the Land, Chemicals, and Redevelopment Division. “The EPA grant will help identify any existing contamination, facilitate clean
Two suspects involved in separate shootings were arraigned on assault charges Monday afternoon in Christian District Court sending both cases to preliminary hearings next week.
The first case to appear involved Jaylynn Cheatham, 21, who is accused of being involved in a shooting at the Marathon gas station on East Ninth Street that left two people injured on Mar. 27.
Cheatham was finally arrested after police had been searching for Cheatham on Friday afternoon.
Cheatham appeared in court Monday afternoon with his defense attorney David Rye, who stated that he would be waiving formal reading of Cheathamâs arraignment and would be entering a not guilty plea on his behalf as he and Cheatham consider how to move forward in his case.
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May 8, 2021 | 7:38 AM
The man sought for a shooting incident Thursday night on North Elm Street is in custody after he went to the hospital Friday night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Hopkinsville Police Sgt. Tony Sierra says there was evidence at the scene that 24-year old Marshawn Taylor of Hopkinsville had also shot himself when he shot 26-year old Marka Smith of Owensboro in the wrist and hip while she was sitting in a vehicle in the 100 block of North Elm.
Taylor went to Jennie Stuart Medical Center Friday night with a minor gunshot wound to the thigh and was treated and released into the custody of Hopkinsville police.
A man wanted in connection to a shooting that injured an Owensboro woman on North Elm Street in Hopkinsville was located Friday night.
Hopkinsville Police say 24-year-old Marshawn Taylor showed up at Jennie Stuart Medical Center with a gunshot wound around 9 pm Friday.
Taylor reportedly shot 26-year-old Marka Smith on North Elm Street around 11 pm Thursday and fled the area before police arrived.
Smith was found in an SUV at the intersection of West 2nd Street and taken by ambulance to a waiting helicopter that transported her to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
The extent of her injuries was unknown.