Around 85 community members sought shelter from the wind and rain in a large tent along Hannah Avenue on Wednesday, Oct. 13, to break ground on Sanford's new $6.2 million Behavioral Health Crisis Center. Once completed, the 12,000 square-foot facility will be the first center to offer adult inpatient hospital psychiatric beds within 90 miles of Bemidji.
In July 1987, the city of Bemidji was shaken by the murder of a young woman with a promising future. Anita Ann Carlson, 22, was a recent Bemidji State graduate who disappeared while working a night shift at the Pete’s Place West convenience store. As part of Forum News Service's new cold-case series, “The Vault,” the Pioneer recently revisited the unsolved murder through its archives.
BEMIDJI The mother of a former inmate who died in 2018 in the Beltrami County Jail is suing the county and a host of other defendants over the death of her son.
In July 1987, the city of Bemidji was shaken by the murder of a young woman with a promising future. Anita Ann Carlson, 22, was a recent Bemidji State graduate who disappeared while working a night shift at the Pete’s Place West convenience store. As part of Forum News Service's new cold-case series, “The Vault,” the Pioneer recently revisited the unsolved murder through its archives.
Nearly 40 years since the disappearance of the toddler in north-central Minnesota, his case still leaves law enforcement scratching their heads. What happened to Kevin?