BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $3 million in rent over the next two years for unused office space for a state agency that intends to allow most of its more than 400 employees to work from home indefinitely.
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May 3, 2021
Many people who attended the event say it failed to live up to its expectations.
After paying for parking and admission, customers say they stood in long lines to buy food from a just two vendors. The festival indicated that at least eight vendors would be on hand.
VIP customers say they bought tickets that were supposed to entitle them to two drinks, two tacos and a T-shirt.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s Consumer Protection Division has received at least one complaint about the event.
“We review every complaint that comes in to determine the scope of our authority and response” according to spokesperson Liz Brocker.
Russell Turcotte, originally from Wolf Point, Mont., was 19 when he went missing from Grand Forks. His body was found several months later on Nov. 5, 2002, in a tree row 10 miles west of Devils Lake, about a half-mile north of U.S. Highway 2.
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Some say new North Dakota forfeiture rules still need work
JACK DURA, The Bismarck Tribune
March 5, 2021
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Proceeds from nearly a year of civil asset forfeitures in North Dakota totaled more than $500,000 a first look at forfeited property in the state under a 2019 law that might see more reporting elements added by this year’s Legislature.
North Dakota’s attorney general filed a report last fall on cash, vehicles, firearms and other property forfeited from criminal activity from August 2019 through June 2020.
The report compiling statewide data is the first of its kind in North Dakota, implemented under a 2019 law changing aspects of the state’s forfeiture proceedings.