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Bank celebrates opening of first Moorhead branch

MOORHEAD – First International Bank & Trust is holding a grand opening celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today to mark the opening of its first Moorhead location at 800 30th Ave. S.

Officials: Immigration critical to growing ND businesses

FARGO – An immigration reform bill taking shape in the U.S. Senate could have important ramifications for North Dakota businesses and their ability to grow.

• Sen. Heidi Heitkamp listens
• Ushashi Chakraborty

Trade Talk: 109 Consign in Fargo closing

FARGO - The 109 Consign shop at 117 Broadway in Fargo is closing. The store’s final day of business will be June 30.

• 109 Consign

Change in routine common factor when children are left in hot vehicles

MOORHEAD - Thirty-eight children die on average in the United States every year from being left unattended in vehicles on warm days.

• Baby on board
• 'He's a good father,' says mother of Moorhead man whose 5-month-old daughter died in van
• Grand Forks mom recalls ‘agonizing disbelief’ of her baby’s death in car in 2006
• Child vehicular heatstroke fatalities by state
• Child vehicular heatstroke fatalities by year

'He's a good father,' says mother of Moorhead man whose 5-month-old daughter died in van

MOORHEAD – Andrew Sandstrom dropped his wife off at work Tuesday afternoon and shortly after returned to the family’s apartment in Moorhead. He had a platoon of six children with him, all of them under the age of 7. Everyone trooped into the residence. Everyone, that is, except little Christiana.

• Family's apartment building

Artists have skin in game with new tattoo studio

FARGO – No Coast Tattoo opened a month ago in the downtown storefront that for a long time was home to an ice cream parlor.

• Brice Schneider

Fergus Falls aims to confirm Kirkbride development hopefuls

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – The Fergus Falls City Council will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday to evaluate whether efforts to save the city’s landmark Kirkbride building will involve one developer or a team of two.

• Kirkbride Building

Ex-Fargo investment broker Medhus pleads guilty to 16 felony charges in 'Ponzi' scheme

FARGO – A former Fargo investment broker pleaded guilty this morning in Cass County District Court to 16 felony charges in what a state investigator described as a Ponzi scheme that bilked 19 people out of at least $935,000.

Moorhead to consider Blue Snow District changes

MOORHEAD – At its regular meeting tonight, the City Council here will consider making changes to an ordinance that governs how snow removal is handled in neighborhoods near Minnesota State University Moorhead, Concordia College and Eventide following major snow events.

• Location of snow removal district

Most Fargo downtown businesses welcome one-way street conversions

FARGO - As an owner of a business on Fargo’s First Avenue North, Matt Gatzke views the avenue’s conversion from a one-way to a two-way in, well, two ways.

• Matt Gatzke talks about one-way conversions
• Emilie Fischer

Columns

Olson: Longtime Spuds phy ed teacher led by example

MOORHEAD - Ed Fortin died Monday at Eventide Senior Living Community in Moorhead. He was 81. Mr. Fortin taught physical education and coached sports at Moorhead South Junior High, where I attended school in the 1970s.

• Dave Olson