Crime

A Republican Power Broker Spent 45 Years in Office and 14 Trips to Prague Exploiting Children. The System Let Him.

Ray Holmberg, North Dakota's longest-serving state senator, was sentenced to ten years for 14 trips to a Prague brothel where he paid for sex with boys as young as 12,…

Crime

A 22-Foot Boat, Fourteen Souls, and the Regulatory Vacuum That Drowned Them

Fourteen people climbed aboard a recreational powerboat, a vessel whose rated capacity sits around ten and whose safe passenger load in that location, according to a well-placed source who spoke…

Crime

Two Babies Are Dead in Mandan Because Every System That Was Supposed to Protect Them Chose Not To

A father's desperate warnings to mental health and child protection services were ignored, leaving a mother with a history of violent ideation to kill two of her children while the…