C.S. Hagen

​Homicide in North Fargo

FARGO – Police arrested a man early Friday morning after he turned himself in for an apartment homicide in a north side apartment building.Daniel Benjamin Habiger, 29, was arrested at Holiday Gas Station at 10th Street and 19th...

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​This time, a change

FARGO – Every time a mass shooting occurs, tempers flare, conversations crackle across social media platforms and Congressional podiums, and then fizzle. This time, after the 353rd mass shooting in America since 1966, something...

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​‘A child can only take so much’

FARGO – Christopher L. Thumb is a quiet boy, enjoys throwing a football with his siblings, listens to powwow music. New to Fargo after moving from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation at 15, he entered his freshman...

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​No sweat improvements

FARGO – Water sizzles against scorched stones piled in a shallow pit center of Fargo’s only Indigenous sweat lodge. Faces gleam briefly before the glow fades, and the Native songs begin. Packed side by side, Anishinaabe, Spirit...

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The high costs of low bail

FARGO – To hundreds of Fargo’s inmates, a C-Note-sized bail might as well be a million dollars. Unaffordable.On any given day the city’s law enforcement brings those who break the law to jail. It’s their job. Some offenders are...

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