Tasha Carvell

As cocaine, fentanyl and meth flow into Fargo, federal cases illuminate scale of local drug crime With fatal overdoses rising, federal conspiracy and distribution cases filed this year provide a window into the drugs and defendants involved in illegal trafficking in the community.

I wrote this one over the course of about a week in late July but it was evergreen enough to hold whilst the bank robberies, fatal shootings, and violent attacks took center stage. A tangled web. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/a...

Serial bank robber arrested hours after downtown Fargo bank heist Jay Barker was booked in Cass County on charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon Friday evening. He previously served more than 20 years behind bars for bank robberies in Idaho and North Dakota.

Being the weekend reporter is sometimes a drag, but I earned my keep today. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/s...

(Vatican Rag is mine)

Automatically following basically everyone posting their favorite Tom Lehrer song today. My people. Who’s next?

"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

Judge accepts plea deal for former deputy accused of harassing women in sobriety program Darin Viken will serve five days of electronic home monitoring and a year of unsupervised probation after several women in the Cass County Sheriff's 24/7 program accused him of sexual harassment.

Sheriff Jahner says he’s “hugely disappointed in…the sentence handed down from the court,” saying it was “extremely lenient, lacks responsibility, and accountability. There were several victims in this case who I feel did not receive the justice they deserved.”
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The Red River in Fargo after a rain storm

Bob Ross river walk last night in Fargo.

It’s the 4th of July. Woke up feeling like it’s a day of mourning. Parades should be funeral processions. You’re a real kick in the pants, America.

What. A. Run.

After 6 new cases over the weekend, North Dakota has nation’s highest measles rate The state’s measles outbreak is the worst since 1978 and leads all states in cases per 100,000 residents.

Sigh. www.inforum.com/news/north-d...

If Waymos are wrong I don’t wanna be right. We loved taking these in San Francisco. 10/10 every ride. *Kylo Ren “More!” GIF*

😭 it’s the MN one, my alma mater - Syzygy is the name of the women’s team. Roster is replete w Carleton ultimate royalty - kids of players from the 90s glory days of the school’s early dominant teams

North Dakota primed for major role in Trump's space defense plan, Cramer says The senator was in the Oval Office this week when President Donald Trump announced the Golden Dome, a space-based missile defense system, will be complete within the next three years.

Whither Golden Dome…Sen. Kevin Cramer wills North Dakota onto the cast list www.inforum.com/news/north-d...

An American flag is planted in high grass at a barely visible grave

A man with a baseball hat and white beard holding a manilla folder stands in the high grass of an overgrown cemetery

My dad is in charge of planting flags at veterans graves at the rural cemeteries in his remote North Dakota county. Today we helped him put flags at graves of veterans of the Civil War to Vietnam.

Named our dog Norm and everyone shouts his name just like in the show when he shows up at gatherings, just like we drew it up. RIP to the OG.

An analysis of a Wordle score from a bot showing an above average skill and well below average luck and a score of 5.

If it isn’t Wordle perfectly capturing my whole identity on the regular

I’d tell the one about the broken pencil but it’s pointless.

How years-old cases against an accused online child predator came to a 'reluctant' end Why did Williams County prosecutors ask a judge to terminate proceedings against the man they'd charged with more than 100 counts of child sexual abuse material?

One of the most disturbing child sexual abuse material cases I’ve encountered ended in the case being dismissed. My story about the frustrating, troubling outcome. www.inforum.com/news/north-d...

A dark haired woman looks into the camera. A young girl with a red sweater is sitting in her lap.

Two women smile into the camera

Happy Mother’s Day. Here’s me and mine, 40 years ago and yesterday.

They did it two in a row. It’s less fun now.

My teams are in the playoffs. I’m happy really I am. It’s fun really it is. (Celtics please don’t do this two in a row.)

Cases like Jody Campbell's killing present unique challenges for police and prosecutors The warning signs that Jody Campbell was in serious danger were glaring. Was her case unique or simply a tragic example of how difficult it is to stop domestic violence before it's too late?

Her case prompted us to ask a lot of questions about how others like it are handled and what needed to change www.inforum.com/news/fargo/c...

Jody’s pleas: A Fargo woman was in danger and asked for help. Why couldn’t she be saved? Between police reports from calls responding to Jody Campbell and her killer, and friends’ accounts of a fraught relationship, the warning signs that she was likely to be murdered were glaring.

Jody was in danger and she knew it. But she couldn’t figure out a way out www.inforum.com/news/fargo/j...

Jody Campbell was a 'ray of sunshine' with a 'dark cloud following her,' friends say The victim of a murder in south Fargo last weekend had lived with the "plague" of Randall Duffy harassing, abusing, and trying to control her for more than a decade, her friends say.

Jody was beloved in downtown Fargo. Few knew that she’d been battling and begging to get Randall Duffy out of her life for years www.inforum.com/news/fargo/j...

‘Truly wish I could take her place’: Fargo woman’s killer sentenced to serve 30 years Co-workers of beloved Blackbird Woodfire server Jody Campbell said Randall Duffy’s Monday sentencing hearing was a “reminder that no words or years can bring her back.”

The final chapter in this heartbreaking story. Jody Campbell was on the verge of escaping the man who stalked and harassed her for years when he strangled her last summer. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/f...

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Unideal. www.fodors.com/news/news/na...

While there is still time 😵‍💫

Moorhead law office signs amicus brief in support of firms facing Trump retribution Ringstrom DeKrey is one of more than 800 law offices across the country calling the president's executive orders targeting certain law firms a threat to the rule of law.

My latest. It’s not just the massive, big-city firms signing on to amicus briefs in support of their colleagues being targeted by Trump. A founding partner at a small Fargo-Moorhead firm explains why he added their name to the growing list. www.inforum.com/news/moorhea...

North Dakota's Legacy Fund lost $1 billion amid early April market turmoil The Retirement and Investment Office director told legislators about the losses Wednesday. The state's Chief Investment officer said the tariff-related drawdown wasn't unusual or unexpected.

The finance folks are a shrugging at our billion dollar loss in NoDak. No bigs I guess. 🤷‍♀️ www.inforum.com/news/north-d...