I have been ill at ease ever since I learned the identity of the young woman who was killed in Fargo on November 23rd in the double murder perpetrated by David Stevens. That young woman was Sam Wickenheiser, a young woman I came to know back when she was a happy and energetic grade school [...]
Tag: crime
60 days plus 10 weekends…
On February 19, 2012, Robert Tofstad struck and killed 85-year-old Ruth Brendel with his car. Ruth was walking to St. Martin's Lutheran Church in Winona, Minnesota. Robert Tofstad's car windows were covered in frost and he didn't see Ruth before hitting her. A breath test showed that 19-year-old Tofstad was legally intoxicated at the time he hit [...]
We’ve got trouble – right here in West Fargo.
Let me tell you a cautionary tale folks. A tale of good intentions and seemingly eternal hope gone awry. A tale of parents who in choosing to protect one child put everyone else in their family and countless others in harm's way. I know of a man that regularly abuses his partner, sometimes in front [...]
Taking full responsibility…
Matthew Cordle, age 22, killed a man on June 22, 2013, in Ohio. He was intoxicated after a night of heavy drinking and drove the wrong-way on Interstate 670 hitting another car. Vincent Canzani (age 61) died as a result of Cordle's actions. This type of accident happens too often. Impaired drivers get in their [...]
Coward.
Ariel Castro killed himself yesterday. He hung himself in his cell at the prison in Ohio where he was being held. Castro was the man who kidnapped and imprisoned three young women between 2002 and 2004 and kept them captive until May of this year. But for one of the young women's escape efforts all [...]
Hud? Speck? Huh?
I have always liked John Mellencamp's music. I liked it because it felt to me like music for the common man and woman. And that was Mellencamp's presentation of self as well in press, concerts, and music videos - a guy just like us telling the stories of our lives. He seemed down-to-earth, genuine, and [...]
The Pastor’s Wife
I am tickled to share today a story about Pam Thompson, the wife of a pastor from West Fargo. Last week, some hooligan snatched her purse out of her vehicle as she was loading in her groceries in South Fargo. But Pam was having none of that. She grabbed the man's shirt and later his hair [...]
THE NEW FORTY 