Cooperstown News

Valley City Tuesday learned Gov. Dalrymple has agreed to give the city $513,447 in Community Development Block Grants to help pay for emergency riverbank stabilization along Main Street.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the state is designating more than $750,000 in federal grant money to help Valley City and Cooperstown beef up infrastructure to guard against Sheyenne River flooding.

Daniel Wacht, 31, murdered Kurt Johnson, 54, in Cooperstown, N.D., on New Year's Eve 2010, to impress a white supremacist gang, Griggs County Court was told.

Diplomats said international envoy Kofi Annan is telling the U.N. Security Council that the situation in Syria remains "unacceptable" and is expressing particular alarm at reports that government troops entered the central... A North Dakota man was convicted Tuesday of shooting and beheading a university research in what prosecutors claimed was an ... (more)

Daniel Wacht has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Kurt Johnson, who was last seen alive on New Year's Eve 2010 after a night of drinking in a Cooperstown bar.