A passenger who was aboard the SkyWest flight that turned to avoid a B-52 bomber on Friday said it felt like going around a “sharp turn on a roller coaster.” “The force of it kept me centered in my seat, but I could look out the window and see straight at the grass instead of seeing…
Pilot makes “aggressive maneuver” to avoid B-52 bomber – CBS News Watch CBS News The pilot of a SkyWest flight told passengers Friday night that he performed an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid an apparent B-52 military aircraft in-flight as he came in for a landing in Minot, North Dakota — then apologized for the sudden…
The pilot of a passenger jet landing in North Dakota on Friday made an “aggressive maneuver” in order to avoid collision with an Air Force B-52. On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday’s incident prompted an investigation, per The Washington Post. SkyWest Flight 3788 was operating as a Delta Connection flight between Minneapolis, Minnesota,…
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The Richardson’s ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature also is a ferocious tunneler, and it’s exasperating the people of Minot, North Dakota, where it’s burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town, and…
The Keystone Pipeline was shut down after a “bang” was reported Tuesday morning in North Dakota, according to Bill Suess, spill investigation program manager with the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality. “An employee on a pump station heard what was described as a mechanical bang” at 7:44 a.m., Suess told CBS News, adding that…
The mayor of one of North Dakota’s largest cities resigned after an investigation into him mistakenly sending a lewd video to the city attorney. Minot Mayor Tom Ross resigned Tuesday, the same day an investigative report was made public that found Ross sent a video of himself masturbating to City Attorney Stefanie Stalheim in January….
When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in oil pipeline protests, a quarter-billion dollars of the damages were awarded not for the actual demonstrations, but for defaming the pipeline’s owner. The costly verdict has raised alarm among activist organizations as well as some First Amendment experts,…
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison 00:48 Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison Tuesday morning after former President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, a decision that elated Peltier’s supporters while angering law enforcement officials…
Two groups of Native American horse riders are on their way to Mankato from from Nebraska and South Dakota, with both slated to gather downtown Dec. 26 to remember the 38 Dakota men who were hanged after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The Mankato Healing and Reconciliation Ride set out Dec. 10 from Fort Thompson…
Venezuela’s monstrous Tren de Aragua gang — a cadre of drug dealers, traffickers, pimps and murderers — has now reached as far as North Dakota, thanks to the Biden-Harris border disaster. Henry Theis was pulled over outside of West Fargo for a broken taillight; cops found north of $24,000 in cash Theis had allegedly stolen…