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Fire Academy explores relocation to Mandan

By   /  September 26, 2012  /  Mandan News, News, Top Stories  /  No Comments

(Submitted Photo) Darrell Graf, chief instructor at the Fire Academy of North Dakota, oversees training drills for a class of students.

Derek Fladand loves to fight fire. He remembers the adrenaline rush while helping put out a tractor fire near his hometown of Gilby. During his junior year of high school, Fladand learned about a program called the Fire Academy of North Dakota that introduces students, ages 16-22, to the professional side of fire service. That […]

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Devils in the Heartland: The ritualistic killing of Arlis Perry

By   /  June 25, 2012  /  Bismarck News, News, Top Stories  /  11 Comments

(Photo by Matt Bunk) Jon Martinson, a former professor at Bismarck State College, believes members of a cult in North Dakota played a role in the murder of Arlis Perry in 1974. Martinson is shown in front of the hills behin the University of Mary, which long ago filled in a series of caves that were rumored to be used by cult members to hold rituals that included animal sacrifices.

Nearly four decades have passed since a young woman from Bismarck was murdered in a satanic ritual inside a church in Palo Alto, Calif. The brutal killing of Arlis Perry even today remains unsolved, but the secret of the cult that many people believe was responsible for her death, The Process Church, lives on. And […]

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