Spirit Lake

In today's news: the city of Bismarck has announced that the petition to hold a recall vote on Mayor Mike Seminary failed to get enough valid signatures.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — A Grand Forks man is the new chief judge on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. (AP) — Social workers at the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation have been furloughed because of the federal government shutdown, causing worries among tribal officials and Sen. John Hoeven.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Fargo trial's winding down for a man accused of killing two children on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — An FBI forensic examiner says DNA from murder suspect Valentino Bagola was found underneath the fingernails of one of the two children he's accused of murdering on the Spirit Lake Reservation.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The father of two children slain on the Spirit Lake Reservation says he felt pressured by FBI agents to confess to killing them.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of killing two children on the Spirit Lake Reservation once asked investigators what the maximum sentence was for the crime.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of killing two children on the Spirit Lake Reservation says in videotaped interviews that he did it because he was mad at their father and their father wasn't home when he sneaked into the house.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Ousted Spirit Lake Chairman Roger Yankton has sued in federal court, seeking relief from restraining orders he says violates his rights.