The Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee put the knife to Rep. Bob Phalen’s obscenity bill on Wednesday, April 12, which sought to punish schoolteachers and school librarians who provide “obscene” material to students, amending the bill to effectively maintain local control over what materials are available to kids in school and clarifying existing law surrounding obscenity.

A 67-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was working in the area was found dead from drowning on Saturday, April 15, in Wolf Point. The conclusion of an autopsy conducted on Monday, April 17, was that Norma McDermott-Harcum died from drowning. The victim was working as a lab technician for Indian Health Services. Roosevelt County Sheriff/Coroner Jason Frederick said that law enforcement received