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Historical timeline of government investigations into the UFO or UAP phenomena from 1940s until 1969.| Bemidji Pioneer
The DFL lost its trifecta, and the House of Representatives is evenly split for the first time since 1979. State Sen. Erin Murphy is hopeful of getting things done despite the challenges.| Bemidji Pioneer
In 2002, few in North Dakota and Minnesota knew what meth was, but they were soon to find out.| Bemidji Pioneer
Fueled by his own secret as a one-time confidential informant, Michael Gamboa turned his paranoia on his own dealers, brothers and customers.| Bemidji Pioneer
A police raid coordinated by more than a dozen law agencies ended Michael Gamboa’s drug empire in 2002.| Bemidji Pioneer
A UFO encounter at a North Dakota nuclear site prompted an Air Force captain to defy an order of silence in his search for truth.| Bemidji Pioneer
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Tom Cherveny is a regional and outdoors reporter for the West Central Tribune. He has been a reporter with the West Central Tribune since 1993. Cherveny can be reached via email at tcherveny@wctrib.com or by phone at 320-214-4335.| Bemidji Pioneer
Rural counties experience greater natural losses as deaths continue to outpace births. But there is in-migration attributed to people moving from urban to rural areas for jobs.| Bemidji Pioneer
A historical timeline of government investigations into UFO or UAP phenomena from 1990s to present day.| Bemidji Pioneer
One veteran's struggle to bring transparency to secretive UFO programs are part of the bipartisan political tide reaching highest levels of government.| Bemidji Pioneer
Carl Wold's newspaper office was trashed after editorials he published. Then farmers packed themselves into the courtroom during his trial.| Bemidji Pioneer
The teens left their home to run an errand on Sept. 2, 1974. Their bodies were found weeks later in a quarry. No one has ever been charged. Their mother, Rita Reker, now 88, hasn't forgotten.| Bemidji Pioneer
Trisha Taurinskas is an enterprise crime reporter for Forum Communications Co., specializing in stories related to missing persons, unsolved crime and general intrigue. Her work is primarily featured on The Vault. Trisha is also the host of The Vault podcast. Trisha began her journalism career at…| Bemidji Pioneer
Discovery of Mitch Twite’s body came three years after Refugio Rodriguez was discovered in a nearby park. Both deaths were deemed suspicious before labeled as suicides on their death certificates.| Bemidji Pioneer
Law enforcement searched a construction site in Winsted, Minnesota, in connection to the 1995 disappearance of the 27-year-old TV news anchor.| Bemidji Pioneer
Jon K. Miller, 84, of Owatonna, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mary Schlais, of Minneapolis, in 1974. Investigative genetic genealogy credited with leading to his arrest.| Bemidji Pioneer
Shortly after a pilot and co-pilot began observing a mysterious, glowing object, it rose quickly into the sky and disappeared.| Bemidji Pioneer
Dave Olson is a reporter, photographer and occasional videographer. He graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead with a degree in mass communications, and during his time at The Forum he has covered many beats, from cops and courts to business and education. Currently is writing business…| Bemidji Pioneer
If this election season has left you stressed, nervous and on edge, consider the remedies that got our ancestors through the tough times.| Bemidji Pioneer
Former members and investigations worldwide reveal practices and beliefs of a religion based on several aspects of fear. Find links to the full reporting project and documentary here.| Bemidji Pioneer
Lauren Breunig is a news reporter for St. Cloud LIVE and can be reached at lauren@stcloudlive.com.| Bemidji Pioneer
After a lifetime of hearing about his North Dakotan great-great-grandfather's record-breaking beard, Dan Backer and his wife Jeanine trekked through the Smithsonian archives to see it.| Bemidji Pioneer
News, photos and podcasts about true crime, historical true crime, mysteries, oddities and history from the upper Midwest, including Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.| Bemidji Pioneer
Those looking to sell, distribute, or consume booze in the '20s and '30s had a few sneaky tricks up their sleeves.| Bemidji Pioneer
The Dodge with the 1950 Minnesota plates now sits outside London, but the Finch family wants to honor where its story began.| Bemidji Pioneer
Read the latest lifestyle news from The Bemidji Pioneer on faith, family, home and garden, pets, travel, personal finance, religion and more for the Bemidji area and throughout Minnesota.| Bemidji Pioneer
Eunice Winstead, 9, made news in 1937 when she married a 24-year-old man in Tennessee. Minnesota was among the few states that fought back.| Bemidji Pioneer