Edwin Ladd News Today

'Top Sleuth of the FBI' Daniel Milton Ladd — born and raised in Fargo — played a major role in investigating, apprehending and killing criminals in some of the most publicized cases of the 1930s.

On this day in 1925, a 33 year-old newspaper editor from Cooperstown began a 20 year career in the U.S. Senate. He had never held office before, but this man’s

11/15/2013: In the beginning of November 1959, Arthur Flemming, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, made an announcement that cranberries produced in Washington and Oregon in 1958 and 1959 were possibly contaminated by a chemical weed killer called aminotriazole. This chemical, when tested, caused thyroid cancer in rats.

4/12/2013: North Dakota Agricultural College president Edwin Ladd launched North Dakota’s war effort on this date in 1917. After attending an agricultural conference in St. Louis, Ladd returned with director Thomas Cooper of the Experiment Station to address North Dakotans at Fargo. The conference, launched only days after the U.S. officially entered the Great War on April 6th, highlighted the necessity of an ‘Industrial Army’ able to supply the troops and the home-front, as well as the al...

Charles Hatfield of southern California was famous for rainmaking. He was called Hatfield the Rainmaker; but his preferred title was “moisture accelerator.” By releasing a mixture of chemicals into the air from a high tower, Hatfield claimed to bring in rain clouds.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Gerald P. Nye.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Gerald P. Nye.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Gerald P. Nye.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Gerald P. Nye.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen begins the story of Sen. Gerald P. Nye, one of the leading advocates for not getting involved in the war prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.