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jschramm@minotdailynews.com Jill Schramm/MDN Members of the National Guard and Minot Fire Department conduct rapid tests at a drive-through Dec. 28. The rapid testing opportunity continues through Saturday. Ward County also plans to offer rapid testing for employees. Ward County will be requesting BinaxNOW and antibody test kits to begin offering both COVID-19 rapid testing and immunity status testing to county employees. Ward County Commissioners on Tuesday approved rapid testing after learning the North Dakota Sheriff’s Association has purchased the administrative licensing to conduct tes...

Dec 31, 2020 Ward County Sheriff Robert Roed issued a news release today that on Dec. 16 an inmate being held at the Ward County Detention Center on federal charges for the U.S. Marshal Service advised jail staff he was not feeling well. The inmate, Eugene Whiteowl, 62, was evaluated and taken to Trinity Hospital. On Dec. 17 the U.S. Marshal Service furloughed Whiteowl from custody and he was released from custody of the Ward County Detention Center. On Dec. 28 Ward County Detention Center officials were notified that Whiteowl had passed away due to COVID-19-related issues. Both the U.S. Ma...

jschramm@minotdailynews.com Jill Schramm/MDN Ward County Sheriff Robert Roed holds a check presented by South Prairie second grader Brecken Lick at a Ward County Commission meeting Tuesday for the care and support of the department’s K-9. Lick was top salesman in the school’s pizza fundraiser for the K-9 fund. Ward County’s K-9 officer will be well supplied with treats and tennis balls, thanks to students and their pizza-eating supporters at South Prairie School. During Tuesday’s Ward County Commission meeting, South Prairie Principal Delwyn Groninger and students JyliAnne Strih...