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Wes and Linda Julson haven't yet given up on the hope of finding their daughter, Michelle "Shelly" Julson, who went missing from Bismarck on Aug. 2, 1994, they tell the Dakota Spotlight podcast, which is reinvestigating the cold case aided by the police file on Shelly's disappearance. → Read More
In the latest episode of Dakota Spotlight, Forum Communications premier investigative true crime podcast, Bismarck Police continue to chase clues in the mysterious disappearance of Shelly Julson in 1994, and try to nail down the importance of several interesting sightings and reports. → Read More
Investigator Cliff Emmert stopped into bars, casinos, bingo halls and bowling alleys, seeking a better understanding of 26-year-old Shelly Julson's world. What he found raised some troubling questions about what might have happened to her. → Read More
On August 2, 1994, 26-year-old Michelle "Shelly" Julson dropped off her young son at his paternal grandparents home so she could run some errands in Bismarck, North Dakota. She was expected back in just hours but never heard from again. → Read More
Kelby Krabbenhoft, long-time CEO of Sioux Falls-based Sanford Health "abruptly left his job on Nov. 24, 2020, after he made series of controversial and unscientific comments about wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tax filings show he was paid a $15 million severance in addition to his annual salary and retirement plan payouts, totaling $49.5 million. → Read More
Sexually transmitted disease case counts are at or near record highs across the region, matching national trends. But public health officials say the COVID-19 pandemic likely limited testing in 2020, potentially masking an even more serious situation. → Read More
Sanford Health leaders in July had set Monday as the deadline for all of its 48,000 employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or be granted a medical or religious exemption to the vaccination. All those suspended have 60 days to comply with the health system's expectations or will be considered to have voluntarily resigned and be terminated from their jobs. → Read More
The research results gives Sitting Bull's great-grandson leverage to potentially remove disputed remains of the legendary Lakota chief from a memorial on the Standing Rock reservation near Mobridge, South Dakota. The site has no direct link to Sitting Bull. → Read More
Recent research at the University of Minnesota dug into a powerful factor that may contribute to this distrust: a consumption of conflict-centric news and social media posts about health topics. → Read More
Of four major health systems across Minnesota and the Dakotas, none require transplant patients or donors be vaccinated against COVID-19. For now. → Read More
T. Denny Sanford, the 85-year-old billionaire credit card mogul and philanthropist, is worth $3.4 billion as of Wednesday, Oct. 6, according to Forbes. The magazine annual calculates the 400 richest Americans by net worth. → Read More
The package of moves, valued at $50 million, is meant to help with retention of recruitment of employees, amid a pandemic-driven workforce shortage. → Read More
The folks at the American Heart Association had been looking at some troubling statistics in the Dakotas, especially North Dakota when it comes to COVID-19 and vaccinations. So they reached out to specifically address their concerns. → Read More
The rally, held just across the street from the Sanford Health hospital campus, was ostensibly held there to protest the health system's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its employees. But the concerns of organizers and attendees were much broader — encompassing federal vaccine mandates for large employers and health systems, and including a hefty helping of resistance to vaccines and masking more… → Read More
T. Denny Sanford's donation to Sanford Health, the system renamed in honor of his generosity to it, is in addition to a $300 million donation announced earlier this year that went to the same cause, as well as an expansion of graduate medical education programs and the Sanford Sports Complex in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.. → Read More
A Sanford Health research team followed a junior football team for eight seasons, using technology to track head impacts, and the results they found provided a powerful suggestion about what could reduce the number of head hits young players face while playing football. → Read More
A Forum News Service analysis finds the center of the new South Dakota surge in one area: the Black Hills. And the virus likely surged there for two reasons: low COVID-19 vaccination rates that made its population a relatively easy target, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which brought hundreds of thousands of people from around the country into close contact. → Read More
In the latest episode of The Health Variant podcast, host and NewsMD Correspondent Jeremy Fugleberg interviews Dr. Louis Mansky, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute for Molecular Virology, about the rise of the delta variant of COVID-19, how much it has upended plans to end the pandemic is we knew it, and what we know, and don't know, about the variant. → Read More
In the latest episode of The Health Variant podcast, host and NewsMD Correspondent Jeremy Fugleberg interviews Dr. Marie Beaver, a physician with Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota. Beaver breaks down what's going on with the supply of blood donations, what's at risk and the importance of donating blood. Also, bonus: Some ideas for how to get over a fear of needles. → Read More
The COVID-19 outbreak in the Good Samaritan Society-Deuel County senior care facility in Clear Lake mirrors a rise in vaccine breakthroughs in nursing homes across the nation, as vaccinated seniors regularly deal with unvaccinated staff, visitors and community residents, face the rise of the more dangerous delta variant, and are less protected by vaccines that previously thought. → Read More