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Hannah Shirley

Hannah Shirley is the managing editor for the Grand Forks Herald. Shirley previously covered cops and courts for the Herald. Shirley is a 2018 graduate of the University of Idaho, and prior to working for the Herald worked as a reporter for the Berkshire Record in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Shirley can be reached at hshirley@gfherald.com.

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Hari Patel, 29, and Steve Shand, 50, were convicted Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, after less than a day of jury deliberations.
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Thom Higgins gained national notoriety for throwing a pie in the face of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in the 1970s. A decade earlier, he gained notoriety on a university campus for another reason.
When Val Johnson crashed his patrol car outside Stephen, Minnesota, in 1979, it left his vehicle smashed, strange burns on his eyes, and the time on his watch and dashboard clock 14 minutes behind.
The Police Department will assign non-SRO officers to patrol school buildings in light of a new state law aimed at SROs but not patrol officers.
"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings ... I am not in the least bit sorry," wrote Carl Panzram.
The person was a traveler who returned to the United States from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive seven days later and suffered mild symptoms, officials said.
Nineteen-year-old farmhand George Miller maintained his innocence all the way to the gallows after he was convicted of murdering an Inkster, N.D., farmer's wife and 11-year-old son in 1885.
Kaylee Acevedo, 10, was on her bicycle on the sidewalk in downtown Crookston when a semi entered the sidewalk during a turn Monday evening. Acevedo became entangled in the semi's back tires and was dragged a block and a half, according to police.
A retired Grand Forks detective said Kristi Nikle's case disturbs him because the 19-year-old developmentally disabled woman seemed to vanish into thin air.
Police believe the 16-year-old girl's death is an isolated incident, and no other individuals are believed to have been involved.