1. 28 years after north Fargo disappearance, case remains open with few answers
FARGO — Michele Elsenpeter and her older brother Kevin Mahoney were barely young adults when he disappeared after a house party in north Fargo.
Today, she’s 51, and her brother would be 53 if he were still here.
Mahoney, of Dilworth, disappeared on Oct. 2, 1993, and is presumed dead after 28 years without answers.
The passing of another anniversary is hard for Elsenpeter to take.
“It’s been so many years without answers. I know somebody out there knows something. I just wish they would speak up,” she said.
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2. North Dakota girl defies expectations on football field, exceeds them off
THOMPSON, N.D. — Ali Moses is often asked what it's like to be the only female player on her high school football team.
“Being the girl on the football team sounds like you might be excluded, but I’m definitely part of the team,” said Moses.
Moses, a senior at Thompson High School, has been playing football since seventh grade. But she stands out for more than just defying gender norms in sports. As a 4.0 student and involved community member, she makes an impact on and off the field.
Her football career started in sixth grade during recess, when she was dared to play a game of football with the boys. She took on the challenge, and realized it was a lot of fun. Moses spent the summer convincing her parents to let her play football in seventh grade. Reluctantly, they agreed.
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3. North Dakota, Minnesota families work to bring home remains of veterans killed in WWII prison fire
FARGO — Relatives of a Dahlen, North Dakota, veteran killed in a Japanese military prison fire during World War II are seeking help to have his remains brought back home.
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson was among 62 American service members held captive at the prison that caught fire in May of 1945 as a result of an American B-29 bombing raid.
None of them survived.
Ellingson’s nephew, Lon Enerson, is part of a group of families determined to bring their loved ones home.
“We've waited 76 years for our family to get his remains back,” he said.
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4. Where have all the workers gone? A post-COVID guide to keeping employees
FARGO — In her 27 years in the staffing field, Jill Berg has never seen anything like it.
Job openings everywhere — and so few people who want them. "It's unbelievable," says Berg, the Spherion Staffing CEO/president who runs five offices in the Dakotas and Minnesota. "These are the most crazy times I have ever seen in my life. It’s just been a nightmare … when you think about the statistics of 48% of workers are planning to leave their employer in the next 12 months, that’s a pretty scary statistic."
5. Petition aims to stop urban bow hunting in Fargo
FARGO — Longtime Fargo resident Richard Thomas wants to put an end to bow hunting in city parks along the Red River.
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The 72-year-old former hunter said he has collected more than 200 signatures for a petition to do just that, mainly by visiting with people at parks at Orchard Glen and Forest River Nature parks in far south Fargo.
"Discharging of deadly weapons should not be allowed in parks occupied by the public," the petition reads.
