editorial

With 33 years of experience as a photojournalist, there is scarcely a subject I haven’t documented. My portfolio covers news events, from train derailments and floods to courtroom dramas.

Jennifer Robinson testifies in District Court, Fargo, during William Hoehn’s trial for conspiracy to commit murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a 22-year-old who’s baby was cut from her womb.

Kelly Miletto surveys the damage from a maple tree that fell on his garage during an overnight storm in Lake Park, Minnesota.

Red River Valley SWAT team members leave the scene of a police standoff at the intersection of 17th Street and 21st Avenue South, Fargo.

Tom Roden, with the mechanical department of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, documents the damage done by a derailment of 39 coal cars in Mapleton, North Dakota. There were no injuries.

A fire from an oil train derailment burns uncontrollably west of Casselton, N.D. The city was evacuated.

Christopher Morrison, 16, a Red Lake High School student, talks to the press in the North Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji, Minnesota, where some of the Red Lake school shooting victims were taken the day before.

Dean Solum, owner of Airborne Custom Spraying in Halstad, Minnesota, flies past St. Mary’s Cathedral in Cessna Skymaster as he sprays insecticide over Fargo. Solum applied the insecticide from an altitude of 150-300 feet in north-south swaths over the city. It was the first time aerial spraying was used to control mosquitos in the city since 1979.

A protestor pours gasoline on a fire blocking a North Dakota highway to keep law enforcement officers from pushing them off the road and out of their camp.