
Today in History: Sept. 15, Birmingham church bombing
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2026. There are 107 days left in the year.
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2026. There are 107 days left in the year.

Today in sports history:

Devils Lake is back to where it started.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP, Sept. 13, 2026) — Nathan Hayes threw two touchdown passes and scored on a 17-yard run, and North Dakota State University beat Air Force 38-32 on Saturday night in the Bison’s first Mountain West Conference game.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP, Sept. 14, 2026) — Carson Wentz has had little time to practice with Minnesota’s voluminous playbook, a late arrival to the team last season who returned this year in more of a mentor role as Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy competed for the starting quarterback job in training camp.

DEVILS LAKE — A Devils Lake runner won each of the boys’ and girls’ races at the Firebirds’ annual home cross country meet.

CANDO — The North Star Bearcats still have progress to make.

Both the East (shown here) and West Viaducts were flooded Thursday in Devils Lake as a sudden downpour hit the town just after 12 p.m. Here city police and services help a driver whose vehicle stalled in deep water. The best advice from the National Weather Service on driving your vehicle and seeing a flooded road is their safety warning “Turn around, don’t drown.”
BISMARCK, N.D. – On Wednesday, Aug. 26, Gov. Kelly Armstrong and Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring joined the State Water Commission in announcing an additional $2 million for the Drought Disaster Livestock Water Supply Project Assistance Program, as demand for the program has outstripped the initial $2 million approved last week.

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – The Fort Totten Police Department has confirmed that the victim in the Sept. 6 fatal stabbing on the Spirit Lake Reservation is 46-year-old father of five and grandfather Patrick James Cavanaugh.

DEVILS LAKE — It might feel like you’ve seen this movie before.

(Sept. 4, 2026) – North Dakota’s Legislature passed a bill Friday, Sept. 4 to allow but regulate natural kratom and ban synthetic products.

There is a busy fall ahead at the Western State Bank Event Center, home of the Altringer Arena, at the Ramsey County Fairgrounds in Devils Lake.

For three days this summer, teachers converged at the Flight 93 National Memorial in remote western Pennsylvania to talk about 9/11.

Midwest hearts have wrapped around the families of East Coast terrorism victims. At the same time, caution has engulfed much of the area. North Dakota National Guard Camp Grafton upped security along with Devils Lake Public Schools yesterday after news of the attack on America spread. Officials are prepared to increase their methods today.