Lamoure County News

A SMALL TOWN IS WITHOUT POLICE OFFICERS .... AFTER ITS ONLY CITY OFFICER WAS ARRESTED.. ACCUSED OF SEND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT TEXT MESSAGES AND HAVING SEX WITH A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL, WHILE WORKING FOR THE DEPARTMENT.

Eds: CLARIFIES officer resignation, 2nd graf. APNewsNow. LAMOURE, N.D. The lone police officer in the southeastern North Dakota town of LaMoure is facing sex crime charges.

Spring floodwaters have long since receded in southeastern North Dakota, but not everyone who was displaced has been able to return home.

That's a reference, of course, to the movie Fargo , set partly in North Dakota, not far from the small city of Edgeley in LaMoure County, where 16-year-old Harman Singh was an exchange student until May 16, when he apparently tried to make it on his own.

An exchange student from India who vanished from southeastern North Dakota more than a week ago is safe.

Superintendent Rick Diegel says the boy left goodbye notes in the lockers of four students, and had obviously planned his disappearance.

Authorities are investigating whether a teenage exchange student from India who vanished from southeastern North Dakota might have travelled to Canada, or whether a cell phone message saying he was headed north was just a ruse to send searchers in the wrong direction.