Stories from Thursday, June 8, 2017

Employees at Pure Fishing in Spirit Lake saw an early end to their shift after smoke triggered an automatic fire extinguishing system Thursday afternoon. The Spirit Lake Fire Department was paged at 1:04 p.m. to the plant along Highway 9. A smoky computer room in the southeast part of the factory caused a Halon system to discharge the fire-suppressing chemical. The entire building had to be evacuated...

The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday released additional information about an intentional fire that gutted a rural Lake Park home four months ago. Deputies worked with police departments in Lake Park and Spirit Lake on a May 10 drug investigation and searched 107 East First Street and 108 East First Street, apartment 6, in Lake Park. Curtis Caskey, Patrick Wascher and Chanelle Gembler were arrested that night on drug-related charges, according to a sheriff’s statement...