Morning headlines: Several North Dakota schools targeted by false shooting threats

Here is your InForum Minute for Friday, March 3.

Alyssa Goelzer / The Forum

FARGO — At least six school districts across North Dakota received calls threatening shootings Thursday, March 2, that police quickly determined to be hoax "swatting" calls.

Law enforcement received phone calls reporting shooters at two schools in Fargo on Thursday morning, which officers found to be fake, according to Fargo police spokeswoman Katie Ettish. Full story here.

FARGO — The Fargo Police Department has arrested a man suspected of stealing a vehicle with an infant inside on Wednesday, March 1.

At 3:20 p.m., police received a report that a car had been stolen with an infant inside.

Officers found the vehicle driving near 17th Avenue North and Broadway and tried to stop the vehicle, according to Fargo police. Full story here.

MOORHEAD — The emerald ash borer has reached Moorhead.

This wood boring insect, native to Asia, has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees throughout 36 states since it was first discovered in the U.S. in 2002.

An insect larva found by a Moorhead city forester was submitted for testing, and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture confirmed that it was an ash borer. It's the first such confirmation in Moorhead or Clay County, state officials said Thursday, March 2. Full story here.