{"id":136953,"date":"2026-10-29T05:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/10\/29\/valley-county-says-train-shooting-was-varmint-hunting\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2029-04-16T05:11:38","slug":"valley-county-says-train-shooting-was-varmint-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/10\/29\/valley-county-says-train-shooting-was-varmint-hunting\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Valley County Says Train  Shooting Was Varmint Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people who spoke to law enforcement after a suspected train shooting  near Glasgow were, in fact, using a spotlight to find \u201cvarmints\u201d and shoot them.<br \/>\n\t  No shots were directed  at the train, the Valley County Sheriff\u2019s Department  said in a press release  on Thursday, Oct. 22.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cThis was a misunderstanding  on the part of the BNSF crew, who reasonably  but incorrectly believed they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137065,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136953\/revisions\/137065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136953"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=136953"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=136953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}