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• Sunny Clifford said the issue of reproductive rights resonated with her, and she was appalled that lawmakers would try to tell her what she could do with her own body. She and her husband are expecting their first child in February, and she said she's happy to have a say in that timing.
• "I had the opportunity to graduate from college. I'm a first-generation college graduate," Sunny Clifford said. "I feel good about being pregnant right now during this time in my life rather than if I was 17. I wouldn't have any idea what I was doing."
• Rosenblatt said she and Lipschutz have received good feedback at film festivals, especially from Native Americans. They say the film has helped give them a voice and avoids becoming another piece of "poverty porn," a slang term for broadcasts that exploit poverty for entertainment's sake.
• "They're very excited to see this film because they say it represents them in a very new and original way," Rosenblatt said.
• The film premieres at 9 p.m. CST as part of the "Independent Lens" series and will also be available on iTunes.
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Man accused of killing ex and her boyfriend in ND
DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in Fargo over the weekend told dispatchers as he waited for police to arrive that he stabbed them in her apartment, investigators said in court documents released Monday.
• David Stevens, 35, is charged with two counts of murder in the early Saturday morning stabbing deaths of Samantha Wickenheiser, 23, of Fargo, and Ward Berg, 30, of neighboring Moorhead, Minn. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison without parole.
• Stevens appeared in East Central District Court in Fargo Monday on a video feed from the Cass County Jail. He looked away from the camera while assistant prosecutor Tristan Van De Streek read a litany of Stevens' criminal convictions in Kentucky, Texas, North Carolina, Kansas, Minnesota and North Dakota.
• When Judge Steve Marquart asked Stevens about Van De Streek's request for $1 million cash bail, Stevens said, "That sounds great."
• Marquart assigned attorney Nick Thornton to be Stevens' public defender. Thornton said Monday said he hadn't seen any of the court files or police reports so he could not comment.
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