Author: Jim Monk

Woman charged with negligent homicide, manslaughter in motorcycle crash

FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A West Fargo woman charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in a deadly motorcycle crash in April has been booked into the Cass County Jail. Taquoya Saldana, 28, was originally charged with reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, and DUI. She was released from jail and those charges were dropped as the investigation was underway. Thomas…

Valley City man seriously injured in Barnes County crash

PILLSBURY, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Valley City man was airlifted to a Fargo hospital Thursday morning after he was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash north of Pillsbury in Barnes County. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the crash happened at 8:00 am on state highway 32. 24-year-old Gavin Schlaht was northbound when he drove off the road, hit an…

Fargo police K-9 catches suspect in burglary attempt

Nicholas BrueschFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A Mapleton, North Dakota man is facing charges after attempting to flee police in a burglary attempt at the Seventh Avenue Auto Salvage yard in north Fargo, Officers were called to the site just after 2 a.m. Wednesday on a report of a man walking around inside the fenced-in area with a flashlight. He then got…

Jelly Roll, Eric Church, Trace Adkins to perform at 2024 WE Fest

(DETROIT LAKES, Minn.) – WE Fest, the largest and longest-running country music & camping festival in the nation, has announced its 2024 lineup. Jelly Roll, Parker McCollum and Eric Church will each headline a night, August 1, 2 and 3. The full lineup includes Koe Wetzel, Carly Pearce, Elle King, Trace Adkins, Warren Zeiders, Paul Cauthen, Lonestar, The Bellamy Brothers,…

WATCH: The Lashkowitz High Rise implosion

FARGO (KVRR) – Fargo’s Lashkowitz High Rise Apartment Building, a part of the city’s skyline for five decades, was successfully imploded Saturday morning. It took about 500 pounds of explosives and just a few seconds to turn the building into a large pile of rubble. The shock wave from the blast rattled windows and could be heard for miles. It…

White Earth, Minnesota man sentenced to 50 years for kidnapping in South Dakota

Ryan DegroatPIERRE, S.D. (KVRR) – A White Earth, Minnesota man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty, but mentally ill to First Degree Kidnapping. Ryan Degroat was arrested in March, 2022 for entering a home in Hecla, South Dakota, where he assaulted one person and then forced that person to drive them both out of town….

Petition filed to block Trump from Minnesota’s 2024 ballot

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A group of Minnesota voters filed a legal challenge Tuesday to try to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot next year. The petition, filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court, argues that Trump is disqualified from public office under the rarely used “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment to the…