WASHBURN, N.D. – A North Dakota farmer has pleaded not guilty to crop insurance fraud. Fifty-eight-year-old Kent Pfaff, of the Washburn area, has been released on a personal recognizance bond. An indictment accuses Pfaff of providing false crop insurance claim information to insurance companies and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency between December 2019 and June 2020 in order…
FARGO (KVRR) – Prosecutors will ask a federal appeals court to reverse a federal judge’s order that threw out the death penalty for Alfonso Rodriguez, the man convicted of kidnapping and killing Dru Sjodin. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Fargo has filed a notice that says prosecutors intend to ask the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn Judge Ralph…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) – A Fairmount, N.D. man involved in a lengthy standoff with law enforcement Thursday has been charged with arson. Prosecutors say 24-year-old Adam Prochnow carried a backpack into the Richland County Law Enforcement Center in Wahpeton on Tuesday and started the fire. Court documents say Prochnow opened up the backpack, removed a “cylindrical container,” placed it on…
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – A South Dakota lawmaker who is running for governor is facing backlash after he used a derogatory term for a woman during a speech on the House floor. Republican Rep. Steve Haugaard described a woman whom he did not name but said was addicted to methamphetamine as a “wrung-out whore.” Haugaard, a former House speaker, is…
CDC COVID-19 map 3/3/2022FARGO (KVRR) – There’s encouraging news from the Centers for Disease Control about COVID-19. The CDC now says that more than 90% of the U.S. population lives in an area with low or medium COVID-19 community levels. The community levels in the Fargo-Moorhead area, including Cass and Clay Counties are now classified as “low.” Several counties in…
FARGO (KVRR) – The FBI has completed its investigation of an explosion that seriously injured a New York woman during the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline Protest. An attorney for Sophia Wilansky revealed in court documents that the investigation is concluded. “The FBI has now notified (Wilansky) that it has formally ended and closed its investigation of Ms. Wilansky’s injury, ”…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota State Investment Board has unanimously voted to jettison state investments with ties to Russia. State Investment Officer Scott Anderson told the board that as of Thursday March 3, North Dakota had approximately $10 million in investments with “Russian entity exposure.” Anderson said that figure had already been reduced by approximately $5.9 million since…
MINOT, N.D. – Workers sorting through donations for the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in Minot made an unexpected discovery. A worker who was handling a garbage bag of donations found marijuana that came from the Berthold Police Department. Berthold Police Chief Al Schmidt said his department takes donations of clothes, blankets and other items to the Minot ranch. A…
Fargo garage fireFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Fargo firefighters responded to a garage row fire shortly after 11:00 p.m. Wednesday behind an apartment complex at 2401 20th Avenue South. The first arriving crew reported heavy smoke from several of the garage doors and began opening the garages to get at the fire. The blaze was contained to a single garage and its…
HONG KONG (KVRR) – A former University of North Dakota professor who is considered one of the world’s leading war crimes authorities says it won’t be a “slam-dunk” if a decision is made to prosecute Russian President Vladimir Putin. Professor Gregory Gordon helped prosecute Nazi war criminals and has lectured the United Nations about war crimes and genocide. Gordon was…
