Author: Jim Monk

Halstad man charged with assaulting girlfriend

Jeremy KosteADA, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Halstad, Minnesota man has been charged with assault and burglary after multiple police agencies responded to Halstad Wednesday afternoon for what was initially believed to be a shooting. Thirty-two-year-old Jeremy Koste is accused of injuring his girlfriend, who was found bleeding from the head and spitting up blood outside an apartment building. She was…

Sun Country flight to Minneapolis returns to Las Vegas for ‘hard landing’

LAS VEGAS – No one was injured when an airplane heading from Las Vegas to Minneapolis returned early Friday for a “hard landing” with a landing gear malfunction at Harry Reid International Airport. Officials said the right main landing gear of Sun Country Airlines flight 110 collapsed when the Boeing 737 landed about 1:20 a.m. About 50 passengers and six…

Minot Air Force base has $607 million economic impact

Minot AFB B-52MINOT, N.D. – A new analysis pegs the local economic impact of the Minot Air Force Base at nearly $607 million in the past fiscal year. The 2021 fiscal year economic impact is lower than fiscal year 2020, when the base contributed $622 million to the local area. The analysis says annual construction, services and other expenditures were…

400 pounds of marijuana, mushrooms, pills seized from home

MINNETONKA, Minn. – Charges are pending for two men who were arrested after nearly 400 pounds of marijuana and hundreds of THC vaping cartridges were seized at a Minnetonka home. Lt. Derek Schuldt, commander of the Anoka-Hennepin Narcotics and Violent Crimes Task Force, says he suspects other people were involved in the drug operation, so the investigation is ongoing. Authorities…

Update: Minnesota Attorney General will join police shooting investigation

This video is graphic and is not suitable for young people or sensitive viewers. MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota’s attorney general will join in a review of the fatal shooting of a man by Minneapolis police as they served a search warrant. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Friday he had asked the state’s Attorney General Keith Ellison to review events surrounding…

Update: North Dakota attorney general remembered as man of integrity

Wayne Stenehjem funeral 2/3/2022BISMARCK, N.D. – Hundreds of people gathered at the Bismarck Event Center to pay tribute to North Dakota’s longest-serving attorney general who died last week. Sixty-eight-year-old Wayne Stenehjem was found unresponsive at his home and died unexpectedly last Friday following his hospitalization. A cause of death has not been made public. Stenehjem’s body was brought to the…

South Dakota attorney general insists no wrongdoing during crash investigation

Jason RavnsborgPIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg insists he did nothing wrong in using his position overseeing the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation to make inquiries about what out-of-state criminal investigators could find on his phone during the investigation of his 2020 fatal car crash. The Republican attorney general is facing a House impeachment probe as lawmakers…

Pilot of small plane that crashed in Minnesota dies

HUTCHINSON, Minn. – One of two people injured in a small plane crash in McLeod County earlier this week has died. Authorities say Richard Jolkovsky died from injuries caused by a single-engine plane crash south of Hutchinson.  The 61-year-old Avon man was piloting the plane. A 24-year-old passenger remains hospitalized in stable condition. The plane had taken off from Flying Cloud…