BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Supporters say they have mixed feelings as voters in the Breckenridge School District approved an operating levy increase but rejected a bond for a new school in Tuesday’s referendum. The levy increase means the school district will have increased per-pupil funding to stabilize finances and continue with student programming, staff, and funding for the technology program….
MINNEAPOLIS – Minneapolis voters have rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The initiative would have changed the city charter to remove a requirement that the city have a police department with a minimum number of officers. Supporters of the proposal said a complete overhaul of policing was necessary to stop…
Sen. Mike Rounds, Jean RoundsSIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Jean Rounds, the wife of Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, has died in hospice care. She was 65. Jean Rounds had been undergoing treatment for cancer since May of 2019. Doctors initially found a malignant, aggressive tumor near her sciatic nerve and she underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy and surgery….
Kim PotterMINNEAPOLIS – News organizations are renewing their request to the judge overseeing the case of a former police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright. They’re asking her to allow live video coverage of former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter’s trial because of the continuing threat of COVID-19 and the strong public interest. Judge Regina Chu has barred…
Jacob DanielsonFARGO (KVRR) – A Cass County deputy who had been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested for DUI has been fired. According to a termination letter signed by Sheriff Jesse Jahner, Deputy Jacob Danielson was terminated Monday. Jahner terminated Danielson for policy violations with the West Fargo Police Dept. and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. Danielson was…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — Threats made against schools in Detroit Lakes have been resolved according to Superintendent Mark Jenson and Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd. The first threat was phoned in to a Fargo news outlet’s tip line. The second was noticed by a student at another school in the district that a student had posted on social…
FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – On a 3-2 vote, the Fargo City Commission agreed to receive a proposed ordinance to create the first-ever Fargo Police Advisory and Oversight Board made up of seven citizen members. The final decision, which could include some changes, will be before commissioners in two weeks. Police Chief Dave Zibolski says the proposal is the culmination of months…
Police Chief Medaria ArradondoMINNEAPOLIS – Voters in Minneapolis are deciding whether to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a year after George Floyd’s death launched a movement to defund or abolish police across the country. Mayor Jacob Frey is also in a tough fight for a second term. He’s…
MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota will offer free or reduced tuition to many Native American students attending its five campuses starting next fall. The cost waiver program had previously been offered only at the Morris campus, but now will be expanded to all five campuses, to also include Duluth, Rochester, Crookston and the Twin Cities. Incoming freshmen and tribal…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Federal investigators have found no mechanical problems with the plane in a crash that killed a student at the University of North Dakota’s aerospace school last month. John Hauser was a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in commercial aviation. A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board found that he turned around the Piper airplane he was piloting…
