PIERRE, S.D. (KVRR/KWAT) – A Hankinson, N.D. man faces a number of charges following a high speed chase over the weekend. A Hughes County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop 26 year-old Richard Mayer for speeding on Highway 14 east of Pierre Saturday night. Mayer wouldn’t pull over, and the chase was on across the Missouri River bridge into Fort Pierre,…
Andrea PayneMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – A judge has sentenced a Moorhead woman to time already served after her guilty plea to helping cover up a murder. Twenty-seven-year-old Andrea Payne admitted to knowing that her roommate, Dystynee Avery, had been killed. Payne was sentenced to 378 days already spent in jail. Payne, Avery and 28-year-old Ethan Broad were sharing a south…
FARGO (KVRR) – Fargo Police are asking for assistance in locating a missing person. Thirty-year-old Jessica L. Houser was reported missing Sunday. Houser was last seen on April 29, 2021 in Fargo. Houser is white, 4’11” thin build, with brown eyes and brown hair. Anyone with information regarding Houser’s whereabouts can call 701-451-7660. Categories: Local News, North Dakota News Tags:…
FARGO (KVRR) – The North Dakota Attorney General’s Office is looking into last weekend’s Taco & Margarita Festival in Fargo. Many people who attended the event say it failed to live up to its expectations. After paying for parking and admission, customers say they stood in long lines to buy food from a just two vendors. The festival indicated that at…
FARGO (KVRR) – A Barnesville, Minn. woman was arrested at a Fargo cemetery after witnesses say she drove over several graves and nearly hit two people during a funeral. Police were called Saturday to Riverside Cemetery at 2102 5th St. S. Twenty-eight-year-old Blair Rebecca Whitten was arrested for aggravated reckless endangerment. “Multiple complainants reported Whitten was driving her vehicle, inside…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Munitions were set to be detonated as attorneys attempt to gather evidence in a federal lawsuit by a Dakota Access pipeline protester who claims she was injured in a skirmish with law enforcement officers. Sophia Wilansky claims police targeted her with a concussion grenade in November 2016. Law enforcement maintains she was injured by a propane canister that…
CARPIO, N.D. – A small northwestern North Dakota town was evacuated Friday as fire crews battled a grass fire threatening the town. Carpio, a town of about 150 people, was evacuated as a precaution. Ward County emergency manager Jen Wiechmann said no buildings in the town had burned as of mid-afternoon. Three fire departments were at the scene, with the…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has sued the U.S. Department of Interior for denying the state’s application to shoot fireworks over Mount Rushmore on Independence Day. The Republican governor successfully pushed last year for a return of fireworks after a decade-long hiatus. The state’s application to hold fireworks this year was denied by the National Park…
Daunte WrightMINNEAPOLIS – As activists in Minnesota press for murder charges against the police officer who shot Daunte Wright, the prosecutor is sticking by the manslaughter charge he filed. Wright died April 11 when the 20-year-old motorist was shot during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. The city’s police chief said he believed Kim Potter mixed up her gun…
BISMARCK, N.D. – The 2021 North Dakota Legislature has reached the end of a session marked by a record-high state budget, the first-ever expulsion of a lawmaker and pandemic protocols that greatly dampened public participation at the state Capitol. The Legislature adjourned early Friday morning. It met for 76 days and just short of the 80-day maximum set by the…
