MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – An Eagan, Minn. couple says their 9-year-old son was bitten by a shark as he body surfed in Miami Beach. Kristine Weiskopf says she and her son Jay were in the water for only a few minutes when the shark bit the boy. She says she was holding his hand when a shark bit the boy…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Moorhead Police and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are investigating the shooting death of a six-year-old boy. Police say Sunday evening, several unsupervised children located a handgun inside an apartment in the 400 block of Sunrise Circle. The immediate family has been notified, and the remaining juveniles who were present are safe. The gun was…
Scott FaulBISMARCK, N.D. – A federal judge has denied a sentence reduction sought by a man convicted of murder in connection to a shootout that killed two U.S. marshals in North Dakota. Sixty-seven-year-old Scott Faul has been in federal custody since 1983. Faul, along with tax protester Gordon Kahl and Kahl’s son, Yorie, were involved in a shootout near Medina,…
FARGO (KVRR) – As outlined in a mutual agreement reached last year, the city of Fargo and the Fargo Municipal Airport Authority have begun the process of a separating. If the transition plan is approved by the Fargo City Commission, airport employees will no longer be city employees as of December 31, 2021. “Forging a new relationship with the Airport…
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Police continue to search for a Rochester teen accused of shooting his father. The shooting happened Friday about 7:30 p.m. outside an apartment building where the two live. Police say the 41-year-old father was arguing with his 18-year-old son about finances. The confrontation turned violent when the two went out into the parking lot. The son fired…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin continues. Categories: Crime, Local News, Minnesota News
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – A suspect wanted in a shooting outside a downtown Fargo bar a month ago has been arrested. Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Monday, the Red River Valley Swat Team conducted a high-risk search warrant at the Hotel deLuxe at 1407 35th Street South in Fargo and arrested 43-year old Brandon Grant. Grant had been on the run…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota Department of Health says COVID-19 vaccines will be available to the general public on Monday, March 29. As of Friday, March 19, nearly 195,000 North Dakotans had received at least one dose of the vaccine, with 115,524 (16%) being fully vaccinated. “North Dakota continues to be a national leader in vaccine administration, thanks…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – The FBI arrested a Moorhead man on charges related to the occupation at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Thirty-one-year-old Jordan Stotts turned himself in to authorities Friday in northern Minnesota. Stotts is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. Stotts made his first court appearance Friday afternoon in…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Drought conditions are getting worse in western North Dakota. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map shows much of northwestern North Dakota, or about 17% of the state, is in extreme drought. It’s the first time this year any part of the state has been classified in that category. The rest of the western two-thirds of the state…
