JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) – A Jamestown professor who’s running for North Dakota’s Democratic U.S. Senate seat announced on social media that she and her family were involved in a crash over the weekend in South Dakota. Katrina Christiansen says the crash happened Saturday near Plankinton. “My family was in a car crash as another car was attempting to pass a…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KNOX) – A jury has found a Grand Forks man guilty of murder and tampering with evidence. Forty-year-old Kindi Jalloh was charged in the May 2022 death of 67-year-old Douglas Elgert. Police classified the death as a homicide one day after Elgert’s body was found in his north Grand Forks residence. Trial began Nov. 13th. The case…
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider the appeal of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The justices did not comment in leaving in place state court rulings affirming Chauvin’s conviction and 22 1/2-year sentence. Chauvin’s lawyers argued that their client was denied a fair trial in…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – The driver of a car stolen from a south Moorhead convenience store managed to get away on three tires after stop sticks were used on I-94. Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says the car was taken from Holiday station on 34th St. at around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. Empting says a commercial vehicle inspector at the MnDOT…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – The results of a survey of likely voters by the North Dakota News Cooperative on a variety of candidates and issues show that the state’s voters are sharply divided on the state’s new abortion ban. Respondents were asked to weigh in on the new state law that bans abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy, even…
MANTADOR, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A 14-year-old girl is hospitalized in Fargo after the horse she was riding ran into a train southeast of Mantador, North Dakota. Richland County Sheriff Gary Ruhl says the girl was flown to Sanford Medical Center with critical injuries. Ruhl says it happened shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday at a rail crossing. He says the horse…
FARGO (KVRR) – A St. Michael, North Dakota man has been found guilty of second-degree murder and arson in connection with the death of a teenage boy. U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider says in January, 2021, 36-year-old Cody James Belgarde shot and killed the teen, who was two weeks past his seventeenth birthday. Belgarde then set fire to the house where…
Garage fire 11/7/2023FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Fire damaged several garages at an apartment complex Tuesday. Firefighters responded to 901 42nd St. Fargo police say there has been a series of late-night garage arson fires along 42nd Street since late June. Police have not yet indicated if the latest fire is arson. Heavy smoke was coming from the garages. Fire crews were…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A Fargo man is accused of the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl at a home in Barnesville. Police interviewed the victim in early October and she told them 32-year-old Jesse Meier had touched her inappropriately in January. She said he touched her breasts and private area. She told investigators that when Meier stopped he told…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A district judge has ruled that a woman who sued the West Fargo VFW and a man she accused of rape must collect any judgment from the club’s insurance provider. The woman was drinking with Bruce McCartney in Aug. of 2019. The woman said she didn’t know McCartney, who lived in an apartment above the club. Because…
