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…
FARGO (KVRR) – Rocker Rick Springfield will perform in Fargo next spring during a benefit to raise funds for aortic disease awareness. “Rock from the Heart” is holding a two-day event that includes a patient education and awareness symposium on May 3, followed by a preshow party and benefit concert on Saturday, May 4 at the Avalon Events Center. The…
Ray HolmbergFARGO (KVRR) – Court documents say federal prosecutors intend to call a forensic computer expert with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation during the trial of former state Sen. Ray Holmberg. Holmberg is accused of repeatedly traveling to Prague in the Czech Republic between 2011 and 2016 for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts with a…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal investigators say they found no evidence of a mechanical failure before a North Dakota state senator’s plane crashed in Utah last month, killing him, his wife and their two young children, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board. Doug and Amy Larsen and their two sons, 11-year-old Christian and…
Ray HolmbergFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Records obtained by KFGO News from the North Dakota School Boards Association (NDSBA) show that Ray Holmberg, the former State Senator indicted last week on federal charges of child sex tourism and child pornography, traveled to Europe multiple times as part of a program funded by appropriations from the state legislature. Holmberg is accused of repeatedly…
Ray HolmbergFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Former State Senator Ray Holmberg of Grand Forks has entered a not guilty plea to two federal child porn charges: child sex tourism and receipt of child porn. An initial trial date has been scheduled for December 5, 2023 in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota in Fargo. Holmberg was released and…
GRANDIN, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Fire damaged a dryer system at the CHS Sunflower plant in Grandin, North Dakota. Grandin-Gardner Assistant Fire Chief Jamie Winterquist says the fire was reported at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday. Fire departments from Hillsboro, Argusville, and Hunter assisted in putting the fire out. Winterquist says a damage estimate and the cause have not been determined. He…
FARGO (KWAT-KVRR) – A federal judge in South Dakota has sentenced a Fargo man to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to abusive sexual contact. Thirty-two-year-old Bryant Elliot DeCoteau was indicted for sexual abuse by a federal grand jury in December of 2022. He pleaded guilty in July. According to court documents, in January of 2018, and continuing through…
