GRAND FORKS N.D. (KVRR-KNOX) – One person is dead after the crash of a crop spraying plane in Grand Forks County on Tuesday. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the plane went down in a farm field southeast of Ardoch near the Grand Forks-Walsh County line. The pilot was identified as 33-year-old Tylor Johnson, of Grand Forks. The call for…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A group of Minnesota voters filed a legal challenge Tuesday to try to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot next year. The petition, filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court, argues that Trump is disqualified from public office under the rarely used “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment to the…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) –The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating after a Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy discovered that his patrol vehicle had been damaged overnight by an incendiary device. The department says early Tuesday morning, the deputy was leaving his north Fargo home to start a shift and noticed his patrol vehicle had been damaged at…
STILLWATER, Minn. – State officials have ordered additional tests on drinking water at a Minnesota prison after concerns about the water’s quality and other issues were raised when dozens of inmates refused to return to their cells during a heat wave earlier this month. The “additional and more comprehensive water testing” has been ordered at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater “to…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Police say a male juvenile has been detained in connection with a rash of more than 20 vehicle break-ins. Police served a search warrant at a West Fargo residence Tuesday. The juvenile is facing charges including unlawful entry to a motor vehicle and criminal mischief. Because he is a juvenile, the boy’s name and age…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Troopers with the North Dakota Highway Patrol were busy during rush hour Tuesday morning, responding to five crashes over the course of about an hour on a four-mile stretch of east and westbound I-94. First responders were called to the scene of a rollover crash in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 just west of the I-29…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Fargo Police personnel spent about an hour Monday morning collecting items on the boulevard along 25th Street South where the July 14 shooting took place and had become a makeshift memorial to fallen Officer Jake Wallin. Officers and staff packed up the handcrafted memorabilia, law enforcement patches, flowers, signs, and hundreds of flags well-wishers and mourners have…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The West Fargo Police Department’s first K-9 officer has died. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of K-9 Disco,” Police announced Friday. “Disco took one final ride with his partner, and best friend, Assistant Chief Pete Nielsen. The two visited their favorite places, reminisced on their over 1,000 deployments together,…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Former North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer has heard the phrase “Lock It or Lose It,” but he’s now learned the hard way that leaving the key in your car isn’t a good idea. While guest hosting “News and Views” on KFGO Friday, Schafer learned that his SUV had been stolen from KFGO’s parking lot. “I was on-air…
FARGO (KVRR) – As Gov. Doug Burgum makes his entrance on the national stage for Wednesday’s GOP primary debate, Sen. Kevin Cramer says Burgum should continue highlighting energy and the economy as cornerstones of his campaign. Cramer says so far, Burgum has been “doing the right thing” by establishing himself as a business expert and someone who understands the economy,…
