Author: Jim Monk

Jelly Roll, Eric Church, Trace Adkins to perform at 2024 WE Fest

(DETROIT LAKES, Minn.) – WE Fest, the largest and longest-running country music & camping festival in the nation, has announced its 2024 lineup. Jelly Roll, Parker McCollum and Eric Church will each headline a night, August 1, 2 and 3. The full lineup includes Koe Wetzel, Carly Pearce, Elle King, Trace Adkins, Warren Zeiders, Paul Cauthen, Lonestar, The Bellamy Brothers,…

WATCH: The Lashkowitz High Rise implosion

FARGO (KVRR) – Fargo’s Lashkowitz High Rise Apartment Building, a part of the city’s skyline for five decades, was successfully imploded Saturday morning. It took about 500 pounds of explosives and just a few seconds to turn the building into a large pile of rubble. The shock wave from the blast rattled windows and could be heard for miles. It…

White Earth, Minnesota man sentenced to 50 years for kidnapping in South Dakota

Ryan DegroatPIERRE, S.D. (KVRR) – A White Earth, Minnesota man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty, but mentally ill to First Degree Kidnapping. Ryan Degroat was arrested in March, 2022 for entering a home in Hecla, South Dakota, where he assaulted one person and then forced that person to drive them both out of town….

Petition filed to block Trump from Minnesota’s 2024 ballot

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…

Feds investigating suspicious damage to Cass County deputy’s squad car

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…

Drinking water testing ordered at Stillwater, Minnesota prison

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…