BISMARCK, N.D. – A spring survey by state game officials shows the mule deer population in North Dakota is 13% higher than last year and 34% above the long-term average. The Game and Fish Department has conducted the aerial survey each year since the 1950s. Game management officials say the relatively mild winter helped balance the effects of devastating drought…
In addition to blaming the mayor, police chief, sheriff, candidate for sheriff and the court system, a local hotel bans all Native Americans for a shooting a few days ago on hotel property. Neither the shooting or Grand Gateway’s response to it reflect our community values. pic.twitter.com/vA9oXND0qi — Steve Allender (@Mayor_Allender) March 21, 2022 RAPID CITY, S.D. – The…
FARGO (KVRR) – The FBI has arrested an NDSU graduate student for allegedly issuing threats against employees at the university. Thirty-eight-year-old Thomas Sayward appeared in federal court Friday. He’s charged with Interstate Threatening Communications. Court documents say on June 1, NDSU Police informed the FBI that Sayward “submitted threatening language” to the university in response to a survey sent to…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR-KDLM) – Firefighters from Detroit Lakes, Audubon and Frazee battled a fire at Country Fields Greenhouse along Richwood Road in Detroit Lakes, Friday. The fire was reported just after 10 a.m. in the entryway of the home on the property and spread to the roofline of the home and attached garage. Flames could be seen coming from…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A Browns Valley, Minnesota man who dealt drugs out of a motorhome has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. A federal indictment accuses 62-year-old Frank Stewart of participating in a drug ring that distributed massive amounts of methamphetamine in South Dakota and elsewhere. Stewart pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance….
WAUKESHA, Wis. – A jury has convicted a Fargo man of shooting two Wisconsin police officers. Twenty-five-year-old Nathanael Benton was found guilty Thursday of first-degree attempted homicide, reckless endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm after a three-day trial. Benton testified during the trial that he had shot someone in Fargo a week earlier, fled to Indiana…
Eric ReinboldTHIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) An Oklee, Minnesota man accused of murder now faces additional charges for attempted escape from custody. 45-year-old Eric Reinbold will make his first appearance on the latest charge Friday in Pennington County District Court. According to documents, Reinbold is accused of threatening a correctional facility employee with a white colored pencil and pushing her…
FARGO (KVRR) – The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a tax preparer from Houston, Texas in connection with allegedly filing fraudulent tax returns for clients in at least 15 states, most of them in North Dakota. A newly unsealed search warrant affidavit in U.S. District Court in Fargo identifies the man as Casper Akoto. The affidavit says Akoto is under…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A driver is in custody after leading authorities on a pursuit on I-94 east of Barnesville Wednesday morning. Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting said a deputy was attempting to pull the driver over for speeding shortly before 11 a.m. The driver refused to stop and continued eastbound on I-94 before exiting onto Highway 108. He turned…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – In the words of Clay County Attorney Brian Melton, “it’s good to be alive.” Melton, who underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 2018, learned earlier this year that some cancer had returned. Doctors recommended several sessions of additional radiation treatments. Melton says after completing those treatments, he’s now considered cancer-free. Melton says he had no symptoms…
