Author: Jim Monk

Police investigating homicide in Minot

MINOT, N.D. – Police say they’re investigating a homicide that happened in Minot early Friday. Officers responded to an address on the city’s northwest side shortly before 1 a.m. on a report of an unresponsive, bleeding man on the ground in front of a residence. Police found a 22-year-old man with an apparent gunshot wound. He was dead at the…

9-year-old dies in accidental shooting in Minnesota

LYND, Minn. – Authorities say a 9-year-old girl has died after she was accidentally shot at a home in southwestern Minnesota. According to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, the shooting happened Monday afternoon at a residence near Lynd, a town southwest of Marshal. The girl was taken by air to a hospital and died Tuesday. She has not been identified….

Update: Driver of vehicle in slough near Hawley identified

HAWLEY, Minn. (KVRR) – The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a slough near Hawley was a Detroit Lakes man. Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says the driver was 27-year-old Tyler McCloskey. Just after 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, Hawley Police received information of something suspicious floating in a slough in the 1800 block of 225th St. N. Empting says investigators…

Food Network star to open restaurant in East Grand Forks

Molly Yeh (Food Network)EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR) – Food Network personality Molly Yeh is opening a restaurant in East Grand Forks. Mayor Steve Gander says Yeh and her husband, Nick Hagen, plan to open an eatery in the former Whitey’s and Sickie’s location. Yeh has appeared on several Food Network shows. She is perhaps best known as the host…

Heitkamp PAC launches campaign to block Biden FCC nominee

Gigi Sohn FARGO (KVRR) – A political action committee led by former Democratic U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has started a campaign to block the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission. Heitkamp, who founded the One Country Project, says FCC nominee Gigi Sohn is “the wrong pick for rural America.” “Given the significant progress that has been…

Burgum monitoring ‘situation’ involving state senator’s texts with inmate

Ray HolmbergBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – Gov. Doug Burgum says he supports State Sen. Ray Holmberg’s decision to step down from his leadership role, just days after reports that said Holmberg exchanged scores of text messages with Nicholas Derosier, who is jailed and facing federal child pornography charges. Holmberg resigned Wednesday as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature’s…

Person fatally shot by police in Chisholm, Minnesota

CHISHOLM, Minn. – Authorities say a person was fatally shot early Wednesday during an encounter with law enforcement officers in northeastern Minnesota. The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office says the person who died in Chisholm was wanted for a recent felony committed in Morrison County. Authorities say that about 4:30 a.m., sheriff’s deputies, state troopers and officers from Hibbing, Chisholm…

Update: Grand Forks senator accused of sexual assault quits panel leadership

Ray HolmbergFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg has resigned as head of a panel that oversees the Legislature’s business between sessions. The resignation comes just days after reports surfaced that Holmberg had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. The chairman of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL called on Holmberg to resign….

UPDATE: Fergus Falls woman killed in crash near Breckenridge identified

BRECEKNRIDGE, Minn. (KVRR) — The state patrol identifies the woman who died in a crash between an SUV and semi Wednesday morning as 72-year-old Judith Johnson of Fergus Falls. They say Johnson spun out in front of the semi on Highway 210 near Breckenridge and was hit. The road was snow and ice-covered at the time.   **ORIGINAL STORY BELOW**…