Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, welcomes South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun, left, to the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving to the Kursk region near Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous…
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The woman who died in an apartment fire in Valley City last week has been identified as 63-year-old Lisa Hough Valley City Police and Fire responded to the fire just after 12:30 a.m. last Wednesday. Two people jumped out of windows to escape the fire and seven others were rescued by firefighters. The building was…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — A GoFundMe has been started to raise money to help pay for the funeral of a Grand Forks murder victim. Lori Garcia is the sister of Anthony Kiehl and is raising money for the funeral and to help family in Texas travel to Grand Forks. She writes, “This is a tragedy and I am so…
LAKE PARK, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A scam that the Cass County Sheriff’s Office had warned about last March has cost a Lake Park resident $400. Police Chief Brady Burnside says the victim was kept on the phone for more than 90 minutes while she transferred the money from her bank account using “cash in” at Walmart in Dilworth. Burnside says…
File imageFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – After some heated debate, the Fargo City Commission voted 3-2 to direct city staff to prepare a winter warming plan. The approved motion, brought forward by Commissioner John Strand, gives city staff approval to run a program to keep the homeless population warm during the winter months. Last winter, the program warmed 40-50 people a night….
Entrance sign at the gate of the Missouri River Correctional Center in Bismarck on June 6, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will begin using a waitlist to decide who to admit to prison first after running out of beds for male inmates. North Dakota’s prison…
(photo: Cass County jail)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A Perham, Minnesota man is charged with felony terrorizing after being accused of holding a woman against her will and threatening to kill her at a Fargo hotel. Court records say police responded to the hotel last week where the woman told them Jamie Frazee took her phone, keys, purse, and SUV, and left…
MINOT, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Minot police have identified 39-year-old Michael Bryant of Washburn, North Dakota as the man who died in an officer-involved shooting during a domestic disturbance. The officers involved remain on administrative leave pending the investigation’s results. The BCI will release the officers’ identities and the body cam footage later. Friday morning, Minot Central Dispatch received a call…
Donald Bartlette and Nicholas Wride-ArnoldGRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A homeless man is charged with murder in the death of Anthony Kiehl in his Grand Forks apartment last Thursday night. 45-year-old Donald Bartlette told another man living in the apartment building that Kiehl came at him with a knife and he had to beat him up. An affidavit of probable…
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – A woman from Itasca County is accused of trying to vote for her dead mother in this year’s election. According to prosecutors, 40-year-old Danielle Miller of rural Nashwauk is charged with three felonies. The Itasca County Auditor’s Office says it received signed ballots from Miller and her mother, Rose Javorina, on Oct. 7, but Javorina died…
