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…
Allan Peterson, left, of the North Dakota Association of the Blind, listens to Carol Sawicki of the North Dakota League of Women Voters on Oct. 12, 2024, in Fargo. Sawicki was providing information about voting in the general election for people with visual impairments. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Erin Hemme Froslie – North Dakota Monitor) Trevor Vannett likes the…
Dr. Dennis Lutz, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Dakota Medical School, shares updates about the school’s maternal mortality program. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) A state-funded group that researches maternal mortality wants the Legislature to increase its funding five-fold to $240,000 for the 2025-2027 budget cycle. North Dakota’s 26-member…
