WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – Theft and drug use have prompted West Fargo-based Petro Serve-USA to hire private security at three of the company’s Fargo stores. Chief executive officer Kent Satrang says it’s something he never imagined. “I never, ever thought that it would come to this – after being 44 years as a Cenex manager – that we’d have…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KFGO) – Minnesota Twins fans will no longer be able to watch their favorite baseball team on Bally Sports North on Midco in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota.The owner of Bally Sports North is in bankruptcy proceedings and its deal with the cable-streaming service has expired. In a statement to KFGO News, Midco said “We are…
BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – Gov. Doug Burgum bashed the idea of electric vehicles in North Dakota as the state Industrial Commission passed, at least for now, on funding a regional plan for EVs. “We know that electric vehicles and cold temperatures just don’t mix,” said Burgum, one of three members of the commission. The commission was asked to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Fargo man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder in 2013 is headed back to prison. A judge sentenced 33-year-old Damon White Bird to twenty years for having sex with a 14-year-old girl in a Fargo park nearly two years ago. White Bird worked with the girl at a Fargo restaurant….
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO 8:30 PM UPDATE) – One man is in jail after a homicide in Bismarck. Timothy TwoHorses, 32, of Bismarck, was arrested just before noon Wednesday. Bismarck Police say they found 57-year-old Ernest Ells dead in his Bismarck home with a stab wound in his chest Tuesday morning. TwoHorses was arrested in a motel in north Bismarck for…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – The Grand Forks School Board voted 5-4 on Monday to not renew the contract for Joshua Mailhot, the principal for Ben Franklin Elementary. Superintendent Terry Brenner laid out reasons for recommendation to the board, which included Mailhot’s inability to follow directives, inability to provide a clear vision and model of instruction and the inability to…
ST. PAUL (KVRR/CNN) — Sen. Nicole Mitchell is spotted returning to work at the Capitol after she was arrested and charged with burglary last week in Detroit Lakes. The Democrat from Woodbury, a Twin Cities suburb, is accused of breaking into her stepmother’s home to retrieve some of her late father’s belongings including his ashes. Mitchell claims she was simply…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The union representing workers at Case-New Holland manufacturing plant in Fargo has overwhelmingly rejected the company’s latest contract offer. Nearly 700 members of IAM Local 2525 turned down the offer. The current contract has been extended until Friday. Union business agent Jeremy Pearson says negotiators are seeking better pay, improved healthcare coverage and job security. “The…
CLEARBROOK, Minn. (KFGO) — The pilot of a small plane was flown to a Fargo hospital after crashing early this morning in Clearbrook, northwest of Bemidji. Clearbrook-Gonvick Police Chief Ryan Solee says it happened at about 1:40 a.m. The pilot was outside the plane when first responders arrived. Solee says the initial investigation shows that the plane experienced mechanical failure….
