GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – A Grand Forks man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly strangling a co-worker twice, once with an extension cord. Court records show Alexander Thompson, 27, got into a fight with a co-worker while at work Monday. During the fight, Thompson choked his co-worker with his hands until other co-workers separated the two. After…
GRIGGS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Two people face charges after a rollover crash in Griggs County, one mile south of Hannaford, North Dakota. Highway Patrol says 44-year-old Jesse Pierce of Napoleon drove off of Highway 1 around 1 a.m. The pickup overturned and landed on the passenger side. Pierce and his passenger, 54-year-old Tasha Courtade of Napoleon, were taken to…
State Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) Woodbury, Minn.DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — State Senator Nicole Mitchell of Woodbury, Minnesota has been charged with burglary for breaking into her stepmother’s house in Detroit Lakes and made her first appearance. She was released without bail on terms of having no contact with her stepmother and obeying a restraining order. Mitchell told police she…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A former Fargo Public Schools teacher and athletic trainer contracted through Sanford Health has been sentenced to three years in prison for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy last summer. Levi Tande changed his plea to guilty during a hearing in January. The judge also gave him 5 years of supervised probation and he must…
State Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) Woodbury, Minn.MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A state senator and former broadcast meteorologist was arrested on suspicion of burglary early Monday in the northwestern Minnesota city of Detroit Lakes, police said. Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell, 49, of Woodbury, was being held in the Becker County Jail on suspicion of first-degree burglary. Formal charges were still pending Monday…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – Rick Becker is pausing campaign activities due to a family emergency. Becker told KFGO that his son was riding an electric skateboard when he crashed, and sustained a skull fracture and a brain bleed. He’s hopeful that his son keeps improving and can be discharged from the hospital in the next few days. Becker will resume…
PHOTO/BEN COHEN FARGO, N.D. (NDSU ATHLETICS)– Garret Hill smashed a walk-off home run in the ninth inning of game two to help lift the North Dakota State baseball team to a 7-6 win and a doubleheader split with Oral Roberts on Saturday afternoon at Newman Outdoor Field. The Bison (11-22, 8-6 Summit) dropped the opening game of the doubleheader, 10-3,…
PHOTO/RUSSEL HONS GRAND FORKS, N.D. (UND ATHLETICS)– The North Dakota softball team got back into its Summit League schedule Saturday, taking on North Dakota State in twinbill. In game one, NoDak came back from a 4-1 deficit to win 5-4 and in the second game Makaela Carr kept the Bison off the scoreboard and Cassie Castaneda got the game winning…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Edwards scored 18 of his 33 points in the third quarter and had nine rebounds to carry the Minnesota Timberwolves in a tone-setting 120-95 victory over the Phoenix Suns to start the first round of the NBA playoffs on Saturday. Karl-Anthony Towns added 19 points, Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 18 points on 7-for-12 shooting and Rudy Gobert…
FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – A Fargo man has been convicted of illegally having a machine gun and an unregistered silencer. Patrick Opdahl, 24, was found guilty after a three-day trial in US District Court in Fargo. The US Attorney’s Office says law enforcement was called to the home of Opdahl’s parents last February. They were told that he pulled a gun…
