(Minnesota Timberwolves)MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (Minnesota Timberwolves/KVRR) – The NBA today announced Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has been named the 2023-24 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year. This is Gobert’s fourth career NBA Defensive Player of the Year honor (2023-24, 2020-21, 2018-19 and 2017-18), becoming the third player in NBA history to win the award four times, joining Dikembe Mutombo…
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims. The organization steeped in tradition has made seismic changes after decades of turmoil,…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Democrats have introduced far-reaching legislation to add abortion and LGBTQ rights to the state’s constitution in hopes of making it much harder for future lawmakers to repeal these and other rights in the future. The Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment was introduced last week and has its first legislative hearing Monday. It would be among…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR 6:15 PM UPDATE) — Fargo Police arrest 38-year-old Nosakhere Holmes of Fargo for terrorizing after being called to Northern Plains Steel in north Fargo. The department received a report of a threat around 3:45 this afternoon. Lt. Junell Krabbenhoft says out of abundance of caution due to the information the caller provided, several officers responded. Our reporter…
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…
