FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – Court documents are providing more information about a downtown Fargo assault that left one man with serious injuries to his head and face. Travice Ledoux, 36, was arrested Friday, and is charged with aggravated assault and accomplice to aggravated assault. According to court records, Ledoux – known in those documents as suspect #4 – was one of…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Contract negotiations are described by a union leader as “intense” as the union representing production workers at the CNH Manufacturing Plant in Fargo continue. The contract, covering about 800 hourly employees, expires on Sunday. A union representative says Local 2525 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is seeking higher pay, and health care…
FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – Someone spray painted the mural on the south wall of Bernie’s Wines & Liquors on South University Drive over the weekend. General Manager John Langdahl says it happened Saturday night or Sunday morning. “Staff came in Sunday morning to open the store like it was any other day and within the first half-hour, we had multiple customers…
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,…
