ST. MICHAEL, Minn. (KMSP) — St. Michael, Minnesota is rallying around Fallen officer Jake Wallin’s family. Many are turning their porch lights blue in honor of the officer, just a small gesture people there are making to honor the fallen hero. Flags lowered to half staff at St. Michael Albertville High School just beyond the field where slain Fargo Police…
EAGAN, Minn. (FOX 9) — Officer Tyler Hawes is one of the two Fargo officers in the hospital. Hawes is from Eagan, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities. “Putting himself before everyone else is just really who Ty’s always been,” Steve Butler spent two years coaching Ty Hawes in Eagan varsity baseball. Hawes was the starting catcher his senior year in…
Minnesota State CapitolST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Human Services plans to delete emails more than a year old starting next month unless its employees decide the messages contain official government records. The change raises concern among advocates for government transparency and public records who worry it could dramatically limit the public’s understanding of the inner workings…
FRONTIER, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A mail carrier is robbed at gunpoint in Frontier in the south end of Fargo. Cass County deputies were called out just after 11 o’clock this morning. The suspect is a black male, about six feet tall with a slender build. A witness told authorities the suspect was driving a gray or dark passenger vehicle. He…
PERHAM, Minn. (KVRR) — A standoff on Big Pine Lake near Perham, Minnesota is over with a woman dead and a man in custody. Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office says names are being withheld as the investigation is ongoing. Numerous crews responded to the home east of Perham around 10:30 Monday morning after the sheriff’s office got a call that…
FARGO, N.D. (AP/KVRR) — Many questions remained Sunday about what led a gunman in Fargo, North Dakota, to open fire on police officers as they were responding to a traffic crash. One officer was killed and two others were critically wounded before the gunman was killed by a fourth officer. The shooting happened Friday afternoon along a busy street, and roughly nine hours…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — After a long and harsh winter, the arrival of summer was quick to hit the region. Well above average temperatures were seen during the month of June and even some records were shattered. “The average temperature, that is the difference between the highs and the lows, that was 74.8 and that was eight degrees above normal…
BARNES CO., N.D. (KVRR) — An 88-year-old man from Hope, North Dakota is dead after the vehicle he was a passenger in rolled in Barnes County. The crash happened just before 4 p.m. on a gravel road about two miles west of Pillsbury. Highway patrol says the driver, 84-year-old Marlene Wixon of Hope, was injured after losing control of the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The lieutenant for a Mexican Drug Cartel pleads guilty in Fargo to leading a major drug trafficking enterprise. 45-year-old Juan Sillas-Rocha of Tijuana also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in furtherance of the enterprise. He was indicted by a North Dakota grand jury way back in 2011. In September of last year after 11…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Fargo police arrest 19-year-old Chad Wollery for a shooting incident near Essentia Health and Ed Clapp Elementary School last week. Wollery was arrested in the 5000 block of 28th Avenue South. Police were called to an area near Essentia last Thursday night on a report of shots fired, but those involved had fled by the time…
