Author: KVRR Staff

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WATCH LIVE: Trump to sign executive order on police reform Tuesday at 11 a.m.

KVRR Staff,

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is set to announce executive actions on police reform Tuesday in response to growing calls for action in the wake of George Floyd’s death and other black Americans. Senate Republicans are also preparing a package of policing changes, a sudden shift for the Republican Party, demonstrating how quickly widespread protests over police brutality and racial injustice are transforming national…

Fargo Pd Search Drone 6 16 2020
Local News, North Dakota News

Police find no trace of woman they heard scream for help

KVRR Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (AP)–Police in Fargo searched a heavily wooded area after hearing a woman screaming for help. Authorities say officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in the Riviera Heights mobile home park about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. The driver fled with a female passenger as officers arrived to investigate. Sgt. Jerrod Wagner said that as officers searched for…

Onefargo
Local News, North Dakota News

Groups Announce Another Rally In Fargo On Friday

They want Cass County State’s Attorney Birch Burdick to drop charges of rioting
KVRR Staff,

FARGO, N.D. — Blacks Lives Matter and OneFargo have announced another rally at Island Park as they continue to call for change. Members of the groups say they will continue to march until North Dakota’s attorney general takes over an internal police investigation from Mayor Tim Mahoney and charges are increased to attempted murder against a man who hit a…

Derek Chauvin
Crime, Minnesota News

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Chauvin was in talks to plead guilty before arrest

KVRR Staff,

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9)–Just four days after the death of George Floyd, and the day before former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was arrested, federal and state prosecutors were negotiating a possible plea deal with Chauvin, the FOX 9 Investigators have learned. Sources familiar with the scuttled negotiations say it would have been a “universal deal” that would have included state…

Floyd March
Local News, Minnesota News

Klobuchar Tweet: MN Attorney General announces additional charges in George Floyd death

KVRR Staff,

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is increasing charges against now-fired Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin to second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd and also charging the three other officers involved, according to U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar. “This is another important step for justice.” Klobuchar wrote on Twitter Wednesday. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is leading the prosecution in the…

Autozone Fire
Crime, Minnesota News

Violence again rocks Minneapolis after man’s death; 1 killed

KVRR Staff,

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)–Protests rocked Minneapolis for the second straight night after a man’s death in police custody. One person was killed Wednesday night in what police were investigating as a homicide amidst violence that included looting and setting fires that continued to burn Thursday morning. The protests began outside the police precinct in the part of the city where 46-year-old George…

Minneapolis Police Knee Takedown 2 Bad
Crime, Minnesota News

Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of black man

KVRR Staff,

UPDATE: Four Minneapolis police officers who were involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday. The firings come a day after a bystander’s video showed the man pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck and kept his knee there for several minutes after the man…

Dl Fire 2
Local News, Minnesota News, North Dakota News

2-Year-Old Killed In House Fire Near Detroit Lakes

The father was airlifted to a Fargo hospital for smoke inhalation. The mother and a 5-year-old girl were airlifted to Minneapolis.
KVRR Staff,

UPDATE: The boy who died has been identified as Micah Hedlund.   HOLMESVILLE TOWNSHIP, Minn. — An overnight house fire northeast of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota killed a 2-year-old boy early Sunday morning. According to the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, crews responded to the Holmesville Township home on Duffney Road, approximately 9 miles northeast of Detroit Lakes at about 12:45 a.m….

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