U.S. Attorney Mac SchneiderFARGO (KFGO) – North Dakota U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider is preparing to return to his private law practice in Fargo. With the second Trump administration, Schneider, a Democrat, says he expects to be replaced by a Republican-appointee. Schneider was appointed by President Biden in the fall of 2022. “When I came in, there wasn’t a need for…
CASS COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — An investigation continues into why a semi trailer caught fire Sunday morning on I-94 west of Casselton. Tom Roach with Casselton Fire Department says it happened just before 10:30 a.m. Crews were at the scene for several hours putting out smoldering contents of the trailer. Highway Patrol, Cass County Sheriff’s Office, and Department of Transportation…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO-UPDATE 1:10 PM) — North Dakota Highway Patrol says a 36-year-old woman who was hit while crossing the street near Walmart on 52nd Avenue South in Fargo this morning has died. It happened around 6:30 a.m. The man accused of driving the car that hit her, 23-year-old Alex Cruz of Fargo, was located and arrested for leaving the…
Justin Jefferson #18 of the Minnesota Vikings celebrates after his touchdown reception against the Seattle Seahawks with Aaron Jones #33 at Lumen Field on December 22, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. ((Photo by Christopher Mast/Getty Images)) MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – It felt like playoff football between the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks on Sunday at Lumen Field. The Vikings are chasing the No….
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A federal judge is criticizing President Joe Biden’s decision to set free more than a dozen North Dakota defendants, including two men sentenced to prison for high-profile fraud cases. Biden last week commuted the sentences of 1,499 criminals including Hunter Hanson and David McMaster, convicted in separate North Dakota fraud cases, and 12 drug…
PHOTO/KERRY RING GRAND FORKS, N.D. (UND ATHLETICS) – With a mid-December winter storm closing in, it sure felt like March inside the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center on Wednesday night and a packed house of over 3,000 will remember the evening for a lifetime. Junior guard Treysen Eaglestaff orchestrated a career-night scoring 40 points to reach 1,000 for his career and…
The Maah Daah Hey Trailhead at Rough Rider State Park at Medora. There is a proposal to designate 11 areas along the trail as a national monument. (Amy Dalrymple/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — In his last week as governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum lamented a “surprise national monument” by the Biden administration that he said could…
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline gather Nov. 1, 2023, in Bismarck ahead of a public meeting on an environmental impact statement. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposes the pipeline, citing concerns for its water supply and sovereign rights. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)WASHINGTON, D.C. (North Dakota Monitor) — A federal judge this week allowed 13 more Republican-led states…
David CorneliusenROSEAU, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A 65-year-old Warroad man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife. David Corneliusen shot 65-year-old Mary Corneliusen in their home near Warroad on August 23, 2023. She was shot with a handgun during an argument. Corneliusen entered a Norgaard…
Kevin Wright (Cass County Jail)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A Fargo man is facing felony charges after allegedly fighting with officers who were trespassing him from the downtown Fargo library. Court documents say a librarian called police because Kevin Wright, 35, had urinated in the elevator. Officers told Wright he was being trespassed, but he would not leave. He was told he…
