COLFAX, ND — The Richland #44 Public School District has hired former Valley City Superintendent Dean Koppleman. The school board in a unanimous vote approved the hiring of Koppelman as Interim Superintendent for the 2018-2019 school year. Koppelman will start his duties on May 1 as a substitute administrator and receive a contract for the 2018-2019 school year. He retired…
Jeremy Gorden, Transportation Division Engineer with the City of Fargo, tells us about this year’s 13th Avenue Reconstruction Project. Work started at 5 a.m. Thursday, April 26th between 45th Street S. in Fargo and 12th Street E in West Fargo. Crews will spend the first two or three weeks working in the center of the roadway. That means the…
Hunter, N.D. (KFGO) – Firefighters from several towns are working on containing a fire at a bar in Hunter, N.D. The fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. Thursday. Resident Tim Murch says he awoke to an unusal noise and he went to investigate when he saw the smoke. After calling authorities, he then ran to a nearby apartment building and…
FARGO, ND – There will also be plenty of orange on major Fargo roads starting in May. The University Drive I–94 interchange will be straightened out and turn lanes will be lengthened. While work is being done on eastbound 18th Avenue to 21st Avenue South, the road will go down to two lanes in each direction. There will also be…
FARGO, ND – Attorney General Jeff Sessions is coming to Fargo on Friday. Details regarding what Sessions plans to talk about are not being released. The Justice Department says Sessions will make a “law enforcement related” announcement and deliver remarks on the opioid crisis. Sessions said in a trip to North Carolina last week that the federal government will continue to…
GRAFTON N.D. (KFGO) – A several hour stand-off in Grafton Tuesday evening. Police responded around 5:30 p.m. to a mobile home on Stewart Drive on the city’s east side on a report of a domestic incident involving a gun. There, a man was reportedly holding several people hostage and had threatened to kill them and police. The regional SWAT team and…
A Manvel teen has been arrested for Minor In Consumption and cited for distracted driving after a crash near Grand Forks Tuesday afternoon. Troopers say a pickup driven by 19-year-old Matthew Voll rear-ended another pickup while heading South on Hwy. 101. The driver of the second pickup has been taken to Altru Hospital. Authorities say that driver’s identity is confidential…
WEST FARGO, ND — A West Fargo man is facing manslaughter and child abuse charges in connection with the death of his 8 month-old child. Spencer Warren Foner, 27, was in Cass County Court this morning and charged with one count of manslaughter, victim is a child and one count of child neglect, parental care. Both are felonies. The charges…
HOUSTON – Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized with a blood infection the day after attending his wife Barbara’s funeral. A family spokesperson says Bush is “responding to treatments and appears to be recovering” at a Houston hospital after being admitted Sunday. Former First Lady Barbara Bush was laid to rest Saturday at a ceremony attended by former…
The body of a missing Lengby, MN man has been found. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says Benjamin Widseth’s body has been found at an undisclosed location. He was last seen around three o’clock Sunday morning at a house North of Lengby. Authorities say a shotgun was missing from that home. Widseth’s body has been taken to the University of…
