ST. PAUL (KVRR) — Minnesota election officials will be conducting two recounts starting Monday. Contests in House Districts 3A and 3B fell within the limits for a publicly funded recount and candidates have filed for recounts. Election officials will conduct them in those races in Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis counties. The State Canvassing Board met Tuesday to…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The votes have been recounted in the North Dakota District 43 House race and the outcome remains the same. Incumbent Rep. Zachary Ista has defeated fellow Democrat incumbent Mary Adams by just four votes in the Grand Forks district. Before the recount, Ista led by three votes. Republican Eric Murphy was the top vote getter. In…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — CHI Mercy Health Valley City is named the first Acute Cardiac Ready Hospital in North Dakota. The criteria for the designation was developed by a task force of cardiovascular health experts. It was based on nationally recognized guidelines including pre-hospital care, the emergency assessment of STEMI patients and treatment. STEMI is an acronym for the most…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Red Lake man is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a 2020 murder on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. 38-year-old Ralph Cloud Jr. pleaded guilty back in July to killing his cousin, Allen Smith. Court documents say Cloud was concerned about a relationship between his wife and Smith. He walked several miles to Smith’s home…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Mechanical work on a motorcycle leads to a garage fire in West Fargo. The fire department was called out in the noon hour to 500 1st Avenue Northwest. When they arrived, they found heavy black smoke coming from the garage. Crews quickly knocked down and contained the fire. There is heavy smoke damage to the…
Roberts County Sheriff’s Office/FacebookROBERTS CO., S.D. (KVRR) — A Roberts County deputy makes the largest fentanyl seizure in South Dakota history. All of these drugs were confiscated during a traffic stop on Saturday by the deputy and a Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal Police officer. The estimated street value is $2 million. The seizure includes more than 16 pounds of fentanyl and fentanyl…
Sen. Kent Eken and Rep. Paul MarquartMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — This is officially Senator Kent Eken and Representative Paul Marquart Appreciation Day in Moorhead. The city council honoring the retiring longtime DFL legislators. Rep. Marquart was on hand to hear the reading of the Resolution of Appreciation and pick up a plaque. He is completing his 11th term serving District…
BEMIDJI, Minn. (KVRR) — A man is arrested for drunk driving after trying to drive around barricades for the “Night We Light Parade” in Bemidji on Friday night. Police say 26-year-old Fisher Jambor of Bemidji realized he couldn’t go around the barricades and attempted to back away. That is when he almost hit several people and collided with two parked…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Court documents detail an inappropriate and alleged sexual relationship between Fargo South band teacher Sebastian Tackling and a female student. The documents say police were called Saturday for an abuse report involving a teen who claimed that she had a relationship with Tackling during her Junior and Senior years. She told investigators they started having sex…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo South High School band teacher is in the Cass County Jail accused of the corruption of a minor. 43-year-old Sebastian Tackling was arrested and jailed on Saturday according to the jail roster. A Fargo Police Department spokesperson says Tackling was arrested at the police station just after 10 p.m. Saturday. They say this is…
