MAHNOMEN, Minn. (KVRR) — A Mahnomen man is now charged with attempted murder after a stabbing last week. The victim told authorities that Elias Thompson Jr. is the one who stabbed him in the back at a home near Mahnomen. A witness backed up the victim’s account. The victim was flown to a Fargo hospital with a punctured lung. Officers…
WALKER, Minn. (KVRR) — A young boy is dead after falling out of a tree in rural Walker, Minnesota last Thursday afternoon. Deputies and first responders were called to a residence on Midway Circle, Turtle Lake Township and found a 10-year-old boy had fallen. He was taken by ambulance to a nearby landing zone for a medical helicopter while life-saving…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Fire scorches an unattached garage in north Grand Forks. The call came in around three Monday afternoon to the 1100 block of 6th Avenue North. Fire crews arrived to find flames coming from the garage and quickly put the fire out. There is extensive damage to the structure and a small shed next to it…
RICHLAND CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Authorities responded to Dakota Magic Casino and C-Store along the North Dakota-South Dakota border Sunday after an alleged threat was called in, leading to a lockdown. Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal Police Department responded around noon. Richland County Sheriff Larry Leshovsky says his deputies were called in as backup along with the Southern Valley Special Response Team….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on law enforcement to investigate a possible bias motive for vandalism at a Muslim cemetery in Fargo. The incident at the Islamic Society Cemetery was reported to police on Friday. These pictures provided by CAIR show vandalism of the cemetery building and material inside a…
RAMSEY CO., N.D. (KVRR) — An Edmore, North Dakota woman is dead after rolling her vehicle south of Nekoma in Ramsey County. Highway Patrol tells us the one-vehicle crash happened on Highway 1 around 5:30 on Friday night. They say 24-year-old Nicole Landsem hit the ditch, overcorrected and rolled a number of times. Landsem was not wearing a seat belt…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Gov. Doug Burgum is making it clear that North Dakota schools will not make it mandatory to get the COVID-19 vaccine to attend school. At the end of the week, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices added the vaccine to the 2023 childhood and adult immunization schedules. The CDC also made it clear that whether…
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — Pizza Ranch has signed an agreement to develop a new location in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. An opening date was not given in the company’s August franchise news release. It is part of the popular pizza chain’s effort to accelerate growth. They have opened a new location in Gillette, Wyoming and signed other development…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The CDC is pushing back on a claim being made by some conservatives about mandated COVID-19 vaccines for schools. It’s advisory committee on Thursday voted to add COVID-19 vaccines to the recommended immunization schedules for both children and adults. But the CDC says whether schools require the COVID vaccine can only be made at the state…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Red Lake, Minnesota man is sentenced to 9 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a minor. 40-year-old Keith Ehrich pleaded guilty in July to one count of sexual abuse of a minor for an incident on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in October 2020. The case was investigated by the FBI, Red Lake Police…
