GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A woman is dead after an early morning shooting in Grand Forks and a man is in custody. He is 26-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi. Police responded to a 9-1-1 call about a suspicious person in the 1300 block of 8th Avenue North around 1:30 this morning. They say Abdullahi was arguing with a woman inside a house…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Police in Grand Forks respond to a number of drug overdoses Saturday including one fatality. They say several people ingested what they believed to be heroin and began overdosing. Police believe the substances they ingested were a more powerful opiate causing the overdoses. The identity of the person who died is being withheld pending family notification….
OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. — A 38-year-old Dalton, Minnesota man is being held in the Otter Tail County Jail after firing at officers during an hour and 15 minute long standoff southwest of the town. Deputies say Derrick Sundeen rolled his vehicle near County Highway 37 and Bankers Drive early Friday evening. They say when a DNR officer arrived, Sundeen…
FARGO, N.D. — A power outage impacted a large section of Xcel Energy customers in south Fargo. The initial outage included more than 3,000 customers including us here at KVRR. We lost power at 2:10 Thursday afternoon and it came back on just before 5 p.m. Tony Grindberg, the Principal Manager at Xcel Energy, tells KVRR Local News that the…
MAHNOMEN CO., Minn. — A rollover crash near Naytahwaush, Minnesota leaves one juvenile dead and four others with serious injuries. It happened around 8:30 Monday night on County Road 4. Authorities say the driver was turning when the vehicle left the road and rolled. One juvenile was pronounced dead at the scene while another has life-threatening head injuries. Two were…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Police in Fargo arrest a man wanted for a stabbing last week in Moorhead. 38-year-old Victor Garcia, who has no permanent address, is being held in the Cass County Jail. Police say Garcia stabbed a man he knew in the leg in the 300 block of 14th Avenue South around 6 a.m. Friday. The victim had…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — School is back in session in Moorhead and the district begins the year with record enrollment numbers. There are 7,336 kids in grades K through 12. That includes 267 students enrolled in the Moorhead online academy. Enrollment is up 183 students from the first day of school last year. Construction of a new Moorhead High School began…
LISBON, N.D. — A Lisbon woman is flown to Essentia Health in Fargo after being hit while walking along Highway 32 on Thursday evening. North Dakota Highway Patrol says 61-year-old Mary Boos was hit by a pickup driven by 42-year-old Johnathan Qual of Lisbon. They say Qual braked and attempted to swerve away from Boos but hit her near the…
BARNESVILLE, Minn. (KVRR) – The city of Barnesville says residents no longer need to boil water. The boil water advisory was lifted Monday morning. A lightning strike Saturday night caused an outage for the water system. The city says that the the Minnesota Department of Health completed testing water samples and that “everything tested good.” Categories: Local News, Minnesota News…
ROLETTE CO., N.D. — A 21-year-old St. John, North Dakota woman is dead after a utility vehicle crash near Dunseith. Highway Patrol tells us Kimberly Hodell was driving the UTV about 6 miles northwest of town when she lost control Saturday night after 6. She was thrown from the vehicle along with 23-year-old Shaylan Charboneau from Belcourt. Hodell died at…
