Video Courtesy of NDDOT WEST FARGO, ND — A West Fargo family killed by a drunk driver is being honored by law enforcement statewide. The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign honors the Deutscher family. It has been five years since Aaron and Allison, their daughter Brielle and the couple’s unborn child, were killed in a head-on crash with…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A St. Cloud man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a hatchet attack on a black man. Fifty-one-year-old Daniel Volkers was sentenced after pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon motivated by bias. Other charges were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Volkers threatened the black man in a car in…
BISMARCK, ND — Three more people charged in a Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate embezzlement case have been sentenced in federal court. Colette White was given three years of probation and fined $3,000, Gerald German Jr. three months in custody and a $5,000 fine and Gerald Heminger Jr. three months in custody and a $2,000 fine. They also must pay a total of…
CASS COUNTY, ND — Two people were arrested after a high speed chase that started in Clay County and ended in southern Cass County. Hayley Jensen, 22, is in the Clay County Jail on fleeing charges. Her passenger, 26-year-old Michael Kunert, is in jail in Wapheton on outstanding warrants. Clay County deputies responded to a suspicious vehicle about 10…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — Two men from Fergus Falls are linked to the shooting deaths of two trumpeter swans south of that city. A Minnesota DNR officer says the protected swans were shot on a federal waterfowl production refuge. He says the investigation began after the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call from someone who heard…
MITCHELL, SD — A Mitchell, South Dakota man was arrested after police say he stabbed another man multiple times. They say 49-year-old Anthony Lewis was awoken by screaming and someone knocking on his door at his apartment. Lewis allegedly picked up a knife and went outside his apartment complex and confronted a 30-year-old man. Police say Lewis stabbed the man…
FARGO, ND — We have two scams going around the area to tell you about. Someone has been calling people in Fargo and telling them that their water service will be turned off if they don’t pay their bill immediately. Police say the phone calls are a scam and urge you to never give out a credit card number…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — A sex offender who was convicted of raping and holding a seven-months pregnant exotic dancer prisoner has been sentenced. Jesse Paskey, 34, of Moorhead, was given 30 years in prison for the December 2012 crime. He was initially sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime in 2013. But Paskey sought a new trial and…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — A man who entertained radio listeners for decades in the region has passed away. Don Dresser, 84, died Friday at Lilac Assisted Living in Moorhead. His radio career began at KTRF in Thief River Falls in the 1950’s. Don heard about an opening at 970 WDAY in Fargo and applied and eventually became part of a popular…
FARGO, ND — Mayor Mahoney says construction on the Block 9 project could be delayed until next spring. Work on the 18 story building in downtown Fargo was originally planned to start last year. A hotel, offices, condos, a parking garage and a renovated city plaza are planned. Mahoney says rumblings that the project is in trouble are not true….
