HASTINGS, Minn.–A Burnsville man who killed his infant son has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison. Thirty-three-year-old Michael Herkal admitted slapping and violently shaking the 13-day-old baby after the child wouldn’t stop crying. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in the death of Anthony Herkal and was sentenced to 290 months in prison. Police responded to a report of…
GRAND FORKS, N.D.–The Grand Forks Police Department is continuing to search for the person involved in a fatal hit-and-run that happened in April. Police say the vehicle was most likely a white 2003-2015 Murano with damage to the right front corner of the vehicle and possibly to the hood. They say a 2006-2016 Nissan Rogue, 2011-2019 Nissan X-Trail and a…
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. –Authorities arrest two women after a high-speed pursuit that started in Barnesville. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office says it happened around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Twenty-one-year old Chelsea Probasco, of Moorhead, fled a traffic stop and led officers on a pursuit through several county roads, hitting speeds up to 100 mph. The vehicle went into a ditch after…
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. – Two men have been arrested after a standoff in East Grand Forks. Officers and the Pine to Prairie Drug Task Force served a search warrant on the 600 block of 10th Street Northwest on Friday. Once they got inside, they say two men barricaded themselves in the basement. One of them said he had a…
FARGO, N.D. – U.S. Marshals are searching for what they call a dangerous Red Lake man who didn’t report back to a Fargo recovery center. 37-year-old Timothy Beaulieu, Junior didn’t return to Centre Inc. after signing out around 6:30 PM Thursday to go to church. Beaulieu is 5’8″ tall and weighs 218 pounds. He was last seen wearing a brown…
Mark PavelichGRAND MARAIS, Minn. – A Minnesota judge has found that a former member of the “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team is mentally ill and dangerous. The judge ruled Wednesday that 61-year-old Mark Pavelich should be committed to a secure treatment facility. Pavelich was charged after he allegedly beat a friend with a metal pole in August. His criminal…
MINNEAPOLIS–A medical examiner says two Minneapolis boys and their mother were shot multiple times–and the woman was also stabbed in the chest–before the boys’ father shot himself in the head. All four died in Sunday’s shooting, which authorities described as a domestic attack. The victims were identified Tuesday as 39-year-old Kjersten Schladetzky, and her sons, 8-year-old Nelson and 11-year-old William….
FARGO, N.D.–The Fargo Police Department is asking the public’s assistance locating the suspect of a hit-and-run on November 22 at the FM Visitor Center. Officers responded to the scene where the suspect rear-ended the victim and got out of the vehicle to shout at the victim. The suspect then got back in the vehicle, drove around the parking lot and…
The debate over the future of immigrants and new Americans has never been hotter than right now, both here in the Red River Valley and across the country. Two local counties in North Dakota are deciding tonight whether or not they want to continue accepting new refugees, and there are ample voices on both the pro and the con side…
MOORHEAD, Minn.–The Clay County Sheriff’s Office performed two unrelated vehicle pursuits at the same location on Monday. A Clay County deputy attempted to stop a vehicle at approximately 1:05 a.m. for having obstructed plates. The driver fled, but slid into a snowbank. After a brief foot pursuit, 33-year-old Jessica Schweninger of Hitterdal, was taken into custody. As police were searching…
