FARGO, ND — Last night, at 5:40 p.m., Fargo Officers were dispatched to Sunset Memorial Gardens, 1715 52 Ave. S., for a male digging up a grave. When officers arrived, they found a grave had been disturbed. While officers were processing the scene, the suspect, Jordan Lee Schweitzer, 30 years old with no permanent address, returned to the scene. Schweitzer admitted…
MOORHEAD, MINN. (KFGO) – A man who assaulted a woman, threatened to kill her, and held police at bay in a day-long stand-off in Moorhead in April is being sought for the alleged assault of his ex-girlfriend overnight. Moorhead police were called to the 3500 block of 8th Avenue South around 2 a.m. Thursday on a report the woman had…
NEW ULM, Minn. — The Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota has reached a $34 million settlement in its bankruptcy case with 93 people who say they were sexually abused by priests and others. Attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents many of the survivors, says it includes contribution of $8 million from the diocese and its parishes with the rest coming…
Thursday, June 27th is National HIV Testing Day, and health care workers in the metro want to make it worth your while to get tested — beyond just the gift of peace of mind. That’s why the Harm Reduction Clinic, or HRC, in Fargo is offering free Target gift cards along with free tests for HIV and Hepatitis C. The…
UPDATE – Bismarck Police report the missing child has been found safe. Police say 7-month-old LeahMae Morsette was dropped off by an unidentified person at Sanford ER around 4:15 this afternoon. We’ll have more on this story tonight on KVRR Local News at 6. Original Story- In a statement police say seven-month-old LeahMae Morsette was last seen with her mother…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A man whose conviction for the 1983 rape and killing of a Minneapolis teenager made possible by DNA evidence is being sentenced. A Hennepin County judge last month found 64-year-old Darrell Rea guilty of the death of 17-year-old Laurie Mesedahl, whose body was found bludgeoned along railroad tracks in North Minneapolis. Rea is scheduled to be sentenced…
FARGO, N.D.– North Dakota nice isn’t always accurate when it comes hate crime statistics. In recent years North Dakota has been ranked among the top of the list of number of hate crimes per capita, according to FBI statistics. The North Dakota Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights hosted a public meeting and several people spoke on…
PRESTON, Minn. (AP) _ A Minnesota hemp farmer is facing charges after authorities claimed his products had more than the legal limit of the compound that makes users high. Court documents say products from Luis Hummel’s 5th Sun Gardens hemp farm in Lanesboro were sent to a lab for tests and found to have THC levels above 3 percent. The…
Friends of the Fargo food truck owner who was killed near downtown are honoring his memory with a cruise. A group gathered last Friday night in front of Kmart on University Drive for a memorial cruise in honor of Jason Halvorson. A friend says he was part of the car community. Halvorson was also well-known to food truck aficionados in…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A figure skating coach has pleaded guilty in Hennepin County to sexually abusing a student. Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Incantalupo, of St. Louis Park, entered the plea to two counts of criminal sexual conduct Tuesday for abusing the girl beginning when she was 14 years old in 2015 and continuing for two years. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says…
