UNDERWOOD, Minn. (FOX 9) – A sixth-grade teacher in the Underwood School District in Otter Tail County has been charged with malicious punishment after police say he stepped on a student’s back during a lock-down drill. Jason Rogers, 48, of Underwood, is charged with malicious punishment of a child after a student alleges he “stepped on his back with both feet” for around 10…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR/FOX 9) — A judge is allowing former Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn to be released under the previously agreed-upon terms. He can go to a halfway house once a bed is available, and will be placed under GPS monitoring. The Grand Rapids republican was arrested for trying to solicit a minor for sex. During an hours-long…
FARGO (KFGO) – A Fargo couple are facing a list of charges following a year-long investigation for allegedly operating a drug trafficking operation out of their in-home daycare. Cara and Joshua Aus are charged with several felonies for drug possession, and child abuse and neglect. Court records say Fargo Police began investigating the couple in April 2024 after receiving a…
Nichole Rice (second from left) / CourtTV GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — The Minot woman charged with killing her roommate back in 2007 in Minot has been found not guilty by a jury in Grand Forks County District Court. The jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon and continued this morning before their decision was announced. Nichole Rice was arrested in…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The North Dakota Senate Judiciary committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow courts to award restitution to children of victims of criminal vehicular homicide. HB 1558 would give judges the ability to award the restitution only if the parent or guardian dies. Severe, or debilitating injuries would not apply. The court would take into…
LANGDON, N.D. (KFGO) — A Langdon, North Dakota man is facing felony charges for allegedly threatening to shoot a county road grader driver in the face. A report from the Cavalier County Sheriff’s Office says the employee and a friend were sitting at the bar at the Eagles Club in Langdon on March 12. The employee told his friend he…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — The Moorhead man charged with shooting and killing an acquaintance last July pleads guilty to murder in the 2nd degree without intent in Clay County Court. Court records show 36-year-old Jamal Ahmed was identified as the suspect who shot 37-year-old Franky Torres in the head while Torres was fighting with another man over an alleged sexual…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A juvenile was arrested in south Moorhead after an armed robbery in a Fargo parking lot. Fargo Police say the robbery took place in the 3900 block of 13th Avenue South shortly after 6 p.m. Monday. The victim was hit with the handle of a gun before the thief stole a large amount of money. Video…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Fargo man is sentenced to two years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured two people in south Fargo last June. 25-year-old Nicholas Tschosik denied driving the car and refused sobriety and chemical tests but eventually pleaded guilty to charges including a second DUI charge in seven years along with reckless endangerment. Witnesses…
Colby Braun, center, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, listens March 24, 2025, to testimony on a bill related to criminal sentences. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota’s attorney general is backing a bill that will increase the time offenders spend behind bars because he says the state criminal justice system…
