RED RIVER VALLEY — It’s not about writing tickets, it’s about creating a safer road for everyone. Each year, more and more people are caught texting while driving. April is Distracted Driving Awareness month and Minnesota law enforcement will have extra eyes on drivers from now until April 23rd. State troopers are reminding people it’s not just about technology either….
ROLLA, N.D. — An officer with the Rolla Police Department was hurt after crashing into the back of a car on Highway 30. The highway patrol says Officer Nathan Gustafson was responding to a report of a stalled vehicle around 10:30 last night. The car was stopped on the highway and the driver, Carl Indvik, Jr., was standing beside…
FARGO, N.D. — The teen who was convicted of attacking a woman in the West Acres parking lot in 2014 has been sentenced in another attack. Abdirahman Sahel, 18, was given 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young woman nearly four years ago in the Holiday Inn parking lot. Sahel had earlier pleaded guilty to gross sexual…
WEST FARGO, N.D. — There are 12 applicants to become the next police chief in West Fargo. The interim chief, Gerald Boyer, is in the running along with two deputy chiefs from Fargo and Moorhead. Three other officers with the West Fargo Police Department have also applied. Candidates also include members of the Cass County and Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Offices,…
MORTON COUNTY, N.D. — The body of a California man has been pulled from the Cannonball River. It was found near the site of the former Dakota Access oil pipeline protest camps late yesterday morning. The Morton County Sheriff’s Office says the body is that of 35-year-old Damjan Nedelkovski of Glendale. He had an identification card from the Republic…
MOORHEAD (KFGO) – A Moorhead man has been charged with 2nd degree murder for a shooting last Thurs. night at his Moorhead home. The complaint filed by the Clay County Attorney’s office says 25 year-old Neil Johnson shot 28 year-old Jacob Glover twice with a handgun. Johnson and Glover had worked together. Johnson told a detective that he had recently…
Grand Forks Police arrested three men Saturday in a prostitution operation. 44-year-old Stephen Dewel of Grand Forks, 52-year-old Todd Quaintance of Grand Forks, and 45-year-old Chad Woinarowicz of Oslo are charged with soliciting sex from an individual, a Class B misdemeanor. Police would not offer many details on the operation, saying they plan to run a similar one in the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — The West Fargo man who was the victim of a shooting at a Moorhead home late Thursday evening has died. Jacob Glover, 28, died at the hospital after the shooting inside a house at 1813 16th Street South. Authorities say they found him in the driveway of a neighbor’s home and someone was performing CPR on him….
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Police have released the names of the people involved in a shooting in St. Paul. Wade McIntosh, 47, and his two daughters, 17-year-old Olivia and 19-year-old Maria were found dead at the scene of the shooting. Police say 20-year-old Jeffrey Jemaile Taylor, the suspect who was found dead near the scene of the shooting, shared…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. — At about the same time as the Moorhead shooting, the Becker County Sheriff’s Office was also responding to a shooting call. A call came into dispatch from a man who said he was in White Earth and needed help. A second call came in from a homeowner who said there was a man on his…
