FARGO (KFGO) – Fargo police say the FBI is now leading the investigation into a series of bomb threats in the city last week. There were six bomb threats in all. None were found to be credible. The office at Fargo South High School received threats Wednesday and Friday. The call on Friday forced the school to dismiss early for…
LISBON, N.D. (KVRR/NEWSDAKOTA) — A Lisbon man faces terrorizing and assault charges after allegedly threatening to kill his father over a bottle of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. Court records show 31-year-old Hunter Mairs had been using marijuana, Adderall, and nitrous oxide and causing disturbances in the family home for weeks. On Thursday night, his father took away…
FOX 9ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (KVRR/FOX 9) — Two people are dead, and three others are injured after a man drove into the patio at Park Tavern in St. Louis Park. Police have not released the victims’ identities but Methodist Hospital have said a staff member was killed in the crash and a Park Tavern server, Kristina Folkerts, was the…
FARGO — Fargo Public School district officials announce the Fargo South High School building is being swept by law enforcement after staff received a phone call relaying a bomb threat. Students and staff were evacuated just before the noon hour Friday, officials said. They are asking parents to stay away from the scene in order to expedite the sweep of…
State Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) Woodbury, Minn.DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP)– A Minnesota state senator has pleaded not guilty to burglarizing the home of her estranged stepmother after her father’s death.Sen. Nicole Mitchell, a Democrat from the St. Paul suburb of Woodbury, was charged in April. She told police at the time that she broke into the home in Detroit Lakes…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Police want help finding two suspects of a felony robbery and assault. Police say 31-year-old Francisco Vargas Jr. and 32-year-old Kaitlyn Smith are suspects in an incident that happened Monday morning around 6:15 in the 3000 block of 33 Street South. An adult male victim says Smith, brought him to a location where two males physically…
OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A picture of a man in a fishing boat on West Lost Lake north of Underwood, Minnesota leads to burglary charges against a Fargo man. 40-year-old Ryan Bohn is accused of breaking into a cabin in May and stealing a pizza oven, toolset, and mechanical decoys. He has been charged with burglary in Otter…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A man is facing trespassing charges after climbing onto the roof of H.E. Everson in Devils Lake. Officers were called to the store Sunday for a report of a man on the roof. Police called the fire department for a ladder and the man was able to get down on his own. Police say he…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Former Federal Prosecutor Lynn Crooks known for his prosecution against former American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, has died. Crooks was admitted into the North Dakota courts in July of 1965. His was a Special Assistant Attorney General for North Dakota and later an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fargo until his retirement in 2002. As an assistant…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Bail is set at $1 million with conditions for the teen accused of killing a 14-year-old girl and leaving her body near the Red River in Moorhead last week. 18-year-old Isaac Arndt made his first court appearance in Moorhead after being extradited from Fargo on murder charges. He is facing up to 40 years in prison…
