WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — One man is arrested after a house fire in Wahpeton. The police department says the fire broke out before 8 p.m. Saturday night in the 500 block of 6th Street North. Adam Erickson was taken into custody for Endangering by fire or explosion. Four people live in the house but three people were in the house…
WAHPETON, ND (KFGO/KVRR) – A man was arrested after a shelter in place was issued for part of Wahpeton Friday afternoon. Police Chief Matthew Anderson says officers responded to a report that a man had assaulted a family member at a home on 3rd St. N. and pointed a gun at them. A perimeter was established. Anderson says the family…
Courtesy: FOX 9MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR/FOX 9) — One Minneapolis police officer is dead after a shooting in a neighborhood south of downtown. Law enforcement says six people were shot during the incident: two officers and four citizens. It happened in the area of Blaisdell Avenue and 22nd Avenue. Governor Walz says Minnesota State Patrol is helping local police with the…
EDDY CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Nicholas Poitra of Belcourt, North Dakota is sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for shooting and killing a man in a bar last year. Poitra was sentenced Wednesday in Eddy County on a long list of charges including murder and terrorizing. 30-year-old Troyal Thumb was shot and killed inside Rindy’s Sheyenne Bar after…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who pleaded guilty to child porn charges and is linked to a former North Dakota state senator was ordered to serve 40 years in prison. Nicholas Morgan-Derosier, 36, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fargo. Chief Judge Peter Welte went beyond the 30-year sentence recommended by prosecutors in the case, in part…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Police say a man with a gun barricaded himself in an apartment in the 1800 block of 2nd Avenue South in Fargo around 4:20 p.m. They say 36-year-old Bryant Matthews, who has no permanent address, made threats to the occupant of the apartment. Red River Valley SWAT Team was brought in to take Matthews into custody…
Bethany Israel, Husband/ GoFundMeLAKEVILLE, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Lakeville man is jailed on $2 million bond for the alleged killing of his sister and her unborn child last Thursday. Dakota County prosecutors say 23-year-old Jack Ball is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 30-year-old Bethany Israel. She was between 17 and 18 weeks pregnant….
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Two people are in jail and facing multiple charges after a pursuit in West Fargo. Police arrested 34-year-old Toby Richardson of West Fargo and 37-year-old Stephanie Peterson, who has no permanent address. An officer tried to stop Richardson on Main Avenue just after midnight for a traffic violation. He fled but the officer was able…
FARGO/WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Police say a Mapleton man with a long criminal history intentionally hit a person with his car and ran from officers into the Sheyenne River in West Fargo. Fargo Police responded to a report of a pedestrian hit by a car just before 1:30 this afternoon. The victim was taken to a hospital with non-life…
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR) — A man is accused of firing a gun in an apartment building in the 400 block of 17th Street Northwest in East Grand Forks and fleeing the scene. Witnesses identified the suspect as Marko Ruot. His vehicle was later located in the 3300 block of Primrose Court in Grand Forks. Grand Forks Regional SWAT…
