FARGO (KVRR) – The Fargo Memorial Honor Guard will conduct a final honors ceremony for an unclaimed Navy veteran next week. Final honors for Brian Gordon Johnson will be held Monday, June 14 at 11:00 a.m. at the Fargo Veterans Cemetery. Johnson died May 24. He was in the Navy between 1976 and 1980. Johnson is the fourth unclaimed veteran…
FARGO (KVRR) – Numerous charges are pending against a Fargo man accused of recently robbing several Fargo businesses. According to the Cass County Jail, 21-year-old Hunter Havisto is being held on four counts of armed robbery, one count of robbery with strong-arm tactics, two counts of automobile theft and burglary. Havisto is suspected of robbing the 13th Ave. Walmart and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A man wanted for multiple robberies across Fargo has been arrested after allegedly robbing yet another business Thursday afternoon. Twenty-one-year-old Hunter Havisto was arrested at around 3:30 p.m. at an apartment at 2121 9th Avenue South. “It is the suspect, Hunter Havisto, that we’ve been looking for. Turns out it was him,” said Fargo Police Sgt….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A young man’s quest to honor veterans made a stop in Fargo. “Just make sure you honor veterans every day,” Preston Sharp said. Preston Sharp is traveling from coast to coast to place flags and flowers on veteran gravesites across America. “That kid is awesome and it an great honor to do this and help him,”…
Concordia College President William CraftMOORHEAD, Minn. — Concordia College President William Craft announcing a partnership with Sanford Health. Sanford is donating the land and building where the 8th Street clinic now stands to Concordia. The college’s School of Health Professions is also being renamed the Sanford Heimarck School of Health Professions. The renovated building will be named the Heimarck Center….
BECKER CO., Minn. — An Ogema, Minnesota man is found guilty in Becker County District Court of 2nd degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Jay Nelson. The former Lake Park police chief was hunting in November 2018 when he was shot while driving on the Yellowhead Trail in West Sugarbush Township by 56-year-old Morris Dodd Jr. Dodd previously pleaded…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Family, friends and Sanford Medical Center employees lined the hallways at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo Thursday for an emotional Walk of Honor for 14-year-old Jupiter Paulsen. Sanford Health’s Christen Rennich said the Walk of Honor is held “to recognize the gift of life that comes through organ and tissue donation.” “Sanford employees joined the patient’s…
FARGO (KVRR) – Fargo Police have arrested a man who was wanted for a rash of recent robberies. Twenty-one-year-old Hunter Havisto was arrested Thursday at 2121 9th Ave. S. Havisto was being sought for a robbery Thursday afternoon at Mister Money. He was also wanted for a robbery at the M&H convenience store on Main Ave. Wednesday and robberies at Walmart…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR/KDLM) – Organizers of WE Fest in Detroit Lakes are making upgrades to the facility ahead of the festival in August. The event, owned by Live Nation announced that the general admission area will be larger and 200 feet closer to the main stage, which is being upgraded to improve sightlines. The Saloon will be open to…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Republicans will lead a new committee that will redraw North Dakota’s legislative districts this year. A redistricting committee of 14 Republicans and two Democrats was picked Wednesday during a meeting of Legislative Management, by a panel of lawmakers that handles the Legislature’s business between sessions. The lawmakers will draw an outline for legislative redistricting, which is done…
