FARGO (KVRR) – The North Dakota Attorney General’s Office is looking into last weekend’s Taco & Margarita Festival in Fargo. Many people who attended the event say it failed to live up to its expectations. After paying for parking and admission, customers say they stood in long lines to buy food from a just two vendors. The festival indicated that at…
FARGO (KVRR) – A Barnesville, Minn. woman was arrested at a Fargo cemetery after witnesses say she drove over several graves and nearly hit two people during a funeral. Police were called Saturday to Riverside Cemetery at 2102 5th St. S. Twenty-eight-year-old Blair Rebecca Whitten was arrested for aggravated reckless endangerment. “Multiple complainants reported Whitten was driving her vehicle, inside…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Munitions were set to be detonated as attorneys attempt to gather evidence in a federal lawsuit by a Dakota Access pipeline protester who claims she was injured in a skirmish with law enforcement officers. Sophia Wilansky claims police targeted her with a concussion grenade in November 2016. Law enforcement maintains she was injured by a propane canister that…
FARGO, N.D. — (KVRR) “Well, for a business owner, I would say, follow your passions,” said Mitchell. The female entrepreneur did just that. Two years ago, Renae Mitchell of Fargo decided to start up a new venture after graduating from the Nutritional Therapy Association. “I wanted to take the knowledge on what I learned to teach people how to use…
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — Authorities identify the man they say drowned in Lake Ida Saturday afternoon. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the victim is 59-year-old Danny Haak of Alexandria. The 911 call came in shortly before 5 o’clock that there was a man in the water. He was brought to shore by neighbors and CPR was started. Emergency…
LAKE IDA, Minn. (KVRR) – Authorities say a man drowned in Lake Ida Saturday afternoon. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call of a man in the water at 4:49 p.m. The man was brought to shore by neighbors and CPR was started. Emergency responders arrived and continued CPR and life-saving measures, but were unsuccessful. The man was…
ELLENDALE, N.D. (KVRR) – A 17-year-old boy is seriously hurt after rolling his vehicle near Ellendale, North Dakota. According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, he was driving south on 89th Avenue Southeast Saturday morning when he lost control on the gravel roadway and overcorrected. His vehicle entered a ditch and came to a rest before he was transported to…
HARWOOD, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – One person is injured following a three-vehicle crash near Harwood, North Dakota Friday evening. A woman who rolled her vehicle after her tire blew out was not injured, but a driver of another vehicle that slowed down for her was. At 6 p.m. on Friday, a vehicle driven by 29-year-old Kara Wetzel of Grand Forks was…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – DFL State Senator Kent Eken of Twin Valley proposes an amendment that would benefit Minnesota senior citizens with their social security. He wants to remove a state tax on social security benefits. It will move the responsibility for the taxes on investment incomes over a quarter of a million dollars a year. The incomes would…
MEDORA, N.D. (KVRR) – Two North Dakota Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopters took off at 3:40 p.m. Friday to support a wildfire reported 13 miles north of Medora. They are equipped with 600-gallon buckets. Officials say the fire has engulfed nearly 2,000 acres. Crews will be there at least until dark. Photo depicts a 600-gallon water bucket being prepared…
