ST. PAUL — A Thief River Falls man is sentenced on child pornography charges. A judge ordering 39-year-old Benjamin Roggenbuck to 45 years in prison. Roggenbuck earlier pleaded guilty to using or attempting to use children to perform sex acts between November 2012 and February of last year. As part of the plea agreement, he also pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal…
FARGO, N.D. — The need for food assistance in North Dakota and western Minnesota is greater than ever before. Great Plains Food Bank provided five million more meals in 2020 than it did in 2019 to those in need. Hunger is now impacting one in six people throughout our region. As the need increases, costs for the food bank also…
FARGO, N.D. – Some people in Fargo are voicing their opposition to Dakota Access and Line 3 oil pipelines through exercise. Subzero temperatures didn’t stop these joggers from making their way from Island Park to City Hall and back on Tuesday. The group is running in solidarity with the Standing Rock Youth Council, which is completing a bigger challenge of…
MINNEAPOLIS – Eight Minnesota jail guards have filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination after they were barred from working on the floor where a former police officer charged in George Floyd’s death was being held. The eight guards identify as African American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander American and multiracial. They say they were segregated and prevented from doing their jobs at…
BUFFALO, Minn. – Multiple people were shot at a Buffalo, Minn. health clinic and a suspect was taken into custody. Kelly Prestidge, an office manager for the Buffalo Police Department, says the shooting happened Tuesday at an Allina clinic in Buffalo, about 40 miles northwest of Minneapolis, and that one person was taken into custody. Sixty-seven-year-old Gregory P. Ulrich, from…
WASHBURN, N.D. – Two men accused in a construction fraud scheme in McLean County have each been sentenced to 15 months in prison and have paid more than $700,000 in restitution. Fifty-six-year-old Bartley Gorman Jr. and 27-year-old Sean Gorman, both of Minot, pleaded guilty to criminal charges, including exploitation of a vulnerable adult and construction fraud. An affidavit filed in…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KCND) – A North Dakota House committee is considering two bills that would raise tobacco taxes. One would raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1.00, bringing the tax to $1.44. The other bill would raise taxes on other tobacco products. Tim Blasl, president of the North Dakota Hospital Association, told the House Finance and Taxation…
The folks at the region’s many nonprofits are hoping our hearts are a little bit bigger than usual this year. Because while Giving Hearts Day is typically one of our top times for charitable giving in the region, it’s also happening this time around after nearly an entire year’s worth of recession. That’s hitting the region’s nonprofits hard. So, because…
FARGO (KVRR) – Due to the economic impacts of COVID-19, the Great Plains Food Bank says there was an “unprecedented need” for food assistance in North Dakota and western Minnesota last year Great Plains Food Bank President Melissa Sobolik says the organization provided enough food for 17.7 million meals, which is nearly five million meals more than 2019. “These were…
LAKE HATTIE TOWNSHIP, Minn. – Co-workers were able to save a man after the logging machine he was operating broke through some ice at a remote site in northern Minnesota. The Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office says Roy Davis was trapped inside the cab of the machine as it flooded with water from a swamp in Lake Hattie Township Saturday. Davis…
