Burleigh County Auditor-Treasurer Mark Splonskowski, left, conducts a public test of county voting equipment with Rep. Karen Karls, R-Bismarck, chair of NDGOP District 35, observing on Oct. 28, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)FARGO, N.D. (Jeff Beach and Michael Achterling – North Dakota Monitor) Bob Henderson, the director of information technology in Cass County, called it one of the most important but most…
A voter fills out a ballot using a touch screen device during the first day of early voting in Burleigh County at the Bismarck Event Center on Oct. 24, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Michael Achterling – North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota could be on its way to a historic voter participation rate based on early voting turnout and…
FILE – Ruby slippers once worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” are displayed at a news conference on Sept. 4, 2018, at the FBI office in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Terry Jon Martin, the aging reformed mobster who has admitted stealing the slippers, gave into the temptation of “one last score” after an old mob associate led…
FILE – Tyka Nelson, sister of the late musician Prince, appears in front of his costumes at the “My Name is Prince” exhibition at the O2 Arena in London, on Oct. 26, 2017. Nelson, Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday. She was 64. Her son President Nelson says she died at a hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. A cause of death…
BAGLEY, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Five brothers who were injured in a storage unit explosion near Bagley, Minnesota remain hospitalized with burns. A GoFundMe account created by their older sister, Kyra Frank, says the boys were airlifted in critical condition to the burn center in the Twin Cities. Their burns range from 5% to 55% and the boys are in stable…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Two men are arrested for transporting drugs from the Twin Cities to Moorhead. An investigation started in June and on Sunday, authorities stopped the 35-year-old Tyler Kania, of Moorhead and 34-year-old Laquedrick Lemel As-Sidiq, of St. Louis Park, on felony drug charges. During the stop, meth, cocaine, marijuana, and morphine pills were seized. The street value…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – Local election officials across Minnesota have accepted 1,271,636 absentee and mail ballots for the November 5 Election. The Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office says officials distributed 1,441,898 absentee and mail ballots in Minnesota since voting began on September 20. About 128,000 ballots have not yet been returned. All ballots must be received by 8:00 p.m….
WEST FARGO,N.D. (KFGO) – West Fargo Police arrested a man court records say is part of a group of Venezuelans that targeted ATMs in the Fargo area last weekend. According to police reports, early Saturday morning, an officer stopped Henry Theis, 25, in a car that was parked at an ATM outside a Gate City Bank and drove off without…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — There will be a break in Children’s Storytime and Crafternoons at Northport Library in Fargo. The library is temporarily closing for renovation projects starting on Thursday. Crews will be installing new carpet and a door replacement is planned. The work is expected to last almost two weeks with the library expected to re-open on Wednesday, November…
NEW ROCKFORD, N.D. (KFGO) – One person was killed in a collision between an train and a BNSF service vehicle. It happened around 11 a.m. Monday, about 2.5 miles northwest of New Rockford, North Dakota. Eddy County Sheriff Paul Lies says a BNSF train stuck a BNSF service vehicle that was backing across the railroad tracks. The driver of the…
