MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — April is Distracted Driving awareness month and Minnesota Department of Public Safety is taking the opportunity to remind drivers that distraction-free driving is safe driving. Throughout the month, law enforcement agencies will be dedicating extra time aiming to eliminate distracted driving in Minnesota. Over the last 5 years distracted driving has contributed to over 30,000 crashes…
When it’s frozen outside and you just want to tell winter to “let it go”, we’ve got the girl to warm your heart in this week’s Pet Connection. Meet Elsa from our friends at the Uffda Animal Rescue in Cando, North Dakota. Elsa is a 5-month old mix breed. She’s super sweet and loving. She absolutely loves other dogs….
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – Fargo Police using a search warrant arrested a man at a residence in the 500 block of 31st Avenue North Wednesday night. During a search of the residence, officers found child sexual abuse materials. Joel John Schumacher, 55, of Fargo, was arrested on suspicion of possessing certain prohibited materials and booked into the Cass County Jail….
A gold pin in the shape of Minnesota – with the words “Interstate 35W ‘Bridge’ Remembering August 1, 2007” – is photographed on Linda Paul in St. Paul, Minn., on March 27, 2024. She survived the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis on Aug. 1, 2007, and was reminded of it after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/FOX9) — A woman pleads guilty in a drug trafficking case in Fargo that had connections to a Mexican cartel. Deanna Gerads appeared in federal court to enter her plea in the case on Tuesday. She was arrested in Mexico last August after she’d been on the run for a year. Authorities say Gerads was part of a…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A planned end-of-the-year bash by Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu at UND has been given a preliminary thumbs down by the Grand Forks City Council. The Greek organizations want to fence off their front yards for a music-filled event on May 3. The number of students attending the event would be capped at 1,000. Several…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – Late Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s emails that were first thought to be lost forever have been released by the Attorney General’s office through an open records request from KFGO News after they were recovered. The 2,700-page document, released Wednesday, contains about 2,000 thousand emails from Stenehjem’s personal phone, but reveals little new information related to his…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — As part of a plan to upgrade its Postal processing, transportation, and delivery networks, USPS announced that it will be converting its Processing and Distribution Centers in Bismarck, Grand Forks, Huron, S.D. to Local Processing Centers. This means mail in those regions would first be sent to Fargo before being sent on to their destinations, even…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by his family. Lieberman died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from a…
FILE – MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell speaks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, June 24, 2021. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, a federal judge affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against the MyPillow chief executive in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped…
