MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead is preparing for its 65th annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition of Fine Art. This year’s exhibit celebrates the 100th anniversary of the inception of the surrealist art movement. Artists from around the region were encouraged to dive into Surrealism and submit their pieces to the exhibition. Rourke says it will be an…
FARGO (KVRR) – Windy weather caused a street light to fall on Main Avenue in Fargo. The light pole fell in the 1900-block, near Burger Time, after 2:00 p.m. The pole fell onto the road, causing drivers to swerve around it. People nearby helped pick up the pole to move it to the side walk. A Fargo Public Works employee says…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO UPDATE 9:20 PM) — A GoFundMe has been started for an 18-year-old teen who suffered life-threatening injuries after crashing into a tree hours after graduating from Fargo North. Aden Hanretty received his diploma the evening of June 2 and was hanging out with friends before heading home. “Four hours later (clean and sober), the boys were all…
RICHLAND CO. N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — There is not much left of a vehicle involved in a high-speed chase through three counties before it was abandoned and started on fire, igniting a grass fire in Richland County. The chase involving 43-year-old Mark Crompton started around 5 p.m. Wednesday near Felton, Minnesota. He led officers through Clay, Cass and Richland Counties before…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids, and its failure to act on red flags, created the opportunities that led to the theft of $250 million in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases, the Legislature’s watchdog arm said Thursday in a scathing report. The Minnesota Department…
FARGO — Willow here is just about five weeks old but she’s already had some hard knocks in life. The little brown medium-hair tabby came in to her rescue over memorial day weekend, when someone came in with her to a local coffee shop looking for someone to rehome her, essentially abandoning her. Not only that, but Willow should not…
FARGO — He’s got stage four prostate cancer. But he’s not letting it stop him. And this weekend, he’ll ride into Itasca State Park on the final leg of a journey that had him biking the entire perimeter of the united states. Scott Freitag is from Nevis, Minnesota. Freitag and his wife Katy say he was healthy and athletic…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The defense team for a Grand Forks man sentenced to decades in prison in a high-profile federal child pornography case is appealing his sentence to the Eighth Circuit Court. Nicholas Morgan-Derosier pleaded guilty to seven charges of possessing and distributing child porn in September and was sentenced last month. The prosecution recommended a 30-year sentence, but…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) — Seatbelts save lives and it is the law to wear one, which is why Minnesota Department of Public Safety ran their Click It or Ticket campaign from May 20th through June 2nd. More than 1,900 citations were given out for seat belt violations while there were 108 child restraint citations, as well. While there were more citations…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Another North Dakota primary election is in the books and with it just 20% voter turnout statewide. That is near average during presidential cycles but down 7% from 2020 when there was an increase in mail-in ballots due to the pandemic. The North Dakota GOP says it trusts Republican voters and will place its full support…
