MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — About fifty MSUM faculty members gathered for an informational picket over the contract battle between Teamsters Local 320 and the Minnesota State University system. Administrative faculty from admissions, athletics, and international studies showed up to picket. The employees who marched either took vacation or a lunch break for it. Event coordinators say the main goal is…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Grand Forks School Board reviews a complaint about six books in school libraries. The board agreed with a committee recommendation that the books remain, though not all decisions were unanimous. Grand Forks County Commission recently received another complaint about two books. The State’s Attorney referred the complaint to police, and it was determined that no…
This week’s pet comes to us from the Humane Society of the Lakes in Detroit Lakes, and he’s had some significant suffering in his life. The coonhound mix came in from animal control with a couple of other dogs, and Jethro had a noticeable limp. Rescue workers took him to the vet, where they discovered the 11-year-old coonhound mix had…
FARGO — She has a job a lot of folks would love to have, could they but figure out how to get it: Darley Newman gets to travel and get paid to talk about it on TV. And now, the host of the PBS show “Travels with Darley is in Fargo and profiling the many treasures of Eastern North Dakota….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Minneapolis man is sentenced to 17 years in prison with 5 supervised release for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances and Money Laundering Conspiracy inside Grand Forks County Jail. Fifty-seven-year-old Timothy Eason had been arrested on state drug charges and was being held in Grand Forks. From October 2021 to February 2022, Eason arranged shipments of…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Olympic silver medal winner Virgil Hill is getting the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award. Hill is a retired five-time professional boxing champion and member of both the National Boxing Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He won his Olympic medal in 1984. Hill was raised in Grand Forks and Williston….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Cavalier man is sentenced to 29 years in prison for possession of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender. Thirty-five-year-old Cody O’Hara was discovered living at his girlfriend’s home in Moorhead after he wasn’t found at his registered address in Fargo. When authorties examined his cellphone, they found nearly 500 images and…
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (KVRR/KFGO) — An Otsego, Minnesota woman who pleaded guilty last year to financial fraud and identity theft gets seven years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Maegen Fortin engaged in fraudulent conduct at credit unions and businesses in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota in 2020 and 2021. She used the names,…
Spencer MoenWEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A West Fargo man, 31-year-old Spencer Moen, is arrested for murder. Officers responded to a medical emergency around 7:30 Thursday morning in the 1100 block of Eaglewood Avenue West. They arrived to find a woman dead inside the home. Evidence at the scene resulted in the arrest of Moen for murder. He is currently…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Big news for education across North Dakota, as Governor Doug Burgum has granted a request for the state’s education standards and practices board. This was announced through a letter to the board. This will allow student teachers to be teachers of record this upcoming semester. “It’s not going to solve the teacher shortage but hopefully it…
