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‘Everything we do these days is on the internet’: The importance of cyber security

FARGO, ND (KVRR) – Cyber security is always an importance. Especially when it comes to school districts and the private files on students. “Everything we do these days is on the internet. It’s online, it’s on the computer.” said Eric Erdman, the co-owner of Information Management Systems in Fargo. That was painfully obvious this week with the Minneapolis Public Schools…

Moorhead man pleads guilty for intentionally causing fatal crash

Gage StevensonWATERTOWN, S.D. (KVRR-KWAT) – A Moorhead, Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to Second Degree Manslaughter in connection with the traffic death of a Watertown woman nearly four years ago. Twenty-year-old Gage Thatcher Stevenson was at the wheel of a car that was westbound on U.S. Highway 212 in Watertown on September 17, 2019, when he intentionally crossed over the…

Sheriff: Woman Stabs 2 Deputies Executing Search Warrant

Authorities say an Underwood, Minnesota woman stabbed two Otter Tail County sheriff's deputies while they tried to arrest her for a felony drug arrest warrant

OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Authorities say an Underwood, Minnesota woman stabbed two Otter Tail County sheriff’s deputies while they tried to arrest her for a felony drug arrest warrant. According to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office, on July 1 at 11:40 a.m., deputies executed a search warrant at a residence north of Underwood with the intent of…

4th of July Events In The Metro

There are plenty of ways you can celebrate Independence Day with your community

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – There are plenty of ways you can celebrate Independence Day with your community. We’ve got 4th of July events all day and night in the Metro. Bonanzaville’s 4th of July celebration runs from 10 a.m. through 7 p.m. with fireworks after that starting at dusk. There will be pony rides, inflatables, food vendors and a bunch…

Body Recovered from Red River in F-M Last Week Identified By Police

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police release the identity of a man whose body was recovered from the Red River in Fargo-Moorhead last Wednesday. He is 35-year-old Casey Binfield. Authorities started getting reports from people who saw Binfield jump into the river near Dike East in Fargo early Wednesday afternoon. Numerous agencies responded to search for the man. His body…

A North Dakota medical waste facility says a human torso was delivered to its site and is suing

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Human remains are at the center of tangled litigation involving a major regional health care system and the company contracted to dispose of its medical waste. Monarch Waste Technologies sued Sanford Health and the subsidiary responsible for delivering the health care system’s medical waste, Healthcare Environmental Services, saying the latter “brazenly” deposited a human torso hidden in a…

Contract Talks between Fargo School Board, Education Association move to mediation

FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — After being unable to come to an agreement to a contract by the state-mandated July 1 deadline, talks between the Fargo School Board and Fargo Education Association (FEA) will go into mediation. The sticking point in the discussions was the elementary teacher workday. The FEA said in a statement that members were frustrated that their pleas…