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…
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting of a person by a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper at a convenience store Wednesday in Sturgis, where a big annual motorcycle rally is underway. Sturgis Police Chief Geody VanDewater issued a brief statement confirming that one person was shot and wounded by a trooper, and said more information would be…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Plains Art Museum has received a record $3 million donation from one of its own board members. Fargo native Brian Hayer has pledged to donate the money. Hayer is a graduate of Fargo South High School and Arizona State University. The contribution will be the largest gift ever presented by a single donor. “This is a…
GoFundMeFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who was violently attacked by two men he was giving a ride to from a downtown Fargo bar is now out of the hospital. Tyler Spaeth was beaten, stabbed in the head and had his vehicle, phone and wallet stolen by the suspects on the morning of August 1. Court records say he was…
FARGO (KFGO) – A man who was arrested for being in the U.S. illegally at Sky Dancer Casino earlier this year has been sentenced to just under two years in federal prison. Fidel Torres pleaded guilty to the sole charge of reentry into the U.S. by a removed alien subsequent a felony conviction in a Fargo courtroom Wednesday afternoon. The…
Red River Valley SWAT TeamWEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Red River Valley SWAT Team will be in action Thursday night in West Fargo for a training exercise. It’ll be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. near the 500 block of 1st Avenue Northwest. People in that area will see SWAT Team members and other officers carrying firearms with no…
NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A single ticket sold in Florida is good for a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot, ending weeks of anticipation over who would win the eye-popping top prize. A Publix grocery store in Neptune Beach sold the winning ticket, according to the Florida Lottery. The winning numbers drawn Tuesday night were 13, 19, 20, 32, 33 and…
FARGO — They were once on the wrong side of the law. Now, they’re raising money to protect some of the metro’s lawmen — the ones who sacrificed themselves to save their city from an apparent mass shooting attack on July 14th. The F5 Project is a Fargo-based nonprofit that helps get jobs,. homes, and healthy transitions into regular life…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison on sex trafficking charges. Anton “Tony” Lazzaro was found guilty in March by a federal jury of seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five girls ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when…
NORMAN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Sarah Green is a mother of a child who she says was abused at school on multiple occasions. This mother urges her community to reach out to lawmakers to make a change. “Seclusion and restraint are fatal. I encourage people to go look at it, look at the bill, and look at the scientific stats…
