FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Award-winning local broadcaster Doug Hamilton has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 72. Hamilton, a longtime Fargo TV news anchor, was part of the Peabody Award Winning News Team at KFGO during the 1997 flood. Hamilton was also active in the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre, was the communications director at Minnesota State-University-Moorhead, and joined Prairie…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KNOX) – The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected most of the arguments in the appeal of Salamah Pendleton, the Grand Forks man convicted in the shooting deaths of his mother and a Grand Forks police officer in May of 2020. Among the questions raised by Defense Attorney Kiara Krauss-Parr: Whether the court created a structural error denying…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Hundreds of volunteers gathered to pack 6,000 backpacks full of school supplies at Scheels Arena. It is for the 26th annual United Way School Supply Drive. The goal is to make children feel comfortable, confident and set them up with the basics before heading into the first day of school. They focus on the basic supplies…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Teachers and educators across the state are at Camp Grafton in an interactive tour to see what it’s like to be in North Dakota’s Army National Guard for a day. The Fargo crew made it to Camp Grafton via Black Hawk helicopter flying from Hector International Airport. With up to 12 people in three groups, educators…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – People stay active and raise money for the American Heart Association at the Fargo Heart Walk. Survivors shared what they went through after having a heart attack and the long recovery from it. Groups and businesses raised $25,000. Top donors include Sanford Health and Essentia Health. The Heart Association says the event is important for survivors…
Chaos and confusion at @mallofamerica. Making people go outside. #mallofamerica pic.twitter.com/NzMvI7iK6m — Andy Paras (@AndyParas) August 4, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (8:30PM Update) — Police confirming that gunshots were fired at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, but say there are no victims and they are still searching for a suspect. A video posted on social media inside the mall late…
(courtesy, NewsDakota.com)JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) – A man is taken to the hospital after a standoff lasting more than five hours in Jamestown. Authorities were called to the 100 block of 5th Street Northwest around 10:45 A.M. Officers responded to a man barricaded inside a home after threatening to kill a woman he kept against her will overnight who later ran….
Butterball is a beauty! She’s a five-month-old kitten from Cat’s Cradle shelter in Fargo. She LOVES to purr. Basically any time you hold her she becomes a vibrating purring machine. Butterball is very affectionate and loves being pet, but she’s also very curious and confident, always checking out her surroundings. She does well with all people, and would probably…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Oglala Sioux Tribe is requiring churches and missionaries to register with the tribe before entering the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. An evangelist was also banned from entering the reservation for distributing a pamphlet that disparaged traditional Lakota spirituality. The tribal ordinance does not apply to local churches and ministries run by tribal…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Homeward Animal Shelter is offering a special offer for those looking to adopt a new best friend. It’s $25 to welcome one into your family this month. In a Facebook post Tuesday night, Homeward Animal Shelter says they’re overwhelmed at capacity and are desperately looking for people to adopt or foster cats or dogs. “We really…
