OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office and fire and ambulance crews from Pelican Rapids responded to a report of an unoccupied vehicle in the lake. The call came in around 5:30 p.m. in the area of East Lake Lizzie Road and County Highway 31. They found the vehicle in the water on the north side…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A Moorhead man was arrested last week after an investigation and search uncovered ten pounds of meth. 45-year-old Cory McKay was arrested on aggravated controlled substance charges. Last Wednesday, a number of agencies conducted a search warrant in the 200 block of 16th Street South after detectives concluded that McKay was trafficking large quantities of controlled…
OTTER TAIL, CO. (KVRR) — A motorcycle crash in Dunn Township, south of Detroit Lakes, has claimed one life. Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office learned about the crash just after 5 p.m. They say the operator was wearing a helmet, jacket and gloves but that life-saving measures on scene were unsuccessful. They also say alcohol didn’t play a role in…
Courtesy: Kip KovarWINSTED, Minn. (KVRR/FOX9) — A wet weekend came to a muddy conclusion at Winstock Country Music Festival, about an hour south of St. Cloud. Vehicles had to be pulled out of flooded campsites after nearly three inches of rain. The rain resulted in two artists, Sara Evans and Josh Turner, not being able to take the stage. Performances…
OTTERTAIL, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A man from Underwood, Minnesota is accused of stealing over $3,400 from his former employer in Ottertail. According to court documents, the district manager of the business reported that 54-year-old Martin Krenz had taken two separate cash deposits from the store last November. Krenz told an Otter Tail County deputy that the store had wronged him,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Two people are in custody after a bizarre attempted robbery in Fargo Friday. According to Fargo Police, a man was the victim of an attempted robbery at gunpoint involving a woman he thought was his online girlfriend Friday evening. The attempted robbery occurred in a hotel room at the Expressway Suites on 17th Ave. S in…
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…
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…
