Kim PotterMINNEAPOLIS – News organizations are renewing their request to the judge overseeing the case of a former police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright. They’re asking her to allow live video coverage of former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter’s trial because of the continuing threat of COVID-19 and the strong public interest. Judge Regina Chu has barred…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — Threats made against schools in Detroit Lakes have been resolved according to Superintendent Mark Jenson and Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd. The first threat was phoned in to a Fargo news outlet’s tip line. The second was noticed by a student at another school in the district that a student had posted on social…
Young hockey players in the region are struggling through tryouts right about now, and they’ve taken a lot of time and effort to get to this point. And so have their parents. That’s why one of the region’s long-running fundraisers is getting going again this year at just the right time. Stick it to Cancer got started in 2010 by…
Police Chief Medaria ArradondoMINNEAPOLIS – Voters in Minneapolis are deciding whether to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a year after George Floyd’s death launched a movement to defund or abolish police across the country. Mayor Jacob Frey is also in a tough fight for a second term. He’s…
MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota will offer free or reduced tuition to many Native American students attending its five campuses starting next fall. The cost waiver program had previously been offered only at the Morris campus, but now will be expanded to all five campuses, to also include Duluth, Rochester, Crookston and the Twin Cities. Incoming freshmen and tribal…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — An MSUM graduate and bodybuilder fulfills a lifelong dream of owning a business. Brady Hand is the new owner of Kone’s Kreamery which is on the 1600 block of 45th Street South in Fargo. He sent the business a message on Facebook after seeing a closed sign on the door and eventually got an offer to…
FARGO (KVRR) – Sanford Health says out of approximately 9,800 employees who work in the Fargo region, 31 employees have left as a result of the company’s vaccine mandate. Vice-President and Medical Officer Dr. Doug Griffin says Sanford employees who don’t have an approved exemption or who haven’t started their vaccine series by today (Nov. 1) will be suspended for…
Cody FreitagFERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A Barrett, Minnesota man is sentenced to 19 years in prison for a deadly chase that ended up killing two people in Fergus Falls. As part of a plea agreement, Cody Freitag pleaded guilty to two counts of fleeing a police officer: resulting in death. Two counts of criminal vehicular homicide were dismissed. A…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) – Thirty years ago trick or treating and living in Minnesota turned into a survival event. The best way to describe the three days of snow that caused havoc in Minnesota three decades ago: uffda! And that goes for the hundreds of stories from it too. “This is a storm that we’ve never had this early. This is…
MINNESOTA (AP) — Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19, she announced Saturday. Flanagan says she received the positive test after caring for her 8-year-old daughter Siobhan, who tested positive on Oct. 22. The lieutenant governor received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last spring. Flanagan said she and her husband, Tom, had been staying…
