MINNESOTA — Governor Mark Dayton this week announced a $21 million proposal to make Minnesota schools safer. The funding would go towards security enhancements and more mental health services. Dayton’s Safe and Secure School Act even includes support for expelled students to ensure they’re doing well at their alternative schools. Some say Dayton’s plan would especially help schools in rural areas…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Tina Smith is making work on the new Farm Bill one of her top priorities. The Democrat, who was appointed to fill Al Franken’s seat when he resigned, has set up an Ag Working Group. The group features more than two dozen people representing various sectors of the agriculture industry. Smith is on the Senate Agriculture…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An Andover, Minnesota woman was killed and 14 other Minnesotans were hurt when a suspected drunk driver struck their van after attending a Twins spring training game. The group was driving from Fort Myers to Fort Lauderdale after the game on Tuesday evening. Twenty-one-year-old Lauren VanReese was killed. A four-year-old girl in the van was seriously…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The man who pleaded guilty to murdering a woman in a downtown Minneapolis parking ramp last summer is sentenced. A judge gave 46-year-old Benjamin Love 24 years in prison for killing Mai Yer Cha. Prosecutors say Love was trying to rob Cha and her friends when he stabbed her in the heart in Parking Ramp B near…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — An influx of graduate students has pushed MSUM’s spring enrollment higher. The 30-day Spring Semester enrollment figures show an overall increase of nearly 1 percent. The boost is driven by a 20 percent increase in graduate students. They account for 934 members of the spring class at MSUM. The spring semester headcount is at more than 5,600…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO) – Attempted murder charges have been filed against a woman accused of trying to shoot a Minnesota state trooper near Moorhead. Prosecutors say 30-year-old Melody Gray of Milwaukee pointed a 9mm handgun at trooper Mark Peterson and tried to pull the trigger as Peterson was attempting to handcuff her passenger, 29-year-old Domonique Crayton. Peterson shot Gray in…
Drug traffickers have long used our interstate through North Dakota as a means to shuffle mass quantities of drugs to points here and further east. Now, though, with the expansion of legalized marijuana to 25 states and counting, drug trafficking offenses are coming less often from south of the border and more from the Western part of the United States….
Bosco is teaching us all a lesson in wearing your senior years with style. The 14-year-old dachsund is still strutting and sniffing out treats in his elder years, and he filled the studio with delight on the Morning Show. Bosco and his buddy, 4 Luv of Dog rescue Kish Hilmert, joined the Morning Show’s Emily Welker for a live in-studio…
Domonique Crayton and Melody GrayMOORHEAD, MN — The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has released the name of the trooper who shot a woman during an officer involved shooting incident earlier this week just east of Moorhead. Trooper Mark Peterson has been with the Minnesota State Patrol since 1999. He remains on standard administrative leave. The two occupants of the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead homeowners in the Comstock neighborhood want the city to change its rules to keep parking lots away from their properties. Current city law allows lots to be built without public notification. People took to City Hall to advocate for a conditional use permit, which means a public hearing and certain standards would have to be met before…
