NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. (KFGO) – A rural Fergus Falls man is in the Otter Tail County jail after deputies chased the stolen car he was driving near New York Mills on Friday night. Deputies used tire deflation devices and a pursuit intervention technique to end the pursuit. 41-year-old Rene Torres was arrested for vehicle theft, fleeing, and burglary. The…
MINOT, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a driver was stopped for traveling 150 mph in a 70 mph zone on US Highway 83 near mile marker 209, north of Minot. The driver was fined $420.00 for speeding and assessed 15 points on their North Dakota driver’s license. A driver’s license suspension occurs when a driver accumulates…
Oil pumpjacks operate in Williams County in September 2024. (Photo by Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A recent North Dakota Supreme Court decision could have ripple effects for thousands of oil wells, the mineral owners who receive royalties from them and the oil industry in the state as a whole. The decision voided one order, issued…
Dan Leingang, interim president of Bismarck State College, speaks during the school’s commencement ceremony at the Bismarck Event Center on May 10, 2024. Leingang is one of six semifinalists identified by the college’s presidential search committee that could take on the permanent role. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Two North Dakotans are semifinalists for the Bismarck…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Cat lovers flocked to a Fargo pet daycare / boarding center for a showcase of adoptable felines. Fetchers on 39th Street South referred to it as “CATurday” and teamed up with Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue to bring in some cats in desperate need of a furever home. There were also free goodie bags, tours of Fetchers’…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Protests have been happening with regularity in the Fargo-Moorhead area as of late, but an extra one was called this weekend following U.S. military actions in Iran. The strikes, carried out in conjunction with the Israeli military, have reportedly killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Violence related to these actions has continued throughout the greater region,…
Leo DartoeFARGO (KFGO) — A Fargo jury has found a man guilty of murdering his childhood friend. Leo Dartoe, 35, shot and killed Sampson Bleh in August 2024 at an apartment in the 2200 block of 12th Ave. S. in Fargo. Bleh was shot in the chest. He died at the hospital. After the shooting, Dartoe fled the state, and…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Devils Lake judge has ordered a new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder on Spirit Lake Reservation. 65-year-old Werner Kunkel has always maintained his innocence and has been fighting to clear his name for decades. He was convicted in 1995 in the 1986 stabbing…
WASHINGTON — Service members who are about to leave the military may soon have someone to help them prepare to reenter civilian life, if a new federal bill gets enough support from members of congress. If passed, the new bill would require the military to give pre-separation counseling to service members leaving the military. While the military has advised leaving…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — After years of work with the FAA, North Dakota can now navigate air travel and fly statewide through a radar data feed. The feed comes together as part of the Northern Plains UAS Test Site’s system, Vantis. “This is a milestone that now lets us move forward in leveraging the system to create value in…
