FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/FOX9) — A woman pleads guilty in a drug trafficking case in Fargo that had connections to a Mexican cartel. Deanna Gerads appeared in federal court to enter her plea in the case on Tuesday. She was arrested in Mexico last August after she’d been on the run for a year. Authorities say Gerads was part of a…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A planned end-of-the-year bash by Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu at UND has been given a preliminary thumbs down by the Grand Forks City Council. The Greek organizations want to fence off their front yards for a music-filled event on May 3. The number of students attending the event would be capped at 1,000. Several…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – Late Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s emails that were first thought to be lost forever have been released by the Attorney General’s office through an open records request from KFGO News after they were recovered. The 2,700-page document, released Wednesday, contains about 2,000 thousand emails from Stenehjem’s personal phone, but reveals little new information related to his…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Hector International Airport has some new artwork thanks to the sixth year of the ArtWORKS program. The exhibit by local artist Hope Thier features whimsical characters, with dinosaurs in bowties, playing hockey, and drinking wine. The paintings are installed above the baggage area, with reprints being displayed at the departure gate. The Arts Partnership chose to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — As part of a plan to upgrade its Postal processing, transportation, and delivery networks, USPS announced that it will be converting its Processing and Distribution Centers in Bismarck, Grand Forks, Huron, S.D. to Local Processing Centers. This means mail in those regions would first be sent to Fargo before being sent on to their destinations, even…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Two men are arrested after a report of a burglary in progress in Belgium Township in Polk County. After a search around 6 a.m., the sheriff’s office arrested a 29-year-old man from Warren, Minnesota. A second suspect fled the scene but was arrested several hours later. That suspect is a 34-year-old man from Emerado, North…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — An apartment fire Saturday morning in south Fargo has been ruled unintentional. Fire investigators determined the fire started in the ceiling space of a second-floor apartment unit near a bathroom exhaust fan at the apartment building at 2551 Villa Drive South. It then spread through void spaces to the third floor and attic. People were forced…
FARGO — It’s a Tony-nominated Broadway show developed right here in Minnesota, at one of the most acclaimed children’s theatre companies in the country. And now, a Fargo native is its star. Reed Sigmund is one of the leads in “A Year with Frog and Toad,” starting next month at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis. He plays Toad, the…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Midco Sports has laid off a number of employees, including Fargo-based on-air play-by-play announcers Brian Shawn and Jody Norstedt. In a statement from the Sioux Falls internet and cable TV provider, Midco said it plans to enhance streamed content along with university partnership content on its linear channels, Midco Sports and Midco Sports Two. Midco…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Starbucks workers in a Grand Forks store have voted to unionize, becoming the first group to do so in the state of North Dakota. The store at Washington and Demers had a 13 to 10 vote to join the Starbucks Workers United. This joins the movement with 0ver 10,000 baristas and 410 other locations in…
