North Dakota News

Metro Soccer Fever for the Women’s World Cup

It's kicking in to high gear.

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The women’s world cup is starting this week right here on KVRR and soccer fever is hitting new heights here in the metro. Tri-City United soccer club is getting ready for a watch party this Friday for when the U-S Women’s team is playing Vietnam. The metro club has about four thousand members, both recreational and…

Woman Seriously Injured In Golf Cart Crash

A Fargo woman was seriously injured and a woman from Mapleton is facing charges after a golf cart crash in Mapleton Saturday night

MAPLETON, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – A Fargo woman was seriously injured and a woman from Mapleton is facing charges after a golf cart crash in Mapleton Saturday night. According to the Highway Patrol, 43-year-old Erin Brousseau was making a turn from Sunset Drive onto Sunrise Drive when Ashley Tangedal, 37, was ejected from the golf cart. The crash happened shortly after…

Fargo Police Chief Zibolski: “One of the most horrific days in our department’s history.”

One officer shot and killed, two others with serious injuries

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The community is still in shock after three Fargo police officers were shot in the line of duty on Friday afternoon while responding to a traffic crash on 25th Street South near Big Top Bingo. Officer Jake Wallin was shot and killed by a man who wasn’t even involved in the crash. The investigation now in…

Many questions after police say gunman fired on officers in North Dakota, killing 1 and wounding 2

FARGO, N.D. (AP/KVRR) — Many questions remained Sunday about what led a gunman in Fargo, North Dakota, to open fire on police officers as they were responding to a traffic crash. One officer was killed and two others were critically wounded before the gunman was killed by a fourth officer. The shooting happened Friday afternoon along a busy street, and roughly nine hours…

Fire damages home in south Fargo, no injuries

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Fire has heavily damaged a home in Fargo’s Hawthorne neighborhood. The call to 1536 7th St. S came in at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. The home appeared to have significant interior damage. Acting Battalion Chief Ben Swanson says there were no reports of injury. He says there was heavy smoke when the first trucks arrived….

Harwood man arrested for DUI after crashing SUV

HARWOOD, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A 59-year-old Harwood man was arrested and is facing DUI charges after crashing his SUV into a utility pole in Harwood Saturday. According to the Highway Patrol, around 4:30 p.m., they were called to a report of a vehicle that hit a utility pole in the 200 block of Main Avenue. When troopers arrived, they found…

FPD identifies those involved in Friday afternoon’s deadly shooting

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police identifies those involved from a south Fargo shooting Friday afternoon, including the officer and suspect, both of whom killed. FPD officer Jake Wallin, of St. Michael, Minnesota, was killed in the shooting. He was 23-years-old and officially became an officer in April. The suspect is identified as Mohamad Barakat, 37, of Fargo. Police say…

Shooting suspect’s apartment evacuated, searched late Friday into early Saturday

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – A south Fargo apartment building was evacuated Friday and multiple law enforcement agencies including U.S. Marshals, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) were on hand to search a rental unit on the building’s third floor believed to have been the suspect’s in a shooting that left one officer dead and two…