Wayne Stenehjem funeral 2/3/2022BISMARCK, N.D. – Hundreds of people gathered at the Bismarck Event Center to pay tribute to North Dakota’s longest-serving attorney general who died last week. Sixty-eight-year-old Wayne Stenehjem was found unresponsive at his home and died unexpectedly last Friday following his hospitalization. A cause of death has not been made public. Stenehjem’s body was brought to the…
Jason RavnsborgPIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg insists he did nothing wrong in using his position overseeing the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation to make inquiries about what out-of-state criminal investigators could find on his phone during the investigation of his 2020 fatal car crash. The Republican attorney general is facing a House impeachment probe as lawmakers…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A district judge in Fargo says he’s leaving the court. East Central District Judge Thomas Olson has given notice of his resignation, effective April 30. Olson cited health issues including his hospitalization last year for Covid-19. He was appointed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple in 2014 and elected in 2016. Olson graduated from the William Mitchell College of…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Feed My Starving Children is back this week, trying to raise $480,000 for hungry kids. More than 8,000 volunteers, most of them middle or high schoolers from West Fargo to Moorhead, come together to feed around 2 million children over four days. The goal is to pack 2.5 million meals. Each volunteer packs around $50 worth…
VALLEY CITY, N.D. — A Valley City man charged with attempted murder, burglary and violating a protection order has been sentenced to just over six years in prison. Alex Mooridian was charged after he shot another man in the abdomen last February in Valley City. The shooting victim has since recovered and asked for leniency. He believes Mooridian is a…
Kurt GroszhansWASHINGTON – A North Dakota farmer remains jailed in Ukraine on charges he attempted to assassinate a former business partner who is now a government minister. Kurt Groszhans of Ashley is in a Kyiv prison. He’s been charged with attempted murder, attempted extortion and attempted kidnapping. Groszhans’ family says the charges are bogus and designed to stifle his claims of…
FARGO (KVRR) – Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with Johnson & Johnson and three distributors. A federal court filing describes $590 million in settlements with the New Jersey-based company along with distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. Some tribes were hit particularly hard by an overdose and addiction crisis that was linked to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – As expected, Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney is officially running for another term. Mahoney says he wants a better structure for students who want to learn trades and give job opportunities not far from where they grew up. According to Mahoney around 70 to 80 percent of students who go to college in the community find a…
WASHINGTON (KVRR) – Sen. John Hoeven says he will be in quarantine through Sunday after testing positive for COVID-19. Hoeven says he has no symptoms. He tested positive Tuesday after being notified that he had been exposed. “While asymptomatic, I tested positive for COVID-19 this afternoon. I’ve consulted with the Senate Physician and will continue to follow the recommendations of…
FARGO (KVRR) – Authorities have identified two people who died in a Jan. 26 house fire in Fargo. The victims were 88-year-old Jean Clara Blouin and 91-year-old Myron Blouin. Firefighters were called to 1418 2nd Ave. S. shortly after 5:00 a.m. It took several hours to put the fire out. Two firefighters fell into a hole in the floor of…
