ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota’s senior care homes are struggling with record staff shortages as people leave the industry faster than they can replaced. The Long-Term Care Imperative says there are 23,000 unfilled senior caregiver positions across Minnesota. That compares with 8,000 last March. And the industry lost 2,000 more workers in August. Burnout from the pandemic is often cited….
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota company says it will expand its ownership in a fleet of oil wells in North Dakota. Minnetonka-based Northern Oil and Gas will pay Texas-based Comstock Resources $154 million on the new properties, which are expected to produce 4,500 barrels of oil per day. Comstock Resources is controlled by Jerry Jones, who owns the Dallas Cowboys football…
FARGO (KVRR) – Surveillance video shows two people with what appears to be a wheeled container being pushed down the sidewalk near Duffy’s Tavern at about the same time police believe the bar was burglarized Thursday morning. The video, obtained by KVRR News, shows 6:23 a.m. Fargo Police spokeswoman Jessica Schindeldecker says investigators believe the break-in occurred at 6:20 a.m….
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Salamah Pendleton is sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte and his mother Lola Moore in May 2020. “The defendant determined his own sentences today by the many choices he made May 27, 2020. The defendant’s choices claimed his family’s 61-year-old mother and grandmother….
UPDATE: Fargo Attorney Tim O’Keeffe of O’Keeffe O’Brien Lyson Attorneys released the following statement on behalf of his client Jack Glasser, the owner of Glasser Images: “Jack Glasser, owner of Glasser Images says he understands what people may be feeling who had arranged for his firm to capture their wedding day memories with photographs and video, capturing family and wedding…
FARGO (KVRR) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol arrested a man Friday after he led authorities on a high-speed chase before he lost control of his vehicle and crashed in Fargo. Thirty-one-year-old Grant Goodsell of Halstad, Minnesota was arrested for DUI, fleeing, resisting arrest and reckless driving. A state trooper was parked along I-29 near the 32nd Ave interchange when…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Children lined up and participated in the second annual walk-a-thon at S.G. Reinertsen Elementary School. All 700 plus students participated in the fun and were broken up into groups by grade level. At last check they had collectively raised over $10,000. Their ultimate goal is $15,000 and they will be raising money for one more week….
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The Falcons of Park Christian will be flying under the Friday night lights, the school will play its first home night game in two years on their homecoming. “We’re just pumped to do it here on our home field, having alumni come back for the homecoming game it’s going to be a fun night,” Park Christian…
FARGO (KVRR) – A man accused of illegally transporting a black bear carcass from Canada to North Dakota has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Court documents say Joseph Stolarczyk, of Mosinee, Wis. brought the bear across the Pembina Port of Entry after he exceeded the Manitoba bag limit by killing two bears in the same year. Acting U.S….
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – A Red Lake Man is indicted by a federal grand jury on first degree murder in the shooting death of Red Lake Tribal Police Officer Ryan Bialke. Court documents say five officers were doing a welfare check at 28-year-old David Donnell Jr.’s home in Redby on July 27th. He ran inside and officers broke down the door…
