BISMARCK (KVRR) – A state Senator from Bismarck says she is not running for reelection. Democratic Sen. Erin Oban made the announcement Thursday on social media. “Being a Democrat in a Republican city and state hasn’t led me to this” Oban wrote. “But in recent years, everything, it seems, including politics, has gotten increasingly polarizing and way too personal.” Oban…
BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s top election official says an effort to recall a state legislator can’t occur now that a new redistricting map has been approved. Secretary of State Al Jaeger on Thursday announced that he rescinded the petition to recall GOP Rep. Dwight Kiefert because an election will be held in his district in less than a year….
FARGO (KVRR) – Two counts of murder and one count of murder of an unborn child have been filed in connection with the shooting deaths of three people at a Fargo business Wednesday. Bond was set at $2 million during a court appearance for 35-year-old Anthony Reese, Jr. Reese is accused of shooting and killing Richard Pittman, April Carbone and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — There is no more Happy Joe’s in the FM Metro. The owners of the last Happy Joe’s in Fargo on South University Drive announcing they are retiring and the restaurant is closed. Mike and Cheryl Post writing on social media that their 45 years in the business were ‘magical’. They also thanked all of their customers…
T. Denny SanfordFARGO (KVRR) – Search warrant affidavits indicate that phone, email and computer records were seized as part of a child pornography investigation involving billionaire philanthropist T. Denny Sanford. The investigation into Sanford was reported last year by ProPublica and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Court documents in the case were initially sealed and referred to Sanford as “an…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – We’re learning more about the Moorhead man arrested for murder in the death of a male and female Wednesday afternoon at a Fargo business. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Reese, Jr. is a low risk sex offender. The North Dakota registry lists his place of employment as Melet Plastics, which has the same address of Composite America where police…
WASHINGTON (KVRR) – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has suspended enforcement of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies that employ more than 100 people. The mandate was suspended in the wake of a federal appeals court order that says OSHA “take no steps to implement or enforce” the mandate “until further court order.” “While OSHA remains confident in…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – An online petition asking Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to drop all criminal charges against hundreds of demonstrators arrested in connection with the Line 3 pipeline protests in northern Minnesota has collected more than 14,000 signatures. Organizers say the charges are based on “brutal policing tactics,” the violation of treaty rights,…
GLEN ULLIN, N.D. (KVRR) – The Morton County Sheriff’s Office says some residents had to be evacuated Tuesday night while crews battled a large garage fire in Glen Ullin. The fire broke out at around 7:30 p.m., which led to evacuations in five nearby homes. No one was inside the garage at the time, and it appears the fire’s origin…
UPDATE: The North Dakota Highway Patrol identified the man who died in a crash on I-29 Tuesday as Paul Entzi of Fargo. FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – One person died in a single-vehicle crash on 19th Avenue North at the I-29 overpass in Fargo. It happened shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday. The State Patrol says the car had exited northbound at…
