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Family Wellness
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Grant for Family Wellness Teen’s Mental Health Program

The fitness center received a special community builder grant from the foundation.
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FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Family Wellness is teaming up with West Fargo schools in the Fall for a teen program thanks to the Offutt Family Foundation. The fitness center received a special community builder grant from the foundation. The $6,000 grant will go towards the youth mental health program. Family Wellness trainers will work with middle and high schoolers to…

Gustafson Funeral
Community, Local News, North Dakota News

Community pulls together at funeral service for West Fargo Lt. Adam Gustafson

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WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Family, friends, colleagues and strangers pull together to honor the life of fallen West Fargo Lt. Adam Gustafson, who died from a heart attack last week. A contagious smile and laughter that would echo off the department walls; that’s how those at the West Fargo Police Department remember Lt. Gustafson. “The way Adam lived his…
Local News, North Dakota News

Lawmakers ask state to stop calling residents about COVID-19 vaccine

Jim Monk,

BISMARCK, N.D. – Two Republican state legislators are asking North Dakota health officials to stop calling residents to offer information on the coronavirus vaccine. Sens. Jessica Bell and Nicole Poolman sent a letter to State Health Officer Dr. Nizar Wehbi expressing concern about the role of state government in “personal health choices” and patient privacy. Both lawmakers said they had…
Local News

Funeral for West Fargo Police Lt. Adam Gustafson

Jim Monk,

FARGO (KVRR) – Mourners gathered Wednesday at Northview Church in Fargo to attend the funeral for West Fargo Police Lt. Adam Gustafson. Gustafson died from a heart attack while on duty May 18.  He was 40. Coverage of the funeral can be seen HERE. Photos: Mike Smith Photography   Categories: Local News Tags: adam gustafson, funeral, West Fargo

Gov Kristi Noem
Local News

Noem pushes to bar critical race theory from South Dakota universities

KVRR Staff,

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.  – South Dakota’s public universities shouldn’t be teaching certain concepts of race and racism, Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday, in line with a nationwide GOP movement to keep critical race theory out of classrooms. In a letter to the Board of Regents that oversees the state’s six public universities, the Republican governor targeted critical race theory and…
Local News, Minnesota News

In death threat case, court nixes penalty Rep. Omar urged

Jim Monk,

Rep. Ilhan OmarNEW YORK – A federal appeals court says a man convicted of threatening the life of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won’t have to participate after all in a program in which he’d hear stories about Muslim refugees. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the unusual special condition in the sentence for Patrick Carlineo…

Duluth Police Arrest Second Suspect In Fatal Downtown Shooting
Minnesota News

Duluth Police Arrest Second Suspect in Fatal Downtown Shooting

By Site Staff

  DULUTH, Minn. – Duluth Police announced Wednesday morning that a second suspect wanted in Saturday’s fatal downtown shooting has been arrested. According to police, Laurel Ladd, 26, was arrested around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday after investigators identified an address on East Village View Drive in the Harbor Highlands as a possible location for Ladd. Ladd was located at the address…