DULUTH, Minn. – To a room of 250 enthusiastic Trump supporters, Donald Trump, Junior held his Make America Great Again event at a ballroom at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. “They say we can’t win Minnesota. I disagree. What about you?” Donald Trump, Junior said. The eldest Trump son addressed the smaller crowd of socially distant, mask-wearing supporters from across…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Twenty years ago, Kevin “NeSe” Shores began his 270 mile journey from Moorhead City Hall to the capitol building in St. Paul in his wheelchair. That first journey was to bring attention to the Gulf War Illness, which causes fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, and insomnia in approximately 250,000 veterans who returned home from the 1991 Gulf…
FARGO, N.D. – A West Fargo veteran helps start a GoFundMe account to raise money for a disabled Fargo veteran. “I felt alone in my battles. He was the closest bud I had that understood what I was going through,” Army Veteran Ayleah Peasley-Evitt said. In a place of hopelessness, Peasley-Evitt was able to find hope through Greg Akason. “Very…
FARGO, N.D. – At the eight Hornbacher’s locations in the metro, people came out to gobble up a turkey lunch at United Way’s event. Gobble It Up kicked off Wednesday morning with over 2,000 pre-ordered meals before the event even started. Over 100 volunteers came out to help make this possible. Hornbacher’s and their vendors donated all of the food…
WEST FARGO, N.D. – Mika is the newest member of the West Fargo Fire family. “We were looking to see what we could do to benefit the quality of life in our community,” said Chief Dan Fuller of the West Fargo Fire Department. She’s trained to dig and sniff through the rubble and debris and determine if a fire was…
OTTER TAIL, CO., Minn. — The man accused of setting fire to the Star Lake Bridge in Otter Tail County on Sunday is now charged with three felony counts. 42-year-old Ryan Johnson of Dent and Mapleton is charged with possessing a firearm for a crime of violence, arson and having an explosive device. Authorities arrived after midnight Sunday and found…
BISMARCK, N.D. — A handling error is being blamed for a loss of 349 COVID-19 samples from a Fargo event last week. The samples were put in a different refrigerator and the samples went undetected past the time where they could be tested. Health officials say this is the first time this issue has happened at the state lab. They…
VALLEY CITY, ND – A man who police said was found with a stab wound in Moorhead early Sunday morning may not have been stabbed. The 24-year-old man, from Moorhead, said he was stabbed in Valley City. Police said that they believed that the man had been driven to Moorhead by a friend. Moorhead police notified police in Valley City,…
FARGO, ND — At 1:09 a.m. this morning, an officer on patrol in the area of 13 Avenue and South University Drive saw a vehicle driven by a person who was suspended and had a warrant for their arrest out of West Fargo. The officer stopped the car in the 1400 block of Oak Manor Avenue South. The open warrant…
Domestic violence reports in the region appear to be spiking as the pandemic puts more pressure on families. YWCA leaders in the metro say since March, domestic-violence related calls to the Red River Dispatch have gone up by fifteen percent. That’s concerning enough. But they’ve also seen a forty percent reduction during that same time in the number of people…
