WATFORD CITY, ND — No one was hurt in an explosion at an oil field saltwater disposal site near Watford City. The McKenzie County Emergency manager says one man was at the site at the time of the explosion, but he was not hurt. It happened at a White Owl Energy Services site. Authorities don’t know what caused the explosion and…
Joseph Kiedrowski, Billie Jo McGinnis-Kiedrowski and Gina SteynFARGO, ND — An on-going drug investigation related to recent heroin overdoses in Fargo and Otter Tail County results in three arrests. A number of departments served a warrant at 3414 Birdie Street North in Fargo around 10:30 Thursday morning. Police say 39-year-old Joseph Kiedrowski of Fargo fled the scene but was found hiding…
BISMARCK, ND — State Rep. Kathy Skroch made a passionate plea before the North Dakota House. The Republican from Lidgerwood said, “For the sake of our well-being, for the good of our families and our state, we must not strip the last remnants of the North Dakota Sunday closing laws.” That plea was not enough as the North Dakota House voted…
VALLEY CITY, ND — Police in Valley City are investigating the death of a high school student who’s body was found on Canadian Pacific railroad tracks. The discovery was made by a railroad crew on tracks along the Hi-Line bridge in northeast Valley City around 2 p.m. Thurs. Police have identified the body as that of Valley City high school student…
MANKATO, MN — A 40 year old Mankato, MN woman is charged with endangering a child after her two year old, who was strapped in a car seat, fell out of the car she was driving earlier this week. Maimuna Hassan is facing up to one year in prison and a $3,000 fine for the gross misdemeanor. She is also…
FARGO, ND — Fargo Police are issuing a warning about the Felony Lane Gang. They break into unattended vehicles in parking lots and take purses for the cash, credit cards, checkbooks and ID’s inside. Last January, Fargo had at least 12 cases linked to the nationwide theft ring. The suspects targeted fitness centers, daycares, movie theaters, sporting events, cemeteries, and…
FERGUS FALLS (KFGO) – A judge has sentenced a man to a year and a day in prison for violating a no contact order in a domestic assault case. 38-year-old George Solis made hundreds of calls from jail to the woman who he wasn’t supposed to contact. He was urging the woman to have the no contact order dropped. She…
Nonagenarian Betty White turns 97 Thursday, and in dog years, that’s just one year off the age of little Miss Mitzy here. While some dog experts dispute the accuracy of saying each year in dog years is equivalent to 7 human ones, there’s no denying that at 14, Mitzy’s not exactly playing the ingenue these days. But you’d never know…
FARGO, N.D. — About 400 farmers from across the Midwest and Canada gathered at Precision Planting’s Winter Conference. One farmer, Jason Siegert, reflects on all the changes in the field. “What we’ve seen in my lifetime— I mean to go out with a planter that used to be 12 rows and manually set everything and you’re steering it and watching every…
WASHINGTON – “I am now a single mother, I lost my husband last year, I bought me a house in the process. Ma’am, I’m worried about how I’m going to pay my mortgage. I don’t want to get upset,” Smithsonian employee Audrey Murray said. Audrey is 59-year-old federal worker who has gone without pay since January 1st. A group of senators…
