Donald Merrill Jr. OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Vergas, Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to the burglary of Billy’s Corner Bar and Grill in Vergas. 25-year-old Donald Merrill Jr. admitted to breaking into the bar in late March and stealing a handgun. According to court records, surveillance video shows a man smashing the front window and taking the…
Monte Rodacker / GoFundMeFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A fundraiser is started for Monte Rodacker of Jamestown after a crash during a Nine-Eleven tribute run Sunday afternoon near Fort Ransom. Rodacker was forced to put on his brakes to avoid hitting a group of motorycles that had passed him at a high rate of speed and then suddenly braked on a…
MINNEAPOLIS — It’s the premiere of a new play at one of the nation’s top children’s theatre companies. And now, the Children’s Theatre Company is drawing on local talent for their upcoming production. The original play, “Drawing Lessons,” opens October 8th in Minneapolis. It’s about a Korean-American adolescent who uses her graphic novel skills to find a path through the…
Josh Kevan, senior consultant for firm RVK Inc., presents a cash management study to lawmakers on the Government Finance Committee on Sept. 17, 2024. A key recommendation of the study was for the state to move its operating money out of the Bank of North Dakota. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) A cash management study presented to lawmakers Tuesday recommends…
The Quentin Burdick federal courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) The U.S. Department of Justice designated Grand Forks as one of 78 initial partnership communities that will focus on gun violence crime involving intimate partners, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of North Dakota announced Tuesday. The program will team U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Fargo Police responded to a report of a disturbance in the Hawthorne neighborhood around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived in the 1000 block of 9th Avenue 9th South, the suspect fled on foot. Police searched the neighborhood for several blocks and some roadways were also blocked in an attempt to locate the suspect but were not…
RANSOM CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Fort Ransom State Park south of Valley City is about to get a major campsite upgrade. Sen. John Hoeven announced that nearly $1 million in funding is being awarded to the state park for water and electrical upgrades. The grant will be used to renovate nearly two dozen campsites by upgrading electrical service and adding…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Former North Dakota Governor Ed Schafer has launched a new campaign against Constitutional Measure 2 The ballot question proposed by the state legislature would establish new restrictions on North Dakota’s ballot initiative process. It would require constitutional and non-constitutional initiated measures to be limited to a single subject determined by the Secretary of State. It would…
BATTLE LAKE, Minn. (KVRR) — The fire at Stub’s Dining and Gunpowder Bar was reported around 9:25 pm Monday. It took about six hours to get the fire under control. “We had Battle Lake was our primary then we had seven mutual aid departments,” said Tom Minten, Battle Lake Fire Chief. The fire caused the roof to collapse, along with…
FARGO (KFGO) – Fargo Fire says a charging e-bike battery caused a fire inside an apartment Tuesday afternoon. The fire was reported just after 2 at an apartment at 1781 35th Street South, just east of I-29. The building’s sprinkler system activated and put the fire out. Fire damage was limited, but the unit has smoke and water damage as…
