ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR) — An arrest is made in a stabbing death in Alexandria, Minnesota last November. Police arrested 78-year-old Angel Rua-Torres in Alexandria at the home where the crime took place. The Douglas County Attorney’s Office has charged Rua-Torres with the murder of 58-year-old Desiree Frederick, his niece. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Rua-Torres told police he…
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – People passing by pull an elderly couple out of a burning car after a crash in Douglas County, Minnesota. The Sheriff’s Office says a car drove off the road and hit a large pine tree on County Road 4 near Little Mary Circle Southwest. There were two people in the car, 92-year-old John Plusa and…
DOUGLAS CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A man wakes up when he smells smoke and sees flames coming from the chimney of the wood burning stove in the garage. It happened Sunday morning around 6:40 in Kensington, Minnesota, southwest of Alexandria. That man and another renter were able to get out of the home safely. The homeowner was at work at…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR) — Snow and cold might not be welcomed by everyone but if you run a ski resort, it’s go time. Tom Anderson shared video with us from Andes Tower Hills Ski Area by Alexandria. They started making snow on Friday night and opened for both skiing and snowboarding on Saturday and Sunday. Anderson says they are the…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (AP) — Tastefully Simple is named the winner of the 2023 Product Innovation Award through the Direct Selling Association. The Alexandria-based company won for its 12 Days of Dips to Dinner. It features 12 individual product packets featuring recipes that enable a prepare to prepare it as either a Dip or a Dinner. This innovative product exceeded the…
DOUGLAS CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Authorities in Douglas County release the name of a teen killed in a rollover crash near Alexandria early Friday morning. He is 17-year-old Logan Pfeffer of Alexandria. The sheriffs office says he rolled his vehicle on County Road 73 near the intersection with Berglund Mile around 3:30 a.m. Pfeffer was pronounced dead at the scene….
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR) — One is dead in a fatal rollover crash in Alexandria. Douglas County Sheriffs say they were called to the report on County Road 73 North East near the intersection with Berglund Mile North East. When they arrived, they say the 17-year-old male driver was dead on scene. The incident remains under investigation. Categories: Minnesota News Tags:…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A janitor is accused of secretly filming women while they changed inside a locker room at Alomere Hospital in Alexandria. 34-year-old Corey Johns is charged with one count of interference with privacy. According to the criminal complaint, three women told police on Sunday they saw a phone propped up by a shoe and it was recording….
ALEXANDRIA, MINN. (KFGO) — A woman who shot and killed a man near Alexandria around five years ago has now been charged with killing her husband in Texas. Sarah Hartsfield is charged in the death of 46-year-old Joseph Hartsfield. In the 2018 shooting, Hartsfield was not charged in the death of her then-boyfriend, David Bragg. An investigation determined that she…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — The brothers who invented the world’s first compact loader, which would later become known as a Bobcat skid-steer loader, are being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Cyril and Louis Keller operated a machine shop in Minnesota. In 1957, a farmer asked them to build him a machine that he could use to clean…
