FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Orlan Rokke’s haircutting career began with the same type of motivation that starts many a great journey – why not? “I was 17 years old. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do,” he said with a laugh. “A neighbor friend came to Fargo, went to barber college, and said he kind of enjoyed it,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Police are investigating a shooting at VIP Barber Shop and Salon in Fargo that left one man with an injury to his leg. Just before 7 p.m. last night, witnesses say two barbers got into an argument. One of the men shot the other in the leg. They say the shooter called 911 to self-report the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — MSUM is commemorating one of the first black Civil War veterans in the area with a statue. Felix Battles was a Union soldier born into slavery in Tennessee and moved to Mississippi during his childhood. Sometime before 1860, he gained his freedom by likely escaping and moving north to Iowa. In 1864, he was one of…
Sam Mann and Greg Brown, who’s been getting haircuts from Mann for about 20 years. FARGO (KVRR) – Sam Mann has been cutting hair for more than six decades. Today, the 86-year-old south Fargo barber is hanging up his clippers after 63 years on the job. Mann says has no idea how many haircuts he’s given, but says he’s had…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — More than a century after his death, the legacy of Civil War veteran Felix Battles is being kept alive by historians in Moorhead. KVRR’s Tim Scott tells us how many people are excited for a statue that honors one of the first African-American settlers in the metro. Before his death in 1907, a man known as “The…
