DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — A rural Detroit Lakes man is in a Fargo hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. The Becker County Sheriff’s Office got a report of a man being shot in the leg around 10 o’clock last night at 15356 East Munson Drive. They found 60-year-old Terry Tyge suffering from a gunshot wound to his…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Another big construction project that will impact traffic begins Monday in Detroit Lakes. Crews will be replacing the eastbound bridge over the CP Railway Line. Traffic on Highway 10 will be reduced to a single lane in each direction between Highway 59 and Summit Avenue. They also plan to resurface Highway 10 which will impact…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. — At about the same time as the Moorhead shooting, the Becker County Sheriff’s Office was also responding to a shooting call. A call came into dispatch from a man who said he was in White Earth and needed help. A second call came in from a homeowner who said there was a man on his…
Two men were sent to the hospital in Detroit Lakes after going through the ice on Height of Land Lake in Becker County. The sheriff says 77-year-old Norman Bradow of Fergus Falls and 82-year-old Jerome Genz of Detroit Lakes were treated and released. The men were returning to shore around 6 p.m. after fishing when their ATV’s broke through the…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. — A Mahnomen County man is dead after rolling his vehicle seven miles north of Detroit Lakes. The Becker County Sheriff says 41-year-old Marvin Tibbetts, Jr. of Naytahwaush lost control of his vehicle on Highway 21 around 10:30 this morning. His vehicle went in the ditch, hit an approach and came to rest against a tree. Tibbetts…
A young Fargo boy was hurt while snowmobiling with his dad. The Becker County Sheriff’s Office and others responded to the accident near Ice Cracking Lake Saturday afternoon around 2. They found a 12-year-old boy had left the trail and hit a tree with his snowmobile. He was airlifted to a Fargo hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The boy’s…
