FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Scheels is planning a new 250,000-square-foot sporting goods store to be opened in Blaine, Minnesota. Blaine will be the company’s second location in the Twin Cities metro and sixth in the state. The store is expected to open in the spring of 2028. “Minnesota has always been a proud part of the Scheels story, and we’re thrilled…
ST. PAUL (KVRR/AP) — A bill to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana in Minnesota passes the Minnesota House of Representatives by a vote of 71-59. The House, where Democrats comfortably outnumber Republicans, debated its marijuana bill late into the night Monday before breaking around midnight. The debate resumed this morning. The Senate, where Democrats hold only a one-seat majority, is…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Devils Lake man is sentenced to over 11 years in prison for an armed carjacking in the Twin Cities. Prosecutors say 27-year-old Joshua Sinawa walked up to a bakery truck outside a Cub Foods in Blaine, pulled out a gun and demanded that the driver get out. Sinawa then walked the man inside the store before…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Minnesota State Patrol releases the names of three people killed Friday afternoon in a construction zone crash on I-94 in Moorhead. The victims include 65-year-old Robert Correll and 63-year-old Linda Correll of Ham Lake, Minnesota and 89-year-old Shirley Gatzke of Blaine, Minnesota. All three were in a SUV stopped behind a semi in the construction zone…
BECKER CO., Minn. — A large scale search is underway in Becker County for a missing hunter. Sheriff Todd Glander says 58-year-old Paul Sandstrom of Blaine, Minnesota failed to meet his hunting party for lunch Sunday. The group notified authorities about 4 hours later and a ground search continued until midnight. It resumed this morning. He was last seen in…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A St. Cloud man is accused of strangling a woman in his basement because he believed God told him to. 38-year-old Daniel Kenning faces one felony count of second-degree murder for the weekend death of 45-year-old Jennifer Moy of Blaine. Kenning told police that he met Moy at a wedding. He drove her back to his house,…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A Minneapolis 911 dispatcher was killed while driving to work and her husband heard the call while monitoring emergency dispatch audio at home. The State Patrol says 30-year-old Jenna Bixby was hit head-on Saturday by a wrong-way driver on Highway 252. The other driver was Richard Shaka, a retired 72-year-old minister from Blaine, and alcohol is suspected…
