April 2021 MugshotCLAY CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A man authorities believe was traveling back into our area with a shipment of drugs is arrested during a stop on I-94 in Clay County. Officers stopped 48-year-old Charles Fraction, who has no permanent address, on Wednesday. They found around 70 grams believed to be a cocaine and fentanyl mixture, nearly 5 grams…
Clay County pursuit 12/8/2021MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Two Moorhead men were taken into custody after a wild high-speed chase in Clay County Tuesday. Twenty-four-year-old Terrell Jones and a passenger, 29-year-old Christopher Cloud are in the Clay County jail. Jones was arrested for Felony Fleeing, 2nd Degree Assault, and Felon in Possession of Ammunition. Cloud is being held in the Clay County…
House fire 12/8/2021 (courtesy, KFGO)MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Fire destroyed a home south of Moorhead shortly before 8:00 a.m. Wednesday. The fire was in the 4400 block of Highway 52. Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says two people got out by jumping from a second-floor window. They were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Some pets inside the house…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting has released the names of the drivers in an Oct. 14 crash involving a school bus and a pickup north of Moorhead. Four students and the driver of the pickup, 30-year-old Joel Shipley, of Fargo were injured. Sixty-one-year-old Todd Kappes, of Ada was the driver of the school bus. Empting says…
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – Four Ada-Borup West students and the driver of a pickup are sent to the hospital following a crash in Clay County. “When we arrived at the scene, it was just chaos. It’s a scene you never want to drive up to,” Kristi Oakland whose son’s thumb was broken in the crash said. Around 7:30 Thursday…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Health officials are yet again warning of the severity of COVID-19 as cases across Cass and Clay counties continue to rise. “Given the urgency of our current situation we felt it necessary to update the community as we enter our fourth wave with the Delta variant changing the game,” Fargo Cass Public Health Director, Desi Fleming…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A contentious school board meeting in Moorhead after a vote came up on universal masking for all staff and students in the public schools. Moorhead School Board Chair Cassidy Bjorklund said, “You guys can go out, go out. You can please leave, please leave. Out! Officer can you please remove them?” The issue set off a crowd…
GLYNDON, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – One person is dead following the collision of a car and a semi-truck at an intersection east of Glyndon shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday. The State Patrol says the car was eastbound on 28th St. North when it ran into the side of the semi which was southbound on Highway 9. The car’s driver, a 41-year…
MOORHEAD, Minn. KVRR) – Clay County Public Health is asking Clay County residents who received a COVID-19 vaccine from an out-of-state pharmacy or from the Fargo VA Medical Center to inform them with their vaccine information. Residents can call the Clay County Public Health vaccine hotline at 218-299-7204 and leave a message with your name, birth date, address, phone number,…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Two Minnesota counties in the Red River Valley have some of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the state. According to the Minnesota Dept. of Health, just 31% of Clay County’s residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine. In Wilkin County, it’s 30%. Among residents 16 and over, 40% of Clay County residents…
