ELMO TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Icy roads contributed to a fatal crash in eastern Otter Tail County. The state patrol says the driver of a pickup lost control on Highway 29 in Elmo Township. The pickup drifted into the other lane, hitting another pickup head-on shortly after 8 this morning. The driver of the pickup that was struck, a 71…
GRANT COUNTY, Minn. — A Sebeka man is dead after a fatal crash in west-central Minnesota’s Grant County. Two semis collided Monday morning at the intersection of Highway’s 59 and 27, just south of Barrett. The state patrol says one of the trucks started to cross Highway 59 and pulled out in front of the second truck. That driver…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead Police arrest a man after responding to a rollover in a south Moorhead neighborhood. Authorities say 32-year-old Corey Berghorst of Moorhead was driving in the 3300 block of Village Green Drive around 11 o’clock Sunday night when he struck a tree and rolled his vehicle. One caller reported the vehicle was on fire. Berghorst was trapped…
VALLEY CITY, ND — The highway patrol has released the names of those killed last week in a wrong-way head-on crash on I-94 near Valley City. Their report shows that 35-year-old Kerseh Grupee of Fargo was driving westbound in the eastbound lane when he collided head-on with a pickup early Wednesday. Grupee and the driver of the pickup, 31-year-old…
FARGO, ND — Police and highway patrol units are on scene of a multi-vehicle crash near the I-29 and I-94 interchange in Fargo. The crash includes at least one semi and multiple injuries are being reported. Authorities are closing down I-94 westbound, starting at the 25th Street South exit. They say this will also affect I-29 northbound traffic. A second…
VALLEY CITY, ND — A deadly wrong-way crash on I-94 has claimed two lives. The highway patrol reports that a 35-year-old Fargo man was driving westbound in the eastbound lane when he collided head-on with a pickup. The Fargo man and a 31-year-old Crane Lake, Minnesota man in the pickup were both killed. A passenger in the pickup was…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Two men are accused of being too stoned to order pizza and going on a mini crime spree Tuesday in Moorhead. Police say 22-year-old Nathan Smith and 28-year-old Ezekiel Linder kicked out the glass door at Pizza Patrol after they couldn’t decide what to order. Two blocks away, the men’s car jumped a curb and crashed into…
CASS COUNTY, ND — A Valley City woman was hurt while trying to avoid some debris on I-94 near the Maple River Bridge. Margie Carlson, 39, says she came upon debris in the road on the interstate on Monday afternoon around 5 o’clock. Carlson told the highway patrol that she tried to swerve to avoid the debris, and other vehicles,…
GAYLORD, Minn. — Investigators in Gaylord, Minnesota say the social media app Snapchat may have played a role in a fatal vehicle crash. They believe the 16-year-old female driver was using Snapchat just before 56-year-old Phillip Andrew Ilg of New Prague was struck and killed last June. A criminal complaint says the girl told investigators she only glanced at…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. — One person was killed in a two vehicle crash in Becker County. The sheriff’s office says 68-year old Todd Mikulecky of Hawley died at the scene of the collision at the intersection of County Roads 7 and 16, about 6 miles east of Ulen. The crash happened just before noon on Sunday. Three people in…
