OTTER TAIL, Minn. (KVRR) — The Otter Tail Sheriff’s Office says a man drowned in Otter Tail Lake after falling from a pontoon into the water. David Kantrud, 63, of Fergus Falls, was on a pontoon with family around 2:30 Saturday afternoon when the man fell in an attempt to retrieve an item from the lake. People on a nearby…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Fergus Falls man is sentenced to over 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to 3rd Degree Murder. 23-year-old Frankie Reed III admitted to selling M30 pills to Matthew Millsop who died of an overdose in March 2023 at a transitional housing facility. According to Reed, he had purchased the pills in Fargo and…
Dave Bishop (KBRF) FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — Fergus Falls Police say the driver involved a fatal motorcycle crash is 22-year-old Jacob Helms. Helms crashed into a semi trailer at Lincoln Avenue and I-94 shortly before noon Tuesday. Witnesses tell police Helms was headed west on Lincoln Avenue when he collided with the rear end of the semi’s trailer. The…
Dave Bishop (KBRF) FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A motorcycle driver is dead after crashing into a semi trailer in Fergus Falls. Police say it happened at Lincoln Avenue and I-94 shortly before noon. Witnesses tell police the victim was headed west on Lincoln Avenue and collided with the rear end of the semi’s trailer. The area was closed off…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Two people are in custody after a bizarre attempted robbery in Fargo Friday. According to Fargo Police, a man was the victim of an attempted robbery at gunpoint involving a woman he thought was his online girlfriend Friday evening. The attempted robbery occurred in a hotel room at the Expressway Suites on 17th Ave. S in…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KFGO/KBRF) – 29-year-old Nicole Peasley of Fergus Falls was arrested after taking her child whom she did not have physical custody of to Florida instead of returning them to their father. On May 11th, the Fergus Falls Police Department received a report from the father, stating that he was waiting in the parking lot for the custody…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) – Voters overwhelmingly reject a nearly $55 million bond referendum for Fergus Falls Public Schools. The school district says 1,341 voted in favor of the proposal, with 2,262 voting against it. The referendum would have paid for a new school for students in grades 3 through 5. Schools like Adams Elementary and McKinley Elementary would have…
FERGUS FALLS, MINN. (KVRR) – Voters will decide on a nearly $55 million bond referendum for Fergus Falls Public Schools next Tuesday. “Our cabling doesn’t conform to modern standards and the architect said that’s because it was installed before standards existed. So it gives you an idea of some of the age of the infrastructure.” Infrastructure problems like this is…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A man wanted in a St. Paul shooting is in the Otter Tail County Jail. Fergus Falls police responded to a call of a domestic argument at a home on College Street shortly after 1 a.m. Monday. Nineteen-year-old Zykevious Crosby was arrested after police used a search warrant. He was wanted on an outstanding warrant…
X: @MSPPIO_NWFERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — Sgt. Jesse Grabow with Minnesota State Patrol is giving us a look at how the roads are out there in some parts of Minnesota. These snapshots of jackknifed and overturned semis were taken along I-94 between Fergus Falls and Alexandria around 2 p.m. Grabow wrote on social media that roads are ice and snow…
