GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — There has been a third drowning in the Red River Valley in one week. Two people kayaking on the English Coulee Diversion Pond south of Grand Forks this morning came across a floating mat with a cell phone and fishing gear. A dive team was called out and they found the body of a 23-year-old…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — A 57-year-old man is dead after his pickup and trailer were rear-ended by a semi on I-29 in Grand Forks County. The Highway Patrol says the pickup and trailer were pushed into the ditch and caught fire. 57-year-old Wayne O’Connell of Shelly, Minnesota was ejected and died. The crash happened around 6:30 Wednesday evening about…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — Grand Forks County Commissioners have declared a burn ban in the county. They say fires in the abnormally dry conditions could threaten the health and well-being of people in the county. Violators could face up to 30 days in jail, a $1,500 fine and have to pay for the cost of putting the fire out….
GRAND FORKS, ND (KFGO) – The Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Dept. has released the name of a man whose body was found in the median along US Hwy. 2 west of Grand Forks Sat. morning. He was 36 year-old Casey Weekley of Grand Forks. The body was sent to the UND pathology department for an autopsy. A crime in the…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. (KFGO) -Two men are in custody following a pursuit through portions of Grand Forks and Traill Counties early Wednesday. Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Lt. B.J. Maxson says the driver fled an attempted traffic stop by a deputy after rolling through a stop sign south of Grand Forks, at times hitting speeds of 100 mph. The chase…
FARGO, N.D. — An online fundraising campaign to raise money for the Curry-Dean family of Fargo has raised over $60,000. One-year-old Maxwell Dean and 9-year-old Camden Dean were killed when an SUV driven by their mother, 30-year-old Trista Curry, skidded out of control and into the path of a semi on I-29 on Sunday. The boys died at the scene…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, ND — A YouCaring page has been set up to help a Fargo family that lost two children in a weekend car accident. Friends and family of Trista Curry set up the page to help the family with funeral and medical expenses. Curry’s one year old and nine year old boys were killed in the crash. North Dakota…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — Two children are dead and a woman and child are seriously hurt after a crash in heavy blowing snow on Interstate 29 Sunday morning in Grand Forks County. North Dakota Highway Patrol says the female driver from Fargo lost control on the ice, slush and snow covered interstate two miles north of Reynolds. Her vehicle…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — A Fargo man is dead after driving his pickup into a parked snowplow on I-29 in Grand Forks County. The crash happened around 7:30 Tuesday morning about a mile north of Reynolds. The plow was stopped along the interstate with a North Dakota Highway Patrol trooper and all of their emergency lights were activated. The…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — Two men were arrested after an early morning pursuit through East Grand Forks, Grand Forks and Thompson. Authorities say Steven Johnson of Fargo was behind the wheel and refused to stop. Spike strips were deployed two separate times before the vehicle came to a stop west of Thompson. Johnson was arrested for fleeing, driving under…
