GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A fire and explosion in a piece of equipment at J.R. Simplot in Grand Forks slightly injured a firefighter this morning. “Crews were able to extinguish it rather quickly,” said Captain Darren Schimke. “In the process of that there was a minor explosion. No injuries were caused from that explosion. Some of the fire did spread…
ROLLA, N.D. — An officer with the Rolla Police Department was hurt after crashing into the back of a car on Highway 30. The highway patrol says Officer Nathan Gustafson was responding to a report of a stalled vehicle around 10:30 last night. The car was stopped on the highway and the driver, Carl Indvik, Jr., was standing beside…
FARGO, N.D. — The FM area comes together over a plate of Spaghetti to help one kid in need. Calvin VanCamp was playing outside at school when he fell and hit his head on ice. Once he began getting treatment for his injury, doctors found out he had life threatening brain bleed. Organizers offered a spaghetti dinner and there was…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — A Detroit Lakes teen was taken to the hospital after being hit by a BNSF train while trying to cross the tracks. Police say a 13-year-old was hit by the train along Highway 10 between Corbett and Jackson Avenue. They say the crew on board spotted the teen and sounded the bell and horn, but…
FARGO, N.D. — A 26-year-old motorcycle driver is in Essentia with serious injuries after hitting a flatbed trailer on I-94. The highway patrol says the crash happened at 1:35 this afternoon when Danika Murphy of West Fargo was merging onto the interstate from the 25th Street South loop ramp. Murphy hit the passenger side of the Kenworth’s trailer and…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Grand Forks Police are looking for anyone who witnessed a hit and run crash involving a pedestrian. Officers responded to the 500 block of 3rd Avenue South around 11 this morning and found a man lying on the street. A witness says he was talking to someone through the window of a black pickup. The driver…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead Police say they are searching for three people involved in an assault on a Concordia student in his dorm room. Police say at least one of the suspects knew the victim and it may explain how they were able to get into Erickson Hall. They say the suspects went into the victim’s room at about…
WILKIN COUNTY, Minn. — A man who spent more than 10 hours in the wreckage of his pickup is hospitalized in Breckenridge. The Wilkin County Sheriff says the victim’s pickup rolled on a county road 10 miles south of Foxhome around 10 o’clock last night. He wasn’t discovered by a passerby until 8:30 this morning. The man is in…
FARGO, N.D. — Creativity was shown all throughout Onword Therapy in Fargo during a mask making get together. Brain injury survivors spent the afternoon decorating masks to display at the capitol. It is one way the North Dakota Brain Injury Network is giving brain injury survivors a chance to share their stories. The Unmasking Brain Injury Project allows people to…
MORTON COUNTY, N.D. — Prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena for a man ordered to testify about a violent late-November clash between police and Dakota Access pipeline protesters. Steve Martinez, 42, a protester from Williston, had been ordered to testify about the arm injury suffered by 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky, a protester from New York. He was ordered to testify in…
