SIOUX FALLS, S.D – Lewis Drug says it has purchased pharmacy assets from Shopko Stores in six communities in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. The company said Wednesday it bought prescription files and records from Shopko pharmacies in Madison, Mitchell and Sisseton, South Dakota; Luverne and St. James, Minnesota and Ida Grove, Iowa. Lewis Drug currently operates in four of…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — You won’t find this small Iowa town on a map, but you will find it at the Rourke Art Gallery Museum in Moorhead. KVRR’s Jessie Cohen tells us how one NDSU professor turned artist and architect has brought his story to life. What started off as an idea during a commercial break has now turned into a…
MCINTOSH COUNTY, N.D. — A weed that’s strong enough to stop combines and resist many herbicides has been found in North Dakota for the first time. The Agriculture Department says Palmer amaranth has been positively identified in a soybean field in McIntosh County, southeast of Bismarck. The aggressive pigweed species has been found in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa in…
Police say a body believed to be that of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts has been discovered in a rural area near where she went missing last month. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says the body was found Tuesday morning in rural Poweshiek County, which includes Tibbetts’ hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. The agency called a 4 p.m. news conference…
HART LAKE TOWNSHIP, Minn. – A four-year-old boy and his father, both of Northwood, Iowa, are dead after kayaking on a lake about 20 miles Southeast of Bemidji. The Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call around 1:30 Saturday about an overturned kayak on Hart Lake and the two people inside didn’t resurface. Authorities say first responders found the boy…
Lois RiessSOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Lois Riess, the Minnesota fugitive grandmother accused of killing two people, was arraigned by South Padre Island Municipal Court this weekend. Riess is being held without bond in Cameron County jail. She is accused of shooting and killing her husband in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota before cashing $10,000 in forged checks and heading to Florida….
VINTON, Iowa — It must have worked because this Iowa couple has been hitched for 79 years. “I said, ‘I’d like to go back and see that girl again’ so that’s where it all started with just trying to vaccinate some pigs,” Keith Elwick said on how he met his future wife at a vet’s office. Keith and Janet say…
Randy Miles Jr., 41, was taken into custody by law enforcement in Grand Forks Monday.GRAND FORKS, ND — An Iowa man detained in Grand Forks as a material witness in a homicide, has been charged with murder. Randy Miles Jr. of Des Moines has been arrested on suspicion of killing his stepson. He faces first-degree murder and first-degree arson charges….
GRAND FORKS — We have more information on that man taken into custody in Grand Forks last night who is a material witness in a homicide in Iowa. Randy Miles, Jr., 41, was spotted by an off duty federal agent in the 3000 block of North Washington Street. He ignored the officer but when two K9 units arrived he complied…
Randy Miles Jr., 41, was taken into custody by law enforcement in Grand Forks Monday.GRAND FORKS, ND — The Grand Forks Police Department has confirmed they have arrested the Iowa man wanted in connection to a homicide investigation in Iowa. Randy Miles, Jr., 41, of Des Moines, was taken into custody just after 8 p.m. Authorities say an off duty…
