JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — Around 125 members of North Dakota National Guards 817th Engineer Company are headed south. A send-off ceremony was held in Jamestown as the soldiers deploy for a year-long mission to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbot asked states to send available resources to help combat illegal activity…
UPDATE: The pilot is identified as Lawrence Polries, 63, of Jamestown, ND. NEW ROCKFORD, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – Federal investigators will look into the crash of a crop dusting airplane south of New Rockford in east-central North Dakota. The 63-year-old male pilot from Jamestown died on scene. Highway Patrol says he was flying west after spraying a pass when he…
STUTSMAN CO., N.D. (KVRR) – The pilot of a crop duster escapes injury after a failed takeoff west of Jamestown. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the 29-year-old pilot from Louisiana was taking off from a private airstrip west of Jamestown around 9 a.m. The pilot failed to gain enough speed to create enough lift to takeoff and ran into…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who is presumed dangerous has escaped from the James River Minimum Unit in Jamestown. Authorities are looking for 39-year-old Nathan Lang who was serving a sentence for theft of property and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was last seen around midnight driving on the Frontage Road near Exit 256 in Jamestown….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Downtown Fargo Street Fair is officially underway and the community is loving it so far! “If you can look around here, just the people next to me and the people around me, there are hundreds of vendors and they all offer these unique things. There’s people from Africa, there’s people from South America, there are…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A former Jamestown priest will avoid jail if he completes 50 hours of community service after pleading guilty to sexual assault. The plea deal for Neil Pfeifer included a charge of sexual exploitation by a therapist being dismissed. A trial on the charges was supposed to begin today in Jamestown. He was sentenced to 360 days…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A Jamestown man changes his plea to guilty to negligent homicide after hitting and killing a bicyclist last June. A charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving death was dropped against 79-year-old James Lees. He is set to be sentenced in September. The parents of the victim, 20-year-old Timothy St. John of Northbrook, Illinois,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police are asking the public for help locating a man they say stole a semi and drove recklessly on lawns and sidewalks. 45-year-old Robert Burton of Fargo is accused of stealing the truck Thursday and is wanted by Fargo Police. Police say truck, a white 2000 Kenworth Day Cab, was found and recovered in Jamestown….
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The parents of two Native American players on a North Dakota high school basketball team are seeking a federal investigation into racist taunts their sons endured during a game in January. The parents of Andre Austin and Teysean Eaglestaff filed a discrimination complaint earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota utility has reversed its decision to divest from a large North Dakota coal-fired power plant, citing new risks in the Midwest electricity market and new customers. Fergus Falls-based Otter Tail Power announced in 2021 that it would sell its minority stake in the Coyote Station Power Plant in Beulah, North Dakota, and end its involvement with the…
