MAHNOMNEN COUNTY, MN (KVRR) – Multiple agencies are investigating the death of a man near Mahnomen, Minnesota, in what appears to be a hit-and-run type of incident. On July 18, 2025, at 6:10 A.M., dispatchers received a report of a male lying in the ditch near the intersection of Highway 59 and 160th Avenue, about two miles south of Mahnomen….
NAYTAHWAUSH, MN (KVRR) – A 13-year-old boy has died after a firework accident in Mahnomen County. The Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office says that they responded to a distress call at a residence in Naytahwaush a little after 11:00 P.M. on July 4. According to witness statements, Michael Turner was holding a large firework in his hands and pointing it away…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Meet Opal, a domestic short hair cat that comes to us from Far North Felines. Opal is between 4 to 6 years old, but there is no owner surerender information available as she was left behind, extremely pregnent, when her people moved from their property in rural Mahnomen County. Opal had seven kittens in April, but…
MAHNOMEN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A Naytahwaush, Minnesota woman that was found last night bleeding from the arm and unresponsive was not the victim of a shooting, but rather sepsis. Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office and White Earth Police say the 56-year-old woman appeared to have an entrance and exit wound similar to a gunshot wound. She died at Mahnomen Health…
Seamus Duffy & Matti AdamST. PAUL (KVRR) — Minnesota’s Ninth Judicial District is getting two new judges. Gov. Tim Walz has appointed Matti Adam and Seamus Duffy to the bench. They will be replacing Judge Darlene Rivera Spalla in Mahnomen County and Judge Shari Schluchter in Beltrami County. Duffy is the Pennington County Attorney while Adam is the Itasca County…
MAHNOMEN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A Fargo man has died in a car-semi collision near Waubun in Mahnomen County, Minnesota. State patrol says a car driven by 37-year-old Joshua Kraft crossed the center line on Highway 59 around 7:30 Tuesday morning and hit the semi. Kraft was not wearing a seatbelt. The truck driver, from Norcross, Minnesota, was not hurt….
MAHNOMEN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Names are released in a chase and officer involved shooting in Mahnomen County on Sunday. Minnesota BCA says 20-year-old Shequoya Basswood of Mahnomen is being treated for gunshot injuries at Sanford in Fargo. The deputy who shot her is Dakota Czerny who has been with Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office for one year. He is on…
MAHNOMEN CO., Minn. — A rollover crash near Naytahwaush, Minnesota leaves one juvenile dead and four others with serious injuries. It happened around 8:30 Monday night on County Road 4. Authorities say the driver was turning when the vehicle left the road and rolled. One juvenile was pronounced dead at the scene while another has life-threatening head injuries. Two were…
MAHNOMEN, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Former Mahnomen County Sheriff Brad Athmann has been released from jail following his arrest for violating a harassment protection order in a property dispute with a neighbor in Naytahwaush, Minn. Athmann, also a former Mahnomen county commissioner, was released on a $500 bond. Athmann was ordered to have no contact with the victim and to have no…
MAHNOMEN, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – A former Mahnomen County sheriff has been arrested for violating a protection order. Sixty-seven-year-old Brad Athmann was arrested in Naytahwaush Tuesday afternoon after a woman reported that he was within 20-feet of her home in violation of a harassment protection order. A Mahnomen County deputy found Athmann shortly after the woman made the report and Athmann…
