MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach doesn’t believe it’s a controversy that she’s selling seven items on her website with the term “Let’s go, Brandon” on them. At an October 2021 NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway, Brandon Brown won his first Xfinity Series. The crowd behind him chanted “F*** Joe Biden.” An NBC reporter suggested they were cheering…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Governor Tim Walz said, if elected to a second term, he will fight to allow Minnesotans working in other states to get frontline worker bonus pay. Walz’s original plan gave $1 billion to those workers and $1 billion to workers and businesses in the hospitality industry. That was modified by the Legislature. Only workers living in…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — The founder of Feeding Our Future and 46 others have been charged in what federal officials are calling the largest pandemic fraud in the country. U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger of Minnesota announced charges against founder Aimee Bock and others that include conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and bribery. Authorities allege the massive fraud scheme took at least…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Spirit Lake man who pleaded guilty to producing, distributing and possessing child porn gets 30 years in prison. Court documents show 29-year-old Johnson Tollefson produced child porn in Dilworth. It depicted a toddler-age female. He then distributed the child porn to other users of the social media network Tumblr in exchange for other child porn….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Texas Football has Friday Night Lights but Minnesota has Hockeyland. “Hockeyland” is about Minnesota high school seniors competing for one last chance to etch their names into local glory. Fargo Docs will host the premiere Tuesday night at Fargo Theatre. “One of the coolest things about ‘Hockeyland’ is that it was actually filmed in northern Minnesota…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tours the Red River Women’s Clinic’s new facility in Moorhead saying it’s up and functioning well. He calls the staff “vibrant” and ready to help women during a difficult time. Ellison says if a state tries to file criminal charges against a women getting an abortion in Minnesota, he will file…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A frustrated Moorhead veteran appears before the Clay County Commission about the status of his home ownership. Gulf War Veteran Kevin Shores is in the middle of a property tax dispute where he received letters from the County’s Auditor’s Office informing him about missing deadlines for delinquent taxes. The state of Minnesota seized his home in…
GRANT CO., Minn. — One person was killed in a head-on crash near Elbow Lake in Grant County Sunday afternoon. 18-year-old Tyler Stone of Hoffman was driving a car that crashed with a pickup at the intersection of two rural roads. Stone died in the crash. The driver of the pickup, a 23-year-man from Brandon, was taken to the Elbow…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Hornbacher’s and its customers are making a big impact in the fight to end hunger. They’re donating nearly $80,000 to the Great Plains Food Bank as part of Check Out Hunger. The campaign ran through most of July in the F-M area where customers were asked in checkout lines to make donations of one, three or…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) – A Red Lake man is found guilty of sex crimes in federal court. Thirty-eight-year-old Descart Austin Begay, Junior is convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and two counts of sexual abuse. Begay raped and sexually assaulted a victim in her home until she was able to break free and escape. Categories: Crime, Local News, Minnesota…
