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Boy dies after falling into Minnesota Iron Range mine pit

April 29, 2021

Jim Monk,

VIRGINIA, Minn. – A five-year-old boy is dead after falling into an abandoned mine pit in northern Minnesota’s Iron Range. Police and first responders from Virginia were sent to the Rouchleau pit late Wednesday. Authorities said the boy fell nearly 70 feet. The Virginia Police Department says the incident is under investigation but appears to be an accident. Categories: Local…

Workers’ Memorial Day honors those killed on the job in North Dakota & Minnesota

Union leaders are calling on Congress to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act

April 28, 2021

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Leaders from the Northern Plains United Labor Council are speaking out about the fight for safer jobs on this Workers’ Memorial Day. Eighteen names accompanied by flowers sat side-by-side inside the Fargo-Moorhead Labor Temple Wednesday afternoon. They’re North Dakota workers who were killed on the job last year, two of which had contracted the coronavirus. “I’m…

Free food boxes available to families across the metro

Remaining boxes will be distributed Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

April 27, 2021

Site Staff,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The YMCA of Cass and Clay Counties is partnering with the USDA to help curb hunger in our region. As part of the Farmers to Families Food Box program, the YMCA is handing out over 2,600 family-sized food boxes. They are free and include fresh produce, dairy and meat products. The first distribution took place Tuesday…

Moorhead mosque vandalism suspect arrested

April 27, 2021

Site Staff,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A man has been arrested for hate messages spray-painted on the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center. Moorhead Police say through tips including important information from a employee of a local business, detectives were able to take 22-year-old Benjamin Enderle of Moorhead into custody. Reports have been forwarded to the Clay County Attorney’s Office with the request of…

Critics of Minnesota’s COVID sports restrictions raise new concerns

April 27, 2021

Jim Monk,

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – Critics of Minnesota’s COVID-19 restrictions on youth and school sports are raising new concerns about last fall’s shutdown. The activist group Let Them Play Minnesota released a series of pandemic-related emails during a Senate Education committee hearing Monday. The emails show officials in Gov. Tim Walz’s administration tried to justify a sports shutdown by…

Minnesota narrowly misses losing U.S. House seat, keeps all 8

April 26, 2021

Jim Monk,

WASHINGTON (KVRR) – Minnesota has narrowly avoided losing a seat in Congress even though population growth in the state didn’t keep up with that of some other states. Minnesota’s growth rate of 7.4% was slightly better than the nationwide rate of 7.1%, helping Minnesota keep all eight of the U.S. House seats it has had since the 1960s. Minnesota may…

Mondale family plans memorials in Minnesota, DC

April 26, 2021

Jim Monk,

Walter MondaleMINNEAPOLIS – Public memorial services for former Vice President Walter Mondale are planned for September in Minnesota and in Washington, D.C. Mondale’s family says details will be shared in the coming months. Mondale died April 19 in Minneapolis. Mondale was vice president under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, then lost one of the most lopsided presidential races to…

Fargo Police Chief discusses police reform, priorities moving forward

April 21, 2021

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Talks of police reform and racial equity are on the minds of many following the murder conviction of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin. Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski, who has served on various forces for more than 30 years, says reform is simply part of the progression of law enforcement. “In order for us to be…

People gather at NDSU as Chauvin is found guilty: “Finally, justice has been served”

April 21, 2021

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Emotions ran high outside of North Dakota State University’s Memorial Union Tuesday afternoon as Derek Chauvin was found guilty by a jury. “Finally. Finally, justice has been served today,” said Faith Shields-Dixon with Black Lives Matter Fargo-Moorhead. Shields-Dixon says protests and calls for change over the past year have finally paid off, but the work doesn’t…

Local defense attorney gives insight on Chauvin verdicts and possible appeal

April 20, 2021

Jim Monk,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A local defense attorney shares his insight on the verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial. “I think the jury had a very difficult job this is only the second time in the history of Minnesota that a police officer has been convicted for taking somebody’s life while on duty, so it was an enormously difficult task…