UKRAINE (KVRR) – A North Dakota farmer is being held in a Ukranian prison for the alleged assassination plot of a member of the country’s president’s cabinet. Kurt Groszhan’s family says money was stolen and used to fund the election of Ukraine’s President. “We last heard from Kurt on November 16th at which time there was no indication there was…
BISMARCK, N.D. – A family from Wishek, N.D. was aboard a United Airlines flight forced to make an emergency landing after the aircraft’s right engine exploded shortly after takeoff from Denver. Brenda Dohn of Wishek was aboard the Boeing 777-200 with her husband and three kids, headed from Denver to Honolulu, on Saturday when the plane’s right engine failed. Dohn…
courtesy, KFGOCHRISTINE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – Fire destroyed a machine shop on a farm four miles north of Christine, N.D. Fire Chief Randy Monson says the building was fully involved when firefighters arrived on the scene. He says there was electric heating in the building but if there was an electrical problem it was hard to tell due to damage. The…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – A Virginia man has been ordered to pay a $7,500 fine and sentenced to two years’ probation for smuggling 171 pounds of migratory waterfowl meat through the Port of Entry at Portal, N.D. U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley says 52-year-old Gene Childers of Seaford, VA transported approximately 207 birds over the border. Childers was charged with Unlawful…
FARGO (KVRR) – One of two men serving life sentences for the murders of a North Dakota U.S. Marshal and a deputy marshal wants to be released from prison because of health issues. Sixty-seven-year-old Scott Faul has been in federal custody since 1983. Faul, along with tax protester Gordon Kahl and Kahl’s son, Yorie, were involved in a shootout with…
