NEW SALEM, N.D. (KVRR: UPDATE 4:15PM) — A Dickinson man is dead after a shootout with Highway Patrol troopers and a county deputy on I-94 near New Salem in Morton County. A trooper tried to stop 43-year-old Nicholas Kirby in Bismarck around 12:45 a.m. but he sped off onto I-94 heading west. Another trooper and Morton County deputies joined the…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – A son of North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer has been charged with manslaughter in connection with a crash that resulted in the death of Mercer County Deputy Paul Martin. Forty-two-year-old Ian Cramer is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on Friday. He was charged with felony counts of manslaughter, fleeing a police officer and…
PILLSBURY, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Valley City man was airlifted to a Fargo hospital Thursday morning after he was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash north of Pillsbury in Barnes County. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the crash happened at 8:00 am on state highway 32. 24-year-old Gavin Schlaht was northbound when he drove off the road, hit an…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) — Two riders in a motorcycle club ride are dead after crashing near Larimore, North Dakota. North Dakota Highway Patrol says 59-year-old Timothy Olson from Drayton and his passenger, 44-year-old Nicole Brown, also from Drayton, were thrown from the bike and died at the scene. The patrol says Olson failed to negotiate a curve on…
BARNES COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) — A Bismarck man died early Friday morning when he was hit by a semi as he was walking on I-94 just east of Valley City. The Highway Patrol says the semi was driving westbound on the highway near milepost 299, the semi was in the right lane but the man was walking westbound in the…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says it found an inmate who escaped from the James River Minimum Unit nearly two weeks ago. Nathan Lang, 39, escaped the facility July 18. He was serving time for property theft and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The NDHP says Corson County Sheriff’s in South Dakota received a…
HARWOOD, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A 59-year-old Harwood man was arrested and is facing DUI charges after crashing his SUV into a utility pole in Harwood Saturday. According to the Highway Patrol, around 4:30 p.m., they were called to a report of a vehicle that hit a utility pole in the 200 block of Main Avenue. When troopers arrived, they found…
PILLSBURY, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol identifies a Hope man who died after the compact car he was a passenger in rolled in Barnes County. Wesley Wixon died in the crash that happened just before 4 p.m. Thursday on a gravel road about two miles west of Pillsbury. The Highway Patrol said the driver, 84-year-old Marlene Wixon,…
EDGELEY, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of an Edgeley man who died after a crash Wednesday night. Marek Kaluza, 59, was driving north on Highway 281 on the north side of Edgeley when his van left the road and entered the ditch. The van then continued driving into a field before becoming stuck…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol releases the names of drivers involved in a serious-injury Sunday night crash near Larimore. They say Gayle Melby, 77, of Fargo, was seriously hurt when her SUV was hit by a car which didn’t yield at a stop sign on the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and ND Highway 18…
