FARGO (KVRR) – A former NDSU men’s basketball player has found a new home, going to the land of corn. Andrew Morgan told On3 Sports that he is joining the Nebraska Cornhuskers to be a part of their basketball program. The 6-10 junior forward averaged 12.9 points and five rebounds for the Bison last season and was named to the…
ALBANY, Minn. (KVRR) — Two people are dead after a Labor Day crash on I-94 in Stearns County near Albany. The state patrol says a car driven by 36-year-old Said Mohamed of Pelican Rapids collided with a pickup driven by 23-year-old Scott Bunger of Albany around 7 p.m. Mohamed and a passenger, 69-year-old Abdalla Gudad of Grand Island, Nebraska, were…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Labor Department says one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies, Packers Sanitation Services, employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs. The department says the children worked at 13 meatpacking plants across the country. Department officials searched three meatpacking plants that are owned by JBS USA and Turkey Valley Farms in Nebraska…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — North Dakota Highway Patrol releasing the name of a woman who was hit and killed by a car on I-29 south of Fargo on New Year’s Day. She is 19-year-old Destinee Tuttle of Santee, Nebraska. The patrol says Tuttle was living in the Peever-Sisseton area of northeastern South Dakota. The driver, a 20-year-old Wahpeton man, saw…
CHARLES MIX CO., S.D. (AP) — Federal inspectors confirm the presence of bird flu in a commercial mixed species flock in southeastern South Dakota. Samples from the flock in Charles Mix County, which borders Nebraska, were tested at a national laboratory at South Dakota State University. The property was quarantined and the birds will be killed to prevent spread of…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A West Fargo police officer who suffered a heart attack while on duty Sunday has been transferred to a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Officer Tim Brown had a heart attack Oct. 31 while booking two females who had felonies for aggravated assault. Brown was transferred by medical flight to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha Sunday…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — North Dakota leaders are continuing to push for an investigation into price fixing in the cattle industry. Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska and 18 Senate colleagues, including North Dakota Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, are working together. They wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting they investigate potential anti-competitive activities in the beef…
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA (KFGO) – A Fargo man is one of four people arrested in separate, large drug busts along I-80 east of North Platte, Nebraska. In one of the traffic stops Wednesday night, state troopers searched a van driven by 50-year old Brent Lorenz, of Fargo and found 198 pounds of marijuana, 800 units of THC edibles, 79 THC…
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) _ Sheriff’s officials say the death of a Nebraska man at the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota is apparently due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The Omaha man, who has not been identified, was found dead in his motor home at the rally on Tuesday. The Meade County coroner is investigating. Officials say there has been only…
FARGO, N.D. – A Walhalla, North Dakota couple is making the drive down to Nebraska to bring supplies to flood victims. Joy Zaharia and her husband started collecting clothing, food, toiletries and pet food last weekend. They have about two garages full of supplies donated from the community. People also donated money to help with the cost of gas and renting…
