ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO/KVRR) – The Minnesota Dept. of Corrections has reinstated Class III status to the Otter Tail County Jail in Fergus Falls. Sheriff Barry Fitzgibbons says he was notified of the reinstatement. It allows the jail to keep inmates longer than 72 hours. The department lowered the jail’s classification after a prisoner was deprived of food and water…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, MINN – (KFGO/KVRR) – One person was injured in a rollover crash near Underwood in Otter Tail County at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened near the intersection of County Road 35 and Pleasant Lake Road. A pickup driven by 37-year-old Kyle Ryckman of Elbow Lake was ejected and transported to Lake…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – An Evansville, Minnesota woman is recovering in the hospital with serious injuries following a crash just south of Ottertail, Minnesota. The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened shortly before midnight Wednesday on Highway 78 and Highway 108. A Ford Expedition veered off the road at a curve, crashed into a driveway approach and…
OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A house is a total loss and two dogs are dead after a fire in Otter Tail County Saturday night. The sheriff’s office says fire crews were called to the house in rural Star Lake Township around 7:30. The homeowners had returned to find smoke and an orange glow coming from the house. Dent…
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (KVRR) — The Minnesota Millionaire Raffle winners have been drawn and the two biggest prizes go to tickets bought near the Twin Cities. Two tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Delano, west of Minneapolis and in Dundas, south of the Twin Cities. There were also five winners drawn worth $100,000 each, none in our area. The…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — Authorities respond to a bus crash in Otter Tail County. The sheriff’s office says a Menahga school bus was on 470th Street at the County Road 19 intersection when it was hit by a truck pulling a livestock trailer shortly after 4 this afternoon. Both the bus and the truck ended up in the…
UPDATE: Dianne Tyge, 64, Perham died in the crash. PERHAM, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – A 64-year-old Perham woman died in a crash in Otter Tail County Friday night. The crash happened just before 7 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 10 and County Road 60 about five miles northwest of Perham. The State Patrol says the woman was driving east on…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Fergus Falls woman is arrested on various drug charges after police began investigating suspicious activity at her home in April. 33-year-old Dilfa Munguia was arrested Tuesday and is being held in the Otter Tail County Jail. The complaint says an investigator noticed cars coming and going from her home. Over two days, about 25…
UPDATE: Victim has been identified as 64-year-old Jerry Altman of rural Parkers Prairie. OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A man was killed by a bull on a farm in Otter Tail County Saturday night. Details of what exactly happened are still being investigated. The sheriff’s office got a call around 6:15 p.m. of a man being attacked by a…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — A Moorhead woman is jailed in Otter Tail County following a high-speed pursuit late Tuesday night. Thirty-eight-year-old Crystal Borseth is being held for fleeing a police officer. A Minnesota State Trooper was on I-94 near Rothsay around 10:30 p.m. when he spotted Borseth’s vehicle. It was involved in an earlier pursuit with Alexandria police….
