MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Several regional teams are featured in the Boys’ HS Basketball Tournament continuing Friday on Antenna TV. In Class 2A – Perham Yellowjackets takes on Minneapolis North Community High School tonight at 8:00 p.m. In Class 1A – Henning Hornets face Spring Grove High School this afternoon at NOON p.m., then Ada-Borup takes on North Woods High School…
Shopko announcing it is closing its remaining 120 department stores including a number of stores in our region in Fergus Falls, Valley City, Roseau and Perham. Those stores are expected to close by June. Despite Shopko’s best efforts, a buyer was not found for the company’s “go-forward business.” The closures will affect an additional 5,000 employees. The company is evaluating…
FARGO, N.D. — For this week’s Chris Heise High School Play of the Week Nominees, both plays come from the Minnesota Section 8AA Tournament quarterfinals. First up, from Barnesville and East Grand Forks. Adam Tonsfeldt from Barnseville makes a pair of solid defensive plays that help Barnesville advance to the semifinals. But is it better than what we saw from…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Barnesville upset the two seed East Grand Forks to get to the semifinals. They played the number one seed Perham Friday night. Trojans kept it tight through the first half trailing the Yellowjackets by just eight at the half, however, the Jackets ran away with it in the second half winning it 55-39. In the second game,…
DETROIT LAKES, MN (KFGO KDLM) – A judge has sentenced a Perham man to just over 5 1/2 years in prison for a collision that killed a man who was sitting in his car ahead of his shift as a school bus driver. In January, 39-year-old Richard Fisette pleaded guilty in the death of 50-year-old Marlin Miller. Fisette was high…
Marlin MillerFrazee, MN (Learfield/KFGO) – A Perham man is admitting he was high on meth and marijuana when he slammed into a parked car in Frazee, killing a bus driver waiting to report for work. Thirty-nine-year-old Richard Fisette pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide in the October 29th death of 50-year-old Marlin Miller of Ponsford. Becker County prosecutors will be…
FERGUS FALLS (KFGO) – A judge has sentenced a man to a year and a day in prison for violating a no contact order in a domestic assault case. 38-year-old George Solis made hundreds of calls from jail to the woman who he wasn’t supposed to contact. He was urging the woman to have the no contact order dropped. She…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, MN — A woman and two children were seriously hurt when their vehicle collided with a train in Otter Tail County. The sheriff’s office says around 3:25 Saturday afternoon they received information of a train versus car crash at a crossing northwest of Perham. The woman and children were initially taken to the Perham hospital before being…
PERHAM, Minn. — An early–morning fire destroyed two businesses right in the heart of downtown Perham. Around 5:45 this morning, Perham firefighters responded to reports of smoke at 145 1st Avenue South. When they arrived, they encountered a full–blown blaze with the potential to engulf the entire block. “We knew that with the conditions and how downtown laid, and with these…
PERHAM, Minn. — When the small city of Perham was in its infancy, a congregation of worshipers opened the town’s first United Methodist Church in 1882. Nearly fourteen decades and a couple new buildings later, the collective faith of its small band of parishioners still rings through the air. When Betty Jean Robinson first came to the church fifty years ago,…
