POLK COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — Polk County Sheriff’s Office says a lake house was fully engulfed in flames at 14821 Maple Inn Road SE in Mentor. The Mentor Fire Department was able to contain and put out the fire shortly after getting there. Fertile Fire Department, Erskine Fire Department, County EMS and Ottertail Power all assisted. No one was home…
POLK COUNTY, MN – Polk County authorities are warning residents to be wary of a scam where people are being threatened over supposed unpaid tolls. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office received a report today, May 16, regarding the toll enforcement scam. It came in the form of a text message, which says, in part, “As of today, your tolls are…
WINGER, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A woman was injured and a horse was killed in a crash in Polk County. The crash happened Wednesday shortly after 8:30 p.m. According to the State Patrol, 67-year-old Peggy Dammen of Thief River Falls was driving on Highway 59 about 4 miles north of Winger when she hit the horse with her SUV. Dammen suffered…
CROOKSTON, Minn. (Christopher Ingraham – Minnesota Reformer) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is providing legal representation to Jessica Beske, a Fargo woman facing decades in prison and a potential $1 million fine over bong water allegedly found in her possession in a case that has raised questions about uneven enforcement of the state’s drug laws. “We’re pretty broadly…
POLK COUNTY, MINN. (KVRR-KFGO) – The Polk County, Minnesota Sheriff’s Office is investigating a two-vehicle T-bone crash near East Grand Forks on Sunday. The crash involved a truck hauling sugar beets and a pickup. A pickup was driven by 34-year-old Aurielle Webster, of East Grand Forks, driving north on a rural road when she failed to yield to the semi,…
GRAND FORKS (KFGO) – A Grand Forks man is facing charges after assaulting both his current wife and ex-wife early Monday. Police responded to a home just before 2 a.m. Monday for a report of a domestic assault. Court documents say when officers arrived, a woman outside told them she’d been hit in the head by her ex-husband. She told…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A pickup has gone through the ice on Union Lake in Polk County, south of Erskine. The sheriff’s office says it happened just before 4 p.m. in an area known as the narrows, where there is only 5 inches of ice. The two people inside the pickup were able to get out but the vehicle…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A man is dead after a head-on crash near Euclid in Polk County. Minnesota State Patrol says 59-year-old Michael Weiland of Euclid crashed with a vehicle driven by 65-year-old Margaret Rendulich of Thief River Falls. They collided on Center Street West just before 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Weiland, who was not wearing a seatbelt, died….
POLK COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Winger, Minnesota teen is charged with attempted murder and assault after a bar fight stabbing in McIntosh, about a half hour north of Mahnomen. Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested 19-year-old Jayden Ray early Sunday morning in connection to the incident. They were called to Little Bobby’s Bar and Grill just after midnight and found…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR:5PM Update) — It’s a Christmas Day ice storm. That has the National Weather Service upgrading it’s winter weather watch to an Ice Storm Warning for Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Sargent, Richland Counties. Significant icing expected. Total ice accumulations up to one half of an inch, with some areas receiving up to three quarters of an inch. Winds gusting…
