BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a South Dakota woman evaded their search efforts after fleeing a traffic stop on the evening of October 2. According to NDHP, a trooper conducted a traffic stop on a Hyundai Sonata for a traffic violation near State Street and Interstate Avenue in Bismarck just after 11:30 P.M. The driver…
David George (Sherburne County Jail)FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Former West Fargo Independence Elementary Principal David George has been sentenced to forty years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Peter Welte issued a sentence of forty years for count one, twenty years for counts two and three, and twenty years of supervised probation after release. In May, George pleaded guilty to…
Avian flu has recently been confirmed at commercial turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota. (Scott Bauer/Agriculture Research Service, USDA)FARGO (North Dakota Monitor) — Avian flu has hit turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota, the first cases in commercial flocks in the United States since early July. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — There were two big winners in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing in our region. One ticket sold at Gas N More in Mobridge, South Dakota is a $2 million winner. The winning ticket matched five of the six numbers, missing the Powerball. The player doubled their prize by purchasing the Power Play add on for an additional…
CLARK, S.D. (KFGO KWAT) – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says 36 year-old Bowen Jay Fladland has been charged with the death of his mother in Clark. Jackley confirms that the victim was decapitated. South Dakota DCI was alerted to the crime Tuesday and responded to a home in Clark. Codington County Sheriff Brad Howell says Fladland was booked…
Rep. Dusty JohnsonSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Rep. Dusty Johnson is running for governor of South Dakota. That could set up a battle between Johnson and fellow Republican and current Gov. Larry Rhoden. Johnson has served as South Dakota’s only congressman since 2019 when he succeeded Kristi Noem. He has taken moderate stances during his time in Washington. Johnson’s priorities include…
PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight-ProPublica) — In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show. In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that…
ABERDEEN, S.D. (KVRR) — A federal judge has sentenced an Ortonville, Minnesota man for production of child porn. 45-year-old Jason Honetschlager was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2023. The investigation discovered that throughout 2023, Honetschlager targeted teens in the Milbank, South Dakota area. He enticed minors through Snapchat…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Washington, DC, after an allergic reaction. A Department of Homeland Security spokewoman says it was out of an abundance of caution and that Noem is alert and recovering. CNN observed Secret Service agents posted at several entrances outside the emergency room at the…
The boards that oversee South Dakota’s 10 public colleges are drafting policies in accordance with a new state law that will allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus. Starting July 1, the four-year and technical institutions will no longer be able to restrict the lawful concealed carry of firearms and weapons on campuses. Senate Bill 100 (SB 100), which Gov….
