OAKES, N.D. — North Dakota Highway Patrol identifying the victim of a one vehicle rollover as 33-year-old Douglas Cavalier of Britton, South Dakota. The crash happened early Sunday morning about four miles southeast of Oakes, North Dakota. They say Cavalier was driving down Highway 11 at a high rate of speed when he lost control. He was thrown from the…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota’s public universities shouldn’t be teaching certain concepts of race and racism, Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday, in line with a nationwide GOP movement to keep critical race theory out of classrooms. In a letter to the Board of Regents that oversees the state’s six public universities, the Republican governor targeted critical race theory and…
Britton defeated Wheaton to win the final Town of the Week of the season. One correction to our story, Dallas Goedert is the Eagles player from Britton. Somehow I wrote Tyler Goodert down on my notes and it stuck. No idea where I got Tyler and my bad handwriting made an O look like an E. My apologies to Britton…
RAPID CITY, S.D. – A former leader of the Salvation Army in South Dakota has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. Investigators say they seized 46 electronic items during a search this month at the Salvation Army’s Black Hills Camp. The Salvation Army says it has fired Moreno and is cooperating with the investigation….
ABERDEEN, S.D. – A federal judge in South Dakota will decide whether three members of the U.S. Marshals Service should be found in civil contempt over his requirement to have everyone in his courtroom vaccinated for the coronavirus. Judge Charles Kornmann notified courthouse employees in March that the vaccinations would be required in order to provide the safest environment for…
FARGO (KVRR) – The head of the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office says federal authorities are investigating “a number of cases” involving domestic extremist activities in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. Michael Paul is the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Minneapolis, which oversees the Dakotas and Minnesota. In an interview with KVRR-TV, Paul said extremist-related activities are…
PIERRE, S.D. (KVRR/KWAT) – A Hankinson, N.D. man faces a number of charges following a high speed chase over the weekend. A Hughes County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop 26 year-old Richard Mayer for speeding on Highway 14 east of Pierre Saturday night. Mayer wouldn’t pull over, and the chase was on across the Missouri River bridge into Fort Pierre,…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has sued the U.S. Department of Interior for denying the state’s application to shoot fireworks over Mount Rushmore on Independence Day. The Republican governor successfully pushed last year for a return of fireworks after a decade-long hiatus. The state’s application to hold fireworks this year was denied by the National Park…
Minnesota has 15 more deaths due to COVID-19 including a person in their 90s in Clay County. The state 1,847 new cases of the virus. The COVID Tracking Project confirms that there were nearly 504 new cases per 100,000 people in Minnesota over the past two weeks, which ranks 4th in the country for new cases per capita. North Dakota…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A COVID-19 outbreak has been linked to a wrestling tournament in Sioux Falls March 31 through April 3. Minnesota Department of Health says 64 teams from at least 52 Minnesota counties participated including Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Pennington, Todd and Wadena in our area. They have confirmed COVID-19 cases associated with the tournament in Morrison and Wright…
