FARGO (KFGO) – A federal judge has granted a motion by Fargo plaintiffs in a human rights violation claim against the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front to serve notice of the case via publication after attorneys for the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition and the Immigrant Development Center say they have been unable to locate any of the named…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — Around 125 members of North Dakota National Guards 817th Engineer Company are headed south. A send-off ceremony was held in Jamestown as the soldiers deploy for a year-long mission to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbot asked states to send available resources to help combat illegal activity…
BEMIDJI, Minn. (KVRR) — New details into an alleged gang rape investigation of an 11-year-old girl in Bemidji last week. While one man was arrested for sexual assault, 22-year-old Oscar Luna of Texas, twelve other people were located and identified. Bemidji Police say none of them could immediately be identified as suspects in the case and eleven were turned over…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum welcomes 100 members of the Wahpeton-based 188th Engineer Company back to the state. They served a 30-day mission in support of Operation Lone Star to secure the border between Texas and Mexico. Read his statement below: Grateful for our North Dakota National Guard soldiers who returned home from a monthlong deployment…
NEAR THE RIO GRANDE, TEXAS (KVRR) — Gov. Doug Burgum is spending a second day checking in on our troops helping secure the border in Texas. He is joined by North Dakota National Guard’s adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Al Dohrmann. Burgum says he is there to thank them for supporting efforts by state and federal officials to secure the border,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Human remains are at the center of tangled litigation involving a major regional health care system and the company contracted to dispose of its medical waste. Monarch Waste Technologies sued Sanford Health and the subsidiary responsible for delivering the health care system’s medical waste, Healthcare Environmental Services, saying the latter “brazenly” deposited a human torso hidden in a…
BARNES CO., N.D. (KVRR) — An 88-year-old Sanborn, North Dakota man is arrested after hitting two bicyclists on a charity run Tuesday afternoon. They were with a group of 15 bikers with the organization Texas 4000 for Cancer. Peter Schuck hit the bikers while they were crossing the railroad overpass bridge, about two miles west of Valley City. Authorities say…
Gov. Doug Burgum visits the southern border. BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Gov. Doug Burgum signs an executive order declaring an emergency and sending North Dakota National Guard troops to help Texas secure the southern border. It was first announced June 1. Around 100 members from the Wahpeton-based 188th Engineer Company are deploying for about 30 days. They are expected to…
N.D. Attorney General Drew WrigleyBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Judgments shut down a vast robocall operation involving Rising Eagle Capital Group out of Texas along with JSquared Telecom and Rising Eagle Capital Group– Cayman. North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley says they blasted billions of illegal robocalls to people across the country including millions of calls to people in North Dakota…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A man from Nigeria is sentenced in U.S. District Court in North Dakota for mail fraud. 37-year-old Kolawole Akande was given 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $350,000 in restitution. Akande and others got their hands on checks from a Dickinson, North Dakota company through the mail while living in Texas. The…
