WAHPETON, ND (KFGO/KVRR) – A man was arrested after a shelter in place was issued for part of Wahpeton Friday afternoon. Police Chief Matthew Anderson says officers responded to a report that a man had assaulted a family member at a home on 3rd St. N. and pointed a gun at them. A perimeter was established. Anderson says the family…
BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. (KVRR) — A Breckenridge man is accused of raping a woman at an apartment building last Friday. 49-year-old Emery Hagen is charged with two felony counts of criminal sexual conduct. Police got a 911 call and arrived to yelling by a woman and a man. When they refused to open the apartment door, officers from Breckenridge and Wahpeton…
*WARNING: VIDEO IS DISTURBING* SARGENT CO., N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Forman, North Dakota teen is charged after another teen was set on fire in Sargent County last weekend. Sheriff Travis Paeper says 19-year-old Lance Tyler used a torch to light the 15-year-old male victim on fire after he was sprayed with brake cleaner at a party. It happened at a…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — The Wahpeton man accused in a fatal hit-and-run in October has entered not guilty pleas in court. 53-year-old Chad Olson on Monday pleaded not guilty to criminal vehicular homicide and duty in accident involving death. Olson is accused of being behind the wheel when 20-year-old Bailey Bernstein was hit while walking with her mom in Wahpeton….
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — A Wahpeton man who was killed in a crash on Highway 75 in Clay County on Friday evening has been identified as 60-year-old Steven Tetzlaff. The crash happened around 5 p.m. at the 60th Avenue intersection in Moorhead Township. Authorities say Tetzlaff crashed into a vehicle driven by 69-year-old Linda Quam of Fargo. He was…
WHAPETON, N.D. (KVRR) – The public helps authorities find a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that left a woman with life-threatening injuries. North Dakota Highway Patrol says the crash happened around 7:40 Thursday night in the 400 block of 11th Avenue South in Wahpeton. A pickup hit a 20-year-old woman walking on the south side of the road. The driver…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — A trial for a Wahpeton man charged with sexually abusing a child has been canceled. On Monday, 62-year-old Robert Abell changed his plea to guilty to one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child. His trial was supposed to start next week. An arrest warrant for Abell was issued last November and he made his…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — More students are attending NDSCS as an alternative option to the traditional four-year university program. School officials say there are now more than 3,100 students attending NDSCS this fall compared to last year’s headcount, a 6% increase, and the most since 2013. “It’s much more affordable for students to get a two-year degree and opens up…
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…
Courtesy: Gov. Doug Burgum’s OfficeBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Gov. Doug Burgum is taking a break from the presidential campaign trail on Monday to visit North Dakota National Guard soldiers helping secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Burgum is commander-in-chief of the state’s National Guard. He will visit around 100 members of the Wahpeton-based 188th Engineer Company in Texas. The group began a…
