MOUNTRAIL, N.D. (KVRR) — A 14-year-old male from White Earth, North Dakota is dead after his vehicle was hit by a train. The crash in Mountrail County happened Wednesday afternoon just before 4 at 66th Street Northwest. North Dakota Highway Patrol says the teen failed to yield at the intersection, drove through the crossing and was hit by a BNSF…
WHITE EARTH, Minn. (KVRR) – A White Earth, Minnesota man will spend 10 years in prison for assaulting a child on the White Earth Indian Reservation. U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger says 30-year-old Edward Duane Fairbanks intentionally shoved the child into a table, causing a serious head injury. The child was taken to the hospital where doctors diagnosed a large skull…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A White Earth man is sentenced to 10 years in prison for a violent domestic assault. According to court documents, 31-year-old Nicholas Durant attacked the victim in their home in April 2020 by hitting her in the chest, head and stomach. Last October, Durant pleaded guilty to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. This…
BECKER CO, Minn. (KVRR) — A man lying on County Highway 21 near Richwood, Minnesota, north of Detroit Lakes, is hit by a snow plow. The driver of the plow called Becker County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday morning around 3 a.m. 39-year-old Matthew Larson of White Earth was found unconscious but had no obvious signs of trauma. Larson was taken to…
BECKER CO., Minn. — Two people working on a stalled vehicle in Becker County are the victims of a hit and run. Becker County Sheriff’s Office says 31-year-old Clifford Warren of Ogema and 56-year-old Duane Warren of White Earth were working on the vehicle on County Highway 34 around 6 Thursday night when they were hit by a vehicle. Both…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR/KFGO) – A federal judge has sentenced a White Earth, Minn. man to 17 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor over several months in 2018. Thirty-three-year-old Evan Oppegard also admitted to sending sexually explicit messages and soliciting the minor through social media. It happened on the White Earth Reservation. White Earth police, the Mahnomen County Sheriff’s office…
SHELL LAKE TOWNSHIP, MN — Two people were killed after a Sunday evening crash involving a van and a motorcycle. According to the Becker County Sheriff’s office, at approximately 7:28 p.m. on August 2, 2020 a crash occurred at the intersection of County Highway 39 and Bass Lake Road north of Snellman in Shell Lake Township. A motorcycle driven by…
WHITE EARTH, Minn.–A man was stabbed at a residence in White Earth Township late Monday night. The Becker County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene and learned the suspect had fled towards Detroit Lakes. A Sheriff’s deputy located the vehicle south of White Earth on County Road 21 and pulled twenty-six-year-old Dustin Alan Jackson over. Jackson informed the deputy he…
NORMAN CO., Minn. — A Ponsford man is dead and another man hurt after a rollover east of Twin Valley, Minnesota. Norman County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Tyler Bloom died at the scene shortly before 9:30 Tuesday night on county road 29. 24-year-old Kenneth Peake-Rogers Jr. of White Earth was taken to the hospital in Mahnomen. Both men were thrown…
WHITE EARTH, MINN. (KFGO) – Michael Fairbanks has been elected Chairman of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe in a special general election held Tuesday. Fairbanks defeated Brent Gish, on a vote of 1,352 to 679, to fill out the one year remaining in the term of Tribal Chairman Terry Tibbetts, who died in March. Fairbanks has worked in tribal…
