Two bodies found on farm northeast of Mahnomen
MAHNOMEN, Minn. (KVRR) - The Mahnomen County Sheriff's Office has responded to a double fatal shooting on a farm northeast of Mahnomen.A 9-1-1 call came in around 7 a.m. reporting a shooting at the...
View ArticleMan shot by Bismarck police also shot by officers in 2011
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A 49-year-old man shot by Bismarck police Monday night also was shot by police in 2011.Authorities say both incidents were similar, with Glenn Lovgren confronting officers after...
View ArticleHealth Council ratifies vote on radioactive waste rules
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's State Health Council has ratified rules the panel approved a year ago to allow elevated levels of oilfield radioactive waste to be dumped at some landfills.The...
View ArticleUnited Way holds backpack distribution
FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) -- The United Way held a school supply drive at the Fargodome. Kids in need in Cass and Clay Counties were able to get free backpacks filled with school supplies.The agency collected...
View ArticleBarnesville voters say no to school measure
BARNESVILLE (KFGO) -- Barnesville residents overwhemingly rejected a $35 million school bond measure to renovate the high school and Florence Atkinson elementary school. Over 70% of the 1,800 voters...
View ArticleWoman assaulted in Grand Forks home invasion
GRAND FORKS (KFGO) - Grand Forks Police are investigating a home invasion assault at a home at 1114 22nd Ave. South early Wednesday. Initial investigation indicates two men entered the residence and...
View ArticleLevel 3 sex offender moving to Elizabeth, Minnesota
ELIZABETH, MINNESOTA (KFGO) -- The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office will be holding a community notification meeting in Elizabeth to discuss a high risk sex offender who's moving in on Monday....
View ArticlePartnership wants to expand hog farm near Hawley, Minn.
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO-AM) - A family partnership that owns a Clay County hog farm wants to expand the operation significantly."Baer Hogs LLP" is planning to build a facility to house 2,400 feeder pigs...
View ArticleNorth Dakota tobacco measure to appear on November ballot
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger says a measure seeking to increase the state's tobacco tax will appear on the November ballot. Supporters needed about 13,500 qualified...
View ArticleAttorney General clears Bismarck cop in fatal shooting
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A Bismarck police officer who shot and killed a Mandan man in March has been cleared in the case.The Attorney General's office concluded that criminal charges against Officer...
View ArticleState troopers monitor ND pipeline protest
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Law enforcement officers have been called to keep the peace between American Indian protesters and developers of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline from North Dakota to...
View ArticleZebra mussels confirmed in Otter Tail, West Battle Lakes
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO-AM) - The Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources says Otter Tail Lake and West Battle Lake are among five more lakes where zebra mussels have been confirmed.The new list of infected...
View ArticleNames released in Mahnomen County double shooting
Mahnomen, MN (KFGO) - The Mahnomen County Sheriff's Office has released the names of two people who died in a double shooting at a farm northeast of Mahnomen, Minnesota.The victims were 68-year-old...
View ArticleWoman sentenced to 9 years in prison for bank robberies
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A woman accused of robbing a pair of Grand Forks banks within two weeks last fall has been sentenced to nine years in prison.Forty-year-old Charlene Corona, also known as Charlene...
View ArticleMan accused of failing to pay income taxes pleads guilty
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A Fargo man has pleaded guilty to failing to pay income taxes for a period of more than a decade.Gary Spencer Smith is charged in federal court with income tax evasion. The charge...
View ArticleProsecutor upset child porn suspect has use of jail computer
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A Ward County prosecutor is upset that a child pornography suspect is being allowed to email his mother from jail.A condition of Isaac Twitchell's bond forbids him from using...
View ArticleWatford City business owner and employee accused of arson
WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) - Authorities have charged the owner of a Watford City restaurant and an employee with torching the business to collect insurance money.Thirty-seven-year-old owner Anna...
View ArticleIowa landowners seek immediate halt to pipeline construction
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa landowners are asking a judge to stop construction on the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline until their constitutional challenges are heard.A dozen landowners asked a...
View ArticleOfficials skeptical $57M fish project will work
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - State and federal wildlife officials are opposing a $57 million concrete dam and fish bypass that the U.S. government says would help an ancient and endangered fish species in...
View ArticleStrong thunderstorms Dakotas, Minnesota
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Strong thunderstorms have caused damage throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota. In North Dakota, storms Tuesday and Wednesday caused flash flooding in several counties, including...
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