Fine, community service for Bismarck lawmaker found guilty of 'speculating or wagering official action'
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO/Prairie Public) - A Bismarck lawmaker has been fined $2,500 and ordered to perform 250 hours of community service - after he had been found guilty of a misdemeanor charge in connection with a building leased to the Attorney General's office, in which he has an ownership stake. Republican Rep. Jason...
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Bismarck man arrested, accused of beating grandmother
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) - A 19-year-old Bismarck man was arrested for attempted murder Wednesday after allegedly beating his grandmother with a large stick. Bismarck Police say officers were called to Skyway Park Village around 6:15 a.m where a 77-year-old woman had severe lacerations to her head. The officers set ...
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Tanker truck leaks large amount of diesel fuel in West Fargo early Thursday; cleanup underway
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) - Cleanup is ongoing Thursday after a tanker truck caused a large diesel fuel spill on the northeast side of West Fargo. Fire Department Battalion Chief Levi Nesvold says a passerby reported the spill shortly after midnight onto a stretch roadway near the intersection at 7th Avenue Northeast and...
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Political opponents have no recollection that Noem dog killing story was widely known
PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) - During a series of contentious recent interviews, Gov. Kristi Noem repeatedly said a story in her new book about fatally shooting a dog was already widely known in South Dakota because her political opponents had used it against her. Yet when South Dakota Searchlight contacted ...
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Two separate crashes close interstate exit ramps in the Fargo, West Fargo metro
(FARGO/WEST FARGO. (KFGO/KVRR) - Two crashes closed interstate exit ramps in the metro Wednesday night. The first happened around 5:50 pm on the loop ramp from northbound I-29 to westbound I-94. North Dakota Highway Patrol says a 49-year-old Fargo man lost control of a Chevy Camaro and hit a guardrail. He was taken to ...
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Wildfire conditions across much of Minnesota improving
GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. - So far this year, there have been 732 wildfires reported across the state, burning around 10,000 acres. Leanne Langeberg, with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center, says there was above-normal fire activity early in the season. She says April did bring in more precipitation which has helped green...
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Aimee Bock's 'right hand man' says everyone at Feeding Our Future took kickbacks
BY: DEENA WINTER MINNEAPOLIS (Minnesota Reformer) - A former Feeding Our Future employee who described himself as Executive Director Aimee Bock's "right hand man" testified Wednesday about how he participated in a massive fraud, setting up sham nonprofits and consulting companies and taking kickbacks to help ...
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Construction begins on Minnesota's first pediatric transplant home
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Construction is underway on the Gift of Life Transplant House's new pediatric transplant home in Rochester. Officials say it will be the state's first transplant home for children. Up to four families can stay in the home which will have a full kitchen, laundry room, toys, a library, and entertainme...
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Northeast Minnesota man pleads guilty to killing couple
DULUTH, Minn. - A northeast Minnesota man will be sentenced in August for the killings of a couple he was living with in Babbitt last October. St. Louis County prosecutors say Roger Beldo, 54, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of intentional second-degree murder in the deaths of 78-year-old Clifford and 79-year-o...
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Minnesota BCA names man with knife shot by Carver County Deputies
CHANHASSEN, Minn. - The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says 31-year-old Derek West of Bloomington is the man with a knife who was shot multiple times by Carver County sheriff's deputies. West remains hospitalized in stable condition. Investigators say Deputies James Horvath and Benjamin Sinko fired their h...
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