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A Waubun man is facing criminal vehicular operation and driving after cancellation charges after running over three pedestrians in the Walmart parking lot Saturday afternoon. According to Detroit Lakes Police, Charles Irwin Hanson, 81, was waiting for a parking spot to open when...

Ice is still causing problems on roads in the area. During a 24-hour period from Monday, until Tuesday at about 9:30 a.m., Minnesota State Troopers kept active and remain active responding to several crashes and other calls for service. A light snow covering that continues to hit...

OLIVIA -- Security concerns kept the defendant in the death of a young child out of the courtroom Monday and in the protective custody of the Renville County Jail for his formal arraignment proceedings. Speaking by phone from the Renville County Jail, Sergio Turrubiates Jr., 20,...

A person with a gun and wearing a mask allegedly robbed a convenience store in Dent Friday night. The incident happened around 9:51 p.m. Friday. According to a news release from the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office, the suspect entered the Dent Oasis with a handgun and a ski mask...

A pair of brothers will be jailed for 30 days on a racketeering conviction connected to nearly 40 alleged cases of staged car crashes designed to collect insurance payments. On Tuesday in Cass County District Court, Sead Mustafic, 44, and Senad Mustafic, 25, gave Alford pleas to...

Criminal charges could be possible in the death of a man struck during a series of crashes on Interstate 94 during a Dec. 30 blizzard, a state trooper said Tuesday. Troopers from the North Dakota Highway Patrol are done with the investigation of the massive pileup on I-94, which...

FARGO - Police say three men in their early 20s were drinking and playing foosball this morning in north Fargo when the game got heated and two of them started fighting, resulting in one seeking medical treatment for facial injuries. Officers received a report at about 3:52 a.m....

A judge denied bail Monday for a 30-year-old Cooperstown, N.D., man facing a murder charge after the victim's head was found in his basement. The court appearance on Monday by Daniel Evan Wacht was his first since being charged with murder on Friday in Griggs County District Cou...

Another chapter in the long and bitter struggle over UND's Fighting Sioux nickname and logo began in the North Dakota House of Representatives Monday, as the chamber's Republican leader said he will introduce a bill to write the controversial symbols into state law. "People want...

WOODBURY, Minn. - The Home Depot here was one of 13 stores to receive threatening letters containing a nontoxic white powder substance in recent days, according to the FBI. The agency is investigating the mailings, which occurred between Dec. 31 and last Thursday, Ralph Boelter,...

HASTINGS, Minn. - A $10 corkscrew is causing all kinds of trouble for Hastings Police Officer Rene Doffing. Doffing was charged last week for misdemeanor theft after allegedly stealing a corkscrew from the Green Mill here on Nov. 22. If convicted, Doffing could lose his license...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton plans to bring together state officials to discuss security around the Capitol complex in light of Saturday's Arizona shooting of a congresswoman and those attending her public event. "This is a moment of great national solemnity," Dayton said...

A Waubun man is facing criminal vehicular operation and driving after cancellation charges after running over three pedestrians in the Walmart parking lot Saturday afternoon. According to Detroit Lakes Police, Charles Irwin Hanson, 81, was waiting for a parking spot to open when...