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Police say it was a 20-month-old boy’s father who was driving the SUV that struck and killed the boy Sunday in an alley behind their north Fargo house. On Monday, the Fargo Police Department identified the toddler as Easton H. Schlicht and his father as 28-year-old...

MOORHEAD – A semi-truck was driving “extremely close” to a pickup before the Interstate 94 crash Tuesday morning that killed two Park Christian students, authorities said Wednesday. Though the semi didn’t hit the pickup carrying the four Moorhead students heading to a basketball...

Motorcycle rider deaths are significantly higher compared to this time last year. Twenty-five riders have died on Minnesota roads so far in 2015, which is 56 percent more than this time last year when there were 16 motorcycle fatalities. The latest motorcycle death happened...

Police here are waiting for autopsy results for clues to why a 51-year-old woman drove into the Park River Saturday. Rescue teams found the body of Carolina Mendoza inside her vehicle in the river late Saturday. According to a statement from the department, Mendoza,...

JASPER, Minn.—Two women died in a hog barn fire near Jasper in southwest Minnesota on Monday morning. Sharla Drew, 50, and Kristy Giesler, 32, both of Jasper, died when a barn the two were inside caught on fire. A statement from the Rock County Sheriff’s Office said...

The 2015 motorcycle riding season is off to a deadly start, with 11 motorcyclist fatalities reported this year across the state, reports the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The number of fatal motorcycle crashes reported so far this year is the highest at this point...

By Emily Welker / The Forum 61-year-old man is accused of letting his mentally ill brother freeze to death in their crumbling and filthy family farmhouse near Kindred, where his emaciated body, gnawed by rodents, was discovered in January. Ronald Allan Simmons, brother...

By Mike Nowatzki/ The Forum The number of fatal hunting accidents in Minnesota has dropped dramatically over the past 50 years, averaging fewer than three per year since 1990, and waterfowl hunting fatalities like the one that claimed the life of a 23-year-old Nevis man Oct. 5...

FARGO – A Fargo woman has died from injuries suffered in an apartment fire Saturday that also killed her boyfriend. Angela Wentz, 42, had been in critical condition at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis since the fire at 925 Page Drive. She died between 7 and 8 p.m....