GRAND FORKS, ND (trfnews.i234.me) A look at the top stories around the region since Friday night.
Neal also here on the phone without Ryan wish German of plumber Minnesota so tell me the story you went shopping you said in Walmart in Thief River Falls today what happened would you buy my wife went up there and bought some water boots for my daughter and then she brought him home and had her try them on they fit good swoosh cutoff pegs and then a little while later my daughter said that his feet was bugging her so she thought you know rockin good mom and there was I think your scalpel please it looked like scalpel blades in the booth yeah and the one she ducked through the toe on the left and the other one you know I took a photo Lois it’s okay did your daughter get hurt at all she didn’t that I had noticed a little but the thing okay so what’s happened here you said your wife was calling customer service yep she called customer service they Paul says she’ll be bringing back their spending somebody okay but anyway it looked like scalpel blades on that’s what I say okay it’s not a regular box cutter blade or a utility knife blade or a razor blade you know made to be held in scalpel say okay all right I’m glad nobody was hurt thanks for talking to me absolutely North Dakota Democratic convention is underway at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks this weekend current candidates and even a retired senator all safe the controversy surrounding president Trump and his administration will mean a major shift of voters over to the Democratic side yes I do I think it’s happening all over the country it’s very clear people are thinking anew and they really want to get merica back on track so I think there’s gonna be a decided change in this election what do you think of all the controversy going on in the in the white house I mean just your opinion you know I have many Republican friends some of whom are high-level staffers in the Congress in the Senate even in the administration and they tell me it is complete chaos that’s and I guess we see it every night on the news I’m seeking the nomination for United States Senate under the Democratic nonpartisan League ticket do you think there’s a big dynamic shift coming out there for those folks who were tired of things the last election cycle and go well I’m gonna vote for Donald Trump but now they’ve had enough of that and moving back to this side yeah and and you know I don’t know if it’s about choosing sides at this point I think it’s about choosing people who are not funded by the swamp people who actually bring forward people first initiatives and I think that folks are tired of the big money in politics do you think there’s a dynamic shift coming from the last election folks were tired of things that well let’s vote for Trump and that’s gonna shift back over now well if this is a wave election I hope it’s a wave of practicality that takes over I think the country’s sick of seeing things swing absolutely far left and far right I think we need a course correction to the middle and that’s that’s gonna mean our elected leaders focusing on bread-and-butter issues kitchen table issues like balancing the budget North Dakota jobs you know making sure people have access to quality health care you know the partisan circus has gone on long enough in Washington DC and I think people are ready to elect somebody who’s gonna pull up the stakes kind of what do you what is the overall democratic philosophy now for this for this cycle well what I think we need to do is just get back to basics talk about the issues that the people care about that actually have an impact on their pocketbooks things like like Social Security things like getting rid of regulations that that hurt North Dakota jobs so really just to focus on the things that matter in people’s lives and you know save the partisan sideshow for another day the big shell for this convention is Saturday afternoon when former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to address the convention an 18 year old man from Barrett Minnesota died in a single vehicle accident early Saturday morning Barrett is 20 miles west of Alexandria the victim has been identified as 18-year old Carter Dayton Overson the State Patrol says the Olds Cutlass was northbound on highway 55 and went off the road north of the city of Barrett the underbrush and dry grasses under the vehicle caught fire and the vehicle burn the driver did not escape the vehicle and the investigation is ongoing we have an update regarding a vehicle going through the front window of treat play love a pet supply store at 1905 South Washington Street I just talked with the police shift supervisor who says the female trot said she tried to put it in park put her foot on the brake and accidentally hit the gas and went through the window her name is not available she’s been ticketed for care required here’s the dispatch calls that came in at 5:13 p.m. on this Saturday station one central station one central 1905 South Washington Street 1905 South Washington Street Treat play love for a vehicle that went through the front window of the business again a vehicle goes through the front window of treat play love a pet supply store at 1905 South Washington Street no injuries a female has been cited for care required [Music] and Ellen Dale North Dakota man was seriously injured after rolling his vehicle multiple times at 9:41 p.m. Saturday night near edge Lee the victim is a 38 year old Aaron filbert the Patrol says the Avalon driven by filbert was northbound on highway 281 at a high rate of speed when it failed to maneuver a slight curve in the roadway near edge Lee the vehicle left the road and rolled multiple times and before striking a frontage road and coming to rest on its wheels filbert suffered serious injuries he was transported to Jamestown and then flown to a Fargo hospital the crash remains under investigation by the patrol they say a filbert has been charged with DUI just after 8:00 p.m. Saturday night Grand Forks police were called to the area of North Washington Street a gateway drive for a report of an impaired driver a caller reported a vehicle description to believe the driver of the vehicle was impaired officers located the vehicle in the 3500 block of gateway Drive and observed it driving westbound in the eastbound driving lanes officers attempted to stop the vehicle but the driver refused to pull over and a low speed pursuit resulted the pursuit lasted approximately ten blocks and was confined to an area of South gateway Drive between Stanford Road and North 39th Street 67 year old Grand Forks resident Darrell Asher was taken into custody and has preliminary been charged with fleeing police in a motor vehicle driving under the influence of alcohol and driving under suspension at 2:22 a.m. this Sunday morning Grand Forks police officers were dispatched to this central parking ramp on First Avenue North for a reported motor vehicle crash initial investigation has revealed a 2007 Ford Explorer driven by 23 year old Grand Forks resident Isaac Tafel Meyer was attempting to exit the parking ramp when it struck two vehicles parked in the ramp Tafel Meyers vehicle then continued into a concrete wall in the fifth Street side of the ramp causing substantial damage to the wall of the ramp the Grand Forks Fire Department responded to this crash to access to assess the structural integrity of the wall and secure it temporarily until permanent repairs can be made Tafel Meyer was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol there were no injuries suffered as a result of this crash I’m Neil Berg reporting for trfnews.i234.me
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