walsh county

GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks County judge has canceled a sentencing hearing for a police informant convicted of theft but has not revealed his reason for doing so. Steven Harold Anderson, 59, was set to be sentenced on a felony theft charge Friday, but his hearing was canceled without...

GRAFTON — Justin Kiefer, a former fifth-grade teacher in Park River, has pleaded not guilty to felony charges alleging he had sex with a 16-year-old girl in November in the Walsh County town. State District Judge Richard Geiger on Friday set Kiefer’s pretrial hearing for...

PARK RIVER — Walsh County prosecutors have charged a Park River teacher with having sex with a 16-year-old girl. Fifth-grade teacher Justin Kiefer is charged with two counts of corruption or solicitation of a minor. Bond was set at $25,000. The complaint released Monday...

MINTO -- Walsh County authorities say a 79-year-old Walsh County man was found dead at the scene of a reported tractor fire near Minto. The Minto fire crews extinguished the Monday evening blaze one mile east of Interstate 29 and less than a mile south of Walsh County Road 15. Firefighters...

WARSAW, N.D. -- Walsh County sheriff's deputies have killed 13 dogs and arrested their owner, Peter Grzeskowiak, 59, after some of the dogs attacked a man as he walked down a country road early Sunday. "These dogs posed a threat," Sheriff Lauren Wild said Tuesday. "We knew they posed...

GRAFTON -- The Walsh County Water Resource District is dusting off a 40-year-old plan to divert Forest River floodwater from inundating Minto -- as it did three times this spring -- and thousands of acres of farmland. The board is seeking local sponsors to help finance a $160,000...