Fergus Falls

FERGUS FALLS — The Bemidji VFW baseball team has a three-game winning streak going after sweeping Fergus Falls in an away doubleheader Wednesday, winning by scores of 2-1 and 7-4. Fergus Falls is one of the two other teams in Bemidji’s district this season, which provides added...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - The suspect in an apparent murder has been identified by the Fergus Falls Police Department. Dustin Defiel, 28, is charged with second degree murder of his father, Ricardo Defiel, a city employee in the northwestern Minnesota town. The Fergus Falls Police Department...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 25-year-old Fergus Falls man was sentenced Friday in Otter Tail County District Court for a year in jail and 10 years of probation for giving the victim alcohol throughout the day on Sept. 1 and then sexually attacking her. Battern allegedly forced her into...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- Parents of a Fergus Falls teen who drowned on a church youth trip two years ago have reached a settlement with the church and the company the church rented two houseboats from. Briggs Anderson, 14, drowned July 29, 2013, while on a youth trip with Hope Evangelical...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 17-month-old child was pronounced dead Monday afternoon after being hit by a car in Fergus Falls. Fergus Falls police say Avah Mae Dirkman was struck about 12:30 p.m. by a 2009 Dodge Journey driven by Katie Diane Black, 29, of Fergus Falls. Reports...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 59-year-old man was recently arrested on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl who worked for him at the Traverse County Fair in summer 1990, court documents show. Timothy John Solem of Wabasha, Minn., was arrested in southern Minnesota and first appeared...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 59-year-old California man drowned Friday night in Jewett Lake, about 10 miles north of Fergus Falls, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office responded to a report of a person who had fallen out of a boat on the south...

FERGUS FALLS — Matt Gregg’s 71 is leading the Bemidji High School boys golf team as the Lumberjacks are ninth out of 11 teams after day one of the Fergus Falls Invitational. Bemidji shot a team score of 324, 22 shots behind invite leaders Alexandria and Eden Prairie. After Gregg,...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 38-year-old employee at Northern Contours in Fergus Falls had his right arm ripped from his body around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The arm got entangled in a moving industrial router at the Northern Contours thermofoil plant, according to CEO Larry Skow. “This...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- One person is dead after a two-car crash in Fergus Falls Wednesday, and authorities say alcohol was a factor. The crash, at the intersection of Brenvei Drive and County Road 1 between Hoot Lake and Wright Lake, happened at about 10:15 p.m. and involved two...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- One man was arrested for drunken driving after driving into Otter Tail Lake on Saturday night. According to police, about 9 p.m. Saturday, Fergus Falls resident Taylor Ray Perala drove into open water on Otter Tail Lake, about 20 miles north and east of...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – A 21-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl has been acquitted of two felony charges in Otter Tail County. Joseph Daniel Anderson, of Pelican Rapids, was released from custody Tuesday, the same day a jury found him not guilty of...