What do Greater Grand Forks police do with their body camera footage?
No officer in the Grand Forks or East Grand Forks police departments has ever been investigated for improperly turning off their body cam. 7:00 am, Apr. 24, 2021 ×
Grand Forks police officer Jorge Elizondo downloads footage from his bodycam at the Grand Forks Police Department in this Herald file photo. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
When uniformed Grand Forks Police Department officers interact with the public, they can turn their body cameras on or off at their discretion – but GFPD Lt. Derik Zimmel said he rarely, if ever, goes looking for footage of an incident only to find it doesn t exist.
East Grand Forks City Council members eulogize Henry Tweten
Henry Tweten was a longtime East Grand Forks City Council member and a looming figure in Northwestern Minnesota politics. He died on Sunday at age 97, and his civic colleagues and successors remembered him fondly at their meeting on Tuesday. 6:29 pm, Feb. 2, 2021 ×
Henry Tweten s political career spanned seven decades in East Grand Forks. He died Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
Tuesday’s East Grand Forks City Council meeting doubled as a short memorial service.
After quickly working through a handful of humdrum agenda items, city officials and administrators in turn eulogized Henry Tweten, the longtime Eastside civil servant and Minnesota political mainstay who died Sunday at age 97.
East Grand Forks hit-and-run occurred shortly before deadly Grand Forks crash
Jenessa Kelley, 21, of Crookston, struck a vehicle on DeMers Avenue in East Grand Forks multiple times minutes before causing a deadly crash blocks away in Grand Forks on Saturday, Jan. 9. 3:19 pm, Jan. 11, 2021 ×
The intersection of North Fifth Street and Demers Avenue is blocked off following a multiple vehicle collision early Saturday afternoon in downtown Grand Forks. Nick Nelson / Grand Forks HeraldNick Nelson / Grand Forks Herald
A minor hit-and-run incident in East Grand Forks occurred just moments before a multi-vehicle collision in Grand Forks and involved the woman who Grand Forks police say caused the deadly crash.
Grand Forks crash that killed 3 followed shortly after a hit-and-run in East Grand Forks
Jenessa Kelley, 21, of Crookston, struck a vehicle on DeMers Avenue in East Grand Forks multiple times minutes before causing a deadly crash blocks away in Grand Forks on Saturday, Jan. 9. 4:46 pm, Jan. 11, 2021 ×
The intersection of North Fifth Street and Demers Avenue is blocked off following a multiple vehicle collision early Saturday afternoon in downtown Grand Forks. Nick Nelson / Grand Forks HeraldNick Nelson / Grand Forks Herald
GRAND FORKS A minor hit-and-run incident in East Grand Forks, Minn., occurred just moments before a multi-vehicle collision in Grand Forks and involved the woman who Grand Forks police say caused the deadly crash.
‘The ball is really in their court,’ Attorney General Ellison says of East Grand Forks restaurant as it reopens for a fourth night
Under financial pressure reportedly brought on by a gubernatorial order, an East Grand Forks bar and grill opened for the fourth night in a row on Saturday, despite a statewide restriction. It s facing a lawsuit from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and a restraining order from a Polk County judge, and penalties could quickly pile up from there. Ellison told the Herald that the figurative ball is in the restaurant s court. 5:49 pm, Dec. 12, 2020 ×
The Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks stayed open despite a state lawsuit and subsequent restraining order on Friday, Dec. 11. The restaurant, like others in the city, is chafing under Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz s order banning dine-in meal service to slow the spread of a novel coronavirus. Joe Bowen / Grand Forks Herald