Bailey Hurley
Multimedia Journalist
Fargo, North Dakota
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Born and raised in West Fargo, Bailey is happy to be a voice for the people of the Red River Valley. She first started with Valley News Live as an intern during the summers and Christmas breaks of 2015-2017. After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a TV Broadcasting degree and a minor in criminology, she joined the VNL team as the crime and safety reporter. Bailey's passion is being a voice for victims of violent crimes and accidents, as she believes they deserve to be known for more than their unfortunate circumstances.
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Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
It’s a business where every second counts, however, local first responders say getting to where they are called is taking longer.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
Clean up and the search for answers continues tonight after a train went off its tracks Sunday night in rural Wyndmere. Officials say it was a broken rail that caused it all.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
A deputy with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office has been placed on paid administrative leave as an internal investigation is underway into the way the deputy responded to a fatal crash on I-94 on March 15.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 12:46 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
60-year-old Rachel Cooper now stands convicted of negligent homicide in the death of 78-year-old Gary Pearson.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 10:50 AM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
15 months after school officials and police opened up an investigation on a former Fargo Public School employee, a sentence has been handed down in court.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
Legacy Elementary School’s principal Jason Markusen was placed on leave on March 8, and submitted his resignation March 9.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 10:07 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley and Gretchen Hjelmstad
The Interstate reopened Wednesday around 10 p.m.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 5:18 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
The University plans to reopen at 10 p.m., on Sunday, March 12, to allow campus and city crews time to prepare roadways.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 11:15 AM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
The 2-year-old child’s condition is unknown as of this publication.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 6:09 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
The North Dakota Attorney General’s Office says since Tolman Media’s closing on February 15, investigators have received 13 complaints from both in and out-of-state brides and grooms, and one axed-photographer.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 6:20 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Connie and Rob Faulkner, owners of Pride and Joy Rescue say the roof hasn’t caused them any issues in past winters, but think last week’s dumping of more than a foot of snow was the last straw.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 4:55 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Dr. Eric Jayne was just 61 when he was killed. He was a well-known and loved veterinarian from Iowa who was visiting the Northern Valley in 2021 to work on the construction of a clinic.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 1:41 PM CST
|By Joe Skurzewski and Bailey Hurley
The 45-year-old Poitra was wanted in the shooting death of 30-year-old Troyal Thumb at Rindy’s Sheyenne Bar Sunday night.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:55 AM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
45-year-old Nicholas Poitra is alleged to have pulled the trigger before stealing a vehicle outside the bar and fleeing the scene.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 11:02 AM CST
|By Erika Craven and Bailey Hurley
Sheriff's deputies say Nicholas Poitra is armed and extremely dangerous.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 11:14 AM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Tolman Media, which subcontracted with North Dakota and Minnesota photographers and videographers, announced that as of Feb. 15 the business “officially ceased operations and been dismantled.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 6:01 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Cars are still getting towed out across the Valley after high winds and blowing snow brought zero visibility to the roads Tuesday night into early Wednesday.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 3:22 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
43-year-old Richard Pittman and 32-year-old April Carbone, who was 35-weeks pregnant, were killed. Carbone was due to give birth to a daughter the couple had already named Layla just days after Christmas.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 6:34 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
You might look twice when driving past Carmen Hontvet’s rural Warroad home, as one grain bin is not like the others.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 1:49 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley and Amanda Alvarado
Patricia Wick, 48, is charged with murder, child abuse and operating a day care without a license.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 9:57 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Court documents say Anthony Kruger shot at Jeremiah Medenwald 15 times on the night of Jan. 16.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 2:39 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley and Kortney Lockey
As of Friday afternoon, Anderson says WPD has still not identified a suspect or made an arrest, and are still in the process of putting together a timeline of the night.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 5:57 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Multiple shots rang out shortly after 7 p.m. outside of the Sterns Sports Arena in the 1000 block of 11th St. N., near Wahpeton High School.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 9:19 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
More than 1,000 cyber tips came across investigators desks in North Dakota last year; all involving sex crimes against children online. Just over 700 cases were investigated in 2021.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 6:43 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley and Jordan Gartner
A woman has been arrested and charged after an investigation into claims of neglect and abuse of young children.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 1:49 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
42-year-old Miranda Sorlie is charged in Cass County court with three felony counts of child abuse, as well as six felony counts of child neglect.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 12:29 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
The trial for Shannon Brandt is scheduled for May 30-June 9, 2023
Updated: Dec. 28, 2022 at 8:54 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Crews are in clean up mode across North Dakota and Minnesota after several recent days of bad weather left many drivers in the ditch, which in turn took out hundreds of cable median barriers on their way.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 6:32 PM CST
|By Jordan Schroeer and Bailey Hurley
“It just gives you a good feeling,” Dorothy says.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 10:14 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Christmas came early for one West Fargo girl today who is continuing her fight against Stage 5 kidney cancer.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 1:52 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
55-year-old Steven Piechowski is now charged in Grand Forks County Court with manslaughter, three felony counts of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and two misdemeanor counts of assault and simple assault.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 8:48 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Several shots were fired both inside and outside a Grand Forks County home Sunday.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 8:27 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
wo weeks after pulling an elderly couple out of their burning vehicle near Wahpeton, saving them, a Minnesota man has been honored for his bravery and heroism.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 3:02 PM CST
|By Alix Larsen and Bailey Hurley
No word on the condition of the victim.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 10:17 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Jared Hoechst served as a paramedic for just six months in Lisbon, N.D. before he moved on to something new, but that short-lived training saved Alberta and Korre Bratland’s lives.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2022 at 8:07 AM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
Fargo Police say at 3:17 Saturday morning, they responded to a call for shots fired in the 1000 block of 15th St. N.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 6:15 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
For months, members of the Police Advisory and Oversight Board as well as the Human Rights Commission have been pushing for an external investigation to be done on the shooting that left 28-year-old Shane Netterville dead.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 6:10 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
“She was kind in everything she did."
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 12:23 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley and Stacie Van Dyke
46-year-old Christopher Thompson is charged with one class A felony of DUI resulting in a death, as well as one class C felony of DUI resulting in injury.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 2:56 PM CST
|By Bailey Hurley
29-year-old Justin Arp is charged with two felony counts of possession of prohibited materials.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 12:49 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
27-year-old Lucas John Puhr is charged in Barnes County Court with gross sexual imposition, aggravated assault, child abuse and two counts of child neglect. If convicted on the first count, Puhr faces the rest of his life in prison.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 11:54 AM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
The raid happened in the early morning hours of Sept. 21 in the Hawthorne neighborhood after newly unsealed court documents say the home was one of many in Fargo at the center of a months-long investigation into a meth distribution ring.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 8:59 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
Prosecutors have declined to press charges against a longtime bus driver after health experts say he suffered a medical emergency in the moments leading up to a crash that ended in a river.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 3:08 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
Hours after the incident, 24-year-old Schuyler Ferguson turned himself into police.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 12:19 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
A 2021 internal investigation has come to light involving a nude photo accidentally sent by a lieutenant with the Cass County Sheriff’s office to a fellow deputy.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 6:04 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
Life is much different than Eric O’Meara ever thought it would be.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 3:32 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley and Gretchen Hjelmstad
Arthur Kollie has been found guilty in the murder of 14-year-old Jupiter Paulsen near the Party City parking lot in June of 2021.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 5:00 PM CDT
|By Alix Larsen and Bailey Hurley
He should have life without the possibility of parole.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 9:56 AM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley
“He was a pillar of the community it’s a total devastating loss. Everybody loved Doug Dulmage."
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 2:48 PM CDT
|By Bailey Hurley and Jordan Gartner
A 31-year-old mother has died after a brutal attack with her ex-husband being the main suspect in the assault.
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