FARGO — A Hawley, Minn., man accused of fatally running a bicyclist over in downtown Fargo and then leaving the scene in March has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge related to the case in Cass County.

Jeremy Jorgenson, 43, was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, Sept. 23, but earlier this week he waived his right to the preliminary hearing and entered a not guilty plea in a written request to the court.

He is charged with a single felony count of duty in an accident involving a death. Court documents filed by prosecutors in the case claim Jorgenson didn’t stop to help 61-year-old Bernd Scholz of Fargo after Jorgenson drove over Scholz with his SUV just before 8 p.m. on March 12, at NP Avenue and 10th Street North.

Scholz, who was born in Germany but had a career as a nanoscie

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