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CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Ptchy fog. Lows in the lower 30s. Southwest

winds 5 to 15 mph.

.TUESDAY..Ppatchy fog in the morning. ThenPartly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 10 to

15 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy.  20 percent chance of light rain in the Valley City arrea. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.

.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy. Chance of rain, snow and sleet in the

morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper

30s. North winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain and

snow in the evening. Lows in the lower 20s. North winds 10 to

15 mph.

.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower

30s. Lows 17 to 23.

.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 10 to 15.

.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the

upper 20s. Lows around 15.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs

around 30.

 

Continued reinforcing shots of colder air Friday and into the

weekend bring average to slightly below average temperatures to our

area. Look for morning low temperatures Friday through the weekend

from mainly the teens to single digits above zero…with highs

mainly from 20F to 30F. No significant precipitation expected during

this time period.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Police credit two teenagers for rescuing a 3-year-old girl from a Fargo hotel pool over the weekend.

Police Sgt. Mike Sanden says the 13- and-14-year-old girls saw the child at the bottom of the pool at a Holiday Inn at about 9 p.m. Saturday and pulled her out.

The teens said the child was blue but started coughing and vomiting once she was out of the water. The girls then called authorities and found the child’s mother.

The mother said she was going to take her daughter to a hospital to be checked out.

Sanden says  the teens “did an excellent job.”

 

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — State and federal authorities have told Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters at an encampment in North Dakota to leave. But many in the camp say they’re not going.

The deadline is Wednesday. It comes amid concerns that spring flooding could wash tons of trash into nearby rivers. State officials are warning of an environmental disaster if the camp isn’t cleaned up and closed.

Some in the camp say the flood fears are overblown. They plan to seek higher ground, but have no plans to leave despite the threat of arrest.

Tiffanie Pieper, of San Diego, says: “If we don’t stand now, when will we?”

Pipeline opponents say the $3.8 billion project to move North Dakota oil to Illinois threatens the environment. Dallas-based developer Energy Transfer Partners disputes that.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Senate is considering a proposal that would halt wind-generation projects in the state for two years.

Republican Sen. Dwight Cook is worried North Dakota’s burgeoning wind-energy industry may be threatening the state’s coal-fired power plants.

He says the state’s wind industry more enjoys favorable tax incentives and less onerous regulations than coal factories, putting them at an unfair advantage.

Republican Rep. Mike Brandenburg is one of the most pro-wind lawmakers in the Legislature.

He says the Senate proposal “sends a bad message” to industry and investors, and he fears the state could lose tax revenue and jobs to other states if the measure is approved.

 

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — Police in Detroit Lakes have released the name of a 56-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a freight train over the weekend.

Police Chief Steve Todd on Monday identified the victim as Lynn Alexander of Detroit Lakes.

Authorities were called Saturday night about a pedestrian being hit by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train near the train depot in Detroit Lakes. The victim was found dead on the railroad tracks.

No other information is being released.

 

In sports…

The top 25 mens college basketbal teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 19, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv
1. Gonzaga (59) 28-0 1618 1
2. Villanova (5) 26-2 1556 2
3. Kansas (1) 24-3 1503 3
4. Arizona 25-3 1356 5
5. UCLA 24-3 1316 6
6. Oregon 24-4 1297 7
7. Louisville 22-5 1267 8
8. North Carolina 23-5 1138 10
9. Baylor 22-5 1108 4
10. Duke 22-5 1014 12
11. Kentucky 22-5 943 13
12. West Virginia 21-6 908 9
13. Florida 22-5 822 15
14. Purdue 22-5 807 16
15. Cincinnati 24-3 733 18
16. Wisconsin 22-5 713 11
17. SMU 24-4 554 19
18. Virginia 18-8 427 14
19. Florida State 21-6 419 17
20. Saint Mary’s 24-3 375 22
21. Notre Dame 21-7 322 25
22. Butler 21-6 295 24
23. Creighton 22-5 178 20
24. Maryland 22-5 159 23
25. Wichita State 25-4 153

Others receiving votes: VCU 39, Northwestern 25, Iowa State 22, South Carolina 12, Southern Cal 10, Dayton 9, Middle Tennessee 8, Oklahoma State 7, Minnesota 5, Miami 2, Monmouth (N.J.) 2, Michigan 1, Vermont 1, Virginia Tech 1.

 

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 19, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking

Record Pts Prv
1. UConn (33) 26-0 825 1
2. Maryland 26-1 788 2
3. Mississippi St. 27-1 755 3
4. Baylor 25-2 731 4
5. Notre Dame 25-3 682 7
6. Texas 21-5 608 8
7. South Carolina 22-4 602 6
8. Florida St. 24-4 583 4
8. Stanford 24-4 583 10
10. Oregon St. 25-3 528 11
11. Washington 25-4 494 9
12. Ohio St. 23-5 469 12
13. Duke 24-4 467 13
14. Louisville 23-6 414 14
15. UCLA 20-7 350 18
16. Oklahoma 21-6 340 19
17. Miami 19-7 274 16
18. NC State 20-7 232 15
19. DePaul 22-6 208 17
20. Syracuse 18-9 162 21
21. Drake 22-4 123 25
22. Kentucky 19-8 110
23. Temple 21-5 99
24. Missouri 19-9 62
25. Michigan 21-7 53 20

Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 45, Kansas St 45, Creighton 32, South Florida 27, Tennessee 9, Belmont 7, Green Bay 4, West Virginia 4, Arizona St. 3, Tulane 2, Colorado St. 2, Wright St. 1, Marquette 1, LSU 1.

 

In world and national news…

 

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new national security adviser.

Trump announced the pick Monday at his Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago. He says McMaster is “a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience.”

Trump says retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who had been his acting adviser, will now serve as the National Security Council chief of staff.

Trump had been looking for a replacement for retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who was ousted last week.

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Glenn is continuing to inspire 55 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth.

Since Glenn’s death on Dec. 8 at the age of 95, devotees have visited an exhibit of his artifacts at Ohio State University, backers have begun fundraising for an observatory and astronomy park in Glenn’s name and work has begun on a 7-foot statue in his likeness.

Glenn’s storied life included time as a military test pilot and U.S. senator, but it was the history-making Mercury mission that propelled Glenn and his spacecraft Friendship 7 into the history books.

The anniversary of the flight is Monday.

During 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds on Feb. 20, 1962, the capsule circled the Earth three times, making Glenn the first American to orbit Earth.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military, Kurdish forces, police and militias are taking part in an offensive to retake the western half of Mosul from the Islamic State group. Meanwhile, on his first trip to Baghdad in his new role, Defense Secretary James Mattis is predicting a long fight against the militant group. He says he’ll be open to requests from U.S. commanders to support the battle to retake Mosul and launch an offensive to oust IS from its main base in Syria.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin says it knows nothing about a peace plan for Ukraine crafted by an opposition Ukrainian lawmaker and two of President Donald Trump’s associates. The New York Times reports Trump business associate Felix Sater, the president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen and Andrii Artemenko (ahn-DRAY ar-teh-MEN-ko), who runs a political opposition movement in Ukraine, drafted the plan with the aid of Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman dismisses the plan as “absurd.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press and other news organizations are asking a judge to force the federal government to reveal how much it paid for a tool to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The Justice Department says the information could be exploited by “hostile entities” if released.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is paying $3 million to the family of a developmentally disabled boy repeatedly molested by a staffer at a state-managed group home. In legal documents obtained by The Associated Press, former staffer Stephen DeProspero described the home as a “predator’s dream” because of lax supervision. DeProspero is now in prison. Michael Carey, an advocate for the disabled whose autistic son was killed by a caregiver in 2007, says the case highlights systemic problems.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A disagreement over the right to fish for scallops off of New England is pitting small boats against big boats in one of the most lucrative fisheries in the U.S. Small boat fishermen say the conflict has arisen in the northern Gulf of Maine, which stretches roughly from Boston to Canada. Federal rules allow the bigger boats to harvest more scallops, while the smaller boats are limited to 200 pounds.