CSi Weather…

.REST OF TODAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds

10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds

5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers

and thunderstorms in the Jamestown area,  50 percent in the Valley City area. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain

showers. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain

showers in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s.

.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.

Lows in the mid 50s.

 

Friday into Saturday, strong to possibly isolated severe thunderstroms in

southern ND Saturday as well.

Early next week a dry and warm forecast with highs in the 80s Monday through Wednesday across western and central ND.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Valley City Welcome Window project culminates with the “Back to the City Night”, on Thursday August 24, 2017.

On Thursday, VCSU students, faculty and staff meet on the VCSU side of the footbridge about 5-p.m., and walk, “Back to the City,” to meet with business owners and check out what Valley City offers.

Many businesses will remain open until 7-p.m., with some planning sidewalk sales while others will have booths set up.

The Welcome Window project started on August 16th, as local businesses painted their storefront windows to welcome VCSU students for the new academic year.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)    Saint John’s Academy is hosting its 27th Annual HOPE DINNER October 7, 2017. H.O.P.E (Help Offer Private Education) plays a vital role in providing a solid quality education in a faith community based on Christian Principles and values for the students of Saint John’s Academy.

The event hosted at the Zebedee Center, Jamestown will begin with a social at 5:00 p.m. followed by a dinner of Brandy Dijon Chicken at 6:30 p.m. Attire is semi-formal.

There are different ways to participate in the event. Individual tickets are $75 each. Sponsorships are being accepted at the following levels:

  • Saint: $1,250 (8 tickets)
  • Angel: $1,000 (6 tickets)
  • Patron: $750 (4 tickets)
  • Friend $200 (2 tickets)

Seating is available in tables of eight. Every effort will be made to honor seating requests. Requests are filled on a first come basis and seating is limited. Tickets can be reserved by purchasing at St. John’s Academy or calling 701-252-3397.

 

Bismarck  (CSi)  Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has issued his opinion on whether the Foster County Water Resource Board unreasonably delayed providing requested records.

The release says, the Foster County Water Resource Board received a request for copies of minutes for meetings during a certain time period where there was a discussion of a specific topic.

Stenehjem says, “The board waited until its next meeting before directing the board’s part-time secretary to search for records.  A public entity’s response to a record request cannot be extended until the next meeting simply to enable the governing body to give permission to release the records. The Board’s delay violated the law.”

Following the meeting, the board’s secretary searched but could not find any minutes where the specified topic was discussed.

“Rather than simply notify the requester that there were no records, the secretary copied all meeting minutes during the identified time period and sent them to the requester several weeks after the request. Although this office appreciates that the board’s secretary was trying to be helpful, the delay in responding to the request violated the law.”

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  U.S. Senator John Hoeven’s visit to Jamestown  is postponed until Friday August 25, 2017 at 1-p.m., at the North Dakota Farmers Union Headquarters, at 1415 12th Avenue, SE.

At the roundtable with agriculture producers, commodity groups and state officials discussion will center on  continuing drought conditions, and efforts of the federal government to provide relief to ND farmers and ranchers.

 

Washington  (CSi)  – Senator John Hoeven Wednesday announced that the President has signed into law bipartisan legislation he cosponsored to update and improve the benefit claims appeals process at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, which was passed unanimously by the Senate on August 1, modernizes the VA appeals process and reduces wait times for veterans who are not satisfied with the VA’s initial decision on their benefits claims. Currently, veterans face a five-year wait on average if they appeal a decision.

Hoeven says, “This bipartisan legislation modernizes the VA’s claims appeal process and will help ensure that our veterans have better options when they don’t agree with a benefit decision.  We need to ensure the highest quality care for the men and women who have served our nation and this legislation will help us to do that.”

Specifically, the bill:

  • Includes reforms consistent with legislative proposals by the VA, veterans groups and other stakeholders
  • Creates three options for veterans dissatisfied with the initial decision on claims:
    • Higher-level review by a regional office with the same evidence presented to the original claim processors
    • Supplemental claim with a regional office that would include the opportunity to submit additional evidence
    • Appeal directly to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, resulting in a possible hearing and an opportunity to submit additional evidence
  • Helps ensure that current pending appeals will be acted on as quickly as possible
  • Requires the VA Secretary to certify that the VA has the necessary resources to implement the new system and requires the VA to report to Congress as to whether or not the new system is succeeding in better serving veterans, their families and their survivors
  • Protects the effective date of a benefits award by dating back to the original filing of the claim

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a 27-year-old man accused of stabbing a woman in Minot faces a murder charge now that the victim has died.

The Minot Police Department says it was notified Tuesday that 25-year-old Sharmaine Leake of Minot has died.

The suspect, Bradley Morales, originally was charged with attempted murder. The stabbing happened Aug. 16.

Morales remains in the Ward County Jail. Bail is set at $1 million.

 

Update…

MAKOTI, N.D. (AP) — A two-vehicle crash in Ward County killed one person and injured five more.

The Highway Patrol says a car driven by 49-year-old David Whitetail, of White Shield, failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of state Highway 23 and a county road about 6:15 p.m. Monday. The car collided with a pickup truck.

Whitetail died at the scene about a mile north of Makoti. Three teenage passengers in his car and the two adult occupants of the truck suffered unspecified injuries.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo police have opened a criminal investigation into the disappearance of a 22-year-old pregnant woman.

Savanna Greywind was last seen at her apartment Saturday afternoon. Ground, air and river searches in the Fargo and Grand Forks areas so far have proved unsuccessful.

The Greywind family is offering a $7,000 reward for information that leads to solving the case.

Family and friends gathered Wednesday in downtown Fargo for a vigil and prayer service.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general says Morton County did not violate the state’s open records law when it refused to release information related to the Dakota Access pipeline protest.

Benjamin Stoll asked for the opinion after being turned down on his request for video and photographs taken by law enforcement during a protest near a bridge on state Highway 1806 on Nov. 21. The Morton County State’s Attorney’s Office and Morton County Sheriff’s Department cited a state law protecting records that are part of an active investigation.

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said in an opinion released Wednesday that the material requested is essential for cases that have yet to be resolved and there are some matters scheduled into November.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Farmers around the country are donating hay for ranchers whose livestock are suffering from the drought in the Northern Plains. But getting the feed to the region isn’t proving easy.

North Dakota’s Agriculture Department has issued a plea for truckers to haul donated hay from other states for a hay lottery program for ranchers in the Dakotas and Montana.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says the majority of donated hay is in nearby states, but donations also have been offered from as far as Maryland, Tennessee and Texas.

Separately, an effort in the eastern U.S. started by a tractor pulling team is seeking thousands of dollars to pay for fuel. Organizer Tom Bedgar in Pennsylvania says there’s plenty of donated hay, but hauling it costs $1,000 per load.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The Souris River Joint Board has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to review the preliminary flood risk map for Minot.

Board members say the failure to consider the operations of Canadian dams in the development of the flood risk map has wrongly placed at least 1,000 structures in the 100-year flood plain.

FEMA administrator Brock Long tells the Minot Daily News the agency is open to reviewing the map but that it will need guarantees on operational policies to be able to consider water held back by the dams as a mitigating factor in flood risk.

The operations of the dams follow a plan that’s part of an international agreement overseen by a board with both Canadian and U.S. representatives.

 

PARSHALL, N.D. (AP) — Voters have narrowly rejected spending $5.4 million on a new school on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

The bond referendum in the Parshall School District received 55 percent approval in Tuesday’s election, but it needed 60 percent to pass.

The school district wanted to replace its elementary and high school buildings with a new K-12 school. The existing schools were built in the 1960s and have structural and asbestos issues.

The Three Affiliated Tribes had approved $9 million for the project contingent on the bond issue passing.

 

In sports…

BISMARCK (AP) After their win against the defending Class 9-Man State Champions last week, the Cavalier High football team tops the first 9-Man Football Poll of the 2017 season, as voted on by members of the North Dakota Associated Press Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

First place votes are in parenthesis, followed by the teams record, and the number of total points received.

1. Cavalier (7) 1-0 53
2. Bismarck Shiloh Christian (4) 1-0 48
3. Wyndmere Lidgerwood (3) 1-0 43
4. St. John (1) 1-0 38
5. Thompson 0-1 17

Others Receiving Votes: New Salem-Almont (1-0), North Prairie (1-0), May-Port CG (1-0), Linton-HMB (1-0), Mohall-LS (1-1),Divide County (1-0), Napoleon/G-S (1-0), Oakes (1-0)

 

 

AA…

Fargo-Moorhead 7, Sioux Falls 3

 

MLB…

INTERLEAGUE

Final Seattle 9 Atlanta 6

Final Houston 6 Washington 1

Final Kansas City 6 Colorado 4

 

AMERICAN LEAGUE

CHICAGO (AP) — Tim Anderson singled with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to score Avisail Garcia from second base and give the Chicago White Sox a 4-3 comeback victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night. Jorge Polanco homered for the fourth straight game and drove in two runs for the Twins.

Final Baltimore 8 Oakland 7, 12 Innings

Final Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 6

Final Boston 6 Cleveland 1

Final N-Y Yankees 10 Detroit 2

Final Texas 7 L.A. Angels 5, 10 Innings

 

NATIONAL LEAGUE

UNDATED (AP) — Dodgers lefty Rich Hill tossed nine no-hit innings against the Pirates in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. The 10th inning was a killer.

Josh Harrison led off the bottom of the 10th with a home run to give the Pirates a 1-0 win over Los Angeles.

Hill had a perfect game until third baseman Logan Forsythe booted Jordy Mercer’s grounder for an error leading off the ninth. Hill retired the next three Pirates, but the Dodgers failed to score in the 10th before Harrison’s 16th homer of the season sent Los Angeles to its first loss in three games.

Hill became the first pitcher since Pedro Martinez in 1995 to take a no-hit try into extra innings.

 

Final San Francisco 4 Milwaukee 2

Final Philadelphia 8 Miami 0

Final N-Y Mets 4 Arizona 2

Final Chi Cubs 9 Cincinnati 3

Final St. Louis 6 San Diego 2

 

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Final N-Y Liberty 71 Indiana 50

Final Connecticut 93 Dallas 87

Final Atlanta 89 Seattle 83

 

MLB…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Minnesota Twins have promoted right-handed reliever John Curtiss from Triple-A Rochester. The move was made before their game Wednesday at Chicago. Curtiss would be the 50th player used by the Twins this season and the 12th to make his major league debut.

UNDATED (AP) — The Red Sox have picked up another outfielder after placing Jackie Bradley Jr. on the disabled list with a sprained left thumb.

Boston has acquired Rajai (RAH’-zhay) Davis from the Athletics for 18-year-old outfield prospect Rafael Rincones. The 36-year-old Davis is hitting .233 with five home runs, 18 RBIs and 26 stolen bases in 100 games this season.

Bradley injured his thumb while reaching for home plate during a slide in Tuesday’s game against Cleveland. The Red Sox filled the roster spot by recalling infielder Deven Marrero from Triple-A Pawtucket.

 

NFL…

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have relaunched their charitable arm, targeting childhood hunger, obesity, fitness and education. The Minnesota Vikings Foundation will replace the Vikings Children’s Fund, which has donated almost $12 million to youth-related causes since 1978. The Vikings announced the initiative Wednesday.

 

GOPHERS…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former University of Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys is defending himself after an outside review blamed “weak leadership” by the coaching staff for a threat by players to boycott the Holiday Bowl. Claeys wrote a commentary that appeared online Wednesday. The review released last week found the university followed law and policy properly when it suspended 10 players last fall following an accusation of sexual assault.

 

GOLF…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Billy Payne is retiring as chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters after 11 years of substantial change that included the club inviting female members and supporting the game’s growth with two international amateur tournaments.

Payne officially retires Oct. 16 when the club opens for a new season.

He will be succeeded by Fred Ridley, a former USGA president and U.S. Amateur champion who heads the Masters competition committee. Ridley will be the first chairman who played in the Masters.

 

LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES…

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Greenville, North Carolina, has advanced to the U.S. title game at the Little League World Series.

Greenville pulled out a 2-1, seven-inning win over Lufkin, Texas. The result puts Lufkin into Thursday’s play-in game against Fairfield, which cruised to a 12-2 win over Jackson, N.J.

Tokyo now prepares for Saturday’s International championship game after crushing White Rock, British Columbia, 10-0.

 

In world and national news…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Donald Trump can shift dramatically in tone from one speech to the next. Within a 24-hour span, Trump delivered one speech in which he tore into the media and members of his own party and then a second in which he called for national unity and love. It was a dizzying about-face that seemed to reflect a real-time internal debate between calls for moderation and his inclination to let loose.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville residents are getting a chance to talk with city officials about a white nationalist rally earlier this month that devolved into deadly violence. The city is hosting what it calls a “community recovery town hall” Thursday evening, in collaboration with a division of the Department of Justice.

JERUSALEM (AP) — White House envoy Jared Kushner has begun a round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as he resumes efforts to restart peace talks. Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son in law, arrived at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.

MIAMI (AP) — A hurricane warning has been issued for a section of Texas’ Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Harvey approaches. The warning, issued Thursday morning, covers an area from Port Mansfield to Matagorda. The storm’s maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph but the U.S. National Hurricane Center says Harvey is expected to strengthen to a hurricane by Friday, when it’s expected to approach the southern Texas coast.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The only winning ticket for the Powerball $758.7 million jackpot has been sold in Chicopee (CHIH’-kuh-pee), Massachusetts, a town familiar for its connection to the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. It’s the largest grand prize won by a single lottery ticket in U.S. history. Powerball official Charlie McIntyre says six other tickets won $2 million apiece, and 34 others are worth $1 million.

The lucky numbers for the second largest lottery prize in U.S. history were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and the Powerball number was 4.