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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 50. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight in the Valley City area. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Rain showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of showers 70 percent.
.SUNDAY…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers. Highs
in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of rain showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
Increasing showers across western/central ND Friday through Sunday.
Temperatures will cool into the 50s Saturday through Monday, then
rebound into the lower 60s Tuesday.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning residents regarding a convicted sex offender living in Jamestown.
John Sheku Conteh resides at 102 4th Avenue, Southwest, Jamestown, ND
Conteh has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee, of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
Conteh is a 37 year old black male, six feet two inches tall weighing 260 pounds with brown eyes, and black hair.
Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition.
Conviction Date: February 2015, Cass County, ND District Court.
Disposition: 10 years; first serve 5 years; 127 days credit; 5 years supervised probation.
Conteh is currently on probation with ND Probation and Parole.
Conteh is not wanted by police at this time, and has served the sentence imposed by the court.
This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.
Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of the demographics of Conteh are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called out about 11:30-a.m., Wednesday to a report of a natural gas odor behind the Aaron’s store on Business Loop West.
An official from MDU arrived on the scene and reported the cause of the odor was a “hissing meter,” which was taken care of.
The City Fire Department was released from the scene after about 10 minutes.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) — Workers are trying to get two locomotives and four rail cars back on track after a derailment in south-central North Dakota.
A spokeswoman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway says the derailment happened Wednesday morning about 9-a.m. near Gavilon Grain west of Jamestown.
Two locomotives, four tankers and one hopper car were involved in the slow speed derailment
The derailment happened on industry track, so the railroad’s main line was kept open and traffic was not affected. The derailed locomotives and cars all stayed upright.
No one was hurt.
The cause remains under investigation.
Jamestown (CSi) Donations of coats and other winter clothing items are being accepted at the Jamestown Salvation Army and Ave Maria Village through Monday, Oct. 2, as part of the annual Coats for Kids campaign.
Coats, hats, mittens, gloves, scarves, boots and other winter clothing items being accepted for kids of all ages.
The items should be clean and in good working order.
Drop off t donations at the Ave Maria Village chaplain’s office, or
at the Jamestown Salvation Army.
Jamestown (CSi) Forget Me Not flowers proceeds have helped disable veterans area veterans for years.
The Forget Me Not sales in Jamestown by members of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 31 and their Auxiliary. Will be Friday and Saturday, September 22, 23, 2017, at Hugo’s Family Marketplace and Cashwise Foods from 10-a.m., to 4-p.m.
Funds raise stay in North Dakota for assistance to ill or injured Veterans, and supports the Veteran’s Home in Lisbon, along with Volunteer Services at the VA in Fargo, VA Clinic in Jamestown, and the All Vets Club in Jamestown.
The funds also support the DAV Transportation System, which provides free transportation for Veterans who have medical appointments.
Jamestown (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol – Southeast Region conducted an alcohol saturation in Barnes and Stutsman Counties September 15th & 16th. Troopers from across the Southeast Region worked overtime during this time frame.
The Southeast Region consists of the following counties: Cass, Richland, Ransom, Sargent, Griggs, Barnes, LaMoure, Dicky, Foster, Stutsman, Logan and McIntosh Counties.
Results of the overtime saturation:
1 – Minor in Consumption arrest
2 – Driving Under Suspension arrests
2 – Child Restraint violation citations
2 – Seat Belt violation citations
30 – Total citations issued
18 – Total warnings issued
0 – Alcohol related crashes that occurred
In 2017, approximately 40% of all traffic fatality victims in North Dakota were killed in alcohol related crashes and approximately 60% of fatal victims were unrestrained.
The goal of any saturation is deter and detect impaired drivers to prevent additional traffic crashes from occurring because of impaired drivers.
Washington DC – Congressman Kevin Cramer has scheduled mobile office hours in Fessenden and Carrington on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
Mobile office hours allow constituents to receive assistance with casework from the Congressman’s staff. “Many issues are raised through various forms of contact with me and my offices. Having members of my staff in Fessenden and Carrington allows more time for those with concerns and questions to explore solutions with people in a position to help,” said Cramer. “I realize it’s not always easy or even possible for people to get to my district offices. Mobile office hours brings these services closer to constituents.”
Individuals from the Fessenden and Carrington areas are encouraged to stop by the mobile office for help with veterans and Social Security benefits, Medicare billing problems, immigration issues, military records or medals, or for assistance with any other federal agency.
Thursday, September 28
City Hall—10:30am-12pm
Community Room
602 Railway St. S
Fessenden, ND 58438
Carrington City Library—1-2:30pm
87 8th Ave. N
Carrington, ND 58421
Contact Cramer’s Constituent Services Representative, Emily Custer, with any questions at Emily.Custer@mail.house.gov or by phone at 701-738-4880.
Jamestown (CSi) The 15th Annual Gospel Music Jamboree will be held on Sunday October 8, 2017, at 3-p.m., at Temple Baptist Church at 1200 12th Avenue, Northeast in Jamestown.
Featured entertainers include: Old Friends with Kerry Wicks, Jon Beyer, Jeremy Gray, Ken Gilbertson, and Mark Urquart.
Also on bill are: Randy & Kathy Schlecht with Pastor James Veneges. Also entertaining will be the TBC Praise Band.
Free will offerings, with proceeds to the Community Action Region 6 Backpack for Kids Program.
The meal served by the Women of the Church.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A farmer is charged with sexually assaulting two teen boys in Morton County.
Fifty-year-old James Hopfauf, of rural Flasher, was arrested Monday and charged with felony sexual assault. Hopfauf says the teens, now 18 and 19, were simply helping him with his bad back.
Charges say the sexual contact started with back rubs. Both teens say they were about 15 when the assaults began.
Hopfauf’s bond was set Tuesday at $5,000 cash.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases have increased for the first time in two years.
State tax data shows that from April to June nearly $4.7 billion in taxable sales and purchases were made. That’s a nearly 7 percent increase from the same period last year.
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger says a “new normal” is emerging that’s comparable to pre-oil boom levels. He says the state is seeing rig counts go up with a moderate increase in oil production.
Eight of the 15 major sectors recorded gains when compared to the second quarter a year ago, including the mining and oil extraction sector, which saw an increase of nearly 69 percent.
Oil field counties Williams and McKenzie also saw gains with percentage increases of nearly 32 and 28.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators have approved an agreement settling allegations that the Texas-based builder of the Dakota Access pipeline violated state rules during construction.
North Dakota’s Public Service Commission last year accused Energy Transfer Partners of improperly reporting the discovery of American Indian artifacts. Regulators also were looking into whether crews removed too many trees.
The deal the commission approved Wednesday calls for ETP to help develop and promote an industry manual for handling artifacts discoveries, and to plant more trees along the pipeline route than it had proposed. The state isn’t requiring a $15,000 fine or payment, as it had proposed earlier.
The agreement was worked out by attorneys for the company and the commission.
The $3.8 billion pipeline began moving North Dakota oil to Illinois on June 1.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven says he is “supportive” of new legislation that would undo the Obama health law.
President Donald Trump and Republican Senate leaders are trying to rally 50 Republican votes to pass the bill that would replace much of former President Barack Obama’s law with block grants to states so they can devise their own health care coverage rules.
The North Dakota Republican says in a statement that the bill, among other things, “appears” to give the state “more funding to help low-income individuals access health insurance.”
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum was among 15 governors who signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday supporting the block grant program to states as the “best option on the table for repealing and replacing Obamacare.”
In sports…
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Dickinson State University men’s basketball coach Justin Wetzel is leaving for another job.
The university said Wetzel has accepted a coaching position with another organization, but didn’t name it.
Wetzel coached DSU for three seasons. The Blue Hawks last season won their first regular season conference championship since 2001. The team’s 22 wins marked only the eighth 20-win season in the program’s 93-year history.
In sports…
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his AL-leading 45th home run and topped 100 RBIs, Didi Gregorius surpassed Derek Jeter for the most home runs by a Yankees shortstop and New York beat the Minnesota Twins 11-3 Wednesday for a three-game sweep.
The game was briefly halted in the fifth inning when a foul ball down the third-base line off the bat of Todd Frazier struck a young girl, who was carried out of the stands and taken to a hospital. The protective netting at Yankee Stadium ends at the home plate side of each dugout, and the team said in July it is “seriously exploring” extending the netting for 2018.
The Yankees, who have won 10 of 12, began the day three games behind AL East-leading Boston. They opened a seven-game advantage over the Twins for the top AL wild card with 10 games remaining.
Minnesota started 1½ games ahead of the Los Angeles Angels for the league’s last playoff berth. The Twins have lost five of six and were outscored 18-6 in the three-game series.
In world and national news…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Maria has weakened slightly to a Category 3 major hurricane after crashing across Puerto Rico and its center is now moving offshore of the island’s northwest coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm is slowly starting to move away from Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph (185 kph). Little change in strength is forecast over the next 48 hours.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto says “every minute counts to save lives” of people under the rubble of buildings toppled by yesterday’s powerful earthquake. Pena Nieto says the country’s highest priority is rescuing people in downed structures and treating the wounded.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect a Senate vote on a GOP health care bill next week. That word comes from a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The bill would repeal central elements of former President Barack Obama’s health care law. McConnell has been short of votes for the legislation and it remains unclear if he has the votes in hand to pass the measure.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s reached a decision on whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal _ but he won’t say what it is. Trump was asked several times on Wednesday whether he’d reached a decision. His answer: “I’ve decided.” And he answered, “I’ll let you know,” when he was asked for details. The president made the comments during a meeting in New York with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Japan’s leader is urging international unity in pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the U.N. General Assembly the “gravity of this threat is unprecedented.” Two North Korean missiles have traversed his nation in the past three weeks.
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