CSi Weather…

..WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THURSDAY EVENING TO 11 AM CST FRIDAY…INCLUDING THE VALLEY CITY AREA.

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow in the evening. Lows around 10 below. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Wind chills around 25 below.

.FRIDAY…Decreasing clouds. Highs zero to 5 above. Southeast

winds 5 to 10 mph. Wind chills around 25 below.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 5 below. South

winds 5 to 15 mph. Wind chills around 20 below.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy.  A 20 percent chance of light snow in the Valley City area in the afternoon.

Not as cold. Highs in the lower 20s.

South winds around 15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Not as cold. Lows 15 to 20.

Southwest winds around 10 mph shifting to the west after

midnight.

.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s.

Lows 15 to 20.

.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.

Lows around 15.

.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 20s.

Lows around 10.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 15 to 20.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of

snow. Patchy blowing and drifting snow after midnight. Lows

around 5 below.

.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs zero to 5 above.

 

Low wind chills of 25 to 35 below will be possible for Thursday night.

Low wind chills of 25 to 35 below will be possible for Friday
morning. Low wind chills of 25 to 30 below will be possible again
for Friday night and Saturday morning.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  Valley City Public Schools Superintendent Josh Johnson says presentations about the plan regarding the school board’s draft proposal approving construction of a new track and field area at Hanna Field, has been postponed until later in January.

He says that’s to give the public a chance to ask questions about the proposal.

He says the public meetings have been rescheduled for Monday, January 15, 2018 at 10-am and 7-pm in the Hi-Liner Activity Center Lobby.

Contact the Valley City Public Schools District Office at 701-845-0483, with any questions.

The school board has approved of hiring Consolidated Construction Company as the Project Manager pending approval of the facility, and hired  KLJ and JLG to help with the design concept.

 

 

Bismarck  (CSi)  Stutsman County Veterans Service Officer, David Bratton says, the North Dakota Insurance Department informs veterans that as of this past December 8, 2017, veterans who have taken or plan to take any of the nine North Dakota insurance producer exams, after June 1, 2017, qualify to be reimbursed for their exam fee through a partnership between the North Dakota Insurance Department and the Veterans Education Assistance Program (VEAP).

It’s a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Individuals wishing to sell insurance products in North Dakota must take the exam under their particular line of insurance to be licensed.

Those North Dakota residents who took the North Dakota insurance exams June 1-December 14, 2017 were notified by email that they may be eligible to have their exam fees reimbursed and to contact the Insurance Department for more information.

 

(CSi-NDHP)    The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a pickup driver  was injured after crashing with a NDDOT snowplow Thursday morning at the I-29, Exit 48, and the Highway 46 overpass, .

The snowplow driven by a 45 year old male from Fargo was northbound on the I-29 off ramp clearing snow from the on and off ramps.

As he attempted to cross from the off-ramp to the on-ramp, a Ford F-150 pickup, operated by a 64 year old Hickson, North Dakota man, struck the passenger side of the front plow.

The pickup driver was transported Sanford hospital in Fargo, with non-life threatening injuries. The snowplow driver was not injured.

Those involved in the crash were not identified.

The crash remains under investigation.

Assisting at the scene were, Cass County Sheriff’s Office and the Horace Fire Department.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of shooting two people outside a Minot bar and firing into a crowd with a semi-automatic rifle wants to change his plea.

The Daily News reports that 26-year-old Steven Stewart has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and reckless endangerment for the October 2016 shooting. He had been scheduled for trial later this month.

Authorities say Stewart shot one man in the parking lot of the Sports on Tap bar after they had argued earlier in the evening. A bystander was also shot by Stewart. Both of the victims survived.

Stewart fled following the shooting and was captured in Las Vegas last March.

Stewart faces several unrelated charges, including delivery of cocaine and methamphetamine, fleeing from a police officer, lying to an officer and driving under suspension.

 

 

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Police say an arrest has been made for a break-in and fire at a restaurant in Minot.

Police and firefighters responded to a report of smoke at the Gourmet Chef about 1:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers found evidence of a burglary, damage to the property and a small fire.

Authorities say a man was found in the area rummaging through a vehicle in parking garage. The 23-year-old New Town man was arrested for the crimes at Gourmet Chef and for breaking into the vehicle. He’s being held in the Ward County Jail.

 

 

 

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (AP) — An explosion and fire has damaged a grain processing elevator in East Grand Forks.

Firefighters fought the blaze at MGI Grain Processing in subzero temperatures Wednesday night. East Grand Forks Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Anderson says employees in the mill at the time made it out safely and called 911.

Investigators are looking into what triggered the explosion and fire. WDAY-TV reports a preliminary damage estimate is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

 

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Wyoming-based company that illegally dumped oilfield waste in western North Dakota has paid the state more than $950,000 after the state Supreme Court affirmed the fine last month.

The Department of Mineral Resources tells The Bismarck Tribune that Black Hills Trucking paid $951,526 to the North Dakota Industrial Commission last week. It’s the largest fine ever collected by the regulatory group.

The company earlier unsuccessfully appealed the fine to the North Dakota Supreme Court, arguing it already paid a $200,000 fine to the state Health Department for the same incident.

The company was accused of illegally dumping saltwater near Tioga in February and March 2014.

Nearly all of the Industrial Commission fine will go into a state fund that’s used to restore sites affected by oil and gas development.

 

In world and national news…

UNDATED (AP) — A vicious winter storm hitting the East Coast is now bringing hurricane force wind gusts and coastal flooding to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service says it received reports of a wind gust of 76 mph on Nantucket, Massachusetts on Thursday and a gust of 75 mph in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Coastal flooding in Massachusetts, including in Boston, Lynn and Cape Cod, has made roads impassable.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans, including opening up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades. The new five-year drilling plan also could open new areas of oil and gas exploration in areas off the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, where drilling has been blocked for decades.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As nationwide protests have shaken Iran over the last week, the Islamic Republic increasingly has blamed its foreign foes for fomenting the unrest. So far though, there’s no direct evidence to support that claim, though Iran does have opponents throughout the Middle East looking on at the demonstrations with hope they’ll force changes in its theocratic government.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorado’s U.S. attorney says his office won’t change its approach to prosecuting marijuana crimes. That’s after Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a new policy giving federal prosecutors more leeway to enforce federal laws against pot. Bob Troyer says his office has always focused on prosecuting marijuana crimes that “create the greatest safety threats” and will continue to be guided by that goal.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The leader of Virginia House Republicans says Thursday’s victory by a GOP legislative candidate who won after his name was drawn from a bowl has cemented Republican control of the lower chamber. GOP House Leader Kirk Cox said Thursday that Republicans feel “very strongly” that they will be in the majority on the first day when the legislative session starts next week.