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CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 15 to 20. West winds

15 to 20 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.

Colder. Highs 15 to 20. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero. Highs

around 15.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows around 5 below.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the

evening. Lows around 10.

.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain possibly

mixed with snow in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15.

Highs in the mid teens to upper 30s.

 

Late Thursday night, after 3 am, there is a risk of light freezing rain
or drizzle over the northern Red River valley.

Light wintry mix of snow and freezing rain may occur Friday during
the day in far northwestern Minnesota. Some light snow will
spread south over much of the area Friday night and Saturday with
up to 1 inch of new snow possible in far northwestern Minnesota.

 

 

Valley City  (VCSU) – Sarah Montecuollo, a Valley City State University sophomore from Valley City, appears in a new video by Mandisa, a Grammy award-winning Christian/gospel artist.

Montecuollo can be seen signing in the Mandisa video for “Bleed the Same (youtu.be/HVKuA1s5I3o),” which was released Jan. 12. (Although Montecuollo appears throughout the video; one section where she appears prominently begins at the 2:05 mark.)

Mandisa flew Montecuollo to Nashville in mid-November 2017 to record her parts for the video, after Sarah had shared a video of herself winning the VCAB Homecoming Talent Show this past fall with a signing performance of “Bleed the Same.”

Although Montecuollo met with the managers of Mandisa and her collaborator, TobyMac, at the Nashville studio, she has yet to meet the singer herself. That will happen Feb. 25 in Minneapolis, when Montecuollo will participate in a meet-and-greet session with Mandisa when she performs at the Target Center as part of the TobyMac Hits Deep Tour concert.

Montecuollo is studying music education at VCSU; she’s learned to sign by taking classes in American sign language and interpreting via distance technology on the VCSU campus through Lake Region State College in Devils Lake. Her Homecoming Talent Show performance can be viewed at youtu.be/SMPh4xrVMDQ.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A $150 million natural gas processing plant is planned in western North Dakota, bringing to four the number of projects proposed to capture more of the record volumes of gas that is coming as a byproduct of oil production.

Republican Gov. Doug Burgum announced Thursday that Hess Midstream Partners and Targa Resources will build the plant near Watford City.

The Little Missouri Four gas plant will process 200 million cubic feet daily at an existing facility owned by Targa. The companies say the project will be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.

North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad says the addition of the new plant and others should help keep pace with expected oil production until 2020.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators have denied an oil company’s request to be exempt from the state’s rules for burning off and wasting natural gas.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that North Dakota’s Industrial Commission on Wednesday denied Marathon Oil’s request for several exemptions from the state’s flaring restrictions for several wells predominantly on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

The company wanted the exemptions until larger pipelines are built in the area.

But the three-member panel headed by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum denied the request, saying it would be counter to the state’s policy that requires at least 85 percent of the gas to be captured.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing a $2 million sandbar project on the Missouri River in North Dakota to help threatened and endangered birds.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that the federal agency is starting the approval process for the project to increase breeding habitats for least tern and piping plover populations on the Missouri River. The Corps plans to dredge up sand to heighten and widen a submerged sandbar to make more open space for the birds to nest.

A similar project was done in South Dakota in 2009, and that area grew from one nest to more than 50.

Corps Official Jeremy Szynskie says they’ve identified three potential locations for the 30-acre project: Fort Clark State Historic Site, Washburn and Cross Ranch State Park.

The project is in the public comment stage.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog says his office has found missing text messages from an FBI agent removed last summer from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team. Inspector General Michael Horowitz says in a letter to Congress that his office “succeeded in using forensic tools” to recover messages exchanged between December 2016 and May 2017. The agent was reassigned from Mueller’s team following the discovery of anti-Donald Trump messages he traded with an FBI lawyer.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump is sitting down with European business leaders in Davos, Switzerland. His dinner guests include leaders from Adidas, Siemens, Nestle, Deloitte, and other companies. Several of the CEOs are congratulating Trump on the tax cuts he signed into law last year. They say it’s encouraging them to invest in the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to unveil long-promised plans for roads, bridges and other infrastructure next month. But the plans will fall short of some of his ambitious goals. Trump told mayors this week he will unveil his plan after next week’s State of the Union address. He says it could generate as much as $1.7 billion in infrastructure spending. But he’s counting on state and local governments to come up with a significant share of the total.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say they are heartened by President Donald Trump’s support for an immigration plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. But Republicans are being more cautious. Moderate West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he’s “very encouraged” by Trump’s surprising words.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A landmark ruling by the nation’s highest court gave Henry Montgomery his first chance at freedom after nearly a half-century behind bars. Two years later, the 71-year-old Louisiana man is still waiting for a parole hearing that could set him free. Thursday is the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Montgomery’s favor. Montgomery was 17 years old in 1963 when he shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy in Louisiana