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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. Patchy smoke in the evening.Lows around 60. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY…Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. A
40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower
60s.
Possible smoke impacts from a fire approximately 115 miles northeast of
Winnipeg.
A chance for strong or severe thunderstorms exists Sunday late
afternoon and evening mainly over eastern North Dakota. Large hail
and damaging winds are the main threats.
On Sunday rainfall to around 1.75 inches in locally heavy rainfall, including across portions of the James River Valley that saw very heavy rainfall earlier this week.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called out to a house fire at 9:20-a.m., Friday, at 1008 7th Avenue Southeast.
CSiNewsNow.com photos
Jamestown City Fire Chief, Jim Reuther says, fire damage was inflicted to the upper floor of the home which receive heat and smoke damage, with water damage to the upper and lower floors, with smoke damage to the lower floor.
No other structures were involved.
One of the home’s occupants was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by Jamestown Area Ambulance service, and was, not, transported for further medical assistance.
He says, The Buffalo Valley Red Cross Chapter assisted at the scene.
The three displaced occupants declined services, having accommodations.
Jamestown Police and the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene with traffic control.
He adds the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Six city fire units and 23 fire fighters cleared the scene t 10:52 a.m.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police warns residents of a High Risk sex offender who lives in Jamestown.
25 year old Nicholas Wayne Asmann resides at 1530 6th Avenue Southwest, Unit 20, Buffalo Motel, Jamestown, ND
Asmann is a white male, five feet eight inches tall, weighing 165 pounds with Brown Eyes, and Brown Hair.
He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Attorney General’s Risk Level Committee.
Offense: Possession of Material-Sexual Contact by Minor, concerning a video involving a adolescent male.
Conviction Date: September, 2017 in Cass County, ND District Court.
Dispostion: One year, one day, three days credit concurrent.
Offense: Luring Minor by Computer, attempted to pressure a 13 year old male to send nude photos while in a sexual act.
Conviction Date: September 2017 in Cass County, ND District Court.
Disposition: One year, one day, three days credit, two years supervised probation: concurrent.
Asmann is currently on probation with North Dakota Probation and Parole.
He is currently on GPS Monitoring.
Asmann is not currently wanted by police 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 Nicholas Wayne Asmann 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
Valley City (KVLY) – Valley News Live, in their WhistleBlower Hotline feature story, reported this week that Nikita Shipp of Valley City says her 14-year-old daughter was subjected to bullying and racial slurs for more than a year as a middle school student in the Valley City Public School District.
Shipp told KVLY news that she went to school leaders for help. She said one boy was suspended for the last four days of school, but she says that wasn’t long enough for this type of racial bullying.
Valley City Police Chief Phil Hatcher told Shipp the incident has been forwarded to juvenile court. She says her daughter is now living with her older sisters in Minnesota.
Valley City School Superintendent Josh Johnson says, “Valley City Public Schools places student safety number one and we strive to provide the best experiences for all of our students. Because of FERPA laws, we cannot provide any comment on matters that involve our students.”
Jamestown (CSi) Due to the annual street maintenance project, please be advised that the following areas WILL BE UNDER CONSTUCTION over the next WEEK beginning Monday, July 23, 2018:
24th St SW to 3rd Ave SW (Industrial Park area)
14th St SW from 14th Ave to 16th Ave SW
15th St SW from 11th Ave to 14th Ave SW
7th Ave SW from 16th St to 11th St SW
15th St SW from 7th Ave to 8th Ave SW
25th St SW from Hwy 281 to 10th Ave SW (Wal-Mart area)
Motorists and other traffic should use extreme caution when entering these construction maintenance areas. The public should consider alternate routes.
The road maintenance activities are contingent on changing weather conditions.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota on Friday demanded $38 million from the federal government to reimburse the state for costs associated with policing large-scale and prolonged protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem filed an administrative claim against the Army Corps of Engineers, contending the federal agency allowed protesters to illegally camp without a permit between Aug. 10, 2016, and March 31, 2017, on federal land along the Missouri River in southern North Dakota and failed to maintain law and order.
The Corps inaction “required North Dakota to provide a sustained, large-scale public safety response to prevent deaths, and protect property and public safety, including that of the protesters,” Stenehjem wrote.
If the claim isn’t paid or settled in six months, the state can sue in federal court, the attorney general said in a statement. The federal Justice Department declined comment. Corps officials have said previously that the protesters weren’t evicted due to free speech reasons.
The $3.8 billion pipeline was built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to move North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. It began operating a year ago, though four American Indian tribes in the Dakotas are still fighting it in court.
During construction, opponents who feared environmental damage gathered in the thousands in southern North Dakota, setting up camps on federal land that morphed into small cities.
Protesters often clashed with law enforcement who established their own operations center a short distance away, resulting in 761 arrests from August 2016 to February 2017.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s biggest farm group wants increased crop subsidies and other revenue loss protections in the compromise version of the massive federal farm bill to guard against retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agriculture exports.
“There are outside factors out of our control and we need to raise the prices as a safety net to keep farmers farming,” said Mark Watne, president of the North Dakota Farmers Union, which has more than 45,000 members in the state. “The quickest way to resolve this is to raise those reference prices. That would make everybody feel substantially better.”
Watne said that is the message he planned to bring Friday to a meeting of agriculture officials and others hosted by Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer to discuss the House and Senate versions of the 2018 farm bill.
Cramer was named this week as a House conferee to reconcile the two versions of the legislation that would renew farm programs such as crop subsidies, insurance and land conservation. The negotiations come amid low commodity prices and farmers increasingly are worried that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports may depress commodity prices further.
Cramer, in an interview with The Associated Press, said he will consider pushing for more money in the legislation but was concerned that it could stall it.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A broken valve led to water-damaged books in the North Dakota Supreme Court Law Library.
Capitol Facilities Manager John Boyle tells the Bismarck Tribune the incident happened Wednesday while contractors were working on a repair project.
Some of the damaged books date to the mid-1800s. Library assistant Paula Amelsberg says a cleaning service took some of the damaged books to be salvaged with a freeze-drying process.
The North Dakota State Library also is working to salvage some books with commercial-grade dehumidifiers and fans.
State Supreme Court Clerk Penny Miller says the water also leaked through the ceiling of the court’s chambers and onto a small carpeted hallway area outside Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle’s office.
The library remains open to the public, with some areas off-limits due to the repairs.
Update…
LEITH, N.D. (AP) — A vote has been delayed on whether to dissolve the small North Dakota town of Leith that drew international headlines in 2013 when a white supremacist unsuccessfully tried to take it over.
Some residents are worried that two write-in candidates elected to the town’s council earlier this year might rekindle antagonism. A vote was scheduled Monday on whether to end the town’s incorporated status and turn its official affairs over to Grant County.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that vote has been rescheduled to be part of the November general election, to comply with state election laws.
White supremacist Craig Cobb recently finished serving four years of probation for terrorizing residents of Leith.
Mayor Ryan Schock has said he hopes dissolving the town’s government will be the end of Cobb’s legacy and the division in Leith.
RUSO, N.D. (AP) — The man considered instrumental in keeping North Dakota’s tiniest town alive has died, likely putting an end to the municipality with a population that can be counted on one hand.
Bruce Lorenz, 86, died in a Minot hospital Tuesday after serving as Ruso’s mayor for more than 30 years, the Minot Daily News reported . He was recently re-elected with all three votes cast in a 100 percent turnout, his platform being that he wanted to get rural water service in the McLean County city.
An incorporated municipality in the state needs at least three council members, according to the North Dakota Century Code. With only two remaining residents, a couple who filled the necessary offices required for recognition, Ruso no longer meets state law for incorporation.
“If Ruso no longer meets the requirements for a city there’s probably a process that needs to take place,” said Stephanie Dassinger, deputy director of the North Dakota League of Cities. “I don’t know if there’s much of a choice.”
Incorporated cities receive tax-based income from the state. The funds are often dedicated for infrastructure projects like street lighting or repairs. Ruso received about $700 in state money through the month of June, and has two street lights kept on by state funding.
In world and national news…
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s attorney is confirming that Trump’s former personal lawyer recorded him discussing a potential payment for an ex-Playboy model who said she had an affair with him.
The current Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told The Associated Press on Friday that the payment was never made. Giuliani says what’s important is that Trump said that if it were made, it should be by check and properly documented.
A person familiar with the investigation into former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen told the AP the FBI has the recording, made by Cohen two months before Trump’s 2016 election. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing inquiry.
Cohen hasn’t immediately responded to messages.
The recording was made weeks after the National Enquirer reached a deal to pay Karen McDougal and keep her story secret. When news of that payment emerged two days before the election, a Trump spokeswoman said his campaign had “no knowledge of any of this.”
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — Dive teams are expected to resume the search for five people missing after a tourist boat capsized and sank in a southwestern Missouri lake.
Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader says at least 11 people, including children, died when the Ride the Ducks boat sank Thursday night on Table Rock Lake in Branson. Seven other people were hospitalized.
Rader says the stormy weather was believed to be the cause of the capsizing. Another boat on the lake was able to safely make it back to shore.
National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Lindenberg says the agency had issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Branson area, and winds reached speeds of more than 60 mph.
The National Transportation Safety Board said on Twitter that investigators are expected to arrive on the scene Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the Trump administration “is not considering supporting” a Vladimir Putin-backed call for a referendum in the eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Russian president.
The White House says the 2015 peace deal signed in Minsk does not include any option for referendum, and a referendum in a part of Ukraine that isn’t under government control would have no legitimacy.
The U.S. and Russia have been on opposing sides of the conflict in Ukraine, which started after a popular uprising in 2014 against Ukraine’s pro-Russian president and Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
European allies are also expected to oppose a referendum in the Donbass, where pro-Russian separatists hold sway.
WASHINGTON (AP) White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is defending President Donald Trump’s comment lamenting the Federal Reserve’s action to raise U.S. interest rates.
Mulvaney says he’s sure most presidents have had similar thoughts about Fed actions, adding: “There’s nothing non-factual or inaccurate about it.”
Mulvaney tells Fox News Channel that Trump “is not the first president, nor he is he the first Republican conservative or Democrat who is frustrated that every time things seem to getting a lot better (economically), the Fed tries to pump the brakes.”
Mulvaney said Trump “absolutely respects the independence of the Fed, but that doesn’t prevent him or previous presidents from voicing their opinions.”
Trump’s comments break with a long-standing White House tradition to avoid any real or perceived influence on the nation’s central bank.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — A Honduran man who was separated from his baby son at the Texas border and then deported without him soon will hold the boy again.
The 15-month-old became the embodiment of the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents when The Associated Press detailed his appearance in a U.S. courtroom.
Months after the separation that drew international outrage, the family was expected to be reunited Friday in Honduras.
Johan Bueso Montecinos was on a jet bound for San Pedro Sulas from the United States, after Honduran consular officials and U.S. authorities worked out arrangements.
And so ended the extraordinary journey of a baby whose short life has ranged from Honduran poverty to a desperate dash across the U.S. border to the front pages of the world’s newspapers.
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