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…BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY…
.LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON…Windy. Snow likely. Blowing and drifting snow. New snow accumulation around 1 inch. North winds around 35 mph with gusts to around 50 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent in the Jamestown area, near 100 percent in the Valley City area.
.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the
evening in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches in the Valley City area.
Blowing and drifting snow through the night. Windy,
colder. Lows around 5 below. North winds around 35 mph decreasing
to 25 to 30 mph after midnight. Lowest wind chills around
25 below after midnight.
.FRIDAY…Sunny. Areas of blowing and drifting snow in the
morning. Highs zero to 5 above. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 35 mph in the morning. Wind chills around 25 below.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 10 below. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY…Sunny. Not as cold. Highs 15 to 20. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 15.
.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows zero to 5 above.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs zero to 5 above.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15 below.
.NEW YEARS DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 5 below.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 10 below.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Public Works informs residents that snow Removal-Downtown-Business Areas-Residential will begin with the full snow plowing program starting with the Emergency routes beginning approximately at 5:00 a.m., Friday, Dec 28.
City crews will begin plowing residential areas at 11:00 a.m.Friday Dec 28. Crews will continue work during the night with the downtown district beginning at 11:00 pm Friday night.
Downtown merchants and all public/private schools are asked to have their sidewalks shoveled by 9 p.m. Friday Dec 28.
PLEASE NOTE:
The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals.
Jamestown (JPD) On Thursday December 27 2018, at 1:18-p.m., Stutsman County Communications received a 911 call reporting a vehicle had just been stolen from the Wells Fargo parking lot. The vehicle was a 2005 Lexus SUV. The vehicle was last seen headed southbound on 2 Ave NW. The caller was identified as the owner of the vehicle.
Jamestown Police responded to the scene and searched the area looking for the vehicle and suspect(s). The owner of the vehicle indicated the vehicle’s engine was left running and the doors were unlocked. The owner was only away from their vehicle for a few minutes, before it was stolen.
At 1:43-p.m., a Jamestown Police Officer located the vehicle in the Dairy Queen parking lot in southwest Jamestown. There was no one in or around the vehicle. The vehicle was recovered and eventually returned to the owner.
The owner has invoked their victim’s rights under Marsy’s Law.
This incident is still under investigation. If anyone has any information regarding this incident, please contact the Jamestown Police Department at 701-252-2414.
DENVER (AP) — National Guard soldiers from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah are deploying to Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of a cyber protection team supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
The Colorado guard said Thursday Cyber Protection Team 174 will help the Defense Department with network security and cyber defensive operations.
The deployment will last a year.
The team’s assignment is to help commanders operate freely in the cyber domain as well as on the ground while denying adversaries that ability.
The Colorado National Guard will hold a departure ceremony on Friday.
FARGO (AP) Bus service for Fargo, North Dakota, and neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota, is being suspended due to worsening road conditions as a winter storm pushes through the Upper Midwest.
MATBUS says it will suspend fixed route bus service starting at 2:15 p.m. Thursday. Buses will stop service wherever they are on the routes and return to the bus garage.
The Ground Transportation Center in Fargo also is closing. Paratransit, a service for people with disabilities, suspended service at noon.
Service is expected to resume Friday with a normal schedule.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday it has granted a permit — with conditions — for an updated plan to divert the Red River to protect flood-prone Fargo and nearby Moorhead, Minnesota.
The diversion is a 30-mile (50-kilometer) channel that would largely divert floodwaters around the North Dakota city, as well as a dam to save the metro area from flooding.
The DNR denied a permit for the original diversion plan in October 2016, responding to complaints about the potential impact on the environment, as well as concerns that farmland in Richland County in North Dakota and Minnesota’s Wilkin County to the south of the cities would be sacrificed in the plan.
Under the new plan — which was submitted by the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority and followed by a period of public comment — the proposed flood plain behind the dam is more than 7,000 acres smaller in Minnesota and some of the floodwaters would be diverted through the cities rather than washing out farmland.
Mary Scherling, incoming chair of the diversion authority’s board, said the project is critical for “our citizens, economy, and the future” of the Red River Valley.
“This is a major milestone for the project, but we still have a long way before we cross the finish line,” she said.
The idea for a diversion channel gained momentum after a record-setting 2009 flood that destroyed about 100 structures and caused millions of dollars in damage. Fargo, which sits lower than Moorhead, was saved only by a massive sandbagging effort by 100,000 volunteers involving more than 7 million bags.
DNR commissioner Tom Landwehr said Thursday that the new plan balances the need to reduce the flood risk with protecting public safety and the environment.
In sports…
Friday December 28
Jamestown High basketball games against Minot have been postponed.
(AP) LeBron James has been selected as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the third time.
In 2018, he continued to excel on the court, opened the “I Promise” school for at-risk children in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and further used his voice as an activist who bristled at being told to “shut up and dribble.”
James went to the NBA Finals for the eighth consecutive year. He changed addresses again, leaving his Cleveland home for the second time to join the Los Angeles Lakers in the biggest move of free agency over the summer.
He remained arguably the dominant player in the basketball, adding even more glitz on a legacy that reached epic status long ago.
James received 78 points in balloting by U.S. editors and news directors announced Thursday, while Boston Red Sox star Mookie Betts was second with 46. Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals was third, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was fourth and Triple Crown winner Justify was fifth.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Back from a 29-hour trip to visit U.S. troops in Iraq, President Donald Trump is returning his attention to the ongoing partial U.S. government shutdown, which is in its sixth day.
In a morning tweet, Trump says “we desperately need” a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, funding for which has been a flashpoint between the White House and Congress ever since Trump took office.
The president is calling on Democrats in Congress to fund his wall, saying the shutdown affects their supporters. He says: “Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?”
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on unpaid furlough and even more are required to work without pay after Trump and Congress could not reach consensus on a short-term funding bill last week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has returned to the U.S. from an unannounced trip to Iraq, his first visit to a danger zone abroad.
Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland at 5:12 a.m.
Trump had been hearing from critics that it was past time for him to go abroad and see troops in harm’s way. With secrecy typical of such presidential visits, the president’s plane flew into Iraq on Wednesday with lights out and shutters drawn, coming overnight from Washington.
Trump stopped in Germany on his way back to greet troops at a U.S. air base.
Trump defended his decision to pull forces from neighboring Syria, declaring of Islamic State militants: “We’ve knocked them out. We’ve knocked them silly.”
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers are seizing on President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to demand U.S. forces leave the country.
Politicians from both sides of Iraq’s political divide are calling on parliament to vote to expel U.S. troops. Approximately 5,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Iraq as part of the coalition against the Islamic State group.
Foreign influence has become a hot-button issue in a year that saw supporters of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr win the largest share of votes in May elections. Al-Sadr has called for curbing U.S. and Iranian involvement in Iraqi affairs.
Trump spent three hours at a U.S. air base meeting with American troops on an unannounced visit Wednesday. He left without meeting any Iraqi officials.
Lawmakers decried the visit as arrogant and a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — Republicans are holding onto a steady share of the Latino vote in the Trump era. That’s defying predictions from Democrats and some pundits.
The president has targeted immigrants from Latin America in rhetoric and policy. Some predicted a Latino backlash, but it hasn’t happened.
An analysis of AP VoteCast survey data shows that 32 percent of Latinos in the past election voted for Republicans. That tracks the share of Latinos who have supported the party for the last decade. Evangelicals and veterans are the Latinos most likely to side with Republicans.
Though the GOP hasn’t lost ground with Latinos it certainly hasn’t gained any. About six in 10 Latinos regularly vote Democratic. As the Latino electorate continues to grow that lopsided ratio still creates great risks for the GOP.
NEW YORK (AP) — Police are closing rape investigations at the lowest rate in decades despite advancements in forensic testing.
That’s according to FBI data showing sexual assault is second only to robbery in the least solved categories of violent crime.
Police nationwide cleared just 32 percent of rape investigations last year. That rate has fallen from 62 percent in 1964.
The declining clearance rate comes even as the #MeToo movement is empowering women to speak up about sexual assault.
Rape remains among the most underreported crimes with studies showing as few as one in three victims report to law enforcement.
Sexual assault is among the most difficult crimes to solve as the cases often lack witnesses and physical evidence.
But several experts say police have not dedicated sufficient resources to investigating rape.
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