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…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY…INCLUDES THE JAMESTOWN AREA….
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT SATURDAY 6-AM THROUGH 1-PM SUNDAY… …IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA…
.TONIGHT…Cloudy. Patchy fog through the night. Snow after
midnight. A 50 percent chance of light snow after midnight.
Snow accumulation around 1 inch. Lows 15 to 20.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY…Snow. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Snow
accumulation around 6 inches. Highs in the upper 20s. North winds
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then slight chance of snow after midnight. Patchy blowing and drifting snow through the night. Snow accumulation around 1 inch in the Jamestown area, 2-3-unches in the Valley City. Storm total around 8 inches. Lows around 10. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent in the Jamestown area, 80 percent in the Valley City area.
.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 20. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows zero to 5 above. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15.
.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow possibly mixed with rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow possibly mixed
with rain in the evening, then snow likely after midnight. Lows
in the lower 20s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY…Snow likely in the morning, then snow possibly mixed
with rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Snow. Areas of blowing and drifting snow. Lows
in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY…Cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then slight
chance of snow in the afternoon. Areas of blowing and drifting
snow through the day. Windy. Highs around 30. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Patchy blowing and drifting snow
through the night. Lows 5 to 10 above.
.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in the
morning. Highs in the lower 20s.
Warmer temperatures with strong southerly flow will boost highs Tuesday into the mid and upper 30s. This is ahead of our next strong Colorado upper low
which ejects east then northeast and looks to have a greater
impact on central and eastern ND, with rain then possibly heavy
snow Tuesday through Thursday.
Continue to check back daily for additional details.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown City crews will begin the full snow plowing program starting Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 5:00 a.m. beginning with the Emergency routes.
City crews will begin plowing residential areas at 11:00 a.m., Sunday, March 10, 2019.
Crews will continue work during the night with the Downtown district beginning at 11:00 pm.
City Ordinance Section 25-10 requires that a property owner keep the sidewalk adjoining the property clear of snow and ice. Do not deposit snow or ice on the city street after the city plow has cleared the street. These violations are class B misdemeanors under the general penalty and will result in a fine.
PLEASE NOTE:
The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals.
Update….
Jamestown (CSi) A pursuit Friday afternoon in Jamestown resulted in the arrest of one man.
The pursuit began around 3:30-p.m.,in the north part of Jamestown going out of town northeast of Jamestown Regional Airport.
Police report that an officer recognized Gary Zinck, Jr. as the driver’s vehicle when he was stopped for a traffic issue. The officer was aware of an warrant for Zinck.
Zinck fled in his vehicle on 7th Avenue Northeast in Jamestown heading to Highway 20. Zinck stopped the vehicle near the intersection of 88th Avenue Northeast and 32nd Street Southeast in the area of the airport and fled on foot before being apprehended without incident.
Zinck was taken to the Stutsman County Correctional Center and is being held on the arrest warrant.
The Stutsman County jail inmate roster says he was booked on charges of Driving Under Suspension (DUS), Fleeing A Police Officer (Motor Vehicle), Poss Of Marijuana, Probation Violation, Reckless Endangerment.
Jamestown (Valley News Live) A Jamestown woman is facing two felony counts of terrorizing and trespassing, along with a misdemeanor charge of a false police report following allegedly pointing a gun at a man on Wednesday.
Court documents say 35-year-old Natalie Lange knocked on a Jamestown man’s door late Wednesday night, and when the man answered, Lange demanded to be let inside and later pushed her way in.
The man said when he tried calling police, Lange tried taking his phone and pointed the gun at him. The man says he was ‘scared s***less,’ and thought Lange wanted the phone because it had pictures of a bottle she threw at a building.
Lange was arrested for terrorizing and when police later conducted a search warrant on her apartment, they found a cardboard box for a .380 pistol.
Jamestown (Chamber) Members of the chamber Young Professionals of Jamestown and the chamber Ambassadors recently presented the Business of the Month Award to Frontier Fort Bar & Grill of Jamestown for their outstanding customer service and continued commitment to the community. This business is located at 1838 3rd Ave SE in Jamestown and they can be reached at 701-252-7492. Store Owner Charley Tanata was there to celebrate this award.
The nomination stated, “This is hands down the most unique place to go for supper in Jamestown. The old west feel and great tasting food make you want to come back for more, but the best part about the whole experience is the view of the city. Great food, great drinks, and a great view make for a fun evening out! Please consider awarding this unique dining experience the Business of the Month Award.”
The Young Professionals of Jamestown honor businesses that provide superior customer service, exhibit community spirit and provide a positive economic impact to the community. This award provides recognition throughout the month with a plaque and a recognition banner for the month. Frontier Fort, along with all of the other monthly winners, will be considered for Business of the Year to be awarded at the Chamber’s annual banquet in January of 2020. Business of the Month award nomination forms are available at the Chamber office. Call 701-252-4830 for more information or email director@jamestownchamber.com.
Valley City (CHI) CHI Mercy Health Foundation is excited to announce it is accepting applications for four scholarships it is offering! Each year, two Nursing scholarships are given out to recipients that are enrolled in an accredited nursing program. One of the scholarships is provided by funds contributed by CHI Mercy Health’s Nursing Department which is matched by the CHI Mercy Health Foundation.
The second Nursing scholarship comes from a fund set up to honor LaVonne Reidman. The family of LaVonne Reidman established this scholarship in 2005 in memory of Lavonne and her dedication to the nursing profession. LaVonne was a wonderful, caring nurse for many years at Mercy Hospital in Valley City. CHI Mercy Health Foundation is managing this scholarship for the Reidman Family.
Finally, there will be two more scholarships offered that are open to anyone pursuing a General Medical career, including technician programs. One of these scholarships is provided by nursing staff fundraisers and the other through the LaVonne Reidman family. So please share this with your co-workers, friends, family and anyone you can think of that may be able to benefit from these funds.
Please contact Stephanie Mayfield in the CHI Mercy Health Foundation office (direct #845-6557 or stephaniemayfield@catholichealth.net) to get an application or go online to: www.mercyhospitalvalleycity.org under the Scholarships tab. The deadline to apply is March 31, 2019.
Update…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo police are investigating a bank robbery by a man who was wearing a graduation robe. Police say the male suspect walked into Alerus Financial about 8 a.m. Friday and produced a note that said “give me money or I’ll shoot.” Authorities say the man did not show a weapon. He was wearing a maroon or red graduation gown and fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash.
Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem joined attorneys general nationwide in urging the US Senate to enact the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, legislation to curb illegal robocalls and spoofing.
The news release says, these illegal calls have been the number one consumer complaint reported to Stenehjem’s office in each of the last three years.
The coalition of fifty-four attorneys general sent the letter earlier this week to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, in support of the TRACED Act. The legislation is sponsored by Sens. John Thune and Ed Markey. In their letter, the attorneys general state that the TRACED Act enables states, federal regulators, and telecom providers to take steps to combat these illegal calls.
“Consumers are plagued by these incessant illegal calls, to their landlines and cell phones, and are frustrated that the telemarketers and scam artists appear to ignore federal laws with impunity. The TRACED Act will provide Attorneys General and federal enforcement agencies with the necessary tools to block these calls and also to hold the perpetrators responsible,” said Stenehjem.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The city of Bismarck is asking a judge to throw out a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a fired female police officer, defending the department’s practice of using “war room” gatherings by supervisors to rank the performance of officers and determine their eligibility for pay bonuses and promotions.
Robyn Krile had achieved the rank of sergeant and was striving for lieutenant when she was fired in March 2017 after a county prosecutor deemed her not to be a credible witness in court. Krile last year lost a case before the state Department of Labor and Human Rights, but that doesn’t prohibit her from pursuing her claims in federal court. She sued in January , seeking damages for pain and suffering, lost pay and other reasons.
Krile alleges the “male-dominated department” tried to “kill” her career with various tactics including giving her the department’s lowest score in the “war room” — what she refers to as “an unrecorded, unstandardized, unprofessional group of adult men.”
Attorney Randall Bakke, who represents the city and now-retired Police Chief Dan Donlin, in a recent court filing says Krile earned any low scores through “serious misconduct and policy violations.”
Krile was reprimanded in 2016 for allegedly lying to another officer and for disparaging the officer, who is Hispanic. However, the state Peace Officer Standards and Training Board in 2017 dismissed a misconduct case against her, and she kept her peace officer’s license. She was hired by the Lincoln Police Department in suburban Bismarck late last year.
Bakke also included in his filing an affidavit in which Donlin asserts the “war room” process he implemented after becoming chief in 2013 was aimed at making performance evaluations “more fair and equitable” in part by involving more people and more input.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Watford City accountant has been sentenced to 100 hours of community service but no prison time for wire fraud in a case linked to a man found guilty of ordering two deaths in an oil patch murder-for-hire plot.
Rene Johnson was accused of diverting investors’ funds in her business, RLJ Factoring, without their knowledge for a high-risk loan to an associate of James Henrikson. Investors eventually got their money back, plus interest.
Johnson was convicted of wire fraud in November in federal court but found not guilty of three other charges related to mail fraud and making false statements.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that she was sentenced Thursday. She also was ordered to spend two years on supervised release.
Johnson’s attorney says she will appeal.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bismarck police have arrested a teller at BNC Bank on suspicion of embezzling from her employer.
Authorities suspect the 24-year-old woman embezzled about $8,000. Investigators say the woman admitted taking the money over the last two months to support her heroin habit.
Authorities she was taking money from her cash drawer and altering records so the drawer would appear to balance at the end of the day. She’s facing a felony theft charge and possessing drug paraphernalia. Police say she had a device for using heroin tucked in her bra.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s last-minute bills to address potential Keystone XL oil pipeline demonstrations are all but law.
The GOP-dominated Legislature voted Thursday to approve the pair of measures, which would require pipeline companies to help pay protest-related expenses and create a way to pursue money from those who fund destructive demonstrations.
Republican Rep. Jon Hansen says the measure to go after so-called riot boosting is about upholding the rule of law and holding accountable people who incite violence. The ACLU of South Dakota says it’s currently “weighing all options” to make sure residents’ First Amendment rights are upheld.
Noem’s push comes in the waning days of session, and critics have panned the timing and the administration’s lack of consultation with Native American tribes . Emergency provisions on the bills would make them take effect immediately and block opponents from referring them to a public vote.
The bills come after opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline staged large protests that resulted in hundreds of arrests in North Dakota in late 2016.
In sports…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — (uj.edu) Trailing for all but 39 seconds of the first half and down by as many as 17 points, the University of Jamestown men’s basketball team battled back to tie the game with 2:16 left.
Jeff Beckman scored Spring Arbor’s final six points down the stretch and the No. 7 Cougars held on for an 85-81 win over the 10th-ranked Jimmies Friday morning in the Round of 16 during the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship.
The Jimmies held a brief 3-2 lead after Kevin Oberweiser (SR/Drummond, MT) made a three-pointer at the 19:03 mark. Brandon Durnell scored for SAU on the next trip down the floor, and Jamestown found itself playing catch-up.
UJ trailed 32-15 with 8:16 in the half following a basket by Paul Marandet, and it appeared as if the Cougars were going to run away with the game. Following a Jimmie timeout, the Orange and Black responded with a 9-0 run that cut the deficit to 32-24 with 3:54 before halftime.
In the second half, SAU went up 13 after a Durnell bucket made it 55-42 with 14:45 left. A three-point play by Terrell Alfred (JR/Orlando, FL) capped off a 12-2 UJ run, and the Jimmies were down just three at the 11:50 mark.
The Cougars continued to score on nearly every possession, making six straight field goal attempts and going nearly nine minutes between misses.
Oberweiser converted two four-point plays within three minutes, forty-six seconds, with the latter tying the game at 79.
Beckman, who finished with 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting, knocked down three straight baskets to help the Cougars to the win.
The Jimmies were led by Oberweiser’s game-high 26 points. He also pulled down seven rebounds. Alfred had 13 points off the bench and Jon Purintun (SR/Linton, ND) was also in double figures with 12.
Durnell had 25 for SAU, who also got 18 points from Paul Marandet. Marandet dished out 12 assists. Tom Hamilton chipped in with 16.
Jamestown finishes the season 29-6, one win away from tying the school record. Spring Arbor improves to 27-7 and will face IU East (Ind.) in the quarterfinals Saturday at 2 p.m.
Previously
Sioux Falls, SD (CSi) — The Jamestown Jimmies Men’s Basketball team’s come back falls just short on Friday morning in the NAIA National Tournament, as Spring Arbor, Michigan defeats the Jimmies 85-81.
The Jimmies were down 17 points in the first half, and managed to tie the score in the second half.
Spring Arbor scored six of the last 8 points at the end of the game.
The Jimmie Men end a successful season with a record of 29-6.
In world and national news…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to jail Friday after a brief hearing in which Manning confirmed she has no intention of testifying. She told the judge she “will accept whatever you bring upon me.”
Manning has said she objects to the secrecy of the grand jury process, and that she already revealed everything she knows at her court martial.
The judge said she will remain jailed until she testifies or until the grand jury concludes its work.
Manning’s lawyers had asked that she be sent to home confinement instead of the jail, because of medical complications she faces.
The judge said U.S. Marshals can handle her medical care.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration is granting U.S. companies more time to comply with sanctions barring transactions with Venezuela’s state-run oil company.
The Treasury Department says that firms have until May 10 to wind down and close their business with PDVSA.
PDVSA was hit with U.S. sanctions on Jan. 28 in a step that caught some American companies by surprise. The sanctions had the effect of stranding several oil tankers at and near Venezuelan ports because their cargoes were unable to be legally paid for.
Treasury said Friday the extension will allow certain financial contracts agreed upon before Jan. 28 to be completed.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he feels “very badly” for Paul Manafort.
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians. The charges were unrelated to his work on Trump’s campaign or the focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump repeated Friday as he departed the White House to survey tornado damage in Alabama that Manafort’s case “had nothing to do with Russia.”
Trump says it’s been a “very, very tough time” for Manafort.
The 69-year-old Manafort faces additional sentencing next week in a separate case in which he has pleaded guilty to charges related to illegal lobbying.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — President Donald Trump is visiting a row of 23 crosses, one for each person killed by an Alabama tornado.
Trump and his wife, Melania, held hands Friday as they observed a moment of silence in front of each of the markers erected near a church.
Each cross bears the victim’s name and a red heart. Flowers and stuffed animals have been left at the base of the crosses in remembrance of each victim who was killed after Sunday’s powerful tornado that bore down on the rural town of Beauregard, Alabama. Messages have also been left at the crosses.
Trump surveyed the damage on Friday, meeting with local officials and victims. He also visited a makeshift disaster relief center set up at the church.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has resigned.
Wilson was confirmed by the Senate in May 2017, making her President Donald Trump’s first service secretary.
No reason for Wilson’s sudden departure was immediately provided, and the Air Force had not officially announced the move. One official said Wilson was taking a position at the University of Texas at El Paso.
The officials who confirmed that Wilson had submitted her resignation spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly because it had not been announced.
LONDON (AP) — The European Union has made an offer to the United Kingdom that it hopes can unblock the stalled Brexit negotiations.
EU negotiator Michel Barnier said in a statement following technical talks over the past few days that “the EU will continue working intensively over the coming days to ensure that the U.K. leaves the EU with an agreement.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May has been looking for legal reassurances on how the border between the EU’s Ireland and the U.K.’s Northern Ireland would be dealt without forcing Britain into commitments to remain tied to EU rules and regulations potentially for an indefinite period.
It was unclear to what extent the offer would help May in her attempt to push the withdrawal agreement past her parliament next Tuesday.
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