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CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. Widespread fog after midnight. Not as cold. Lows around 15. South winds around 10 mph.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Widespread fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds around 10 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. West winds 5 to

10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny in the morning, then cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow in the afternoon in the Jamestown are, 60 percent in the Valley City area. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Snow. Areas of blowing and drifting snow. Snow

may be heavy at times after midnight. Windy. Heavy snow

accumulations. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds 20 to 30 mph with

gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of snow 90 percent.

.THURSDAY…Cloudy. Snow in the morning. Blowing and drifting

snow in the morning, then patchy blowing and drifting snow in the

afternoon. Windy. Highs in the lower 30s.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Patchy blowing and drifting snow

through the night. Lows 15 to 20.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in the

morning. Highs in the upper 20s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 10.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in

the evening. Lows 15 to 20.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 15.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.

 

 

Very strong northerly winds are likely across western and central

North Dakota Wednesday night and Thursday. The strongest winds as

of now are forecast in southwest, south central, and the James

River Valley.

 

In addition, accumulating snow combined with the strong northerly

winds could lead to blizzard conditions in the James River Valley

Wednesday night through Thursday.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown  Rural Fire Department was called out just before 4:30-p.m., Monday, to the Country Grain Cooperative in Eldridge, where a grain dryer fire was reported.
Jamestown Rural Fire, Chief,  Ben Maulding says, five  units and 14 fire fighters responed to what turned out to be a small smoldering fire caused by hot spots,  in the unit that was drying corn.
No significant damage was reported.
The Rural Fire Department was on the scene until just before 6-p.m.
The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Senate doesn’t believe that aesthetics of a sports car are ruined by a front license plate.The Senate killed the House bill 30-15 on Monday. It would have exempted such vehicles from displaying a front license plate.The bill defines a “sports car” as an “aerodynamically designed motor vehicle built to seat no more than two individuals.”Proponents say that some sports cars aren’t designed for a front license plate. They argue North Dakota should join the approximately 20 other states don’t require them.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Legislature has approved a bill that would allow American Indian students to wear eagle feathers or plumes at school graduations.The Senate passed the House bill 45-0 on Monday.Fargo Democratic Rep. Ruth Buffalo, the bill sponsor, says American Indians view the eagle feather and plumes as a symbol of honor and pride.The North Dakota School Boards Association supports the legislation.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service operates the National Eagle Repository to provide Native Americans with eagle carcasses, parts and feathers.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders expressed caution Monday after an updated revenue forecast showed North Dakota’s treasury expects to collect about $1 billion more in state taxes over the next two-year budget cycle than what lawmakers expected just two months ago.The forecast from state budget analysts and Moody’s Analytics predicted higher oil prices and production than what the GOP-led Legislature used as a budgetary starting point in January.The Legislature’s budget consultancy, IHS Markit, will present its prediction on Tuesday. Lawmakers hired the Colorado-based firm in 2017 to give the Legislature a second opinion on state revenue forecasts, which have missed the mark by hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years.Republican-led appropriations committees will consider both forecasts to set the final numbers Thursday when they begin finishing their work on the state’s 2019-2021 spending plan. The Legislature has idled major spending bills until that happens.Republican House Appropriations Chairman Jeff Delzer and his Senate counterpart, Ray Holmberg, said lawmakers will be cautious with priorities when they adopt a budgetary starting point.

“I don’t think it means we have a lot more money to spend,” Holmberg said of the revenue forecast released Monday.

GOP Gov. Doug Burgum was more optimistic, saying in a statement that the forecast was “reliable, reasonable and conservative.”

Burgum proposed a $14.3 billion budget in December, the highest proposed budget in state history. The first-term governor’s budget predicted more than $4.6 billion in oil and gas tax revenue.

Lawmakers a month later lowered the tax collections almost $600 million when adopting its budgetary starting point, which was lower than forecasts by Moody’s and HIS Markit.

The new revenue forecast released Monday estimated the revenue at $4.9 billion for the budget period.

North Dakota’s current two-year budget, including $3.8 billion federal aid, is $13.6 billion.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Land Board led by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum believes $137 million has not been properly deposited in two constitutional funds that benefit schools over the past decade.The board directed Land Commissioner Jodi Smith on Monday testify that the money should be replenished into the common schools trust fund and the foundation aid stabilization fund.Smith believes the state’s share of revenue from the oil-rich Fort Berthold reservation should have gone in the funds.GOP leaders believe the money was correctly distributed by Republican state Treasurer Kelly Schmidt, based on guidance from the attorney general’s office in 2012. But they have introduced legislation that would begin steering some oil tax money into school funds for now on, but not retroactively.

A hearing on the legislation is scheduled Wednesday.

In world and national news…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A U.N. official says thousands stood in silent tribute to victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash at the opening of the U.N. Environment Program’s Assembly in Nairobi on Monday. Some people who had been traveling to the meeting were among the 157 dead.

Assistant Secretary-General Satya Tripathi tells reporters that “there’s a lot of grief that’s not just for the U.N. colleagues but … because there have been losses on the side of member state delegations, the civil society community and others as well.”

Tripathi said there is a “renewed resolve” to do what more than 4,700 attendees had come to do: “preserve the cause of the environment and the planet.”

The U.N. secretary-general and presidents of France and Kenya are expected to attend this week.

 

BEIJING (AP) — State-run carrier Oman Air says it is in close contact with Boeing after the crash of an Ethiopian jetliner, the same model that it uses widely.

Oman Air tweeted Monday that is talking to Boeing “to understand if there are any implications” for other airlines operating Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

It added: “Oman Air’s primary and overriding consideration is the safety and well-being of its staff and guests.”

Oman Air operates five Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Oman is a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.

The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 on Sunday killed 157 people. A similar Lion Air plane crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189 people.

Chinese and Indonesian regulators ordered their airlines to temporarily ground their Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House’s top budget official is defending the Trump administration’s economic forecasts.

Acting budget director Russell Vought briefed reporters Monday on President Donald Trump’s 2020 spending blueprint. He said gross domestic product grew by 3.1 percent in the 2018 fiscal year.

Vought says the administration met its economic forecasts two years in a row although critics said it was “guilty of wishful thinking.”

Vought claims the Trump administration is the first to ever meet its economic forecasts two years running.

Trump on Monday proposed a record $4.7 trillion spending plan for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.

 

 

LONDON (AP) — The leader of the European Parliament says a disorderly Brexit most be avoided at all costs and plants to meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May to press home the point.

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said Monday night as May was traveling to Strasbourg, France for talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker: “We must avoid the departure of the U.K. without agreement. That would harm all European citizens.”

May is making a last-ditch attempt to get concessions from EU counterparts on elements of the agreement they all reached late last year.

Britain’s House of Commons, which resoundingly rejected the deal once before, has another vote scheduled Tuesday.

In Strasbourg, where the EU’s parliament is located, May is also slated to meet with the legislature’s chief Brexit official, Guy Verhofstadt.

 

 

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Spain’s airline pilots union has asked for Spanish airline Air Europa to stop flying to Venezuela after one of its crews was attacked at gunpoint in Caracas.

The Sepla union said Monday that two pilots and eight more crew members of a flight from Madrid were assaulted on Saturday while going from the airport to their hotel in the Venezuelan capital.

The crew told the union that their van was surrounded by men on three motorbikes who later fled after an exchange of gunfire with a person the crew believed to be a plainclothes police officer. None of the crew members was injured.

The union says Air Europa responded to the attack by ordering the crews of flights to Venezuela to not spend the night in the country.

 

 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — There’s a new leader in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after the dogs on musher Nicolas Petit’s team quit on him.

Alaska musher Pete Kaiser passed Petit and was the first musher to reach the checkpoint in Koyuk Monday. Koyuk is 827 miles (1,331 kilometers) into the 1,000 mile (1,600 kilometer) race across Alaska.

Petit held a five-hour advantage after Sunday. He told the Iditarod Insider that he yelled at two dogs who were fighting, and the team wouldn’t move after that.

He said the dogs ate well, and there’s no orthopedic issues. He says of his dogs: “It’s just a head thing.”

Petit’s team quit running at about the same point he gave up the lead in last year’s race, when he lost the trail in a blizzard.