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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and snow showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY…Decreasing clouds. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers and snow showers
after midnight in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY…Rain showers possibly mixed with snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 40s. Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Rain showers likely in the evening, then
chance of rain showers possibly mixed with snow showers and
freezing rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and
snow showers in the morning. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers possibly mixed
with snow showers in the morning, then chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the morning. Highs in the lower 50s.
The potential for the rain/snow mix late Saturday night into Sunday. At this time, the greatest chances are over northern portions of the area. Still,
great question on potential snow amount given temperatures will
be near to slightly above freezing. With that said, high temperatures on Sunday downward given the expected ongoing precipitation. The system gradually pushes to the east overnight Sunday into early Monday.
Quiet weather then expected through Monday with the next system
pushing through mid-week. Still quite a ways out for details
but it will bring additional chances for rain and snow
to the region.
Flood updates and water level updates for the …
Sheyenne River Level Through Valley City
James River level through Jamestown.
Water amounts in the snow pack
The Latest Flood Warnings from The National Weather Service
https://ndresponse.gov/flood-region
Fire Danger Map for North Dakota
Update….
News Release from Maj. Justin Blinsky, Jamestown Police Department.
(Jamestown, ND) On 04/26/2019 at 0734 hrs., Stutsman County Communications received a report of a male creating a disturbance and possibly involved in criminal activity outside the M & H Gas station (325 1 Ave S) in Jamestown. The caller provided a description of the male and a description of the vehicle that he arrived in.
Jamestown Police Officers responded to the area and made contact with the male, who was sitting inside his 2004 Chevy Suburban. The officers spoke to the male and during this time, established probable cause to arrest the subject and conduct a search of his vehicle. The male refused to comply with officers’ orders to get out of his vehicle and resisted officers, as they attempted to remove him from the vehicle. As the suspect resisted arrest, he lunged down in his vehicle where he grabbed a handgun.
Jamestown Police Officers were able to immediately disarm the suspect and the handgun dropped to the ground, as the suspect was taken into custody. There were no other occupants in the car.
One Jamestown Police Officer received minor injuries during the altercation. The firearm was loaded and safely secured and seized by the Police, after the suspect was in custody.
The suspect has been identified as 47-year-old Ray Anthony Hunter from Jamestown. Hunter has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of Felony Reckless Endangerment; Felony Preventing Arrest; Simple Assault on a Peace Officer; Possession of a Concealed Weapon; Possession of Methamphetamine; and Possession of Marijuana. Hunter was transported to Stutsman County Corrections, where he is awaiting formal charges.
(The Stutsman County State’s Attorney’s Office said Friday afternoon, that Hunter may be formally charged Monday morning.)
This incident remains under investigation by the Jamestown Police Department.
Earlier…
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police arrested a male subject following an incident, on Friday morning about 7:23 at the M&H convenience store and gas station on First Avenue, South in Jamestown.
Officer Andrew Noreen says, dispatch received a call from M&H of a male individual in the store creating a disturbance inside the store.
When two police officers arrived, the individual was in his vehicle in the parking lot. The officers approached the individual in the vehicle, and asked him to step out. He refused, and then exited the vehicle, and upon doing so he lunged down to the driver’s side floor where he grabbed a hand gun.
The officers were able to disarm him and the gun dropped to the ground. The officers then took him into custody.
There were no other occupants in the vehicle.
The man’s name and address is currently not being released by police, until after he is formally charged.
Officer Noreen said, the individual has so far been charged with Aggravated Assault, on a police officer, as the investigation continues.
Valley City (VCPS) A news release was issued by Valley City Public Schools, following an incident Friday April 26, at Washington Elementary School.
To: Valley City Public Schools Staff, Parents, and Community. We received information this morning that a student from Washington Elementary had brought a firearm with them to school in their backpack. Following our safety procedures, we immediately searched the student’s locker, confiscated the airsoft bb gun, and detained the student.
We will continue to investigate this incident with the assistance from School Resource Officer Sean Hagen and the Valley City Police Department.
At this time, we do not believe there are any other safety concerns related to this incident. We thank our parents and community for continuing to communicate safety concerns with our school. We also thank our staff for following the safety procedures within our district and the Valley City Police Department for ensuring our safe schools in Valley City.
If you have any questions regarding this incident please direct them to the Valley City Public Schools District Office at 701.845.0483.
Josh Johnson
Superintendent
Valley City Public Schools
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Relay for Life for 2019 is set for Friday April 26, starting at 6-p.m., at the University of Jamestown’s Larson Center, with the Opening Ceremony.
This year’s goal is to raise $57,000.00.
Features of the event, include, honoring everyone who has been affected by cancer, and everyone who has contributed to the success of this year’s relay.
There will be a Survivors and Caregivers lap, and the Luminary Ceremony. Each light represents every person touched by cancer, or the support for a person still fighting the disease, offering comfort and hope.
The Closing Ceremony is the time to commit to take action and help lead the fight for world free of cancer. It’s also a time to celebrate accomplishments achieved together, and a time to unify for the work that still needs to be done, moving forward.
For more information, call Heidi Herrington at 701-226-0756, E-Mail: Heidi.Herrington@cancer.org
Jamestown (CSi) The week of April 29th has been designated “Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week” for the State of North Dakota. This annual event is intended to remind the public of the dangers associated with severe summer weather. And as the weather warms up, the potential for severe summer weather will rapidly intensify.
Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist said, as part of the week’s observance, on Wednesday May 1, 2019 a Tornado Drill will be held at approximately 11:15-a.m.
Local law enforcement and first responders will follow the proceedures in place, as if an actual tornado warning was in effect. The CSi Cable interrupt system, activated by the Law Enforcement Center in Jamestown will also be tested during the drill. Warning sirens in Jamestown and Stutsman County will also be tested at that time.
He pointed out that the warning siren at Frontier Village has been replaced by a new nearby rotating siren located west of the water plant, that provides more coverage to Southwest Jamestown.
Jerry added, to help prepare, for severe weather, the Bismarck National Weather Service has scheduled a SKYWARN Weather Spotter Training Class for Monday, April 29th, 7:00 p.m., in the lower level of the Law Enforcement Center in Jamestown. The class is free and open to anyone who wants to become more familiar with severe summer weather in North Dakota.
The approximately two-hour class will focus on recognizing and understanding the different types of severe summer weather including: lightning, thunderstorms, down-burst winds, flash floods, hail, and tornadoes. All of which, can cause severe property damage, personal injury, and even death.
Attending this class does not require an individual to become an official National Weather Service weather spotter. If you’ve attended this class in the past, attend again. It’s a great refresher that keeps you aware of the types of severe summer weather events in North Dakota.
For more information contact the Stutsman County Emergency Manager’s Office at 701-252-9093.
Also on our show, Jerry said, Jamestown High School’s Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Disaster Drill Exercise and Graduation will be held on Thursday May 2, 2019 at the Jamestown High School Gymnasium.
This spring, 95 JHS freshmen students participated in the Teen CERT program. These students have been learning how to respond and take care of themselves, their family and their neighbors in the event of a disaster. This hands-on course has taught students about emergency preparedness, fire safety, medical triage, disaster medical, search and rescue, disaster psychology, and terrorism by professional emergency responders from Stutsman County.
As the ninth year of JHS Teen CERT comes to a close, these freshmen will participate in a disaster exercise where they will be acting as the responders during a simulated bleacher collapse scenario. This will give each of them the opportunity to utilize the skills that they have learned throughout this 6-week program. The event will be overseen by personnel from various local emergency response agencies and school staff. The JHS Drama students will be performing as the injured victims in the scenario. Each of the Teen CERT students will also be presented with Certificates of Completion in a graduation ceremony.
Due to the number of students in the program, the classes have been separated into two groups, each with their own exercise and graduation.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Jamestown High School Gymnasium
1509 10th St. NE, Jamestown, ND
Group 1: 9:01 am – 10:21 am
Group 2: 10:24 am – 11:40 am
For more information contact:
Kim Franklin, Assistant Emergency Manager
Stutsman County Emergency Management
(701) 252-9093
kfranklin@stutsmancounty.gov
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Greenpeace is seeking to move a lawsuit alleging it conspired against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from North Dakota state court to federal court, where the environmental group has already prevailed against racketeering claims alleged by the pipeline’s developer.
Greenpeace wants a federal judge to throw out the latest claims of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, which the group alleges are a “duplicative” attack on free speech and political advocacy.
“Plaintiff’s relentless vendetta risks chilling the advocacy of Greenpeace and other environmental groups, and if adopted more broadly by big industry as a strategy, has more ominous implications for advocates across the political spectrum who face large corporations with deep pockets,” attorney Derrick Braaten wrote in a recent filing.
ETP alleges Greenpeace and activists conspired to use illegal and violent means such as arson, harassment and misleading information to disrupt pipeline construction and damage the company’s reputation and finances, all the while using the highly publicized and prolonged protest to enrich themselves through donations.
Groups and American Indian tribes who feared environmental harm from the pipeline staged large protests that resulted in 761 arrests in southern North Dakota over a six-month span beginning in late 2016. The pipeline that ETP maintains is safe began moving North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois in June 2017.
ETP sued Greenpeace and others in federal court two months later, making claims under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and also under North Dakota laws. U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson eventually ordered the company to amend what he criticized as a “vague” lawsuit and ultimately dismissed the case in February, saying there was no evidence of a coordinated criminal enterprise that worked to undermine ETP and the pipeline.
Wilson did not rule on the state claims, however, and ETP sued in state court a week later. Greenpeace didn’t directly comment on whether it considers federal court a friendlier venue but intimated that might be a reason for trying to move the lawsuit there.
“It’s essentially the same case that was previously filed there,” Greenpeace attorney Tom Wetterer told The Associated Press.
Braaten in court filings alleges ETP’s current “convoluted suit” is really aimed at saddling Greenpeace with “extraordinary litigation costs” and silencing the group’s public criticism.
Before a federal judge decides the merits of the case he or she must first rule on Greenpeace’s technical argument for moving the case back to federal court. The group cites a federal law stipulating federal courts have jurisdiction over cases in which the plaintiffs and defendants are in different states. ETP attorney Lawrence Bender argues in court documents that is not the case, and he asks that the suit remain in state court.
Greenpeace also cites a provision in the law that says federal courts have jurisdiction in cases in which the amount in question exceeds $75,000. ETP in its state lawsuit asks for damages “in an amount to be proven at trial,” but Greenpeace counters that the company elsewhere in its lawsuit states it “seeks to recover the millions of dollars of damages” allegedly caused by the defendants. Bender did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Work is set to begin on a multimillion-dollar engineering school at the University of Mary in Bismarck.
The university on Saturday will graduate its first student in its engineering program, which began enrolling students in 2016. A ground-breaking ceremony for the new school is set Monday.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that the university created the program in large part in response to a soaring demand for engineers in the western oil patch. The program has about 90 students, and another 120 are expected to enroll in the fall.
Construction on the new school is to be completed by the fall of 2020. The university has raised $10 million of the $12 million it needs for construction. The fundraising goal is $15 million.
In sports…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Police were called to the home of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill shortly after a television station aired an audio recording in which he and his fiancee discuss injuries to their 3-year-old son.
Several media outlets reported Friday that Overland Park police went to the home of Hill and his fiancee, Crystal Espinal, on Thursday night after receiving an anonymous call from someone worried about Espinal. According to the reports, Espinal was fine and officers were at the home for only a short time. A spokesman for Overland Park police didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
Police were called to the home twice last month and determined the boy had been injured. On Wednesday, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said he would not file charges against Hill or Espinal even though his office believed a crime had occurred. He said available evidence didn’t establish who had hurt the child.
A day later, KCTV in Kansas City aired part of an 11-minute audio file in which Espinal tells Hill earlier this year that when the boy was asked about his injured arm he replied: “Daddy did it.”
Hill denied any role in what happened to the child, saying: “He says Daddy does a lot of things.”
In world and national news..
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man was removed from the audience at President Donald Trump’s speech to the National Rifle Association after tossing his cellphone toward the stage.
The phone flew toward one side of the lectern as Trump was approaching from the other side. The president proceeded with his speech without delay.
Witnesses said the man appeared to be a supporter of the president.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian woman who admitted to being a secret agent for the Kremlin has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Maria Butina has been jailed since her July 2018 arrest and will get credit for time served. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan also ordered Butina deported after she completes her sentence.
Chutkan said she was imposing the sentence to reflect the seriousness of the offense and to promote deterrence.
Butina pleaded guilty last year to a conspiracy charge and admitted she covertly gathered intelligence on the National Rifle Association and other groups at the direction of a former Russian lawmaker.
Butina said she was “ashamed and embarrassed” by her own actions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study by a Nobel-winning astronomer says the universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it’s about a billion years younger than we thought.
And that’s sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think some of their most basic concepts.
At issue is a number called the Hubble constant, a calculation for how fast the universe is expanding.
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Johns Hopkins University astronomer Adam Riess concluded in a scientific journal this week that the figure is 9% higher than the previous calculation.
The trouble is, Riess and others think both calculations are correct.
Confused? That’s OK, so are the experts.
So they are looking for the cosmic fudge factors that would help explain it all.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A military spokesman says soldiers have exchanged gunfire with suspects after attempting to raid a building in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province as part of the ongoing investigation into the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks.
Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said a gunbattle was underway in the coastal town of Sammanthurai, 325 kilometers (200 miles) from the capital, Colombo.
Officials say local militants with ties to the Islamic State group conducted a series of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday at churches and luxury hotels in and around Colombo and in the distant seaside village of Batticaloa. The health ministry says about 250 people were killed.
Sri Lanka has remained on edge as authorities have pursued suspects with possible access to explosives.
LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The truck driver accused of killing four people in a fiery crash near Denver is a 23-year-old licensed operator from Texas.
Authorities said Friday that Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos was arrested in Thursday’s rush hour crash on busy Interstate 70 based on interviews and evidence gathered by investigators.
Lakewood police spokesman Ty Countryman said there’s no indication the crash was intentional and says he has been cooperative. Police wouldn’t provide a hometown for him.
Jail records don’t indicate if he has a lawyer. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Saturday.
He is being held on suspicion of vehicular homicide but prosecutors have not filed formal charges against him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.2% annual rate in the first three months of the year, a far better outcome than expected, overcoming a host of headwinds including global weakness, rising trade tensions and a partial government shutdown.
The advance in the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, marks an acceleration from a 2.2% gain in the previous October-December period. However, about half the gain reflected two factors not expected to last — a big jump stockpiling by businesses and a sharp contraction in the trade deficit.
Still, the GDP gain surpassed the 3% bar set by President Donald Trump as evidence his economic program is working. Trump is counting on a strong economy as he campaigns for re-election.
NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals judge has declined to halt a pretrial hearing being held behind closed doors in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault case.
Media lawyers made the request for an emergency stay Friday after the judge in Weinstein’s case ordered the New York courtroom closed to protect the movie mogul’s right to a fair trial.
While allowing the hearing to proceed, Appellate Division Justice Jeffrey Oing did grant news organizations an expedited appeal and ordered parties to file briefs by Wednesday.
Both the prosecution and defense asked to hold Friday’s hearing behind closed doors because in involves sensitive matters, such as the names of women who have accused Weinstein of violating them.
The news organizations want access to a transcript of the hearing and to related documents that were filed under seal.
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