CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 60. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.

Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around 10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear.  A 20 percent chance of rain showers

in the evening in the Valley City area. Cooler. Lows in the mid 40s. North

winds 5 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to

10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers

and thunderstorms. Highs around 80.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.

.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

 

Best chance for showers/thunderstorms will reside in southern

North Dakota late Friday afternoon through the evening,further south Friday night.

Highs Friday will range from the mid 70s north (behind the cold front) to lower 80s south.

A cooler and dry day can be expected Saturday with highs in the

low to mid 70s.

Sunday through Wednesday, a very warm day with the high in the

90s.

A cold front is then slated to move through Tuesday with slight chances of precipitation.

Dry Wednesday.  Highs will mostly be in the 70s.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Silver Alert that was issued by Jamestown Police was cancelled about 1:45-p.m., on Thursday. He was safely located.

About 12:18-p.m., Thursday the Alert was issued for Lyle Bollinger of Jamestown with concerns that he had not been seen since about 10-a.m. at Sanford Clinic, in Jamestown.

Jamestown Police Major, Justin Blinsky reported Bollinger was located as he arrived back at his residence in Northeast Jamestown, and he will receive any needed medical attention. The Jamestown Police Department would like to thank everyone for their cooperation and assistance in trying to locate Lyle.

 

Previously…

Mr. Bollinger has been located. The Silver Alert has been canceled.

Previously: A Silver Alert was issued at the request of Jamestown Police Department. Lyle Bollinger of Jamestown is a 77 year old white male last seen wearing black jeans and a blue polo shirt.

He is 5 feet nine inches tall, weighs 170 pounds and has blue eyes. His last known whereabouts were on May 30, 2019 at 10 am at Sanford clinic in Jamestown.

Additional information: Lyle Bollinger has a life threatening medical condition that requires immediate attention.

If you have any information regarding this subject, please contact Jamestown Police Department at 701 252 1000 .

The above Silver Alert information is available to the public by calling 511 and at www.ndresponse.gov/alert

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The dean of the University of North Dakota medical school has been named interim president at the Grand Forks school.

The state Board of Higher Education on Thursday named Joshua Wynne to fill the position created by Mark Kennedy’s departure to the University of Colorado. Wynne, who has been at UND since 2004, took over as med school dean in 2010. He will maintain those duties.

Wynne was one of two finalists. The other finalist, longtime business school dean Dennis Elbert, agreed to serve as co-chair of the search committee for the next president. Board member Dr. Casey Ryan, of Grand Forks, will join Elbert as co-chair.

Board members say they want to see the news president named as soon as possible, partly to keep search costs down.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is deciding how much weight to give a critical audit report of a Wahpeton college, after one board member on Thursday questioned the accuracy of the review and another said the controversy is not affecting students.

The debate began when board member Kathleen Neset, who heads the group’s audit committee, said she was troubled by two of the findings in the investigation of the North Dakota State College of Science, one involving conflict of interest and another regarding the school’s lack of cooperation. She added she is worried about the “climate and culture” at the school.

“There is a crisis on campus at NDSCS,” Neset said. “Lives and livelihoods are being impacted and this is not right.”

The audit focused on management of the school’s career workforce program known as TrainND Southeast. It found that Tony Grindberg, the school’s vice president of workforce affairs and former Republican state lawmaker, failed to fill out a form disclosing that his wife worked for a Fargo company selected to formulate a marketing plan for TrainND.

NDSCS President John Richman wrote in a response to the audit that Grindberg’s connection to the company was widely known and the decision to hire the company was “made exclusively by me.”

 

In sports…

Thursday afternoon…

North Dakota Girls West Region State Soccer Quarterfinal at the Jamestown High School Rotary Soccer Field.

Fargo Shanley/Oak Grove 5 Jamestown 0

The Blue Jay Girls plan Friday at noon in a loser-out game.

Thursday…

North Dakota Class A State Softball Tournament Quarterfinals, in Minot…

Valley City 10 Dickinson 3

Up next the Hi-Liners play Friday at 6-p.m.,  in the semifinals, vs. Bismarck.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A coach at a small-college basketball program in South Dakota will take over at Division I University of North Dakota.

North Dakota announced Friday that Northern State coach Paul Sather would succeed Brian Jones, who stepped down after 13 years with the Fighting Hawks.

Sather went 162-82 in nine years at Northern State, which is in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He led the Wolves to the NCAA Division II title game two years ago, when they came within a missed buzzer-beater of winning the championship.

The Princeton, Minnesota, native was named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference coach of the year the last two seasons.

Sather also coached at Black Hills State for five years. He guided that program to the NAIA Final Four and a school-record 30 wins in 2008-09.

 

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is muddying the waters over Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election. Trump tweeted early Thursday that “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.” But he later insisted that Russia didn’t help him.

Trump reacted Thursday, a day after special counsel Robert Mueller spoke about his investigation into Russia election meddling and contacts with the Trump presidential campaign.

Mueller found that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and while he said that charging Trump with a crime was “not an option” because of federal rules, he emphasized that he did not exonerate the president.

Trump told reporters Thursday as he departed the White House, “Russia didn’t help me at all.” He said Russia would have preferred that Hillary Clinton be elected, not him.

Trump claimed, “Nobody has been tougher” on Russia “than me.”

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he had nothing to do with directing the U.S. Navy to keep a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan this week.

Trump told reporters as he left the White House on Thursday he “wasn’t involved” in the effort. Trump says, “Somebody did it because they thought I didn’t like him,” but he says he “would never do a thing like that” even though he “wasn’t a fan.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported Wednesday that a tarp was placed over the warship’s name before Trump’s arrival and that sailors were instructed to remove any coverings from the ship that included its name.

Trump feuded with McCain publicly for years, continuing his criticism even after the Republican senator from Arizona died last year.

 

 

SAN JUAN, Texas (AP) — Two historic graveyards are among the properties on the Mexican border that are under threat as the Trump administration rushes to build hundreds of miles of wall.

Under current plans, one of the 19th century cemeteries could be lost entirely. Some graves would have to be exhumed; others without a headstone might be paved over.

The people who would lose land have hired lawyers and staged protests. They’re determined to fight in court to tie up construction and explain to the rest of the U.S. the hidden costs of a border wall.

Congress agreed last year to fund 33 miles of new walls and fencing in South Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.

 

 

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel faces an unprecedented snap election campaign — the second this year — after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition and dissolved parliament instead.

Israel’s newly elected Knesset dissolved itself early on Thursday and set a new election date for Sept. 17.

It’s a shocking setback from Netanyahu, who had appeared to secure a comfortable win in last month’s election. But he was unable to build a parliamentary majority to rule because a traditional ally, Avigdor Lieberman, refused to bring his Yisrael Beiteinu faction into the coalition.

Netanyahu, who has led Israel for the past decade, now faces another challenge to his lengthy rule. It comes as he prepares for a pre-indictment hearing before expected criminal charges against him in a series of corruption cases.

 

 

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal lawsuit seeking to strike down Mississippi’s method of electing statewide officials by asserting that it’s racially discriminatory has been filed in court.

The lawsuit brought Thursday by several African American residents challenges the state’s nationally unique requirement that the governor and top officials win both a majority of the statewide vote and a majority of the 122 state House districts. If that doesn’t happen, the election is decided by members of the House.

The lawsuit says the provision from the 1890 constitution is designed to make it harder for African Americans to win elections.

No black candidate has been elected to a statewide office since the requirement took effect.

The lawsuit is backed by an affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

 

 

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is the latest state to repeal its death penalty, as the state Senate had enough votes to override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto.

The repeal takes effect immediately.

The 16-8 vote Thursday was the necessary two-thirds majority to override. The House narrowly voted last week to override Sununu’s veto.

New Hampshire’s death penalty applied in only seven scenarios. The state hasn’t executed anyone since 1939, and there is only one inmate on death row. The repeal law does not apply retroactively to Michael Addison, who killed Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, but capital punishment supporters argued that courts might interpret it differently.

Sununu vetoed the bill last month at a community center named in honor of Briggs.

 

 

CHICAGO (AP) — A computer algorithm has helped reopen dozens of Chicago cold cases by finding similarities in the slayings of more than 50 women.

The victims were mostly black women who were strangled or suffocated since 2001. The Murder Accountability Project ran thousands of homicides through a computer. It returned a collection of strikingly similar cases.

Now detectives are reviewing old evidence and looking for new clues. The renewed investigation offers hope to the victims’ relatives.

The bodies were found in some of Chicago’s most derelict places: alleys, abandoned buildings, weed-choked lots and garbage containers. Authorities believed many of the dead were prostitutes or drug addicts or both. There was evidence of sexual attacks, and some of victims were naked or wearing torn clothes.