CSi Weather….

TONIGHT…Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.Northwest winds around 5 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely after

midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.

Chance of showers 40 percent.

.SATURDAY…Rain showers likely. Cooler. Highs in the mid 50s.

East winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of showers 70 percent.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows in the upper 40s.

SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in

the morning. Highs around 60.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain

showers after midnight. Lows around 50.

.MONDAY…Rain showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms.

Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and slight

chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of rain

showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of

precipitation 60 percent.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Slight chance of rain showers in the

morning, then slight chance of rain showers and thunderstorms in

the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy

with a 20 percent chance of rain showers and thunderstorms after

midnight. Lows around 50.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 60s.

 

Most areas will see precipitation Friday night through Saturday night.

Most areas could see a quarter to a half or three quarters of an inch of rain, with the potential of over and inch of rain in a general area from northwest into south central ND.

Saturday will be cool with highs in the 50s most areas, except lower 60s

southwest.

Sunday should be mainly dry. It will remain mostly cloudy and cool with highs in the 60s.

Overall, it will be an active weather period beginning Friday night and continuing through Monday into Tuesday, and  mid to late in the work week.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  On Thursday September 5, 2019 the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office issued an alert, warning residents in the Windsor and Eldridge area of a wanted individual who fled law enforcement officers.

The individual is a black male, five feet 11 inches tall,  wearing black clothing  It’s unknown if the man is armed and residents are asked not to approach the man if he’s spotted.

Anyone seeing  this man, is asked to call 911 immediately, or the Stutsman County Communications Center at 701-252-1000 with information.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  Law enforcement with assistance on Thursday continued the search for Mark Davies.

Officials say the searched area was north of Katheryn, North Dakota.

Davies has been missing and was last seen on August 23, in Katheryn.

Anyone with information is asked to call Valley City Police at 701-845-3110.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  On Thursday, at the Barnes County Courthouse in Valley City, Cornelious Edward Johnson entered guilty pleas at a change of plea court hearing. Johnson entered guilty pleas on two felony counts of attempted murder and one count of felony robbery in the November 21 2018 shooting in Valley City.

The attempted murder charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.  The felony robbery charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Southeast District Judge Jay Schmitz ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set  the sentencing for October 24, 2019 at 9-a.m. at the Barnes County Courthouse.

The 22 year-old Johnson left North Dakota after the shooting in Valley City. On January 30, 2019,   U.S. Marshals arrested him in Maricopa County Arizona.

The 20 year-old male victim shot once in the upper body continues to make a full recovery.

 

Bismarck (NDDHS)   The North Dakota Department of Human Services’ Field Services team is focused on providing the right level of behavioral health services and support to North Dakotans living with serious mental illness and substance use disorders, allowing individuals to stay in their communities and homes. As part of this effort, South Central Human Service Center in Jamestown will be expanding outreach services and redesigning transitional living services to better meet area residents’ needs.

This fall, South Central is partnering with Progress Inc. to consolidate the center’s transitional living services in Jamestown from two facilities and programs into one. This change will allow the regional human service center to devote more staff resources to directly serve clients living independently in the community, while retaining transitional living program services for individuals who do not need psychiatric inpatient care, but who may benefit from structured residential and support services as they progress in their recovery.

By Oct. 1, the center will no longer directly operate or staff its partially-full, 12-bed transitional living program called Cottage Lane. Progress Inc. intends to close its Bridgepoint Transitional Living Home and will instead assume the operation and staffing of a consolidated 15-bed transitional living program at the former Cottage Lane site.

Commenting on the upcoming changes, South Central Human Service Center Director Dan Cramer says, “We continually evaluate community needs. We have significantly more transitional living beds in the local community than people who need that level of care. Our goal at South Central is to make it possible for more individuals with behavioral health needs to live successfully and independently in their communities. This change supports that goal, sustains important services, and does not eliminate the jobs of valued employees.”

 

He adds,  “Our employees have done great work at our Cottage Lane transitional living facility. Those behavioral health team members will now be serving North Dakotans already living in their own apartments and homes in our region. It is a role change. We’ve talked about making changes for a while. Instead of going to one place to work with the same small group of clients, they will work in the community, serving assigned clients to help them reach their unique recovery goals,” he said.

Cramer said the agencies are working to minimize the impact on clients and team members. Five Bridgepoint residents will soon be transitioned to the Cottage Lane site, and a couple of Cottage Lane residents will be transitioning into a basic care setting to meet their emerging medical and personal care support needs.

Contracted caregivers at Progress Inc.’s Bridgepoint site will begin staffing the Cottage Lane site and have already begun shadowing South Central employees to get to know the Cottage Lane clients.

Seven full-time and three temporary state employees currently working at Cottage Lane will be reassigned by South Central Human Service Center to its main office in Jamestown to provide outreach-based services to area residents.

By realigning services, Cramer said, the center will be able to increase outpatient services and outreach for individuals with serious mental illness in the Jamestown region, which could reduce the need for a higher level of care such as crisis services or hospitalization. The transitional living program will continue to help people transition to community living.

 

He says, “The Progress Inc. team does a great job of providing psychosocial rehabilitation and skill development services and support. They have helped many individuals transition from residential care to live successfully in the community,”

Transitional living services allow people diagnosed with serious mental illness who may also have a co-occurring substance use disorder to gain self-care skills in a supportive recovery-focused residential setting. Program clients typically also receive treatment and recovery support services at a regional human service center. Within 12-18 months, most clients are equipped with the knowledge, skills and ongoing behavioral health services and support they need to live independently in the community.

During this interim, the North Dakota Department of Human Services, in collaboration with Human Service Research Institute, will be working to identify the state’s capacity to meet psychiatric inpatient care needs and other levels of behavioral health care needs.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Public School Board and  Administration, have come to terms on a new two year contract.

The agreement includes a salary increases of two percent the first year and five percent in the second year.

The administration contract includes principals and the technology adviser.  The superintendent and business manager positions are negotiated separately.

The school board has raised salaries for support staff  district-wide by $1 an hour, a $1.50 for a staff member with over 11 years of experience.

The Support Staff includes teacher aides, custodians and cafeteria cooks.

The school board continues in negotiations with the Jamestown Education Association for a two-year contract for teachers.

The next negotiation meeting is Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Annual Freedom Walk on Wednesday September 11, will begin at Zonta Park in Jamestown, starting at 5:15-p.m., and go to the All Vets Club on 1st Street East in Jamestown.

Walkers will head south from Zonta Park to Jamestown Middle School and then to the All Vets Club.

At Zonta Park their will be a presentation before the walk.

At the All Vets Club, a talk will be given by Jamestown Mayor, Dwaine Heinrich, followed by a light lunch, at no cost.

The community is invited to participate in all events.

Jamestown (CSi)  The public is invited to the Dedication of the Fargo National (Veterans) Cemetery will be on Saturday September 7, at 11-a.m.

The cemetery is located in Harwood, ND, at 8709 40th Avenue North, County Road 20.

The ceremony will include remarks by VA and elected officials, the unveiling of a dedication plaque and military honors.

Keynote Speakers scheduled are:

Under Secretary of Memorial Affairs, Randy Reeves.

ND Governor, Doug Burgum.

U.S. Senator, John Hoeven.

U.S. Senator, Kevin Cramer

U.S. Congressman Collin Peterson from Minnesota.

Parking for the public is available on site, but carpooling is encouraged.  Mobility impaired users with handicapped tags will have special parking.

More information on the National Cemetery on line at, Burial in a National Cemetery

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Fargo Veterans Affairs Health Care System will hold free Flu Clinics in North Dakota and Minnesota for enrolled veterans.

The Jamestown VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic is at  2430 20th Street Southwest, near JRMC.

The Flu Clinic will be on:

October 3,9,16, 24, from 9-a.m., to 2:30-p.m.

For more information call the Fargo VA HCS Public Affairs Office, at 701-239-3724.

Valley City  (CSi)  The Barnes County, Veterans Service Office in Cooperation with North Dakota Game  & Fish announces the 2019 Camp Grafton Disabled Veteran Hunt will be on Monday November 19, and Tuesday November 19 at Camp Grafton.  The Hunt is for veterans who are 50 percent disabled, or greater.

Applications are due by October 1, and are available at any County Veterans Service Office.

In Valley City, Barnes County Veterans Service Officer, Angela Hunt: 845-8511.

In Jamestown, Stutsman County Veterans Service Officer, David Bratton:  252-4093.

FARGO  (INFORUM) A Fargo woman is in custody after police say she trespassed on Shanley High School property and assaulted a police officer on Thursday, Sept. 5.

According to the Fargo Police Department, on Thursday morning at 8:19 a.m. officers were called to Shanley for a report of a woman on that property who was trying to get her children. She was told by police she was trespassing and had to leave.

At 9:21 a.m. the woman had returned to the school, and when officers arrived to arrest her, she started fighting them and assaulted one, according to police.

The woman was identified by authorities as Jami Lee Streyle, 42, of Fargo. She is facing charges of assault on a peace officer and criminal trespassing.

Shanley officials say during both incidents the school was placed on “lockdown continued instruction”. They say this means classes continued, but students weren’t allowed in the hallways.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — The girlfriend of a man charged with murder in Williston has some legal troubles of her own.

KEYZ reports 35-year-old Jennella Roberson is accused of lying to police about her boyfriend, Reginald Toussaint. He’s charged with felony murder in the shooting death of 49-year-old Cedar Pineda at the Days Inn last week.

Investigators say Roberson told them she had not seen or talked to Toussaint in about a week, then later said she had been at the hotel but left before Pineda was killed.

Roberson was ordered held on a $10,000 bond Wednesday.

 

In sports..

Big Ten Network airs on CSi 66 and CSi HD 129.7.  From time to time there may be extra games on CSi 67 and or CSi 68.   Schedule will vary.

CSi 66 and CSi HD 129.7 11:00am Vanderbilt at Purdue
CSi 66 and CSi HD 129.7 2:30pm Central Michigan at Wisconsin
 CSi 67 only – extra game 2:30pm Eastern Illinois at Indiana
CSi 66 and CSi HD 129.7 6:30pm Western Michigan at Michigan State

 

In world and national news…

OCRAKOKE, N.C. (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program has purchased 8 tons (7.2 metric tons) of ready-to-eat meals for Bahamians in hurricane-battered Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands and is organizing an airlift from Panama to set up two logistics hubs in the Caribbean nation.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Thursday that WFP is also providing satellite equipment to ensure connectivity for emergency responders across the affected islands.

Given the severity of Hurricane Dorian’s impact, he said WFP has set up a $5.4 million emergency operation for three months to assist 39,000 people.

U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said Wednesday about 70,000 people “are in immediate need of life-saving assistance” on Grand Bahama and the Abacos.

Dorian devastated the Bahamas as it moved over the islands earlier this week, causing at least 20 deaths.

 

 

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there must be an election so the British public can decide whether to leave the European Union on Oct. 31 — as he wishes — or remain in the bloc for longer.

Johnson says “I don’t want an election at all but frankly I can’t see any other way” to end the Brexit impasse.

On Wednesday, lawmakers rejected Johnson’s bid to call an early election for Oct. 15, and also made moves to stop Johnson from taking Britain out of the EU at the end of next month even if there is no deal with Brussels to pave the way.

Johnson said that legislation would “scupper our negotiating power” and hand control to the EU.

On a visit to a police academy, he said whether the U.K. left the EU on Oct. 31 “really should be a matter for the people of this country to decide.”

 

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The NATO Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan says a U.S. service member and a Romanian soldier were killed in the Taliban suicide car bombing in Kabul.

The statement gave no details, simply saying they were killed in action in the Afghan capital on Thursday. The name of the U.S. service member was being withheld for 24 hours until the family was notified in accord with Pentagon policy.

The Romanian soldier was also not identified.

Afghan officials say the Thursday morning suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in an area close to the Resolute Support mission and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul also killed at least 10 civilians.

 

 

(AP)  Weeks after The Associated Press published a story outlining harassment allegations against opera legend Placido Domingo, new women have come forward to say that the superstar groped them, harassed them or behaved inappropriately.

Eleven women shared new stories about encounters with Domingo, who is currently the general director of LA Opera. One woman said he forcefully grabbed her breast under her robe backstage in 1999 and others said his actions included unwanted touching or attempts to kiss them.

Several backstage employees described for the AP how they strove to shield young women from the superstar as administrators looked the other way, as recently as LA Opera’s 2016-2017 season.

In a statement, Domingo’s spokeswoman called the allegations “riddled with inconsistencies” but provided no specifics.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within minutes of media outlets identifying the gunman who killed seven people in West Texas, a Twitter account began spreading baseless information linking the shooter to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke.

The groundless conjecture was promoted online by a member of President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign advisory board.

The speed of the misinformation — and how far it subsequently spread — again illustrates the eagerness of some to blame such events on political ideologies, regardless of whether the facts support that.

It’s also an early indication of just how difficult it will be for campaigns to combat virulent falsehoods ahead of a 2020 presidential campaign that could to be full of them.

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is tackling a new frontier: love. Facebook Dating, its matchmaking service already available in Brazil and 18 other countries, is arriving in the U.S. on Thursday.

But after years of privacy missteps by the social network, will people trust Facebook with their love lives?

It makes sense for Facebook to formally enter the dating market. Apps like Tinder already use its data to suggest matches, and let people log in using their Facebook accounts. Facebook Dating is a new way to keep people using Facebook more often and longer.

Facebook insists it won’t use information gleaned from users’ dating profiles for advertising and says there won’t be ads on Facebook Dating. But some users are apprehensive, given the company’s multiple stumbles over protecting people’s private information.