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WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY…
…WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY…
.REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW
IN THE AFTERNOON. SLIGHT CHANCE OF FLURRIES IN THE AFTERNOON.
WINDY…COLDER. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. WEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 25 TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. WIND
CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 20 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 35 BELOW.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS NEAR ZERO. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 40 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 20 BELOW. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE MORNING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH
A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS 5 TO
10 ABOVE. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH
IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
.FRIDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS IN THE
MID 20S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS TO
EXPOSED SKIN.
A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THE COMBINATION OF WIND AND VERY COLD
AIR WILL CREATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE
AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST
VENTURE OUTDOORS…MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.
WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW ZERO ARE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING…AND AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING.
COLD DRY AIR DOMINATING THE WEEKEND. HIGHS SHOULD RANGE FROM ZERO TO 5 ABOVE NORTH CENTRAL TO THE TEENS SOUTHWEST.
MODERATING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED EARLY NEXT WEEK…WITH HIGHS FORECAST IN THE 20S TO LOWER 30S.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bitter cold that is blanketing North Dakota is forecast to get worse.
The National Weather Service has posted a wind chill advisory for much of the state, with wind chills dropping into the minus 20s.
Forecasters issued another wind chill advisory for late Tuesday into early Wednesday for much of the state, with the combination of cold and wind expected to make it feel as cold as 40 below zero in some areas. Officials say frostbite can occur in less than half an hour under such conditions.
High temperatures Wednesday in eastern North Dakota are not expected to rise above zero. Thursday will bring a chance of snow in western and central North Dakota.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – Valley City police say a trail of footprints in the snow led them right to a man suspected of burglarizing a home.
Officers who responded to the scene shortly before 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, at 507 7th Avenue Southeast, and observed the set of footprints leading to another home at 599 6th Street Southeast. They obtained a search warrant and found all of the reported stolen items: a laptop, camera case and rifle.
Police arrested 19 year old William Skywalker Weatherford.
Formal charges were pending, which may include felony burglary and possession of stolen property.
Anyone with additional information in this case is asked to call Valley City Police at 845-3110.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – Developers of a $3 billion fertilizer plant planned near Jamestown are still trying to find a water source, and they’re now looking west to the Missouri River.
Spokesman John Traeger says CHS Inc. has not been able to obtain water rights from aquifers around Jamestown because many of the rights have already been allocated.
Officials considered design changes to cut down on water usage but determined it would be more economical to build a pipeline from the Missouri. Developers are talking with Bismarck officials about buying water from the city’s water treatment plant or leasing part of the capacity of the city’s old water intake.
CHS hopes to have the fertilizer factory open in 2018.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School board at Monday’s meeting learned that the school district may have to provide more funds to Louis L’Amour Elementary School for supplemental instruction, as the school will likely not be able to access Title I funds for that purpose.
Superintendent Rob Lech says Title I eligibility for schools is determined by the number of families enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program. He said a push to get more families enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program at Louis L’Amour Elementary only added 10 new families.
Title I funds are federal funds that eligible elementary and middle schools may receive to fund programs to help students improve their learning skills.
In other business….
The school board accepted the resignation at the end of this school year, of Jamestown Middle School, physical education teacher, Jeremy Newman
He and his wife have accepted teaching positions at the American International School of Muscat in Oman.
The meeting concluded with the school board going into closed Executive Session to discuss negotiation strategies for negotiations with the Jamestown Education Association.
The current contract with JEA expires at the end of this school year.
The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 with the showing starting on Tuesday.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown community is invited to a forum on the Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC) on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the North Dakota Farmers Union state office at 1415 12th Avenue Southeast. Community members are encouraged to attend to learn more about the facility and its operations.
Jamestown (CSi) Construction on the new Jamestown Menards continues, to be on schedule as exterior works finishes up, and crews move inside.
Officials with Menards are hoping for a late summer opening,. although no official opening date is set.
The purchase and sale agreement between the city of Jamestown and Menards requires the store open no later than July 1, 2016.
Valley City (CSi) First Amendment Advocate, Mary Beth Tinker, will visit Valley City State University, on Wednesday, February 18, 2015.
Tinker will appear at a meet-and-greet event from 8 am to 8:50 a.m. in the Student Center Skoal Room; audience members are invited to purchase breakfast at the VCSU cafeteria or Viking I and bring their meals with them to the Skoal Room.
She is visiting North Dakota to testify on behalf of the John Wall New Voices Act (HB 1471), which would address how the Hazelwood decision is applied in our state.
Mary Beth Tinker is a national speaker on First Amendment issues related to students and education. She’s best known for the U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.
In 1965, when she was 13 years old, Tinker wore a black armband to school protesting the conflict in Vietnam. The school said she couldn’t wear it, but she did anyway and that led her all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decision was in her favor—that students should be free to express themselves up to the point of substantial disruption. That standard has been in place in our public high schools since 1969.
However, in 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court heard another case that negated part of the Tinker Standard: Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. The decision went in favor of the Hazelwood School District, which said that school districts could censor student journalism that was built into the curriculum. This left a paradoxical distinction that still exists today—students walking down the hallway can express themselves under the Tinker Standard, yet student journalists, who rely on the First Amendment as a foundation of their education, can be censored.
The case ended with the U.S. Supreme Court determining that the First Amendment applies to public schools and students retain their rights to free speech.
Meanwhile, Jamestown area legislators sponsor, co-sponsor a proposed house bill (1471) in the North Dakota legislature, that would give student journalists in public high schools and public and private colleges more freedom to exercise their right to free speech.
The bill will be heard by the House Education Committee Tuesday.
The bill known as the John Wall New Voices Act, was introduced to the House by its primary sponsor Rep. Alex Looysen, R-Jamestown, and is co-sponsored by Reps. Jessica Haak, D-Jamestown, Corey Mock, D-Grand Forks, and Rick Becker, R-Bismarck. In the state Senate Larry Luick, R-Fairmount, and John Grabinger, D-Jamestown, are co-sponsors as well.
A group of University of Jamestown students presented the idea for the bill to Haak and Mock toward the end of the 2013 legislative session.
Grabinger said he talked with Looysen and Haak about the bill, and he sees the need for what the bill is trying to accomplish.
A part of the bill would restore the Tinker standard for high schools referring to the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District in 1969.
The bill is also being endorsed by Mary Beth Tinker.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Chamber will be holding an informational legislative forum for the citizens of Districts 12 and 29. The forum will be held on February 21, 2015 from 9:00am – 11:00am at City Hall (102 3rd Ave SE). Senator John Grabinger, and Representatives Jessica Haak and Alex Looysen from District 12 and Senator Terry Wanzek, and Representatives Craig Headland and Chet Pollert from District 29 will be present to update the public about legislative issues.
Pam Phillips, chair of the Local Regional Issues committee will be the moderator. There will not be specific questions prepared for the presenters, but there will be time after the forum for questions from the public.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Update…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler has pleaded not guilty to simple assault in a domestic violence incident.
Baesler’s attorney entered the plea Tuesday morning in Bismarck municipal court. Baesler did not appear in court.
Baesler was arrested early Sunday. Court documents allege she struck fiance Todd Tschosik “with an object, causing injury to his face.”
Baesler maintains she was concerned about her safety. Tschosik says he’s disappointed about “an attempt to discredit me personally.”
A judge set a March 23 trial for Baesler and ordered her to have no contact with Tschosik.
Baesler spokesman Dale Wetzel said she returned to work Tuesday. She was not at work Monday, and a meeting of a State Board of Higher Education nominating committee she leads was rescheduled to Wednesday.
Previously….
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man whom authorities say was assaulted by North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler was accused of assaulting her in a Florida hotel room last summer.
Court documents indicate Baesler didn’t cooperate with authorities in the Florida case against Todd Tschosik, and prosecutors dropped the case.
Baesler was arrested Sunday on a preliminary assault charge after an incident at Tschosik’s Bismarck home. She said in a statement that an argument with her fiance escalated to the point where she was concerned about her safety, and it wasn’t the first time she had felt at risk.
A spokesman for Baesler said she wouldn’t comment on the Florida incident.
Court documents indicate he told Florida police he was set up by Baesler.
Tschosik said Monday that others witnessed what happened and it’s “disappointing that there has been an attempt to discredit me personally.”
Tschosik also denied assaulting Baesler, his fiancée, last summer in Orange County, Fla., where a misdemeanor battery charge against him was eventually dropped.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities in North Dakota are accusing a man of impersonating a doctor in order to call in prescriptions. The 35-year-old man has been arrested after posing as a physician from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Bismarck man was arrested when he attempted to pick up the prescriptions at a pharmacy. He has not been formally charged and is being held at the Burleigh County Detention Center awaiting a Tuesday court hearing.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the Dakotas has continued to rise in the past week, after falling below the $2-per-gallon mark last month.
GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan says rebounding crude prices are the reason.
The average price in North Dakota has risen nearly 9 cents per gallon in the past week, to $2.16. In South Dakota, the average price has risen about 7 cents, to $2.09.
The national average increased 7.6 cents per gallon over the week, to $2.25. But that’s still more than $1.10 cheaper than last year at this time.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate has rejected a measure aimed at exempting clothing from sales tax.
The Senate voted 27-20 Monday to kill the bill.
The measure would exempt clothing from the state’s 5 percent sales tax. Local sales taxes also would be exempted.
Tax analysts say the measure would have reduced state tax revenue by about $40 million over the next two years.
Similar measures have failed in the Senate in the past two sessions.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate is backing off on a plan to use oil revenue to build a new home for North Dakota’s first family.
Beulah Republican Sen. Jessica Unruh is the primary sponsor of the bill that would appropriate $5 million to build a new governor’s residence on the state Capitol grounds.
Unruh says the Senate has decided there are too many unknowns about oil prices at this time to spend money on a new governor’s residence. She says it’s better just to study the idea for now.
The current home was completed in 1960. Officials say the current home has security issues, is not handicap-accessible and likely contains lead paint and asbestos.
Lawmakers have defeated measures in the past two sessions for a new governor’s home.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has extended tax cut aimed at keeping companies drilling new oil wells when they might otherwise go idle.
One of the state’s two taxes on wells is a 6.5 percent extraction tax. A state law forgives that tax if the price of a barrel of oil slips below certain “trigger” prices.
One trigger price needs to average below $55 for a month. That tax cut went into effect this month due to slipping oil prices. The trigger was slated to expire this summer.
The House voted 79-14 Monday to extend that trigger for another two years.
The state Tax Department has estimated the cut would cost the state about $170,000 in lost revenue for each well drilled.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The recent slide in oil prices is leading to fewer jobs in the western North Dakota oil patch, but officials there and in northwestern South Dakota say the regional industry is resilient.
Openings posted at the Job Service North Dakota office in Williston have fallen from about 4,500 before the price slump to about 1,900 now. But office Manager Cindy Sanford tells the Williston Herald there are still jobs out there. And she estimates her office’s postings represent fewer than half of the actual jobs available.
North Dakota’s oil boom has tricked into northwestern South Dakota, with some companies locating there and some workers living there and commuting.
The Rapid City Journal reports that executives at a recent Belle Fourche (foosh) conference said they expect that impact to continue.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Officials in Grand Forks are considering a proposed ordinance that would allow random drug testing on police officers, firefighters and 911 dispatchers.
An existing ordinance prohibits city employees from being intoxicated while at work, but the random drug testing measure is being proposed because of the critical role that police, firefighters and dispatchers play in the public’s safety.
Fire Chief Peter O’Neill, Police Chief Mark Nelson and dispatch center Director Becky Ault have expressed their support for the proposal.
O’Neill says he doesn’t believe the city’s emergency responders have substance abuse problems. He says the random testing is a pre-emptive measure that the city owes its own residents.
Grand Forks council members are expected to take up the final approval of the proposal Tuesday.
MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) – Fires burned for hours after a train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm in West Virginia. The office of Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said the tanker cars were loaded with Bakken crude from North Dakota. Officials evacuated hundreds of families and shut down two water treatment plants threatened by oil seeping into a nearby river.
In sports…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota men’s hockey team is the top-ranked team in the country for the fifth time this season.
UND regained the top spot in both the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll and the USCHO.com poll, after a weekend series in which it beat No. 9 Denver and then tied the Pioneers the next night. UND moved up from No. 2 in the USCHO.com poll and from No. 3 in the other poll.
Previous No. 1 Minnesota State fell to No. 2 in the USCHO.com poll and to No. 3 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. Boston was second in that poll.
UND travels to unranked Western Michigan this weekend.
Class B District 5 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Barnes County North 46, Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 42, OT
Ellendale 46, Oakes 37
Championship
LaMoure-Litchville-Marion 59, Carrington 55
BOYS BASKETBALL
Grafton/St. Thomas 63, North Border 46
Hillsboro/Central Valley 44, May Port CG 36
Mohall-Lansford-Sherwood 53, Underwood 49
Oakes 56, Carrington 52
Washburn 64, Standing Rock 52
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page 54, Larimore 44
Fordville Lankin-Park River 68, Midway-Minto 33
Glen Ullin-Hebron 43, Dickinson Trinity 38
Grafton/St. Thomas 64, North Border 31
Hazen 62, Beach 47
Hillsboro/Central Valley 62, May Port CG 41
Killdeer 65, New England 50
Mott-Regent 56, Beulah 53
Richardton-Taylor 60, Heart River 29
Thompson 62, Drayton/Valley-Edinburg 40
Class B District 1 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Hankinson 56, Lisbon 43
Lidgerwood-Wyndmere 44, Milnor-North Sargent 39
Championship
Fairmount-Campbell-Tintah 65, Sargent Central 49
Class B District 2 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Central Cass 60, Richland 48
Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran 52, Enderlin 39
Championship
Kindred 59, Maple Valley 46
Class B District 6 Tournament
Semifinal
Kidder County 31, Medina-Pingree-Buchanan 27
Napoleon 60, Strasburg-Zeeland 28
Class B District 7 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Four Winds-Minnewauken 62, New Rockford-Sheyenne 50
Harvey-Wells County 63, Warwick 47
Championship
Lakota/Edmore 65, Benson County 61
Class B District 8 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Rolette-Wolford 45, St. John 37
Rolla 61, Dunseith 37
Championship
North Star 58, Langdon-Munich 56
Class B District 9 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Grant County 66, Flasher 46
New Salem-Almont 73, Solen 56
Championship
Shiloh Christian 72, Standing Rock 42
Class B District 16 Tournament
Region Qualifier
Burke County 50, Kenmare 48
Ray 56, Powers Lake 47
Championship
Stanley 47, Divide County 39
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Alex Biega scored the winner in his first NHL game as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Minnesota Wild 3-2 yesterday. Henrik Sedin and Bo Horvat also scored for Vancouver. Eddie Lack made 20 saves to get the win.
Final N-Y Rangers 6 N-Y Islanders 5
Final Carolina 6 Ottawa 3
Final Montreal 2 Detroit 0
Final 2OT Winnipeg 5 Edmonton 4 (SO Winnipeg 1-0)
Final Colorado 5 Arizona 2
Final OT Calgary 4 Boston 3
Final Los Angeles 3 Tampa Bay 2
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final ( 2) Virginia 61 Pittsburgh 49
Final ( 6) Villanova 80 Seton Hall 54
Final (23) West Virginia 62 ( 8) Kansas 61
Final (19) Butler 58 Creighton 56
TOP-25 WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final ( 4) Notre Dame 63 (10) Duke 50
Final ( 5) Maryland 75 Michigan St. 69
Final (15) Texas A&M 70 Alabama 49
Final (20) Chattanooga 66 W. Carolina 41
AP BASKETBALL POLL…
UNDATED (AP) – Kentucky remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll after improving to 25-0. Second-ranked Virginia is followed by Gonzaga, Duke and Wisconsin. Villanova, Arizona, Kansas, Utah and Notre Dame. Louisville skipped three spots to 12th, while Northern Iowa went from 13th to 11th.
NBA…
DALLAS (AP) – A person with direct knowledge of the talks tells The Associated Press that forward Amare Stoudemire has agreed to sign with the Dallas Mavericks after taking a buyout from the Knicks. The veteran forward can’t make his verbal commitment official until he clears waivers on Wednesday. The 32-year-old Stoudemire was waived Monday after requesting the Knicks buy out the remainder of his contract that was set to expire after this season.
MLB…
CLEVELAND (AP) – Former American League MVP Jason Giambi has announced his retirement after 20 major league seasons. He ends his career as one of 20 players in history with at least 400 home runs, 1,400 RBIs, 1,200 runs and 1,300 walks. The 44-year-old played for Oakland, the New York Yankees, Colorado and Cleveland.
NEW YORK (AP) – The Yankees are retiring the uniform numbers three members from their championship clubs of the 1990s and 2000s. The team will honor Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada (HOHR’-hay poh-SAH’-dah) and Bernie Williams with plaques in Monument Park this season, along with Willie Randolph. The quartet will raise the Yankees’ total of retired numbers to 20.
NFL-STADIUMS
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The company that is moving quickly on a plan to build a stadium that could host a Southern California NFL team has given more than $118,000 in campaign contributions to officials in the city where it would be located.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that campaign finance forms show most of the money went to Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr., a major supporter of the stadium plan. The donations came during four different campaigns starting in 2006.
The stadium plans for Inglewood have the San Diego Chargers playing tough with local politicians. The Chargers have issued their sternest warning yet to City Hall in their long-running effort to get a new stadium. Attorney Mark Fabiani has told the mayor’s advisory group that for the time being, anyway, there might not be a publicly acceptable solution to replace aging Qualcomm Stadium.
Fabiani has handled the team’s stadium push since 2002 and says “we have no intention of allowing the Chargers franchise to be manipulated for political cover.”
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The nation’s capital has been a focal point for the season’s first major snow storm to blast large parts of the South. Federal government offices and schools are closed in the region today, though the storm appears to now be heading up the winter-weary East Coast. Officials in Boston say another few inches could fall today and the city’s mayor says a potentially significant storm could come over the weekend.
MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) – Federal railroad and hazardous materials officials are probing the West Virginia derailment of a freight train pulling more than 100 tankers of volatile Bakken crude oil. Officials say a house was hit, one tanker went into a river and 14 to 17 tankers exploded into a huge fireball. Officials decided to let the blaze burn itself out.
LUHANSKE, Ukraine (AP) – A Ukrainian military spokesman says government forces will begin pulling back their heavy weapons as soon as Russia-backed rebels stop firing theirs. Neither side appears to be honoring today’s deadline for the start of the pullout. The U.N. says the war in eastern Ukraine has already killed more than 5,600 people and displaced more than a million.
SARRE-UNION, France (AP) – French President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH’ oh-LAWND’) says hostility is on the rise in France against Jews and Muslims alike and threatens the country’s very foundations. Hollande spoke today in Sarre-Union, where 250 Jewish graves were desecrated. The president called on French Jews to ignore the Israeli prime minister’s call for a mass migration. Five local teenagers have been detained in the cemetery desecration.
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s president says there may be no other choice but to create a U.N.-backed coalition dedicated to driving Islamic extremists out of Libya. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also tells France’s Europe 1 Radio that Egyptian airstrikes against Islamic State group positions in Libya yesterday were in self-defense after the mass beheading on a beach of a group of Egyptian Coptic Christians.
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