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CSi Weather…
JAMESTOWN AREA…
RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY
THIS REPLACES THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH.
FOR FOR GUSTY WINDS…LOW HUMIDITY…AND DRY VEGETATION FOR ALL OF
WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA…
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* WINDS…WEST WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH.
* TIMING…WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY…AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT.
* TEMPERATURES…AROUND 60.
ANY FIRES COULD SPREAD RAPIDLY AND SHOW ERRATIC
BEHAVIOR. DANGEROUS BURNING CONDITIONS MAY BE POSSIBLE.
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW…OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS…LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY…AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN
CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.
VALLEY CITY AREA….
…FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS…LOW HUMIDITY…AND DRY FUELS
FOR THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN INTO PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA…INCLUDING BARNES COUNTY.
* WINDS…BECOMING WEST AND INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS
UP TO 35 MPH.
* TIMING…NOON TO 7 PM.
Forecast
TUESDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 25 TO 30 MPH IN THE
AFTERNOON.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. WEST
WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.THURSDAY…INCREASING CLOUDS. WINDY…COOLER. HIGHS IN THE MID
40S. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW
IN THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
IN THE LOWER 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW
IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH RAIN
IN THE MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS
AROUND 40. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 40S.
A MUCH COOLER DAY ON THURSDAY IS EXPECTED WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS POSSIBLE.
THEREAFTER…NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department wants to warn residents of two high risk sex offenders who have changed addresses.
Larry Gant now resides at 1018 4th Avenue Southwest, Apt #32.
He currently has no vehicle.
Gant is a 37 year old black male, 5 feet 11 inches tall weighing 177 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
He is a high risk sex offender.
He was convicted in February of 2003 of aggravated rape, in Shelby County Tennessee District Court. Disposition 8 years. He is presently on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation.
Also…
26 year old Matthew Jacob Lee Graham now resides at 517 4th Street, Northwest. Jamestown ND.
He presently has no vehicle.
He is a high risk sex offender.
He is a white male 5-feet 11 inches tall weighing 172 pounds with blue eyes and brown hair.
He was convicted of indecent exposure in April of 2004 in Kidder County, ND, involving a five year old boy. His disposition was remanded to the Mesabi Academy Treatment Center.
Neither Gant or Graham are wanted by police at this time and have served the sentence imposed by the court. This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.
Attempts to harass, intimidate, or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of Gant and Graham’s demographics are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s website: www.sexoffender.nd.gov
WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota authorities say the body of missing Minnesota snowmobiler has likely been found in the Sheyenne River near West Fargo.
Police say the body was discovered late Tuesday morning and sent to Grand Forks for an autopsy and positive identification. But they believe it is that of 34-year-old Cole Schwindt, of Moorhead, Minnesota.
The clothing appeared similar to what Schwindt was wearing Dec. 2 when he disappeared while snowmobiling on the river. The body was recovered about 800 yards downstream of where Schwindt likely entered the water.
Divers found the snowmobile submerged in the river but abandoned searches for Schwindt in early February.
Two flooring installers spotted the body in the water while searching a wooded area for unique pieces of wood.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Public School board has begun the process of seeking a successor to Superintendent Dean Koppelman who will retire at the end of the 2015-2016 year.
The position will be advertised in the fall of 2015, with guidance from the North Dakota School Boards Association for a fee of $8,000, based on school districts with an enrollment of over one thousand students.
Koppelman has been the school district’s superintendent for 17 years.
Alaine Toso, a Title On Reading teacher will retire at the end of this school year.
Also “retiring” is “Junior” is a licensed therapy dog
Ms. Toso says her experience as a teacher along with her companion “Junior” has been very rewarding for her and the students, adding that the stress relief that “Junior” provides for students and staff members has been beneficial to everyone.
Alaine plans to continue being a substitute teacher following her retirement this spring.
Valley City (CSi) Luke “Strider” Jordan will share the story of his 2013 thru-hike of the 4,600 mile-long North Country National Scenic Trail (NCT). His presentation will be on April 16, 2015, starting at 6:30 in the Skoal Room of the VCSU Student Center and is free and open to the public.
The presentation is hosted by the VCSU Business Department and the Sheyenne River Valley Chapter of the non-profit North Country Trail Association.
More about Luke’s hike on line at www.stridernct.com. Learn more about the Sheyenne River Valley Chapter at www.northcountrytrail.org/srv.
HAWLEY, Minn. (AP) – The propeller of a small airplane piloted by a North Dakota man has caused significant damage to a car after the aircraft made an emergency landing on a Minnesota highway.
The incident happened just before noon Tuesday on Highway 10. No injuries were reported.
Pilot David Gowan of Minot, North Dakota, says the incident happened after he took off from the airport in Hawley, where he picked up a passenger and refueled his 1979 single-engine Mooney.
The car that was damaged belongs to the Clay County Health Department. The car went into the ditch and now has deep gashes from being hit by the propeller.
Gowan says the damage to his aircraft is “minimal.”
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Minnesota Highway Patrol are investigating the incident.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota House committee is opposing legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, government, public services and the workplace.
The House Human Services Committee voted 11-2 on Tuesday to give the bill a do-not-pass recommendation. The measure now goes to the full House for a vote.
The Senate passed the bill last month despite the fact that it received a do-not-pass recommendation in committee.
Lawmakers have defeated legislation twice in the past six years that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota plans to join Wyoming in a lawsuit challenging a new federal hydraulic fracturing rule for U.S. government lands.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission headed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple voted Tuesday to intervene in the lawsuit that Wyoming filed last week in federal court.
The Obama administration is requiring companies that drill on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
The process involves pumping water, sand and chemicals underground to split open rocks to allow oil and gas to flow.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) says North Dakota agrees with Wyoming’s argument that the rule is unlawful because it interferes with state regulations.
North Dakota’s top energy regulator, Lynn Helms, says the federal rule will hamper the drilling of thousands of wells in the state.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A former North Dakota Army National Guard soldier who admitted to luring teenage girls over the Internet for sex has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison.
Thirty-year-old Eric Sansburn pleaded guilty earlier to child sex and child porn charges. He was sentenced Monday.
Authorities say Sansburn had online chats with nearly 100 teenage girls, and would pick girls up from their homes and schools for sex in the Grand Forks area.
Sansburn’s attorney has said his client is a decorated Iraqi war veteran who receives disability from the Veterans Administration for post-traumatic stress disorder.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man and woman accused of luring women from California to work as prostitutes in the western North Dakota oil patch have reached plea agreements with prosecutors.
Trina Nguyen (wihn) and Loc Tran are to plead guilty on Thursday. They were scheduled for a nine-day trial in federal court in June on charges related to human trafficking and coercion, in connection with brothels in Minot, Williston and Dickinson.
The plea agreement filed for Tran calls for a sentence of no less than two years. A plea agreement was not immediately filed for Nguyen.
Both suspects pleaded not guilty earlier but are scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing on Thursday.
State human trafficking charges against Nguyen and Tran were dismissed earlier when federal prosecutors took jurisdiction in the case.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A sixth-grader from Grand Forks has won the North Dakota National Geographic State Bee.
Valley Middle School student Sean Ness won the state crown last Friday and will represent North Dakota in the national championship at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C., in May.
State champions win $100 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington. The national champ will receive a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the Society and a trip to the Galápagos Islands.
In world and national news…
BOSTON (AP) – The defense has rested its case in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv). Defense lawyers called just four witnesses. The lawyers have admitted that Tsarnaev participated in the bombings but said his late older brother was the mastermind. If Tsarnaev is convicted, the same jury will hear additional evidence to decide whether he should be put to death or spend the rest of his life in prison.
BERLIN (AP) – Lufthansa now says that it knew six years ago that Andreas Lubitz had suffered from a “serious depressive episode.” The airline says that’s how Lubitz described his condition in emails to the Lufthansa flight school, when he was resuming his training after an interruption of several months. He wrote that the episode had subsided. The airline says he later passed all medical checks.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) – As relief organizations voice concern over a high number of civilian casualties from the airstrikes taking place in Yemen, the bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia continues for a sixth day. Residents of the capital have been seeking shelter amid the airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels. The campaign is aimed at weakening the rebels, who are backed by Iran. They’ve overrun much of the country and have forced the country’s president to flee.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says it can find only four emails sent between former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff concerning drone strikes and certain U.S. surveillance programs. And the notes have little to do with either subject. The messages also reveal that Clinton used an iPad to email while secretary of state in addition to her BlackBerry. Clinton has said she set up a private email account so that she’d only have to carry a single device.
LAS VEGAS (AP) – The man accused of driving the getaway car during the fatal shooting of a Las Vegas woman has entered a plea of not guilty. Derrick Andrews is facing charges of murder and attempted murder, as well as weapon and conspiracy charges, in the shooting death of Tammy Meyers. The 19-year-old accused of being the shooter, Erich Nowsch, has already pleaded not guilty to the same charges.
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