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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a fire involving a Schwans refrigerated truck, located on the west side of Cross Roads Truck Repair.
Glenn Christianson said the call came in at 3:51 p.m., on Friday.
No damage estimate was available, or cause of the fire, and no injuries reported.
Four city fire units and 30 fire fighters cleared the scene at 4:20 pm.
Jamestown (CSi) Two officers involved in the March 17, 2015 shooting incident in Southwest Jamestown are back on the job.
Stutsman County State’s Attorney Fritz Fremgen released a memo he sent on April 12, 2015, to Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger, Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser and special agent Mark Nickel, with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, about the officer-involved shooting.
The Jamestown Police officer and Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy fired their weapons into a vehicle allegedly driven by a Tracy, Minnesota, man, who had led police agencies on a chase through southwest Jamestown in the early morning hours of March 17th
Fremgen wrote: “After considering whether any charges including attempted murder, aggravated assault, or reckless endangerment are warranted, I have determined no charge is warranted for either of those offenses or for any lesser offense.”
Fremgen did not name the Jamestown police officer and Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy who fired their weapons.
The North Dakota BCI also conducted use of force investigations on the Jamestown police officer and the Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy at the request of those agencies.
The North Dakota BCI investigated the incident involving 43 year old Lee Charles Ellingson, who allegedly led law enforcement officers from Jamestown Police and the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office and North Dakota Highway Patrol on a chase that started at the Exxon convenience store at 808 20th St. Southewest in Jametown, and ended in the 1000 block of 4th Avenue Southwest, between the Jamestown Motel and Dairy Queen.
Witness accounts and information from law enforcement agencies, indicated that during the pursuit, Ellingson allegedly rammed law enforcement vehicles. When he stopped on 4th Avenue Southwest, Ellingson allegedly tried to run over a police officer. It was at this time that a Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy and a Jamestown police officer fired their weapons into the vehicle Ellingson was driving.
Ellingson was transported by ambulance to Jamestown Regional Medical Center after the chase ended for treatment of injuries.
He was later flown by air ambulance to a medical facility in Fargo. Ellingson’s present medical condition is unknown.
Ellingson was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and driving while under the influence of liquor or any other drug or substance, all Class C felonies. He is also charged with fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
He is scheduled to appear at 1:15 p.m. May 20 in Southeast District Court in Jamestown. An unsecured bond was set at $100,000 on April 2, 2015.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City CROP WALK for HUNGER is on Sunday, April 26, 2015 starting at 1- pm, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Valley City.
The community is invited to walk and to donate money to help the hungry in Valley City and across the world. Twenty percent of the CROP WALK funds will go to the Barnes County Food Pantry for use in Barnes County.
The 10 kilometer (6 mile) walk represents how far women in third world countries walk daily to fetch water and firewood for their families. Valley City walkers do not need to walk the entire 6 miles. There will be a CROP rover picking up walkers if they are unable or don’t have time to walk the entire route.
The CROP WALK team has set a goal of $10,000.
The walk is planned by members of various denominations in Valley City including Todd Anderson of the Nazarene Church, Edie Schmidt, Sharon Buhr, Bonnie Brown and Pastor Emmy Svedlund of Our Saviors Lutheran, Mary Mortensen or Epworth Methodist, Pastor Jolene Knudson-Hanse of Trinity and Pastor Joanne Moeller of Trinity Lutheran.
For more information contact Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Valley City at 845-1328.
Cooperstown (CSi) Construction has resumed on the $3.5 million Griggs County Emergency Operations Center.
It’s been almost a year since a contract dispute led to contractors walking off the job.
Construction Engineers, based in Grand Forks, and subcontractors walked off the job last May over payment delays and contract language issues.
While crews are working in the Emergency Operations Center portion of the complex.
The project is estimated to be more than 90 percent complete as work remains quiet in the Griggs County Courthouse section.
Each party says it’s the other’s responsibility to pay for completing the courthouse part of the project.
The issue may end up in court.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CSi) – As part of her series of speeches to thank and honor North Dakota’s fallen heroes from the Vietnam War, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp again took to the Senate floor and discussed these servicemembers’ remarkable lives and contributions to North Dakota and the country.
“Nearly two hundred North Dakotans gave their lives for our country in Vietnam, fighting on the front lines to not only keep us safe but also for the ideals we hold most dear,” said Heitkamp. “We must always remember that every one of these men has a story as we recognize and honor the selfless sacrifices each made. I’m proud to represent a state with such a rich tradition of military service and with the continued support of students at Bismarck High School, the families of those North Dakotans lost during the Vietnam War, and folks all across our state, we can continue to honor our fallen heroes today and every day.”
During her speech, Heitkamp honored the following North Dakotans who were lost in the Vietnam War:
· Raphael “John” Frost – Hunter
· Jon Greenley – Fargo
· Dan Herdebu – Baldwin
· Alan “Pete” Hinzpeter – Minot
· Gerald Allen “Al” Iverson – Oakes
· Norbert Froehlich – Belfield
· Gerhardt Just – Wishek
· Gary Myers – Fort Yates
· Larry Olson – McHenry
· Richard “Rick” Borgman – Minot
· David Bujalski – Carrington
· Leslie Carter – Jamestown
· David Corcoran – Grand Forks
· Wilbert Fleck – Breien
· Lowell Hardmeyer – Mott
· Merlyn Paulson – Fargo
Last month, Heitkamp began a series of speeches to honor servicemembers from North Dakota who lost their lives in the Vietnam conflict as our country remembers the 50th anniversary of the war. Heitkamp is collaborating with more than 150 eleventh-graders from Bismarck High School to gather information on these fallen North Dakotans and will incorporate their research into her speeches. In March, Heitkamp met with these students in Bismarck and discussed with them the importance of their joint effort to honor the sacrifice and service of the North Dakotans lost in the war.
To view Heitkamp’s new webpage dedicated to honoring North Dakota’s KIA and MIA Vietnam servicemembers – including her speeches on the Senate floor – click here. here.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The presence of bird flu has been confirmed in a second poultry flock in North Dakota.
The state Agriculture Department says the H5 virus is in a commercial flock in LaMoure County that includes about 69,000 turkeys and about 2,000 chickens. The operation has been quarantined and the flock will be destroyed.
The state is still waiting on confirmation of whether the virus is the H5N2 strain that has cost Midwestern chicken and turkey producers more than 7 million birds since early March. But the Agriculture Department says whatever strain it is, it is highly contagious.
The H5N2 virus was confirmed at a Dickey County poultry farm earlier this month. The 40,000 turkeys are being destroyed.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has agreed to Senate amendments on a measure aimed at restructuring oil taxes.
The House voted 66-26 on Friday to shave the state’s oil tax rate from 11.5 percent to 10 percent. The Senate endorsed the bill on Thursday.
It now heads to Gov. Jack Dallrymple for his signature.
The legislation abolishes tax breaks based on low oil prices. The bill also bumps the state’s oil tax from 10 percent to 11 percent if crude prices rebound above $90 for three consecutive months.
GOP lawmakers say the bill will provide a stable and predictable tax policy. Democrats say it will cost the state billions of dollars in tax revenue in the long run.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State Sen. Tim Flakoll has helped produce a coloring book to entertain children and promote his home area.
The Fargo legislator recently teamed with artist Steve Stark and other supporters to design a youth activity and coloring book that promotes the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, area.
Flakoll came up with the idea while watching his niece become engrossed with coloring in a hospital waiting room while his mother was having surgery.
The 50-page book includes illustrations on landmarks, museums, colleges, events, sports and area history.
Flakoll says it’s something he’s always wanted to do and he was happy to learn that the printing was finished earlier this week.
Flakoll is the provost of the Tri-College University, a partnership among Fargo-Moorhead colleges.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Lake Sakakawea might have peaked for the year, months ahead of normal.
The peak elevation for the Missouri River reservoir typically occurs in July. But the Army Corps of Engineers says the water in this year’s mountain snowpack is among the lowest levels ever recorded. That means even less runoff than expected, especially with little rain in the basin this spring.
Jodi Farhat with the corps says she doesn’t anticipate any problems for municipal water intakes or boat ramps due to low water levels this year.
In sports.
Bismarck (CSi) Elite Wrestling Initiative presents the EWI Initiative Championship match in Valley City, on Saturday May 2, 2015, at 7:30-p.m., at the Valley City Eagles Club.
On Fridays’ Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, spokesperson and wrestler, Mercer Sage said the main event will be the championship match between Cory Diamond vs. Derrik Fury.
To start the evening there will additional matches.
Sage added that other wrestling matches will be held around the state, including Jamestown, with the dates to be announced.
Pre-sale tickets are $15 and available at the Valley Ctiy Eagles, $20 on the day of the event.
All matches are sanctioned by the Elite Wrestling Initiative.
More information on line at http://elitewrestlinginitiative.com/about-us/
In world and national news…
BALTIMORE (AP) – The mayor of Baltimore says she wants answers to why police policies were not followed in the unexplained police-custody death of Freddie Gray. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the police commissioner has assured her the investigation into Gray’s death is moving as quickly as possible. Gray was arrested April 12 and loaded into a police van. At some point, he suffered a mysterious spinal injury. He died Sunday. The arrest and death have sparked marches and rallies by demonstrators who say police mistreat blacks in Baltimore and across the country.
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – Activists in Missouri may be unsuccessful in their effort to get an independent investigation of the way a prosecutor handled the grand jury proceedings in the Michael Brown shooting. A judge Friday gave strong indications that he may toss the lawsuit by the activists. They want him to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate what they claim was misconduct by prosecutor Robert McCulloch. But the judge told their attorneys that an outside investigation may be unnecessary — since the Justice Department reached the same conclusion as the grand jury, which declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson.
NEW YORK (AP) – Tourists have been evacuated Friday from the Statue of Liberty, where New York City police say they responded to a report of a suspicious package. One man says he had just made it up to the statue’s crown when a park ranger got a call on his phone and announced, “It’s time to leave.” Visitors say the evacuation was orderly, but that they weren’t given any information about what was going on.
BOSTON (AP) – Some passengers on the Boston public transit system say the free rides that are being given to everyone Friday don’t quite make up for the service disruptions and breakdowns that plagued the system during a winter with record-setting snow. One woman says her son often waited for trains that never arrived, causing him to lose income from his job. She says the weather can’t be fixed — but the transit system can.
DALLAS (AP) – Airlines are seeing record-high profits — thanks to cheaper jet fuel. Like motorists, the airlines have been saving money at the pump since oil prices began plunging last summer. The spot price of jet fuel is down 40 percent since September. The profit at American Airlines was a record $932 million in the first quarter, even though passengers flew fewer miles. The other three U.S. airline giants reported similar results in recent days.
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