wbPM2CSi Weather…

WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING…

.TONIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. WINDY. LOWS AROUND 60. WEST WINDS
20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY…WINDY. HIGHS AROUND 80. NORTHWEST WINDS
20 TO 30 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH
INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60.
HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
50S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S TO MID 80S.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown City Fire Chief Jim Reuther, Tuesday morning said that MDU will be doing work in the following areas today, July 28, 2015 from 10:00am – 5:00pm.

Utility workers will be discharging natural gas in the area of 302 2nd Ave NW and 12th Ave 2nd St NE, MDU staff will be on site while this work is being performed.

The public may smell natural gas in these areas and see flaring of natural gas in these areas.

 

Jamestown (CSi)-The James Valley Street Machines are ready for their 2nd Annual Black Top Tour, July 31 – Aug. 2. This year the club is going to Minnesota & South Dakota.

The trip is over 645 miles and will take three days to complete. The cars will leave the Jamestown truck stop at 10:00am Friday Morning. Travel to many locations along the route stopping for mini-shows or just take in the scenery.

President Steve Jaskoviak tells CSi that the rooms for the two nights, 30 in all, have been spoken for. Along the Black Top Tour, other car clubs will join in the adventure.

For more information check out the clubs website jamesvalleystreetmachines.com or contact Steve at 701-202-7067.

 

 MARTIN, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man died over the weekend in an all-terrain vehicle crash in Sheridan County.
 
     The Highway Patrol says 32-year-old Cole Weckerly was a passenger on an ATV that overturned on a gravel road between Martin and Selz about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. He died at the scene.
 
     Authorities say charges are pending against the 36-year-old Goodrich man who was driving the ATV. The patrol says the driver told officers he purposely made the ATV fish-tail, and lost control. The driver suffered undisclosed injuries.

 

By GRETCHEN EHLKE
 Associated Press
     Authorities have identified some of the seven people killed when two small planes crashed separately within hours of one another in western Wisconsin and southwestern Minnesota.
 
     Sheriff’s officials say two passengers killed when a fixed-wing plane crashed in southwestern Minnesota were teenagers from Mexico. The Pipestone County Sheriff’s Department says the plane was piloted by 59-year-old Steven Christensen of rural Pipestone, who was also killed when the plane went down in a cornfield near his hometown about 8 p.m.
 
     Eighteen-year-old Marcos Favela, of Torreon, Mexico, and a 13-year-old unidentified girl from Guadalajara, Mexico, were passengers who died in the crash.
 
     In Wisconsin several hours earlier, four people died when a single-engine Beechcraft crashed and caught fire in a field in Polk County, about 50 miles northeast of Minneapolis. 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s state Mill and Elevator has set a profit record.
 
     The mill on Tuesday reported making $16.6 million during its last budget year, which ended in June.
 
     That’s a 25 percent increase from the previous year’s profit of $13.3 million.
 
     The mill had gross sales of $305 million.
 
     Manager Vance Taylor says the mill had a good crop to work with and shipping volume increased during the last fiscal year.
 
     The mill sells most of its flour in bulk to bakery customers. It also sells small, family-sized bags of flour through grocery stores.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Federal authorities say an international synthetic drug ring that has been blamed for numerous overdoses in the Grand Forks area involves a Colombian man who moved the deadly substances while serving time in a Canadian prison.
 
     Thirty-four-year-old Daniel Vivas Ceron has been charged with five counts, including conspiracy to distribute controlled substances resulting in death. He was arrested in Panama City and is awaiting extradition to the United States.
 
     The arrest is part of an investigation into the international trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs that began with the overdose death in January of 18-year-old Bailey Henke, 18, of Grand Forks.
 
     Court documents do not list an attorney for Ceron.
 
     Five Grand Forks residents, all between the ages of 18 and 20, have pleaded guilty in the case.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Tribal leaders from a prolific portion of North Dakota’s oil-rich Fort Berthold Reservation have agreed to scale-back proposed regulations that industry officials warned could slow crude production.
 
     The newly formed West Segment Regulatory Commission based in Mandaree had wanted to impose its own regulations on oil drilling activity. The west segment is one of six on the reservation and it’s the busiest region for drilling.
 
     The full council of the Three Affiliated Tribes did not endorse the idea of individual segments imposing their own rules.
 
     John Mahoney, an attorney for the panel, says the commission has agreed to suspend implementation of most of the proposed rules.
 
     He says companies working in the region will still be required to register with the commission.

 

In sports…

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota State University men’s basketball team is taking a trip to the Bahamas.
 
     The Bison will play three exhibition games in the island country from Aug. 12-14. Head coach Dave Richman says the trip will help the team “solidify a couple of important positions in our rotation.”
 
     NCAA basketball teams are permitted to go on a foreign tour every four years. They’re also allowed 10 extra practices to help prepare. The Bison started practice on Monday.
 
     NDSU last season made its third NCAA Tournament appearance in school history.

 

In world and national news…

NEW YORK (AP) – Tom Brady’s suspension will stand. The quarterback’s four-game suspension for his role in using underinflated footballs during the AFC championship game last season has been upheld by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The New England Patriots’ star quarterback was suspended following an investigation. He and the Patriots have denied knowingly using deflated footballs in the AFC title game win over Indianapolis. The Patriots went on to beat Seattle in the Super Bowl and Brady was the MVP.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Lawyers for Jonathan Pollard say the U.S. government is granting him parole, after 30 years in prison for spying for Israel. He is due to be released in November. Pollard, who is 60, has been imprisoned since November of 1985 for selling classified information to Israel. He was arrested as he tried unsuccessfully to gain asylum in Israel’s embassy in Washington. His supporters argue that he was punished excessively, considering that he was spying for a country that’s a U.S. ally. Critics say he’s a traitor who damaged the nation by disclosing a trove of sensitive documents.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Has Iran earned the right to be trusted? That’s among the questions that were put to Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday at a House hearing, where he was grilled by lawmakers skeptical of the nuclear agreement with Iran. He told them that “nothing in this deal is built on trust.” According to Kerry, the deal includes strict inspections and other safeguards to deter cheating by Iran. But Republican Ed Royce, the panel’s chairman, said Iran has “cheated on every agreement they’ve signed.”
 
     BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s prime minister says his government views Turkish airstrikes in his country as “a dangerous escalation and a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.” Turkey launched a wave of airstrikes in Iraq last week targeting militants with the Kurdistan Workers Party in the country’s northwest. Meanwhile, a senior Turkish ruling party official says Turkey’s peace process with the Kurds is not over but has been placed on hold.
 
     SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) – Authorities have confirmed that a body found in a trash bin is that of an 8-year-old girl who disappeared from her Northern California housing complex. Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel says the remains are those of Madyson Middleton. Vogel says a 15-year-old boy, who also lives in the complex, was arrested on suspicion of murder. He says the boy lured Madyson to his apartment, where she was killed.