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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department’s Ready Squad responded to a reported smell of smoke at Jamestown Regional Medical Center about 7-a.m., Friday.
In talking with the hospital’s physical plant manager, officials said the smell was a propane odor that was apparently drawn into the hospital’s ventilation system.
Officials believe that that propane smell was coming from an adjacent farm, west of the hospital.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning Jamestown residents of a convicted sex offender living within the city limits.
27 year-old Joseph Allen Johnson currently resides at 517 4th Street NW. He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee.
Johnson is a 27 year old white male, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 168 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair.
Johnson was convicted in 2011 of Corruption of a Minor when he met a 15 year-old girl online and had intercourse with her.
Conviction date: March 28, 2011 in Stark County District Court.
Disposition: 5 years, 2 years suspended, 233 days credit, 8 years supervised probation.
Johnson is currently on probation with the North Dakota Parole and Probation. He is on GPS monitoring.
Johnson is not wanted by police at this time. This notice is for residents information. Any attempt to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders or their families, landlords or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of Johnson’s demographics available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site:
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is offering a grief support group for anyone who is grieving the loss of someone important to them, whether the loss is recent or from years past. The group will meet at 7:00 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 407 2nd Ave NE in Jamestown beginning on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 and will run for 6 weeks.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable2, JAGST member, Diane Witzig said, the session will be based on the book, Understanding Your Grief, by internationally recognized expert in the field of loss and grief, Dr. Alan Wolfelt.
She pointed that the book states, “You can benefit from a connectedness that comes from people who have also had a death in their lives. Support groups, where people come together and share the common bond of experience, can be invaluable in helping you and your grief and supporting your need to mourn long after the event of the death”
She added that in our fast paced society, people who have had a significant loss are often expected to be ‘over it’ in a matter of a few weeks. They may even expect this of themselves. In reality, it may take years for someone to work through his or her grief. The support group experience allows individuals to express grief in their own unique way and on their own unique timetable.
The group is free of charge, however, participants are asked to register to ensure that enough materials are available. For more information, or to register, please call Diane at 320-4915 or Eileen at 251-1280 (evenings).
Jamestown (CSi) The USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center invites the public to help celebrate 50 years of conducting research for the management of the Great Plain’s natural resources.
An anniversary open house is being held on Saturday, August 22, 2015 for the public to come out celebrate, and learn about the research, watch demonstrations, and meet the staff.
The center is located one mile south of the Bloom Interstate East of Jamestown.
Click here to learn more about the center.
Founded in 1965, the center established a scientific foundation and has provided information for the Department of Interior’s waterfowl management programs. It became an internationally respected center for waterfowl and wetlands research through many field studies in the Prairie Pothole Region.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A fire that caused damage to a room in a Fargo hotel has been traced to an overheated battery charger.
Firefighters responded to the Vista Inn shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday and found a small fire burning atop a dresser in one of the rooms. The blaze was quickly extinguished and no injuries were reported.
Damage to the room and its contents is estimated at $6,000.
Update…
KEENE, N.D. (AP) – A three-vehicle crash in McKenzie County has killed three people and injured three others.
The Highway Patrol didn’t immediately identify any of the people involved in the incident shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday on a county road north of Keene.
Authorities say a car driven by an Arizona woman tried to pass a pickup, then hit the truck after noticing an oncoming vehicle and trying to get back into her original lane. The truck collided head-on with the oncoming sport utility vehicle.
The SUV overturned in the ditch. The Idaho man driving it died at the scene, along with a male passenger from Michigan. A male passenger from Watford City died at a Minot hospital.
Another SUV passenger and the pickup’s two occupants were injured. The car’s driver wasn’t hurt.
NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified a man who died in a house fire near New Town and say no foul play is suspected in the death.
The body of 74-year-old Ronald White Owl, of New Town, was found July 23 after New Town firefighters responded to the blaze in the Van Hook area on Lake Sakakawea.
The state medical examiner ruled the death an accident. The Mountrail County Sheriff’s Office and Three Affiliated Tribes police are continuing to investigate.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -Two executives with pilot licenses were flying the Allegiant Air jet that made an emergency landing in Fargo because it nearly ran out of fuel.
An Allegiant spokeswoman says management pilots routinely operate flights to maintain their certification and track day-to-day operations.
The airline says vice president of flight operations Greg Baden and director of flight safety Michael Wuerger were at the controls of the July 23rd flight with 144 passengers on board.
The plane left Las Vegas more than an hour late, according to tracking service FlightAware.com. By the time it reached Fargo, the airport was temporarily closed so the Navy’s Blue Angels flight team could practice for an air show.
One of the pilots told an air traffic controller he didn’t have enough fuel to reach another airport.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in a sexual abuse case that goes back about 18 years.
A jury in November found Donald Luger guilty of aggravated sexual abuse by use of force. Authorities say the assault took place against a 12-year-old girl in 1997.
Prosecutors argued for a sentence of 20 years. Defense attorneys asked for a sentence of two to three years.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson sentenced Luger, of Fort Yates, to 138 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Luger’s attorney could not be immediately reached for comment.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – An Arkansas woman working at a strip club in the North Dakota oil patch hub of Williston is accused of assaulting two police officers.
Authorities say 24-year-old Wendy Stuard, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, was approached by officers last weekend because she was shouting profanities in the street outside Heartbreakers.
Stuard allegedly struck two officers in the face before they subdued her with a stun gun. The officers suffered cuts and bruises.
Court documents do not list an attorney for Stuard. She is due in court on Sept. 10 and could enter pleas then to felony charges that could land her in prison for up to 15 years if she’s convicted.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Former U.S. attorney from North Dakota Timothy Purdon is taking on his previous boss. Purdon filed a motion in federal court Thursday asking a judge to lift an 11-year-old injunction that prevents Alex White Plume from producing industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Concealed-carry permit holders will have more places where they can legally have firearms.
A new measure that goes into effect on Saturday allows permitted gun owners to pack heat at public parks, political functions, musical concerts, public rest areas and liquor stores. The bill also allows people to carry a single-shot electronic stun gun without having to obtain a concealed-carry permit.
The measure is among more than 300 new laws that take effect Aug. 1.
One new law will allow restaurants to serve alcohol at 11 a.m. instead of noon on Sundays.
Another new law makes it a crime to post sexually explicit images of someone online without their consent. That law also allows for a victim of the postings to pursue civil damages.
BOTTINEAU, N.D. (AP) – An administrator of Colorado’s community college system has been named the next leader of Dakota College at Bottineau.
Jerry Migler has been named the new Campus Dean of the two-year college, which is an affiliate campus of Minot State University.
Migler replaces Ken Grosz who announced his plans to retire in May after spending four decades at the school.
Migler currently serves as vice president of academic affairs for the Colorado Community College System.
He’s a Rugby native and previously served in an administrative role at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday will start accepting applications for its Community Grant program.
The state Legislature earlier approved $500,000 for the program for the 2015-17 budget cycle.
The grant program provides financial assistance for new recreation programs geared toward communities with a population of 13,000 people or less, and for political subdivisions to build outdoor recreation facilities.
More information can be found at the Parks and Rec website, www.parkrec.nd.gov . The site also will have applications starting Saturday.
The application period will close Oct. 30. Project sponsors must have half of the total cost available when they apply.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Highway Patrol troopers in states bordering western South Dakota are giving extra attention to traffic flocking to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Organizers are planning for up to a million people for the rally’s 75th anniversary next week.
In southwestern North Dakota, the patrol is dedicating up to 30 overtime hours to the cause, at a cost of about $2,000.
The Montana Highway Patrol says it’s paying “special attention” to traffic routes favored by rally-goers, but spokesman John Barnes didn’t comment on whether any overtime hours were involved.
In Nebraska, there are additional patrols on some highways but no dedicated overtime. Capt. Paul Hattan says Nebraska’s mandatory helmet law prompts many riders to bypass the state.
In Wyoming, the patrol has secured $125,000 in federal highway grant money for ramped-up enforcement.
In sports.
Jamestown (CSi) The University of Jamestown announces Dan Lovell will join the University as head men’s wrestling coach.
Most recently, Lovell was the head wrestling coach and Health/PE instructor at Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids, Minn. However, he is no stranger to Jamestown. From 2012-13 Lovell was an assistant men’s wrestling coach and admissions counselor at UJ before moving onto ICC.
Jamestown Athletic Director Sean Johnson, says, “We are excited to have Dan rejoin the Jimmie family. Dan has enjoyed success at nearly every level of wrestling both as a coach and competitor. His previous experience at UJ combined with his accomplishments elsewhere make him the right person to lead Jimmie wrestling into the future.”
Lovell brings a wealth of coaching experience as he takes the helm of the program at UJ. As the head coach at Antioch High School in Antioch, Calif., from 2001-2006, Lovell led his team to a North Coast Section Class 3A Dual Championship, Bay Valley Athletic Championship, North Coast Section Tournament Championship, and was named the Contra Costa Prep Athlete Coach of the Year.
He began coaching in 1997 as an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a position he held until 1999. He served as co-head coach at Great Oak High School (CA) in the 2006-2007 season before moving onto the head coaching position at Marshalltown High School in Marshalltown, Iowa until 2012.
Coach Lovell also has extensive coaching experience at the club level serving as Nebraska Omaha Espoir Junior World Team Trials Coach from 1997-99, Head Coach of the California National Team from 2003-05, Head Coach of the California Australian Tour in 2005, California USA Wrestling Coach from 2005-06, Iowa USA Wrestling Coach from 2009-11, Jamestown Taz Wrestling Club Coach in 2013, and was as the Screaming Yetis Wrestling Club Director and Minnesota Storm Wrestling Coach (Greco-Roman/Freestyle) from 2013-15.
Professionally, Lovell is a member of the National Coaches Education Program for USA Wrestling, the National High School Coaches Association, the National Wrestling Coaches Association, International Sports Specialist, Inc., and holds a USA Wrestling Copper and Bronze Coaches Certification.
Lovell says, “I am very pleased to return to the University of Jamestown as the men’s head wrestling coach. I’m very excited about the potential and the commitment of the current athletes and hope to create a winning attitude in every aspect of their college experience.”
The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top tier regional school in US News and World Report and a top Midwestern school in The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey to Success experience.
Beulah (CSi) – At the American Legion Class A baseball tournament in Beulah, Valley City Post 60 posted a 10-2 win Thursday, versus the Makoti Mavericks, eliminating Makoti.
Jesse Johnson picked up the win for Valley City, pitching a complete game on the mound while giving up 2 runs on 10 hits with 5 strike outs.
Post 60 will play Grafton today at 1 p.m.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Big 12 Conference is giving affiliate membership to six wrestling schools including North Dakota State and South Dakota State. The additions are effective beginning with the upcoming academic year. The new schools will immediately compete for the conference’s postseason championship and the league’s automatic qualification to NCAA postseason competition.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Two junior national champions from the North Dakota State University men’s track and field team are competing at the 2015 Pan American Junior Championships this weekend in Edmonton, Alberta.
Freshmen Payton Otterdahl in the discus and Matt Bedard in the 400m hurdles will go up against the best athletes under age 20 from the Americas after claiming national titles in their respective events earlier this summer.
The Pan Am junior division is limited to athletes who do not turn 20 years old until at least 2016.
AA..
Fargo-Moorhead 7, Grand Prairie 1
MLB…
AMERICAN LEAGUE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Eddie Rosario finished a single shy of the cycle to help the Minnesota Twins snap a four-game skid with a 9-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night. Aaron Hicks and Brian Dozier also homered for the Twins. Phil Hughes gave up five runs on 10 hits and struck out five in five innings.
Final Detroit 9 Baltimore 8
Final Toronto 5 Kansas City 2
Final Boston 8 Chi White Sox 2
Final Texas 7 N-Y Yankees 6
Final Houston 3 L.A. Angels 0
Final Cleveland 3 Oakland 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final San Diego 8 N-Y Mets 7
Final Washington 1 Miami 0
Final Philadelphia 4 Atlanta 1
Final Cincinnati 15 Pittsburgh 5
Final St. Louis 9 Colorado 8
Final Chi Cubs 5 Milwaukee 2
WNBA BASKETBALL
Final Phoenix 78 Tulsa 66
MLB TRADES…
UNDATED (AP) – David Price was traded yesterday, and fellow lefty Cole Hamels is about to change addresses. The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired All-Star lefty Price from Detroit for pitchers Daniel Norris, Matt Boyd and Jairo Labourt. Two people familiar with the deal say the Phillies have agreed to trade Hamels and reliever Jake Diekman to the Rangers for pitcher Matt Harrison and a package of prospects.
The Dodgers have grabbed pitching staff in a three-team, 13-player deal with the Marlins and Braves. The Dodgers picked up Mat Latos from Miami and Alex Wood, Jim Johnson and Luis Avilan (ah-VEE’-lahn) from Atlanta. Los Angeles also acquired first baseman Michael Morse from Miami and injured pitcher Bronson Arroyo from the Braves. The Marlins received Jeff Brigham, Victor Araujo and Kevin Guzman, while Atlanta landed Cuban infielder Hector Olivera and pitchers Paco Rodriguez and Zack Bird.
– The Astros have retooled as they try to win the AL West, acquiring outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitcher Mike Fiers (FY’-urz) from Milwaukee for prospects Josh Hader, Adrian Houser, Brett Phillips and Domingo Santana. The 29-year-old Gomez is hitting .262 with eight homers and 43 RBIs in 74 games for the Brewers this season. He is making $8 million this season and $9 million in 2016, the final year of his contract.
– The Cardinals have found a replacement for injured outfielder Matt Holliday by acquiring Brandon Moss from the Indians for minor league pitcher Rob Kaminsky. Moss is hitting .217 with 15 homers, 17 doubles and 50 RBIs since being acquired by Cleveland in December 2014. Holliday is out again with the same right quadriceps injury that sidelined him for 31 games earlier this summer.
– The Yankees have acquired utility player Dustin Ackley from Seattle for minor leaguer right-hander Jose Ramirez and outfield prospect Ramon Flores. Ackley is hitting .215 with six home runs and 19 RBIs in 85 games for the Mariners this season.
– The Pirates have grabbed right-handed reliever Joakim Soria from the Tigers for minor leaguer JaCoby Jones. The 31-year-old Soria was 3-1 with 23 saves and a 2.85 ERA in 43 appearances with Detroit this season.
– A deal between the Phillies and Rangers involving Cole Hamels appears imminent. Two people familiar with the deal say the Phillies have agreed to trade the ace left-hander and reliever Jake Diekman to the Rangers for pitcher Matt Harrison and a package of prospects. Hamels tossed a no-hitter against the Cubs last Saturday at Wrigley Field, his last start for the Phils.
Deflategate….
NEW YORK (AP) – Tom Brady’s lawsuit against the NFL in which he wants his four-game suspension overturned will be heard in New York instead of Minnesota. Brady and the players’ union filed their suit Wednesday in Minnesota. But the NFL already had filed papers Tuesday in New York. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kyle ordered the transfer.
Olympics…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games.
Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International Olympic Committee on Friday. The voting numbers were not immediately released.
The Chinese capital, which hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, came in as the favorite. Despite a lack of natural snow and winter conditions, Beijing was seen by the IOC as a reliable and safe choice.
Almaty had hoped to bring the games to Central Asia for the first time and raise Kazakhstan’s profile on the international stage.
GOLF…
GAINESVILLE, Va. (AP) – Retief Goosen (GOO’-sehn) and Ryo Ishikawa (ee-shee-KAH’-wah) are clubhouse co-leaders as the first round of the PGA’s Quicken Loans National near Washington. Goosen and Ishikawa opened with 8-under 63s for a one-stroke edge over Justin Leonard, Kevin Chappell and Ernie Els. Tournament host Tiger Woods birdied the first four holes on the back nine for a 3-under 68.
WOMEN’S BRITISH OPEN
TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) – South Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim fired an opening round 7-under 65 to take the first-round lead at the Women’s British Open at Turnberrry.
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko and American Cristie Kerr are tied for second at minus-6.
This is the fourth of the LPGA Tour’s five major championships. Brittany Lincicome (LIHN’-sih-kohm) won the ANA Inspiration in April, Inbee Park took the Women’s PGA Championship in June and Gee Chun won the U.S. Women’s Open this month.
In world and national news….
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – Zimbabwe wants the American dentist who allegedly shot a beloved lion extradited “so that he be made accountable.” Walter James Palmer is believed to have shot the lion, named Cecil, with a bow on July 1 outside Hwange National Park, after it was lured onto private land with a carcass of an animal laid out on a car. Some 40 hours later, the wounded cat was tracked down and Palmer allegedly killed it with a gun.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Beijing has become the first city awarded both the winter and summer Olympic games. The International Olympic Committee voted 44-40 to award the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing over Almaty (ahl-MAH’-tee), Kazakhstan. Beijing was seen by the IOC as a safe, reliable choice that also offers vast commercial opportunities. It boasts a new winter sports market of more than 300 million people in northern China.
TOKYO (AP) – The WikiLeaks website has published documents that it says show the U.S. government spied on Japanese officials and companies. The documents include what appear to be five U.S. National Security Agency reports that date from 2007 to 2009 and provide intelligence on Japanese positions on international trade and climate change. Four of those five are marked top secret.
LONDON (AP) – The World Health Organization’s chief Dr. Margaret Chan says the agency is developing new protocols for how the agency functions during health emergencies. The changes follow criticism for how WHO handled the Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) – Police say they’ve arrested one of two men who made off with a bag containing $150,000 in cash after two employees filling ATMs mistakenly left it on a northern New Jersey lawn. The ATM employees put the bag on the lawn to rearrange items inside the vehicle, then drove off without it. Sometime after 11:15 a.m. Monday, surveillance video showed a passenger in a white van grabbing the bag. Alton Harvey has been arrested; his companion, Jamar Bludson remains at large.
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