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.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS
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5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
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.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.

 

BY EARLY NEXT WEEK WARM AIR KICKS

IN AND WINDS SHIFT OUT OF THE WEST. TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY RISE

INTO THE UPPER 60S AND 70S AS A RESULT.

 

Luverne  (CSi)  A 30 year-old Minnesota man was seriously injured after the semi he was driving rolled in a ditch south of Luverne on April 27th.

The Barnes County Sheriff Randy McClaflin says the man was driving a semi-truck for Knife River Inc; hauling hot asphalt at the time of the accident. The company is working on a mill and overlay road project.

McClaflin says the semi rolled one time and then rolled back onto the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Fire and Rescue crews from Valley City and Hope had to extricate the man who was pinned in the vehicle.

Also assisting at the scene were the Hope First Responders and Ambulance, Hope Fire Department, Barnes County Rescue Squad, Valley City Rural Fire Department, Barnes County Ambulance and Sanford Life-Flight.

The crash happened  one mile south of North Dakota Highway 26 on Barnes County Highway 27. 

The accident remains under investigation by the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office.

 

(CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports a man escaped injury on Thursday man when he lost control of his semi rolled, about 5-a.m., near the Sterling Exit.

23 year old Allen Walther of Grove City, Minesota was traveling east on Interstate 94 when the vehicle entered the south ditch. Walther attempted to drive back onto the roadway. The vehicle proceeded to overturn onto the passenger side and came to rest on the eastbound lane of I-94, blocking both lanes of travel. After the crash, all eastbound traffic was diverted to the off ramp of I-94 at Sterling, then to the on ramp continuing eastbound on the interstate.

After blocking both lanes of traffic one lane was reopened, with control through the NDHP and the North Dakota Department of Transportation. The truck/trailer was blocking one lane of I-94 while the wrecker service worked to remove it from the roadway.

The Highway Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Office.

This crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

 

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Interim University of North Dakota president Ed Schafer says the school will eliminate 138 positions to help meet budget cuts ordered by the governor.
 
     Schafer disclosed the numbers at a state Board of Higher Education meeting Thursday when leaders at the state’s 11 colleges and universities mapped out plans to trim their budgets.
 
     The reductions at the 11 schools range from $21.5 million at UND to $400,000 at Dakota College at Bottineau. UND’s cuts are more drastic than other institutions, mainly because of previous budget shortfalls.
 
     Schafer says the cuts include 51 faculty positions. The Grand Forks school previously announced it was eliminating some academic and sports programs.
 
     Board member Kari Reichert says her “eyebrows raised quite a bit” when Schafer outlined the number of positions on the chopping block.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Health Department says a state resident has tested positive for the Zika virus – the first such case in the state.
 
     The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the case in a woman who traveled to Puerto Rico while pregnant. She was not identified.
 
     The Zika virus can cause microcephaly, a severe birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally small heads. It is spread by mosquitoes and sexual contact.
 
     The Health Department says no Zika-related problems have been identified in the woman’s baby. The agency plans to monitor the infant for a year.
 
     The CDC said recently that no local mosquito-borne Zika virus disease cases have been reported in the U.S., but there have been 388 travel-associated cases.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gubernatorial candidate Wayne Stenehjem is chiding his GOP foe Doug Burgum for using a North Dakota tax credit program to invest in more than a dozen out-of-state companies.
 
     Although state law does not require it, Stenehjem says Burgum has a “moral obligation” to use angel funds to invest in local companies.
 
     Burgum built a billion-dollar software company in Fargo without utilizing the program that’s designed to provide investment for fledgling companies through tax credits.
 
     Burgum also is co-founder of Arthur Ventures. Tax records show the Fargo venture capital firm used two angel funds to invest in 17 companies, 13 of which are outside North Dakota.
 
     Burgum says the program was created by North Dakota Republicans. He says he supports “making adjustments to provide more focus on in-state investments.”

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) – American Indians and others who oppose a proposed oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois are taking part in a 500-mile spiritual relay. Opponents of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline are running from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to the Army Corps of Engineers office in Omaha, Nebraska. Standing Rock Sioux officials also planned to meet with a Corps official Friday in South Dakota.

 

In sports…

Valley City (CSi- NCSU) Valley City State University women’s basketball coach Jill DeVries announced today the signing of NJCAA All-American Kennedy Henningsgard.

A native of Buxton, N.D., Henningsgard played the last two seasons at Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, N.D., where she helped the Royals to a 53-15 record and two national tournament appearances. On Wednesday, Henningsgard signed a letter of intent to continue her education and basketball career at VCSU this fall.

DeVries says, “We are very pleased that Kennedy is joining our VCSU Viking family. She is extremely athletic and her offensive versatility allows her to make an immediate impact in our program. She is an athlete who can guard hard, and is hard to guard.”

A 5-foot-9 guard, Henningsgard scored 1,058 points during her two seasons at LRSC – fourth all-time in school history – and made a record 88 3-pointers this past season. She averaged 16.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game this season and earned numerous honors, including her second All MonDak Conference first team selection, Region XIII MVP and NJCAA Division I All American.

Henningsgard started 65 of her 68 career games at Lake Region and was the team’s leading scorer both seasons, helping the Royals to two appearances at the NJCAA Division I National Tournament. She was also selected to play in the NJCAA WBCA All-Star Game last July, prior to her sophomore season.

DeVries adds, “Kennedy is a tremendous competitor and winner. The way she approaches things both academically and athletically is a great fit at VCSU.”

Henningsgard plans to study health science while at VCSU. She is the daughter of Lori and Ross Henningsgard, and a graduate of Central Valley High School Henningsgard played her high school basketball for Hillsboro-Central Valley,

scoring more than 1,500 career points. She was a two-time North Dakota Class B All State selection and played in the 2014 Lions All-Star Game.

Henningsgard joins Annie Swenson (5-6 guard, Fargo Shanley High School) as signed recruits for the 2016-17 season.

Valley City State University is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and is a conference member of the North Star Athletic Association.

The Vikings finished the 2015-16 season with a 18-10 overall record and went 10-3 in conference play, tying for second in the NSAA regular season standings. VCSU has a .675 winning percentage (106-51) during DeVries’ last five seasons as head coach and have qualified for the NAIA National Tournament three times in that stretch.

 

 

In world and national news…

 EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) – Donald Trump is saying that the Republican nomination race “is over” if he wins in Indiana next week – but is still railing against what he calls the “crooked way” the party picks its nominee. Trump, speaking in Evansville, Thursday claimed that his rival Ted Cruz was unfairly winning delegates. Trump  again trotted out former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight as he campaigns across the Hoosier State.
 
     MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian Defense Ministry denies that its warplanes bombed a hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. A ministry spokesman says Russian aircraft have flown no missions in the Aleppo region in the past several days. Monitors and activists say at least 60 people have been killed in airstrikes on Aleppo in the last 24 hours, including at least 14 who were killed when a hospital and nearby buildings were hit.
 
     NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A grand jury has indicted a business owner on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints’ defensive end Will Smith. Cardell Hayes also faces charges of attempted second-degree murder because police say he shot and wounded Smith’s wife April 9 after they got into a traffic dispute. A lawyer for Hayes has said repeatedly that his client was not the aggressor and that the truth will come out during the investigation.
 
     MIAMI (AP) – The largest police agency in Florida is outfitting 1,000 of its officers with pager-sized body cameras over the next few months. It’s the state’s biggest such deployment to date. The Miami-Dade Police Department today detailed a $5.5 million plan to begin using the cameras next week, with a goal of 1,000 in the field by the end of September. About $1 million of that comes from a $75 million federal grant program announced in 2014 by President Barack Obama.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Birth rates are falling dramatically for black and Hispanic teenagers, but they continue to be much higher than the birth rate for white teens. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the Hispanic teen birth rate fell by half over about eight years, and the black teen birth rate dropped nearly that much. But even with those declines, the white teen birth rate is still only half as high.