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Jamestown, (CSi) On Thursday February 18, 2021; there will be a road closure on 1st St SE, between 1st & 2nd Ave SE. This closure will take place from 7:00 AM until 10:00 AM for utility work.<\/p>\n
Motorists should use extreme caution in this area and take alternate routes during this time, if possible.<\/p>\n
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Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Stutsman County Commission has voted to approve two new hires fro current positions, Emergency Manager, and 9-11 coordinator.<\/p>\n
Andrew Kirking was hired as Emergency manager and Riley Schafer, Assistant Emergency manager.<\/p>\n
Kirking is anticipated to start in the position, March 22.<\/p>\n
He has spent eight years as the Pembina County Emergency Manager<\/p>\n
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Riley Schafer is currently a Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy.\u00a0 His start date has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n
Present Emergency Manager, and 9-11 Coordinator, Jerry Bergquist is retiring, having spent over 30 years as Emergency Manager, and he\u2019s planning to try to stay in his positions until the end of April, 2021 and assist\u00a0 with training and a transition for Kirking and Schafer.<\/p>\n
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota House has killed a bill that would have allowed someone performing an abortion to be charged with murder. The Republican-led chamber voted 22-77 to approve the legislation that would have carried a life sentence. The bill also sought to make it a felony punishable by up to five years in prison to help women get abortions, including by giving them rides to abortion clinics. Representatives voted on that portion of the bill separately and defeated it 6-86. The bill never had the support of Republican leaders and abortion-rights groups promised a legal challenge if it passed.<\/p>\n
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A House committee has endorsed a resolution that would allow North Dakotans to decide if sports gambling should be allowed in the state. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee gave the bipartisan resolution a \u201cdo-pass\u201d recommendation. It now goes to the full House for consideration. If approved by both chambers, the measure could appear on the November 2022 ballot. The committee will forward a bill that sets rules for gambling operations to the full House without an endorsement. The bill was amended to exclude gambling on college sports.<\/p>\n
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Utilities from North Dakota to Texas have implemented rolling blackouts to ease the burden on power grids that are straining to meet the extreme demand for heat and electricity as record low temperatures persist. Capital Electric Cooperative, based in Bismarck, says at least 7,000 customers were without power at one point Tuesday. Officials say Capital Electric doesn\u2019t have control over who loses power and when. That\u2019s managed through one of its power suppliers, the Western Area Power Administration, which said the rolling outages could last through Thursday.<\/p>\n
In world and national news…<\/p>\n
ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Just as vaccine efforts ramp up and gain speed, the icy blast across much of the United States injected more confusion and frustration into the nation\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination drive on Wednesday. Deliveries have been halted in many places and countless appointments canceled. In Washington, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 coordinator, Jeff Zients, said weather was impacting distribution and deliveries. He added that in places where .vaccination sites are closed, like Texas, the government is encouraging sites to increase their hours once they are able to open. The U.S. is vaccinating on average 1.7 million Americans per day, up from under 1 million a month ago.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Federal agents have seized roughly 10 million fake N95 masks in recent weeks. It’s the result of an ongoing investigation into counterfeits sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities and government agencies. Officials say the most recent seizures occurred Wednesday when Homeland Security agents intercepted hundreds of thousands of counterfeit 3M masks in an East Coast warehouse that were set to be distributed. Investigators also notified about 6,000 potential victims in at least 12 states including hospitals, medical facilities and others who may have unknowingly purchased knockoffs, urging them to stop using the medical-grade masks.<\/p>\n
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ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Local government leaders are trying again to secure billions of dollars in federal aid as they cobble together city budgets amid the economic uncertainty of the pandemic. But their quest for about $140 billion is subject to intense partisan wrangling over President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion proposed response to COVID-19. The debate is making for some seemingly strange political bedfellows, as Republicans oppose a package that many of their key constituents support. Mayors are trying to stay above the partisan fight but insist they need the help to avoid the worst-case scenario of laying off police officers and other first responders.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. is scrambling to expand DNA mapping of coronavirus samples taken from patients to identify potentially deadlier mutations that are starting to spread around the country. On Wednesday, the White House announced a scaled up push by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and by a U.S. Army biodefense institute. CDC wants to triple the number of tests it’s now doing, bringing them to about 25,000 a week. But the more significant action is on Capitol Hill. The House COVID-19 relief bill would provide $1.75 billion for mapping virus genes, while a Wisconsin Democratic senator has introduced legislation to spend $2 billion.<\/p>\n
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(AP)\u00a0 Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who became the voice of American conservatism, has died. His death Wednesday at the age of 70 came a year after announcing he had Stage Four lung cancer. With his three-hour weekday radio show broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the U.S., and a massive audience of millions hanging on his every word, Limbaugh\u2019s rants shaped the national political conversation, swaying the opinions of average Republicans and the direction of the party. Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.<\/p>\n
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Bismarck\u00a0 (NDDOH) \u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) Wednes day announced the new variant strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus first detected in the United Kingdom was identified by genomic sequencing in positive specimens from two individuals in North Dakota. Both cases were identified by the NDDoH Public Health Laboratory.<\/p>\n