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Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The public is invited to a meeting of the Barnes County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Steering Committee, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 15 at the VCSU\u00a0 Rhoades Science Center,\u00a0 in Room 102.<\/p>\n
Agenda items include an update on the survey for the plan, a presentation from the Barnes County Highway Department on progress of highway mitigation projects, and a risk assessment workshop analyzing the impact, frequency, likelihood, and vulnerability of natural hazards and man-made threats in Barnes County and incorporated cities. The meeting is open to the public. Masks are required and social distancing will be observed.<\/p>\n
For more information, call the\u00a0 Barnes County Emergency Manager Sue Lloyd at 701-845-8510 or Daniel Schwartz at Nexus Planning & Consulting, LLC at 701-989-7970.<\/p>\n
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Bismarck\u00a0 (NDHP)\u00a0 Friday, April 16th, 2021 a sobriety checkpoint will be held in Stutsman
\nCounty near Jamestown.<\/p>\n
The checkpoint will be held between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. After the conclusion of the checkpoint troopers will focus enforcement patrols within Stutsman County, in an effort to remove impaired motorists from the roadway.<\/p>\n
So far in 2021 nine of the twenty-two traffic fatalities occurred during alcohol related crashes.<\/p>\n
Alcohol and drug-related crashes are preventable; every driver needs to consistently make the choice to always drive sober or to designate a sober driver.<\/p>\n
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Owners of the Dakota Access pipeline have asked the full Washington D.C. circuit court to review a panel\u2019s decision that essentially said the North Dakota project is operating without a key permit. The appeal filed Monday calls for a rehearing on a ruling by the three-judge panel affirming U.S. District Judge James Boasberg\u2019s opinion that the pipeline is operating without a federal permit granting easement to cross beneath a reservoir along the Missouri River. Opponents want the pipeline shut down while the U.S. Corps of Engineers conducts an extensive environmental review, a decision that will likely fall to Boasberg.The chances of a full review by the D.C. Court are unlikely and lawyers for the pipeline opponents aren\u2019t required to file a response unless requested by the court.<\/p>\n
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Fairmount Republican Larry Luick has been chosen as the North Dakota Senate\u2019s new president pro tempore (pro TEM\u2019-por-ay). The job involves presiding over Senate sessions when the lieutenant governor is absent. Luick replaces Minot Sen. Randy Burckhard. Luick will have the job until the next regular session of the Legislature begins in January 2023. The GOP has the majority in the North Dakota Senate, and Luick defeated Fargo Democrat Tim Mathern Wednesday to win the job. The 62-year-old farmer and excavation contractor was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and represents District 25, in the state\u2019s southeastern corner.<\/p>\n
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) \u2014 A Minnesota prosecutor says he will charge a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright with second-degree manslaughter. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said Wednesday that Kim Potter will be charged Wednesday. The announcement comes a day after Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department, where she had served for 26 years. It carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. The shooting ignited days of unrest. The former Brooklyn Center police chief has said that Potter had intended to use her Taser on Wright but fired her handgun instead.<\/p>\n
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 A retired forensic pathologist says George Floyd died from a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police officers, not because former Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck. Dr. David Fowler is former chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland. He testified Wednesday that the fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd\u2019s system, and potential carbon monoxide poisoning from exposure to vehicle exhaust, also were contributing factors. Earlier, the judge in Chauvin’s murder trial denied a defense motion to acquit the former police officer.<\/p>\n
In sports…<\/p>\n
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Nathan Eovaldi (ee-VAHL\u2019-dee) pitched five effective innings and the Boston Red Sox extended their winning streak to eight games, beating the Minnesota Twins 3-2 to open a doubleheader. Christian Arroyo, Alex Verdugo and Xander Bogaerts (ZAN\u2019-dur BOH\u2019-gahrtz) each had two hits for Boston, which is on its longest winning streak since 2018. Eovaldi gave up two runs on five hits. He has allowed four runs over 17 1\/3 innings in three starts this season. Matt Barnes finished with his second save after allowing a leadoff walk. Twins starter Kenta Maeda was undone by Minnesota\u2019s defense in the second inning, including his own throwing error.<\/p>\n
In world and national news…<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden says he will withdraw the remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end America’s longest war. He declared on Wednesday that the Sept. 11 attacks, which were coordinated from Afghanistan, cannot justify American forces still being there 20 years after the deadliest terror assault on the United States. Biden called the U.S. military presence the nation’s \u201cforever war.\u201d He said at the White House that he is the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan and he “will not pass this responsibility to a fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n
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(AP) A Federal Reserve survey has found that the economy was rebounding in late February through early April, helped by billions of dollars in a new round of stimulus payments and the stepped-up rollout of coronavirus vaccines. The new survey released Wednesday showed that the Fed\u2019s business contacts around the country were expressing more optimism about the economy’s outlook as activity accelerated. The survey credited a range of factors, from vaccinations to the payments of up to $1,400 for individuals from the $1.9 trillion relief package that President Joe Biden pushed through Congress last month.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors won\u2019t charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Authorities had considered for months whether criminal charges were appropriate for the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego. The Justice Department\u2019s decision officially closes out the investigation. Prosecutors said they had reviewed video of the incident, along with statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses, examined physical evidence from the scene and reviewed the autopsy results<\/p>\n
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Columbus police used pepper spray on protesters who briefly breached outer doors at the agency’s downtown headquarters in Ohio’s capital city. More than 100 people had gathered Tuesday night to protest the fatal police shooting of a Black man in a hospital emergency room on Monday. Columbus police have identified the man as 27-year-old Miles Jackson. Police have said they were taking Jackson into custody on outstanding warrants when officers opened fired at the emergency room at Mount Carmel St. Ann\u2019s Hospital in suburban Columbus. They did not release additional information about what led to the shooting. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther says officials share protesters’ frustrations but will not tolerate violence and destruction.<\/p>\n
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) \u2014 The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Maryland State Police trooper says her son was \u201can awesome young man.\u201d Kristee Boyle on Wednesday provided The Associated Press with a family statement that says her son, Peyton Ham, was an honor student who loved spirited political debates at the family dinner table. The State Police superintendent said a trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls fatally shot Ham outside a home in Leonardtown. Investigators determined that Ham had an airsoft gun and a knife in his possession and pointed the replica toy gun at the trooper before he was shot.<\/p>\n
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota health officials say the number of confirmed variant cases of the coronavirus has doubled this month and are warning about the possibility of another wave of infections. The state lab has identified 79 total cases of four variants, said Kirby Kruger, director of the Health Department\u2019s Disease Control Division. The includes 50 of the one first identified in the United Kingdom, 28 of the two California variants and one of the South African variant. Total active cases of COVID-19 have nearly doubled in North Dakota and Kruger cites variants as a key factor<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/VCSU-WE-OSMON-300x165.jpg\")
Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 A free COVID-19 testing event for the VCSU and Valley City communities will be held this week from 1-2 p.m. at the W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse, \u201cThe Bubble\u201d. Rapid and conventional testing will be offered at again on April 16.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mihulksa-Jremiah-Jack.jpg\")
Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning the public of a high risk sex offender changing address within Stutsman County.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CityMattersKnoblich445-300x199.png\")
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Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi) The Jamestown High School drama department won the ND state class A one-act play competition in Devils Lake on Monday.\u00a0 First time Jamestown has ever won and it is a state high school sanctioned activity.\u00a0 They also had two of their company voted best actor and actress.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SheyenneValleyCommunityFoundation-1-300x202.jpg\")
Valley City\u00a0 (CSi) The Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation invites Valley City residents to join in a Pilot Project conversation, a precursor<\/strong> to an upcoming community event this summer, The Longest Table.<\/em><\/p>\n