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.SUNDAY…SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE
MID 50S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Severe storms in North Dakota brought hail, strong winds and heavy rains, damaging homes, vehicles, trees and crops from the southwest to the northeast.
Baseball-size hail was reported there early Friday, damaging homes and vehicles.
Similar-size hail caused similar damage in Sheyenne. Strong winds downed numerous trees there.
National Weather Service reports show wind gusts of 70 mph or more in the Bismarck and Carrington areas.
Heavy tree damage in Carrington, and power outages in Carrington, McHenry and Grace City.
Water over roads and fields in the Park River and Grafton areas. Strong winds blew a semitrailer off U.S. Highway 2 near Niagara.
Emerado residents were asked to conserve water due to rainfall-burdened lift stations.
Valley City (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports a one vehicle rollover accident Friday afternoon about 1:50 injured two people.
The report says the 2005 Honda Accord operated by 27 year old Fatumata Sheriff of Bismarck was traveling eastbound on I-94 at mile marker 290 on the west edge of Valley City, in the right lane, approaching a slower moving vehicle. Before rear-ending the other vehicle the driver of the Honda swerved left to avoid a collision. After taking evasive action the driver of the Honda lost control and slid into the median.
After entering the median, the vehicle rolled, coming to rest in the median partially blocking the westbound passing lane.
Sheriff and the passenger, 23 year old Oumaru Sheriff also of Bismarck were injured and taken to Mercy Hospital in Valley City by Barnes County Ambulance, for treatment of injuries.
The crash remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol.
Assisting at the scene were, the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office, and Valley City Police.
Jamestown (CSi) The Pollert & Zenker Benefit is set for Sunday June 26, 2016 from 3-p.m., to 6-p.m., at Atonement Lutheran Church in Jamestown, at 1009 12th Avenue Northeast in Jamestown.
There will be music, food, and a live auction.
They lost their home and a large amount of the contents in a fire that occurred the evening of May 21, 2016.
Valley City (CSi) The Barnes County Relay for Life is Friday June 17, 2016, at the Barnes County Courthouse from 6-p.m., to midnight.
A special donation ceremony at 7-pm, as the late Denton Berntson’s estate is donating $500,000 to the Barnes County Relay for Life.
200 Photos from 2015 Relay by Matt Sheppard – CSi,
At 11:30 a.m., to 1-p.m., lunch will be provided by Valley Meats.
At last report, eight teams and 51 participants will be involved, raising to date, $23,552.75.
Learn more, and sign up here.
RALLY IN THE VALLEY 2016 SCHEDULE
CSi Photos from past Rally In The Valley. More Online!
Photos – Vol 1 – Rally In The Valley 2015 by Matt Sheppard
Photos – Vol 2 – Rally In The Valley 2015 by Matt Sheppard
Thursday, June 16
5:30-8:00pm Downtown Party (Central Ave)
Friday, June 17
10:00am VCSU Viking Golf Scramble, Valley City Town & Country Club and Bjornson Park Golf Course
Noon Lunch , Events 6pm-Midnight, Barnes County Relay for Life @ Barnes County Courthouse
7:30pm Outdoor Concert @ Woodland Steakhouse Bar & Grill
All Day VCHS All 80’s Reunion
Saturday, June 18
8:00 am 35th Annual Bill Jansen Road Race/Walk @ Hi-Line Park
9:00am-3:00pm NDWS Rummage Sale
9:00 am- 5:00 pm Arts & Crafts Fair (Veteran’s Park)
10:00 am Parade (Central Ave)
11:00 am Bridge City Cruisers Car Show (Central and Main)
11:00 am- 1:00 pm “How Mommy Got Her Groove Back” Book Signing with Rebecca Undem (VCBC Library)
11:00 am- 5:00pm Kid’s Zone @ VCBC Public Library: Jamestown Inflatable Games, Face Painting, Ag activities including Ag Cab Lab, Food, Library activities
1:00 pm Rubber Duck Race (City Park Footbridge)
2:00 pm Pie & Ice Cream Social (VCBC Public Library)
1:00 – 4:30 pm Free Swimming, at the Community Pool
1:00 – 5:00 pm Valley City Alumni Tennis Tournament @ North Court Complex
1:30 pm Bridge City Cruisers Car Show- Balance Beam Contest
2:30 pm Bitz Tire & Service Burn Out Contest (Rosebud Visitor Center lot)
4:00 pm Bridge City Cruisers Car Show Awards (Info. tent)
5:00 pm Miss North Dakota United States Preliminary Pageant 2017 (VCHS Theatre)
9:00 pm Street Dance “Redline” (Main Street)
All Day City Wide Rummage Sales
All Day VCHS All 80’s Reunion
Sunday, June 19
10:00 am Dakota Riders Hill Climb (turn South off Exit 290, look for signs)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A dire report on North Dakota’s budget situation has led the state Board of Higher Education to postpone action on contracts for college and university presidents.
The board had scheduled to vote Friday on new contract terms for seven presidents, and salaries for all presidents, the chancellor and vice chancellors. But board President Kathleen Neset said additional time is needed to ensure the budget “reflects the strategic direction” of the board.
Board member Kevin Melicher said the group owed it to the presidents to keep the item on the agenda, but his motion failed for lack of a second. The board plans to take up the issue at a special meeting next week.
A state budget report released Thursday shows that tax revenues came up $36 million short in May.
WASHBURN, N.D. (AP) – The state Board of Higher Education is keeping the leadership of the group intact.
The board on Friday voted to keep Kathleen Neset as chair of the group and give Don Morton a second term as vice chair.
Neset is president of Neset Consulting Service, Inc. in Tioga, in the North Dakota oil patch. Her company has been providing well site services to the oil industry since 1980.
Morton is senior director within Microsoft Corp. and part the Microsoft Business Solutions group in Fargo. He has an extensive football coaching background, having served as head coach at North Dakota State University, University of Tulsa and University of Wisconsin.
The board is made up of seven voting citizen members appointed to four-year terms by the governor and one voting student member.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Police have arrested a 24-year-old suspect in a Fargo shooting that sent a man to the hospital with an injury authorities say is not life-threatening.
Police say the victim suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder area shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday. Fargo Police arrested the suspect Friday.
Authorities say the victim was talking with a small group of people he knew in a parking lot. At some point, he and the suspect got into an argument. Police believe the suspect shot the victim with a handgun and then fled.
The victim was treated and released from an area hospital.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota government’s rainy-day fund may be drained due to lower-than-expected tax collections. The state’s Budget Stabilization Fund held more than $572 million at the first of the year. The Legislature’s record high $14.4 billion two-year budget was built last year based on faulty economic assumptions that could empty THE fund.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A late-summer trial has been scheduled for a Williston teacher and coach accused of a sex crime involving an 18-year-old girl.
Court documents show that 33-year-old Walter Eldridge is to stand trial beginning Aug. 26. He has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor sexual assault charge that carries a maximum sentence of a month in jail.
Eldridge is accused of fondling a clothed girl last December. Authorities won’t say whether she is or was a student.
Eldridge is Williston’s head girls basketball coach and an English teacher. The school district has put him on paid administrative leave.
The Williston Herald reports that the school board this week considered firing Eldridge or suspending him without pay but ultimately made no change to his status.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Manufactured Housing Association is calling for an investigation into a buyout program for flood protection in Minot. The Minot Daily News reports some former residents of a mobile home park say they’ve incurred thousands of dollars in property damages and untold headaches in the relocation of their homes. The association says state and federal governments need to halt further buyout grants to Minot and investigate existing spending.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck police say a 34-year-old Dickinson woman who was reported missing has been found in Bismarck.
Authorities said Loretta Sagataw had been missing since June 9, but was found safe Thursday.
Police had said Sagataw’s last known address in Dickinson was vacant since April.
In world and national news…
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s prime minister says government forces have gained control over most of the city of Fallujah, except for pockets of Islamic State group fighters. Speaking on Iraqi TV, the prime minister said Iraqi forces “tightened their control over the inside of the city, and there are some pockets that need to be cleaned out within hours.” Earlier, the commander of Iraqi special forces told The Associated Press that his troops control about 80 percent of the city, with IS militants concentrated in several districts on the city’s northern edge.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Ash Carter is criticizing Russia for bombing U.S.-backed rebel forces in southern Syria that he says were fighting the Islamic State group. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon today, Carter said that if the Russians intentionally attacked U.S.-supported Syrian rebels, then they were contradicting their stated aim of fighting the Islamic State. And if the attack was accidental, he says, it speaks poorly of the quality of information the Russians use to conduct their airstrikes.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Six people are still in critical condition at a hospital after they were wounded during the gay nightclub attack. Orlando Regional Medical Center says three people are in guarded condition. Twenty-three people were still in the hospital today. Since the shooting, the hospital says surgeons have performed 52 operations on the victims.
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Paul Ryan says Republican lawmakers should follow their conscience in deciding whether to support Donald Trump. In an interview for NBC’s “Meet the Press” this weekend, Ryan says he’d never tell anyone to “do something that’s contrary to their conscience.” He says he knows he’s in a “very strange situation” to be supporting the party’s presumptive nominee while not urging his fellow lawmakers to do so. But he says Trump is “a very unique nominee.”
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A man who shot at a Connecticut mosque out of anger on the night of the deadly attacks in Paris has been sentenced to six months in prison. Ted Hakey was sentenced Friday in federal court in Hartford. Nobody was hurt when he opened fire on the empty mosque. Hakey pleaded guilty to destruction of religious property, a federal hate crime. He apologized to the mosque and said he had acted in fear. Congregation members forgave him and urged the court to spare him from prison.
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