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VALLEY CITY AREA..

…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING…

Forecast…

REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY.  CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN

THE AFTERNOON. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN THE AFTERNOON.

HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH. CHANCE OF

PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT,  50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHEAST

WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN THE EVENING.

LOWS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH SHIFTING TO

THE WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHWEST

WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST WINDS

5 TO 10 MPH.

.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS

10 TO 15 MPH.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.

.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER

70S. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.

.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS AROUND 80. LOWS IN

THE UPPER 50S.

.MONDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.

.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS

AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.

.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.

 

ANOTHER ROUND OF POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.

 

SPOTTY THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE DURING THE DAY HOWEVER THE BEST

 

POTENTIAL FOR STRONGER STORMS WILL BE AFTER 3 PM AND CONTINUING

 

INTO THE NIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS…LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES

 

WILL ALL BE THREATS. IN ADDITION THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR

 

HEAVY…POSSIBLY FLOODING RAINS.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Jamestown Police is investigating a two vehicle accident that occurred about 4:45-p.m., Tuesday at the intersection of f 6th Street SE and 4th Ave SE. Both cars were extensively damaged.

One person was treated on the scene by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service.

More information when the accident report is completed, and posted on line at CSiNewsNow.com, where photos are posted at the accident scene.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Senator John Hoeven Tuesday spoke with Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary designee Mary Wakefield to help ensure that Jamestown Regional Medical Center (JRMC) retains its Critical Access Hospital designation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Following Hoeven’s callTuesday morning with Wakefield, the number two in charge at HHS, CMS agreed to continue JRMC’s designation.

Recently, the North Dakota Department of Health received notice from CMS’s Denver Regional office that Jamestown Regional Medical Center’s Critical Access status may be revoked due to its close proximity to the State Hospital in Jamestown, which is not a general acute care hospital. Critical Access Hospitals must be located more than 35 miles from another hospital and provide 24/7 emergency care services, as does JRMC.

The State Hospital, however, treats patients with serious mental health illnesses or substance abuse and does not, like JRMC, provide a full range of health care services, notably emergency department services, which CMS requires for Critical Access Hospitals.

Hoeven says, “The State Hospital in Jamestown is clearly not a general service hospital, and doesn’t provide the same range of health care services as JRMC. I spoke with Secretary Wakefield to help us make sure that JRMC can keep its Critical Access designation and we appreciate her help in getting CMS to agree to maintain the designation. Jamestown Regional Medical Center provides important care to this community, and this designation makes a big difference to the center’s financial reimbursement and strength.”

Congressman Kevin Cramer adds, “Critical Access Hospital” is a designation given to certain rural hospitals by CMS to reduce the financial vulnerability of rural hospitals and improve access to healthcare by keeping essential services in rural communities.

Senator Heidi Heitkamp says, “The care provided at Jamestown Regional Medical Center is absolutely essential for folks in and around Jamestown, which is why I pushed for the center to have continued status as a Critical Access hospital.

 

Jamestown (CSi)   U.S. Senator Heitkamp Tuesday gathered leaders in both Fargo and in at the University of Jamestown to continue her listening series on the challenges faced by communities across the state in taking on the opioid abuse epidemic that has rapidly spread across the state. Tuesday’s discussions follow yesterday’s listening session in Grand Forks which built on her legislative and on-the-ground work to make sure North Dakota families across the state receive the federal support they need to recover from and prevent opioid addiction.

Together with Cass and Stutsman County area public health professionals, law enforcement officials, treatment specialists, and educators in Fargo and Jamestown, Heitkamp discussed which policies and practices have been most effective in beating addiction and overcoming abuse for individual and families in those communities, as well as ways to expand those efforts across the state. Leaders also spoke with Heitkamp about the need for better federal support to help each community address a severe lack of resources for law enforcement and treatment professionals and programs. Heitkamp underscored how her bill, which she unveiled during a discussion with Bismarck leaders in May, would make sure the federal government is treating opioid abuse as the national public health and law enforcement crisis that it is by making available the appropriate education, prevention, and treatment resources communities need to recover and fight back.

Across North Dakota, opioid-induced fatalities increased by 125 percent from 2013 to 2014 alone according to the Centers for Disease Control.

She adds, “North Dakotans I spoke with who on the front lines of this crisis in Fargo and Jamestown know we need the new, robust resources my bill would help provide, and I’ll keep working to bring all sides together to deliver the support our communities desperately need.”

Across the country, 47,000 Americans lost their lives to the opioid and heroin abuse crisis in 2014.

More information in this story on line at CSiNewsNow.com

 

 

Valley City  (CSi-Wes Anderson BC Museum) Thanks to the efforts of Jay Cink, owner of the Duck Inn Lounge in Marion, the Ashley Lions Club has donated $1000 to the Barnes County Historical Society for the purpose of raising the level of the 2nd floor balcony railing from 36 inches to 42 inches to be in compliance with modern building code and safety requirements by their insurance company.

The Fair Store building was built in 1957 and codes were different at that time.  The funding from the Ashley Lions Club will be used to purchase necessary materials and the labor to install this additional height will be donated by Howard Langemo, Don Schaack, Jerry Langemo and Mylo Falstad.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Arts Center reports that  the creator of the Hansen Art Park’s signature sculpture arrives this week. Owen William Fritts, a sculptor from Flagstaff, Arizona will spend the upcoming weeks on-site building the Prairie Grass Ballet.

The sculpture is a direct reference to the grasslands and prairies surrounding Jamestown. Large, aluminum blades of grass have been created in the artist’s studio. These will be embedded in granite. These bases will serve as both anchor for the grasses and public seating. The artist will  inscribe the boulders with words drawn from North Dakota writers and poets.

Periodically, there will be opportunities to interact with Fritts, to hear what he is doing and also to watch the progress. Please watch for a schedule in the news. Jamestown Tourism, in coordination with The Arts Center, has installed a time lapse camera to record progress on the sculpture. These images will be shared on our website.

Fritts will be looking for assistance in a variety of tasks associated with the sculpture’s installation. If you are interested in helping, please contact The Arts Center at 701-251-2496. Working on such a project is sure to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all who are involved–be part of making something that will change the character of downtown Jamestown and have a presence in the community for many years.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Grand Forks police are investigating a home invasion that sent a female to the hospital.

Authorities say two males entered the residence shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday, assaulted the female then fled. Officers searched the area but didn’t find any suspects.

The female was taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries that police say are not life-threatening.

Police early Wednesday were still determining whether there was a threat to the public, and they urged residents to be alert for any suspicious behavior.

 

WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) — Authorities have charged the owner of a Watford City restaurant and an employee with torching the business to collect insurance money.

Thirty-seven-year-old owner Anna Marquardt and 28-year-old employee Lisa Stoll both face felony arson and insurance fraud counts in the June 29 blaze at TJ’s Pizza & Suds. They could enter pleas at a Sept. 15 hearing.

Investigators say they retrieved surveillance video from a computer that survived the fire that allegedly shows Marquardt and Stoll using candles to start the fire. Marquardt later filed an insurance claim.

Marquardt faces up to 60 years if convicted and Stoll up to 40 years. No one answered the phone Wednesday at a telephone listing for Marquardt. A telephone listing for Stoll was disconnected. Court documents don’t list attorneys for either woman.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A 49-year-old man shot by Bismarck police Monday night also was shot by police in 2011.

Authorities say both incidents were similar, with Glenn Lovgren confronting officers after calling 911 and reporting that he held hostages.

Lovgren spent more than two weeks in the hospital after the January 2011 incident and eventually was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Police said he was in surgery Tuesday morning, after being shot multiple times late Monday at a softball field.

Authorities allege Lovgren appeared to point a gun at one officer and did not follow commands. Three other officers on scene fired at him. The Bismarck Tribune reports Lovgren didn’t actually have a gun.

The three officers have been placed on administrative leave while the state crime bureau investigates, per normal procedure.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Ward County prosecutor is upset that a child pornography suspect is being allowed to email his mother from jail.

A condition of Isaac Twitchell’s bond forbids him from using electronic devices or accessing the Internet. Prosecutor Marie Miller says it’s “awful silly” that if Twitchell had posted bond he would have been prohibited from using a computer, but since he remains jailed he has access.

Judge Todd Cresap says he doesn’t have the authority to “micromanage” the jail. He also says he doubts Twitchell is being given unauthorized access to the internet at the Heart of America Correctional Center in Rugby. The jail administrator confirmed that to the Minot Daily News

Twitchell pleaded guilty in March and faces up to 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced Friday.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Transportation Department was threatened with a civil rights complaint before it dropped its nearly century-old image of a Sioux warrior from thousands of highway signs.

Transportation Director Grant Levi says the threat played no part switching the silhouette of Marcellus Red Tomahawk in favor of an outline of North Dakota.

Levi says the new signs are being placed in part to celebrate the agency’s 100th birthday.

Red Tomahawk was the first chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. He also was a government policeman involved in the killing of Sitting Bull.

Documents show the agency took complaints from Deborah Gaudet of New Mexico in 2015. Gaudet has called Red Tomahawk “merely an agent of a genocidal federal policy” for his role in the killing of Sitting Bull.

 

STANLEY, N.D. (AP) — An Idaho man accused of stabbing another man near Stanley last summer has reached a plea deal that allows him to avoid prison time.

Thirty-two-year-old Travis Barnes, of Post Falls, Idaho, was originally charged with attempted murder.  Barnes will plead guilty to felony aggravated assault.

Authorities say Barnes stabbed John Daly, of Wasilla, Alaska, three times during a June 2015 altercation at the White Earth Rodeo Grounds.

The plea agreement calls for Barnes to serve three years of probation and pay nearly $7,000 to Daly for his medical bills.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge has thrown out charges against the North Dakota Department of Human Services leader accused of impeding an investigation into the death of a 5-year-old child.

Maggie Anderson, the agency’s executive director, was charged with conspiracy to obstruct a government function and refusing to perform a public duty. Four other agency employees were charged in the case.

Northeast District Judge Donovan Foughty also dismissed similar charges against agency attorney Jonathan Alm on Tuesday, as the judge did with another agency attorney, Julie Leer, last week. Foughty has not ruled on a motion to drop charges against Laurie Gotvaslee, director of the agency’s regional center in Minot.

A fifth Human Services employee charged in the case will have her record cleared in three months if she stays out of trouble.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Health Department says a corroded steel pipeline is the likely cause of a big saltwater spill in Bowman County.

State environmental scientist Bill Suess (sees) says the 168,000-gallon spill occurred Tuesday morning about 9 miles southwest of Rhame at a well site owned by Texas-based Denbury Onshore LLC.

The company did not return telephone messages seeking comment on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Suess says the briny water leaked from the defective pipeline and entered a dry creek bed. He says no water sources were threatened and the wastewater contained no chemicals used in drilling operations.

Suess says crews were using huge vacuums to recover the saltwater. He says most of the saltwater had been recovered by Wednesday morning.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s State Health Council has ratified rules the panel approved a year ago to allow elevated levels of oilfield radioactive waste to be dumped at some landfills.

The 11-member panel voted to reapprove the rules Tuesday.

Environmental groups had alleged the August 2015 meeting was held illegally. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem had issued an opinion in March saying the council violated state law by not providing adequate notice of the meeting.

The North Dakota Energy Industry Waste Coalition and the Dakota Resource Council also are suing in state court over the new rules. They want a judge to void the rules allowing certain landfills to accept waste with higher levels of radioactivity.

 

In sports…

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Former North Dakota State University standout golfer and current LPGA tour member Amy Anderson will be a volunteer assistant coach for the Bison women’s golf team this fall.

Head coach Matt Johnson announced the move Tuesday.

Anderson is in her third year on the LPGA tour. She’ll help the NDSU team during her tour offseason this fall.

The Oxbow native was a two-time All-American and a four-time NCAA tournament qualifier for the Bison from 2010-2013. She won 20 tournaments during her college career, breaking Juli Inkster’s unofficial collegiate record of 17 victories.

 

WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Officials in West Fargo have started construction on an $18 million hockey facility.

A ground-breaking ceremony was held Monday for the facility that will double the amount of ice available in the city. It’s being paid for through a $98.1 million bond measure that voters approved last November.

The ice also will be removable so the space can be used by baseball, soccer and softball teams.

Construction is expected to wrap up in about a year.

 

AA…

Wichita 10, Fargo-Moorhead 1

 

MLB…

INTERLEAGUE

WASHINGTON (AP) — Francisco Lindor singled to break up Max Scherzer’s no-hit bid and scored in the seventh inning, and Trevor Bauer pitched the Cleveland Indians to a 3-1 win over the Washington Nationals last night. Jose Ramirez went 2 for 4 with an RBI double in the seventh and an RBI single in the ninth.

Final Texas 7 Colorado 5

Final Chi Cubs 5 L.A. Angels 1

 

AMERICAN LEAGUE

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Altuve had four hits following a brief absence from the lineup, Carlos Correa homered and drove in four runs, and the Houston Astros beat the Minnesota Twins 7-5 on Tuesday night.

Altuve was given the night off during Monday’s series opener, ending the longest active streak in the majors at 202 consecutive games played. He didn’t miss a beat one day later, going 4 for 4 with a run and an RBI. His third hit helped spark a three-run sixth inning for the Astros, and his fourth drove in Tony Kemp for a 6-4 lead in the seventh.

The All-Star second baseman has reached base safely in 39 straight road games, the longest current run in the majors.

Correa hit a two-run shot and tied his career high for RBIs. Houston had gone seven games without a home run.

 

Final Tampa Bay 9 Toronto 2

Final Boston 5 N-Y Yankees 3

Final Houston 7 Minnesota 5

Final Chi White Sox 7 Kansas City 5, 10 Innings

Final Oakland 2 Baltimore 1

Final Seattle 6 Detroit 5, 15 Innings

 

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Final Pittsburgh 6 San Diego 4

Final Arizona 5 N-Y Mets 3

Final Miami 2 San Francisco 0

Final Atlanta 2 Milwaukee 1

Final Cincinnati 7 St. Louis 4

Final L.A. Dodgers 9 Philadelphia 3

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves will play three exhibition games at neutral sites this fall, before returning home to wrap up the preseason.

The Timberwolves announced Tuesday their condensed slate of seven exhibition games in a 14-day span in October. They’ll play Miami in Kansas City, Missouri on Oct. 8; they’ll host Denver in Lincoln, Nebraska on Oct. 12; and they’ll take on the Heat again on Oct. 15 in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Wolves will have home preseason games against Memphis and Charlotte on Oct. 19 and Oct. 21.

The NBA’s regular season schedule has not yet been revealed.

 

Olympics…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps has made up for one of the few losses in his Olympic career. Phelps avenged his defeat at the 2012 London Games by winning the 200-meter butterfly on Tuesday night, holding off Japan’s Masato Sakai by a mere four-hundredths of a second. Phelps won his 21st career gold medal as part of the winning four-by-200 relay team.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) —Katie Ledecky of the United States has captured her second gold medal of the Rio Olympics, winning the 200-meter freestyle. Ledecky earlier had won the 400-meter freestyle event.

Ledecky has a large fan base in Williston, where her grandparents — Dr. Edward J. (Bud) Hagan and Kathleen Hagan — raised their family. They had a viewing party at the Williston Area Recreation Center, which opened two years ago. Ledecky swam the first lap in the pool.
Ledecky also has a fan base in Grand Forks, where several of her relatives attended college.

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — With time running out, Catalina Usme beat Hope Solo with a free kick from a tight angle to give Colombia a 2-2 draw against the United States at the Olympics. Teenager Mallory Pugh became the youngest player to score for the United States in an Olympics with her goal in the 59th minute.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — There was a shocker on the tennis courts at the Summer Games where defending champion Serena Williams lost to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-4, 6-3 in the third round. That ends the No. 1-seeded American’s bid to become the first tennis player to collect a pair of singles golds.

 

In world and national news…

LUTHER, Okla. (AP) — Another earthquake has rattled central Oklahoma, but there have been no reports of damage or injuries.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.0. It struck shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday and had in epicenter in Luther, about 23 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.

The USGS says the earthquake was widely felt in central Oklahoma and as far north as Wichita, Kansas.

The number of magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes has skyrocketed in Oklahoma, from a few dozen in 2012 to more than 900 last year. Scientists have linked the increase to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production and state regulators have asked producers to reduce wastewater disposal volumes.

 

BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump is blaming media bias for the uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment. At a Trump appearance, he told the crowd that there was nothing they could do if Hillary Clinton became president and stacked the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices. Then Trump said, “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is — I don’t know.” Trump later told Fox News that he was referring to the power that voters hold and that he was not encouraging violence.

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) — Prospects look good for firefighters battling a wildfire in Southern California’s rugged San Bernardino Mountains, with temperatures dipping into the low 60s. The blaze has grown to more than 12 square miles and is only 6 percent contained, but the fire hasn’t reached any homes. California’s biggest wildfire, north of Big Sur, has expanded to more than 104 square miles.

PHOENIX (AP) — More heavy rain is expected for today and tomorrow for the Southwest. Storms associated with what was Tropical Storm Javier in Mexico flooded streets and prompted water rescues yesterday in Tucson, Arizona.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Government officials in Iraq now say that 12 newborns were killed when fire caused by faulty electrical wiring ripped through a maternity ward at a Baghdad hospital. One father says he lost boy and girl twins in the blaze. He says when he couldn’t find his children at a hospital where patients were transferred, he was told to look for them at the morgue.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh say they’ve arrested six suspected members of a banned Islamist group blamed for recent deadly attacks, including one last month that killed 20 people. A spokesman says the arrests were made during overnight raids in Dhaka. The group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh is blamed for the deadly July 1 attack on a restaurant and on a prayer gathering six days later.