CSi Weather…

.REST OF TODAY…Decreasing clouds. Highs in the upper 20s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow after midnight in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley City area. Lows 15 to 20. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the

morning in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 10 above. West winds

5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to

10 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow

after midnight. Lows 10 to 15.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the

afternoon in the Jamestown area. Highs in the upper 20s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.

Lows 15 to 20.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the

afternoon. Highs around 30.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 15.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s

 

The National Weather Service Tuesday morning reported 10 inches of snow in Jamestown with .08 of an inch of precipitation from the Sunday Monday rain/snow storm.

 

Light snow mainly along the north and into the James River Valley

Tuesday night through Wednesday morning. Accumulations of up to a half

inch possible

Morning low temperatures on Thursday are expected to remain in the single digits, possibly flirting on either side of the 0 F mark.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Public Works informs residents that due to the large amount and high moisture content of the heavy snowfall, the City Administrator has asked for the removal of the snow gates on the City’s four motor graders.  The full snow removal program will begin at 5:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2018. 

Snow removal in the RESIDENTIAL areas will begin at approximately 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2018.

City crews will begin snow removal in the DOWNTOWN area beginning approximately at 11:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, 20187, and continue during the night.

Downtown merchants and all public/private schools are asked to have their sidewalks shoveled by 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2018.

PLEASE NOTE:

The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Due to the snow storm in progress the Jamestown City Council Meeting was postponed until March 7th, at 5-p.m. at City Hall.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce announces the annual Chili Cook-off  was postponed due to weather, on Monday.

The Community Olympics cancelled and will not be rescheduled.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Department of Human Services’ state offices in Bismarck are open for normal business hours today, March 6. The department’s regional human service centers and child support offices in Devils Lake and Jamestown will open two hours late at 10 a.m. today. The human service centers and child support offices in Dickinson and Williston will remain closed today.

Regional offices in Minot, Grand Forks, Fargo and Bismarck will be open normal business hours. The agency monitors local conditions and public school closure decisions.

 

Jamestown  (NDFU)  – North Dakota Farmers Union has announced that it is offering discounts to any youth who registers early for Farmers Union Camp between now and May 15. The state’s largest grassroots youth camping program for rural and urban kids gets underway June 10.

Camps are divided into junior and senior level age groups for kids in grades 3-6 and 7-12. Fifteen separate four- and five-day camps are held throughout the summer at sites near Valley City and Elgin with free transportation provided. More than 1,000 youth attended Farmers Union Camp last year.

Bri Sorensen, NDFU Youth Education Supervisor  says, “The program is designed to highlight the individuality in all youth.  Our camp counselors encourage positive and constructive attitudes in a fun environment. Kids participate in traditional activities like swimming and singing around the campfire, but we also incorporate team building exercises and leadership activities. The camp theme this year is ‘Have Courage and Be Kind.’”

Sorensen also said youth organize and operate their own cooperative – a camp store – as part of the program’s educational focus on cooperatives. In the past three years, youth have donated more than $9,400 in camp store dividends to charities across the state.

To learn more and to register for a $25 discount off the camp fee, go to ndfu.org/youth. Scholarships are also available in most counties for students needing fee assistance. Call Sorensen at 701-952-1404 for more information.

 

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Investigation says a State Patrol trooper shot and wounded a woman during an encounter along the interstate near Moorhead.

And, a male passenger in the woman’s vehicle was arrested during that encounter Monday. The BCA says the trooper responded to a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 94 about 10:30 a.m. Authorities say the driver had lost control and crashed into the median barrier.

Officials say at some point during the trooper’s encounter with the man and woman in the vehicle, the officer shot the female who then fled into a nearby field. She was found with a gunshot wound and taken to Essentia Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Her condition was not immediately known.

The BCA says a firearm was recovered at the scene. The trooper was not hurt.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of trying to hit a police officer with his vehicle in North Dakota and then fleeing to South Dakota has pleaded not guilty to felony counts of attempted murder and fleeing an officer. Twenty-two-year-old Ulises Villalobos-Alvarado is accused of trying to run over a Bismarck officer who subsequently shot him in the arm during a probation search on Jan. 18. He later turned himself in at a gas station in Brookings, South Dakota.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Minot woman accused of killing a man late last year has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. Thirty-eight-year-old Kommika Gregory is accused of shooting to death 58-year-old Ronald Thompson on Nov. 16 at a Minot residence. Police have said the two were acquaintances. Gregory remains in the Ward County Jail. Her bond is set at $1 million. She could face life in prison without parole if convicted.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The treasurer of the University of North Dakota Student Government is accused of embezzling from a fraternity.

Chase Johnson of Fargo faces a felony theft charge for allegedly stealing between $10,000 and $50,000 from the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, where he also had served as treasurer.

Johnson’s attorney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Johnson could enter a plea at an April 4 hearing. The charge against him carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Former state lawmaker Mac Schneider of Grand Forks will seek the North Dakota Democratic Party’s nomination to run for the U.S. House. Schneider scheduled Tuesday events in Grand Forks, Fargo and Bismarck to announce his decision. Schneider is a businessman and attorney. He served in the state Senate from 2009 until his defeat for re-election in 2016. He served as Senate minority leader during the 2013 and 2015 legislative sessions.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bad weather has prompted North Dakota’s Public Service Commission to postpone a public hearing in Williston on a $1.8 million natural gas pipeline project. ONEOK Rockies Midstream wants to convert an existing natural gas gathering pipeline and a portion of another gathering pipeline into a natural gas liquids transmission line. A public hearing set Tuesday morning at the Williston Research Extension Center will be rescheduled for another time.

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — General Mills has announced a deal to create South Dakota’s largest organic crop farm as the food giant works to secure enough organic ingredients to meet growing consumer demand. Gunsmoke Farms will convert 34,000 acres west of Pierre to organic by 2020. The land will produce organic wheat to make pasta for General Mills’ popular Annie’s Macaroni & Cheese line.

 

In sports…

All eight North Dakota High School Activities Association Class B Boys Region Basketball Tournaments have been postponed due heavy snow and poor travel conditions that occurred on Monday. Tournaments will now start Tuesday, March 6.

Class B Boy’s Region 3 Basketball Tournament Rescheduled..

Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 6, 3 p.m.

Semifinals – Thursday, March 8, 6 p.m.

3rd place, Championship – Friday, March 9, 6 p.m.

March 6 quarterfinals

3-p.m .Game 1: (6) Carrington (19-2) vs. Kidder County (11-10).

4:30-p.m. Game 2: Napoleon-GS (11-11) vs. Ellendale (16-6)..

6-p.m. Game 3: Strasburg-Zee. (8-14) vs. LaMoure-LM (15-7),

7:30-p..m. Game 4: Edgeley-KM (17-5) vs. Linton-HMB (8-13).

 

The NDHSAA State Class B Boys Basketball Tournament seeding will now be announced on statewide television at approximately 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, March 10 in between championship games at the Super A State Basketball Tournament in Fargo.

Any additional postponements will be posted on www.ndhsaanow.com. Postponements will also be sent to NDHSAA main school contacts and statewide media.

 

WILD…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Wild rookie forward Luke Kunin is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. The Wild announced that Kunin suffered the tear during Sunday’s 4-1 win at Detroit. He is expected to have surgery in the coming weeks and return to play in about seven months. The 20-year-old was most recently recalled by the Wild on Feb. 27 and has recorded two goals and two assists in 19 games with Minnesota this season.

 

TWINS…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Minnesota Twins right-hander Ervin Santana left spring training for New York to have his injured middle finger examined. Santana, out until mid-to-late April following surgery on the finger, could have a cast removed. Santana went 16-8 with a 3.28 ERA in 33 starts last season for the Twins, who earned an AL wild-card berth one year after losing 103 games.

 

NBA

UNDATED (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers were able to keep their half-game lead over second-place Indiana in the NBA’s Central Division.

Larry Nance Jr. provided career highs of 22 points and 15 rebounds in his first start for the Cavaliers to help them hammer the Pistons, 112-90.

The Pacers stayed on Cleveland’s heels by getting 29 points from Bojan (BOY’-ahn) Bogdanovic in a 92-89 win over the Bucks.

 

 

— Damian Lillard scored 19 of his game-high 39 points in the fourth quarter as the Trail Blazers downed the Lakers, 108-103 to take a one-game lead over Minnesota in the Northwest Division.

— Jaylen Brown scored 21 points on 9 of 13 shooting and the Celtics carried a 33-point lead into the final period of a 105-89 blowout over the Bulls.

— Tony Parker had 23 points and the Spurs ended a four-game home losing streak by escaping with a 100-98 triumph over the lowly Grizzlies.

— The Jazz won for the 15th time in their last 17 games as Rudy Gobert’s (goh-BEHRZ’) 21 points and 17 rebounds led a 94-80 decision over Orlando.

 

— The Heat have taken over the seventh seed in the East after Hassan Whiteside contributed 24 points and 14 boards to a 125-103 pounding of the Suns.

 

 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL-CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS

 

UNDATED (AP) — Seventh-ranked Gonzaga remains in line for its sixth consecutive West Coast Conference tournament title following its 13th consecutive victory. The Zags’ next opponent won’t be their archrivals.

Killian Tillie continued his outstanding shooting in the tournament while scoring a game-high 26 points to lead the Bulldogs to an 88-60 rout of San Francisco in the semifinals.

The other semifinal game was a minor stunner as Brigham Young advanced with an 85-72 triumph over No. 20 Saint Mary’s.

— Iona has earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tourney for the third straight year. Roland Griffin scored a career-high 29 points and Zach Lewis had 20 as the Gaels beat Fairfield, 83-71.

 

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL POLL

 

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Virginia is now the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll, receiving all 65 first-place votes after becoming the first ACC team to go 9-0 on the road in league play.

The Cavaliers also won their home finale to finish 17-1 in the conference and improve to 28-2 heading into the ACC Tournament.

Villanova is second, followed by Xavier, Michigan State and Duke. The Wildcats traded places with Xavier by beating the Musketeers over the weekend, while the Spartans fell two spots after losing to Michigan in the Big Ten semifinals.

Gonzaga is sixth, the Wolverines moved up eight spots to seventh, Cincinnati climbed two notches to eighth, Kansas slipped three spots to ninth and Purdue dropped from eighth to 10th.

 

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL POLL

UConn still top team in AP women’s basketball poll

NEW YORK (AP) — UConn continues to be the unanimous No. 1 pick in the AP women’s basketball poll after running their record to 30-0.

Baylor moved up to second and Louisville third after then-No. 2 Mississippi State lost to South Carolina in the SEC title game. The Bulldogs slipped to fourth. Notre Dame was fifth.

Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, UCLA and Ohio State round out the top 10.

 

NHL-SCHEDULE

 

The Penguins earned their second straight overtime win as Justin Schultz tallied 2:36 into the extra period to complete a 4-3 decision over the Flames.

 

— The Senators beat the Stars 3-2

— Jason Pominville, Sam Reinhart and Ryan O’Reilly and Johan Larsson each had a goal and an assist as Buffalo handed the Maple Leafs their fourth straight loss, 5-3.

The Canucks  wtin a 4-3 win over theNew York Islanders.

— Oscar Klefbom’s goal at 50 seconds of overtime ended the Oilers’ 4-3 win over the Coyotes.

 

 

 

MLB.

 

UNDATED (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have worked out a six-year, $26 million package with shortstop Paul DeJong (deh-YUHNG’), a deal that includes club options for 2024 and ’25.

 

 

 

In world and national news….

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean official says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to hold a landmark summit meeting with South Korea’s president next month and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests if his country holds talks with the United States.

South Korean presidential national security director Chung Eui-yong said the two Koreas agreed to hold their third-ever summit at a tense border village in late April. He also said the leaders will establish a “hotline” communication channel to lower military tensions, and speak together before the planned summit.

Chung led a 10-member South Korean delegation that met with Kim during a two-day visit to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital. The delegation returned on Tuesday.

 

 

BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. war crimes investigators say a Russian plane was apparently behind a deadly airstrike in November in Syria’s Idlib province that killed 84 people at a marketplace, an attack which could amount to a war crime.

The findings were reported by the U.N.’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria on Tuesday.

It’s the first time the commission has pinned responsibility for civilian deaths in Syria on Russia. The report says “all available information” indicates a Russian plane carried out the Nov. 13 airstrike that hit a market, surrounding houses and a police station run by Western-backed Syrian rebels in the town of Atarib, in northern Idlib.

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a military investigation into the attack in Niger that killed four American service members concludes the team didn’t get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Islamic State militant. It doesn’t point to that failure as a cause of the deadly ambush.

Initial information suggested the Army Special Forces team set out to meet local Nigerien leaders, only to be redirected to assist a second unit hunting for a militant, Doundou Chefou, suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of an American aid worker. Officials say it now appears the team sought Chefou from the onset, without outlining that intent to higher-level commanders.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican allies of President Donald Trump are pleading with him to back off his threat of turning to international tariffs, but Trump says he won’t.

Trump says Canada and Mexico will not be spared from his plans for special import taxes on steel and aluminum. He’s holding out the possibility of later exempting the longstanding friends if they agree to better terms for the U.S. in revising the North American Free Trade Agreement.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans worry that such tariffs would spark a trade war. Ryan is urging the White House not to go forward with the plan.

Republican leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee have circulated a letter opposing Trump’s proposed tariffs, and GOP congressional leaders suggest they might attempt to prevent them.

 

 

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has not been approached to help in an investigation over how and why a former Russian spy was found critically ill in a shopping mall in a town in southern England.

British media have identified him as Sergei Skripal, 66, who was convicted in Russia on charges of spying for Britain and sentenced in 2006 to 13 years in prison.

Skripal, who is said to have suffered exposure to an “unknown substance” was freed in 2010 as part of a U.S.-Russian spy swap. A woman was also found unconscious Sunday afternoon in Salisbury, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of London.

Dimitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, said Tuesday that there has been no request for help but that “Moscow is always ready to cooperate.”