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CSi Weather…

LATE THIS AFTERNOON…BREEZY. PARTLY SUNNY WITH SCATTERED SNOW
SHOWERS. PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO
25 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOWS NEAR ZERO. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S. SOUTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AND SLEET IN THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. NOT AS COLD.
LOWS IN THE MID 20S. SOUTH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE
WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LIGHT FREEZING RAIN LIKELY
POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS AROUND 20. NORTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST AROUND 5 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY…SLEET POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN IN THE MORNING…THEN SNOW LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
AROUND 20.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
AROUND 10.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
AROUND 20.
.MONDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW.

 

A STORM SYSTEM MAY IMPACT MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA  THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. PRECIPITATION MAY BEGIN THURSDAY NIGHT  AS RAIN OR FREEZING RAIN FROM THE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE SOUTH  CENTRAL…WITH A WINTRY MIX TRANSITIONING TO ALL SNOW ACROSS THE  NORTH CENTRAL. ICE ACCUMULATIONS MAY BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT.
 PRECIPITATION IS FORECAST TO TRANSITION TO ALL SNOW ACROSS THE AREA  THROUGH THE DAY ON FRIDAY. LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS  ARE POSSIBLE NORTH CENTRAL AND INTO THE UPPER JAMES RIVER VALLEY.
 
 ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM MAY IMPACT THE AREA SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. WHILE  ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE…MUCH UNCERTAINTY REMAINS.

The NDDOT on Tuesday afternoon, issued a travel alert for south central North Dakota, including the areas around Jamestown, Valley City, Edgeley and Ellendale due to blowing snow sticking to roadways.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Even though it was cold, residents were asked to spring into BBQ Season & Sprint for Relay for Life! Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the Coborns Parking Lot, Jamestown.

Organizer, Lori Mettert says the total funds raised, including a dollar-for-dollar match from Coborns, was $1,000.

She says the proceeds will go toward planning for the 2nd Annual Rib Fest, coming to Ava Maria Village in Jamestown June 1, 2013.

Rib Fest will be from 11-am to 4-p.m., with the proceeds going to Stutsman County Relay for Life.

Ms. Mettert says they will have one ton of ribs available to cook, and will NOT run out of ribs this year.

More information or to volunteer by calling Lori Mettert at Ave Maria Village in Jamestown at 7010252-5660.

Additional information posted on line at CsiNewsNow.com

　

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 12, 2013) — The Jamestown Civic Center in will host the Southeast North Dakota, Child Evangelism Fellowship Banquet on Thursday March 14, 2013 at 6:30-p.m.

On Tuesday’s (Mar 12, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, spokeman Todd Erickson from the Minot area said, the Guest Speaker will be John Luck, with the international Good News Across America, organization.

Luck has spoken on behalf of the organization in Chicago, Little Rock, Boston, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and this summer will speak in Denver.

The special musical guest will be Greg Hagar of Valley City.

Teen Challenge will cater the banquet.

FREE tickets are available in advance by call Pastor Tim Blackman at

701-485-3361, or 701-320-7465, or Dick Seekins at 701-269-5896.

Erickson said the North Dakota Child Evangelism organization will be moving the state headquarters to Jamestown, in late spring or early this summer.

The organization is international in scope in 181 countries and all 50 states.

Jamestown was the first city in North Dakota to have a chapter.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A Grand Forks educator accused of trying to lure a 12-year-old girl from his former school in Edmore over the Internet faces more charges.
 
     Authorities allege that their investigation into Jeremy Thompson has identified eight more victims. Thompson’s attorney did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
 
     Court documents show Thompson now faces seven counts of luring minors by computer, two counts of contributing to the deprivation of a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
 
     At the time of his arrest, Thompson was working as a paraprofessional and as a coach in Grand Forks schools. He has since been fired.

 

　  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A judge says a North Dakota man accused of breaking into a home and stealing a cell phone that was used to track him down must serve 60 days in jail.
 
     Twenty-two-year-old Pedro Morales Jr., of Medina, pleaded guilty to felony burglary. Authorities say he broke into a Bismarck home in the early morning hours of Jan. 28. 
 
Morales was sentenced to one year in jail, with all but 60 days suspended.
 
     Morales allegedly stole numerous items from the home, including several cell phones. Police say GPS tracking on one of the phones led an officer to the suspect.
 
     A defense attorney says two other people were with Morales at the time, but the police report does not mention other suspects.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Four North Dakota hockey players accused of supplying alcohol to minors at a team party last September have changed their pleas to guilty.
 
     Danny Kristo, Andrew MacWilliam, Carter Rowney and Joe Gleason reached plea agreements last week and were given deferred sentences.
 
     Charges were dropped against a fifth player, Corban Knight. Knight is a candidate for the Hobey Baker award, given annually to the top player in college hockey. Grand Forks County prosecutor David Jones tells The Associated Press there was no evidence that Knight was involved in the case.
 
     MacWilliam, Kristo, Rowney and Knight are captains and were suspended for the first game of the season. School spokesman Jason Hajdu says no additional discipline is expected.

 

　BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A retired Fargo pediatrician says some women may resort to dangerous “backroom” abortions if lawmakers approve a package of measures aimed at strengthening North Dakota’s already strict abortion laws.
 
     Ted Kleiman urged the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to consider the effects of passing legislation that critics say is aimed at shutting down the state’s sole abortion clinic in Fargo.
 
     Senators reviewed House a bill that would prevent women from having abortions based on gender selection or a genetic defect like Down syndrome.  The committee also reviewed a House bill that would ban doctors from performing an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected. 
 
     Republican Rep. Bette Grande of Fargo is the prime sponsor of both bills. Grande told Senators that the measures are intended to protect the unborn. 

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Officials this week plan to start releasing more water from Lake Darling Dam on the Souris River upstream from Minot to increase storage capacity as the spring flooding season nears.
 
     The  increases are considered minimal and well within the norm for this time of year. The National Weather Service in its most recent flood outlook said the Souris is expected to remain well within its banks this spring in the Minot area, though minor flooding could occur in some rural areas.
 
     The region experienced historic river flooding in 2011.
 
     One impact of the increased dam releases will be a weakening of river ice, which could be dangerous to anyone who ventures onto the river.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A New York-based oil company has begun laying the groundwork for wells at the historic Killdeer Battlefield in western North Dakota, and opponents to the project appear to have run out of options.
 
     Hess Corp. officials say they are “progressing with early site preparation” and expect construction to take place in the coming weeks, despite objections by some area residents, American Indians, historians and others.
 
     Protesters who wanted further study before drilling started say a lawsuit is unlikely because it would cost too much.
 
     Area landowner Rob Sand, whose grandparents once owned the land where U.S. Army and American Indian soldiers clashed nearly 150 years ago, says it’s looking like a hopeless case.
 
     Hess officials say they seek to minimize the impact on the environment in all their operations.

 

　FARGO, N.D. (AP) – About 40 North Dakota National Guard soldiers who took part in a 10-day military exercise in the African nation of Cameroon are back home.
 
     The exercise partnered Cameroon’s military with about 160 U.S. service members and soldiers form five other central African nations to enhance the ability of the African soldiers to handle such tasks as making aerial deliveries, and treating and evacuating wounded people.
 
     Most of the North Dakota soldiers are with the Valley City-based 231st Brigade Support Battalion.

 

In world and national news…

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Black smoke has poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that cardinals have failed to elect a pope on their first try. The cardinals held the first day of the conclave Tuesday deeply divided over the problems of the church and who best among them could fix them following the stunning resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican made clear it didn’t expect a winner on the first ballot. The cardinals now return to the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel for the night. They return to the Apostolic Palace for Mass Wednesday morning and a new round of voting.
 
     SEATTLE (AP) – Authorities say a man charged with killing his grandparents in their Seattle-area home may be in a hotel on the central Oregon coast. The King County Sheriff’s Department says police in Lincoln City, Ore., have surrounded a hotel where Chadd Boysen was believed to be. Police say Boysen killed his grandparents in their Renton home after his release Friday from prison.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – With its nuclear weapons and its increasingly belligerent tone, North Korea poses a serious threat to the United States, and to nations in eastern Asia. That’s the assessment of the U.S. director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. In his annual accounting of threats worldwide, he also told Congress that the Arab Spring uprising in the Middle East and North Africa has created spikes in the dangers facing American interests in the region.
 
     KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – U.S. forces in Afghanistan have seen their deadliest day so far this year. Officials say five American service members were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan Monday night. Earlier in the day, two U.S. special operations forces were gunned down in an insider attack by an Afghan policeman in eastern Afghanistan.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Twinkies could be back on the supermarket shelves by summer. Hostess is moving ahead with plans to sell the rights to make the spongy cream-filled snacks. The bankrupt company had earlier said there would be an auction for those rights — but now it says there’s only been one qualified bid for the cakes, which also include Ding Dongs and Ho Hos.