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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) – Interstate Engineering reports that the start of construction for the Jamestown sanitary sewer project has been delayed.

Construction, which was originally scheduled to start at the beginning of July, will now begin on July 22, 2013.

Construction will take place on the 600 to 900 blocks of 4th Ave NW. Work is expected to last about one week.

For more information on line:

Jamestown, ND Sewer Construction Project.

Also links to the site available at  www.CsiNewsNow.com  and updates on The Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The state Historical Society is mulling the purchase of Lawrence Welk’s boyhood home in Strasburg, in south central North Dakota.
 
     The Legislature this year included $100,000 in the Historical Society’s budget for the purchase.
 
     Historical Society Director Merl Paaverud (PAH’-vur-ood) says the agency’s board is meeting July 12 in Strasburg to decide whether to make the purchase. The site also would be used to tout the importance of agriculture and the region’s German-Russian heritage.
 
     The idea comes two decades after Congress earmarked $500,000 in federal funds to develop a tourist industry in Strasburg. The money included a museum of German-Russian heritage that was intended to draw visitors to the bandleader’s birthplace. Lawmakers later withdrew the money when the idea was mocked as a symbol of wasteful spending.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Officials in Fargo say a fire truck was heavily damaged after it collided with a car driving without its lights on.
 
     Assistant Fire Chief Steve Balstad says the pumper truck was heading west on Main Avenue at a normal speed about 3 a.m. when it collided with a northbound car.
 
     Balstad says the driver of the car and two firefighters were taken to the hospital. The firefighters were treated and released.
 
     Fargo Police Lt. Joel Vettel says the 28-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
 
     Police believe the man was involved in an earlier incident in which a car failed to stop when an officer tried to pull it over. They say the car took off without its lights on.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Trial is underway in Grand Forks for three men accused of breaking into a couple’s home, demanding drugs and money and stealing various items including jewelry and prescription medicine.
 
     Twenty-nine-year-old Allen Ratliff, his 28-year-old brother Nathan, and 25-year-old Cody Boulduc are accused of beating homeowner Sherman Jones in April 2012. They are charged with burglary, assault, robbery, theft and felonious restraint.
 
Jones testified Wednesday that three men kicked in the door of his home, clubbed him and duct-taped his hands behind his back. He said he needed surgery after the beating and remains on painkillers.
 
     Defense attorneys during their cross-examination of Jones focused on his inability to identify his attackers.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have recovered a body at a Montana home owned by the grandmother of a North Dakota murder suspect.
 
     Bismarck Police Deputy Chief Randy Ziegler says officials with the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Department were serving a search warrant at the home in Poplar, Mont., on Wednesday when they discovered the body.
 
     Authorities aren’t saying whether it’s the body of 18-year-old John Swain, who went missing from his Bismarck home in mid-May. Swain had recently moved from Sioux Falls, S.D. Authorities believe he was killed by 25-year-old Theo Crowe, of Trenton, who’s in custody in Williston on unrelated charges. Poplar is his hometown.
 
     Crowe received a bad conduct discharge from the Army in February. He doesn’t yet have an attorney representing him in the murder case.
 

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) – A prosecutor has decided to dismiss a bigamy case against a man who allegedly married a South Dakota woman while still married to a North Dakota woman.
 
     Prosecutor Vic Fischbach tells the American News that there are several reasons for his decision, including his determination that Michael Clements did not intentionally violate South Dakota law.
 
     Clements was living in Ashley, N.D., when he was charged with bigamy for marrying a woman in Aberdeen, S.D., in June 2011 before his divorce in North Dakota was final. A circuit judge dismissed the case but the South Dakota Supreme Court overturned that decision, clearing the way for Clements to be prosecuted.
 
     Fischbach says Clements has been through enough and there are better uses of the justice system’s time.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – An assistant manager who is accused of groping female customers in the drive-thru of a Taco Bell restaurant in Fargo has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor sexual assault.
 
     Twenty-year-old Austin Brady will enter a plea later to a felony charge of unlawful entry into a vehicle.
 
     Brady is accused of twice asking women to pull out of the drive-thru line and then groping them while delivering their food. The incidents are alleged to have occurred in March and April.
 
     Taco Bell spokesman Rob Poetsch says the Fargo franchisee conducted its own investigation and found no wrongdoing. Brady continues to work at the restaurant.

 

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man has pleaded guilty to two felonies related to a Mandan bar holdup in January.
 
     Thirty-nine-year-old Shane Wentz will be sentenced later on robbery and conspiracy charges in the armed robbery of the gambling site at the Last Call Bar.
 
Wentz also has pleaded guilty to several felony counts in the robberies of two Bismarck businesses and a burglary at a third in early February. He’s to be sentenced for those crimes on July 24.
 
     A co-defendant in the Bismarck cases was sentenced earlier to eight years in prison. A second man charged in the Mandan robbery has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count and is to be sentenced Aug. 5.

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The new head coach of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies has ties to the Dakotas.
 
     Dave Joerger (YAY-gehr) won an International Basketball Association title and two Continental Basketball Association crowns with the Bismarck, N.D.-based Dakota Wizards. A third CBA championship came as coach of the Sioux Falls, S.D., Skyforce in 2005.
 
     He won a fifth minor league championship in 2007 with the Dakota Wizards after they had moved to the NBA Development League. The team has since moved to Santa Cruz, Calif.
 
     The 39-year-old Joerger was introduced as coach of the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday. He had been the team’s lead assistant coach.

 

 FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) – A judge has denied bail for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who’s charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a friend.
 
     Hernandez’s lawyer argued at a bail review hearing Thursday in Fall River that Hernandez is not a risk to flee and the case against him is circumstantial.
 
     But a prosecutor said evidence against Hernandez is “overwhelming.” He says a search of a condo leased by Hernandez turned up an ammunition clip matching the caliber of casings found at the scene of the killing of Odin Lloyd.
 
     Lloyd’s body was discovered by a jogger in a remote area of an industrial park not far from Hernandez’s home 10 days ago. He has pleaded not guilty.

 

In world and national news…
 BOSTON (AP) – The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings now faces charges in a 30-count indictment — including many that carry the possibility of life in prison or the death penalty. The charges against Dzokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) include using a weapon of mass destruction. The indictment was returned Thursday by a federal grand jury.

 
     DALLAS (AP) – A battle over proposed abortion restrictions in Texas has become a personal grudge match between Republican Gov. Rick Perry and a Democratic state senator whose one-woman filibuster gave her sudden national political stardom. During a speech Thusday to an anti-abortion group, Perry singled out state Sen. Wendy Davis — who was born to a single woman and who became a teen mother herself. Perry called it “unfortunate” that Davis — in his words — “hasn’t learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance.” Davis says Perry’s statement was “without dignity” and that it tarnishes his office.
 
     QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – Ecuador says it’s not interested in tariff benefits on hundreds of millions of dollars in trade that are up for renewal by the U.S. Congress. The announcement comes at a time when Ecuador faces U.S. pressure to avoid giving asylum to Edward Snowden. Ecuador’s communications minister told reporters that the trade deal had become “a new instrument of blackmail.” The program was already facing an uphill fight for renewal.
 
     JERUSALEM (AP) – An international campaign to boycott Israel’s settlements has added a prominent name to its ranks. The McDonald’s restaurant chain is refusing to open a branch in a West Bank Jewish settlement. A spokeswoman for McDonald’s Israel says the owner of a planned mall in the settlement asked for a McDonald’s there, but the chain refused because the owner of McDonald’s Israel has a policy of staying out of the occupied territories. She says the decision wasn’t coordinated with McDonald’s headquarters in the U.S.

 
     LAS VEGAS (AP) – A high pressure system hanging over the West this weekend is bringing temperatures extreme even for a region used to baking during the summer. Temperatures are forecast to approach or match records in the Southwest. The mercury should hit 117 in Las Vegas for only the third time ever, while Phoenix should see 118 and Death Valley may see 129.