CSi Weather…

 TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS
 AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
 .TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
 5 TO 15 MPH.
 .TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
 THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
 .WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
 THUNDERSTORMS. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. WEST WINDS 10 TO  15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
 .WEDNESDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 50. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
 .THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
 .THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
 HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
 .FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID
 50S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
 .SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 13, 2012) — Stutsman County, through an agreement with Richland County, has contracted with CodeRED to allow anyone the opportunity to receive emergency notifications requiring immediate action and weather warnings for free.

Stutsman County Emergency Manager, Jerry Berguist says, currently, only residential landline phones in Stutsman County will receive emergency notifications from the County.

Any business line, cell phone line, VoIP phone line, email address, or text messaging capable phone needs to register for the service by logging onto the Stutsman County website at www.stutsmancounty.org

Once on the site, click the link to be directed to the secured “CodeRED Community Notification Enrollment” page.

Required information to register includes first and last name, street address, city, state, zip code, and phone numbers to be entered.

An exact address is needed due to the geographically based delivery system that CodeRED uses.

The registration page also allows users the opportunity to sign up to receive emergency weather warnings.

This is an opt-in service only.

Anyone wishing to use this service must register by opting in on the enrollment page, including residential landline phones.

Users have the option to receive alerts anytime the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning, severe weather warning or flash flood warning for the address entered on the enrollment page.

Only users that are registered for the service will receive the message.

In addition, you will only be warned if you live in the warned polygon that the National Weather Service has issued a warning for.

A test of the CodeRED system will be initiated for all of Stutsman County Thursday, August 16, 2012 in the afternoon. (note change).

Normal text messaging rates apply to users who decide to opt in for the text messaging service.

If there are any questions regarding the system, please call Stutsman County Emergency Management at 701-252-9093.

Bergquist will explain more on Tuesday’s (Aug 14, 2012) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 at 8:25 a.m., with replays at noon, 5-p.m., 6:25 p.m., and 10-p.m.

 

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – The water board representing counties in the Devils Lake basin has dropped its sponsorship of a proposed floodwater outlet from Stump Lake.
     Devils Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board manager Jeff Frith
says  the move came after the state increased the cost estimate from $17 million to $23.5 million.

Frith says the board still favors the idea of the outlet but the local share of
the cost would be too high.
     Stump Lake has become connected to Devils Lake after two decades
of flooding.

The proposed Stump Lake outlet would complement outlets on Devils Lake’s west and east sides.
State Water Commissioner engineer Bruce Engelhardtsays he doesn’t immediately know what the local water board’s decision will mean for the proposed project.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Republican North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple is proposing $545 million in tax cuts and says the state should play a greater role in funding education.
The plan that would be considered in the 2013 Legislature if Dalrymple wins election includes cuts in property taxes, as well as individual and corporate income taxes.

It expands the homestead tax credit for disabled and senior citizens.

Dalrymple wants a 50 percent reduction in the average school district tax levy. He says that would save the owner of a $180,000 home nearly $1,100 in property taxes.

Democratic state Sen. Ryan Taylor, who’s running against Dalrymple, says the governor is “reacting to issues long after hearing the public outcry.”

Taylor says he released his plan more than two months ago.

 

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – The Hettinger County Sheriff’s Office is down a vehicle after a deputy collided with a moose.
The deputy was not hurt in the crash last week on state Highway 21 but the moose was killed and the squad car was totaled.

Moose sightings in southwestern North Dakota are unusual.

Authorities have had reports of three moose in the area.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger
says he hopes to have his office hours back to normal in early
September.
     In April Jaeger shortened the hours during which the public
could do business at his Capitol office.

It’s now open six hours a day instead of the normal nine hours.
     Jaeger says the change gave workers time to catch up on
processing an increased number of business registrations,
contractor licenses and other paperwork.

     He says it now takes about three weeks to process registration
and contractor license requests.

It was taking six weeks.

He wants to cut turnaround time to one to two weeks.
     Jaeger’s office is now open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. He wants
to go back to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 4.

     
     GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – New faculty and administrators at the
University of North Dakota are on a three-day tour of the state.
     The bus tour is in its 22nd year.

It’s aimed at giving the new staff a look at the state and introducing them to alumni and others.

About 30 people are on this year’s tour.
     The tour Monday through Wednesday is being led by UND President
Robert Kelley and his wife, Marcia.
     The tour alternates between the northern and southern parts of
the state.

This year’s tour is in the south, including stops in Bismarck and Wahpeton. The group also will visit Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates.
    

In world and national news…

 

CHICAGO (AP) – Doctors say Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is
being treated for bipolar disorder.

The Mayo Clinic says the Illinois Democrat underwent an extensive evaluation and is responding well to treatment for the disorder, which affects parts of the brain controlling emotion, thought and drive.

Jackson has been away from the public eye since June 10, when family members said he collapsed at their Washington home.
     
     DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Vice President Joe Biden is weighing in on
Mitt Romney’s choice of running mate.

At a rally in Durham, N.C., Biden mocked those who call Paul Ryan’s budget plan a bold attempt to fix the country’s fiscal problems.

Biden says there’s nothing “gutsy” about “giving millionaires and billionaires tax breaks” or “gutting Medicaid and Medicare.”
     
     ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan’s Interior Ministry is denying reports
that a delegation of Afghan officials met with a former deputy
leader of the Taliban imprisoned in Pakistan.

It calls the reports “absolutely baseless and ill motivated.

” Word of the meeting came yesterday from an official with the Afghan High Peace Council, and was confirmed by a Pakistani intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
     
     CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s military seems to be going along with
President Mohammed Morsi’s surprise shake-up of the military
leadership.

Morsi Sunday ordered the retirement of the defense minister, chief of staff and the commanders of the navy, air defense and air force.

Egypt’s official news agency quotes an unnamed military official as saying there has been no “negative reaction” from within the military.
    
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – The man convicted of killing a Los Angeles
police officer during an infamous kidnapping that inspired the crime novel and film “The Onion Field” has died in a California prison.

The state Department of Corrections says Gregory Powell died Sunday  night in a prison hospice.

He appealed for his release last year, telling a parole board that he was suffering from prostate cancer.

But he was turned down. Powell was 79.