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CSi Weather…

 TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 50. WEST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 80. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. LOWS
IN THE MID 50S.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.

Jamestown, ND  (KCSi-T.V. News)  —  The City of Jamestown announces that spraying in the City of Jamestown for adult mosquitoes is scheduled for tonight, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 and will continue for the following 2-3 evenings as is necessary.

 All spraying is contingent upon weather conditions.

All spraying operations will take place between approximately 8:30 PM (dusk) until approximately 6:00 AM.

Parents are advised to keep children out of the streets and away from the spray machines.

Motorists are urged to use caution when traveling in the vicinity of sprayer units.

Residents can obtain additional reduction of mosquito populations by supplementing the mosquito control operations with the spraying of individual backyards where necessary. It is also recommended that grass be mowed regularly and shrubs trimmed to reduce resting places for the mosquitoes. Articles holding water such as tires and other receptacles should be emptied to prevent the development of mosquito larvae.

If there are any questions about the scheduled residential application, please feel free to call City Hall at 252-5900.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Booth space is filling up for the sixth annual Community Block Party to be held Aug. 29, 2013, from 5 to 8 p.m. along First Avenue in Jamestown.  The event welcomes Jamestown College students to the community at the beginning of the school year.

On Wednesday’s (Jul 31, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce’s Lisa Hicks a co-chair of the event said last year there were more than 80 booths, set up, and over 3,000 people attended to take part, visit booths, and enjoy the entertainment.

She said it also helps promote relationships between the community and businesses.  She added that so far 13 new businesses have signed up for booths.

The students led by college President Dr. Bob Badal and wife Donna, will lead the students from the Jamestown College campus to downtown Jamestown starting about 5:45-p.m, dressed in J-C orange.

Also on our show co-chair Lori Listopad, Jamestown College’s Director of New Student Orientation, added, while first year J.C. students attend, almost all the student body comes to downtown Jamestown to partake in the festiviities saying, a lot of the students listed the Block Party as their favorite event of New Student Orientation..

Entertainment includes inflatable games, worm mobile, food, prize drawings, dunk tank, contests, free giveaways and more.

The deadline to reserve booth space is Aug. 9, 2013. Businesses and organizations may sign up online at http://www.jc.edu/communityBlockPartyRegistration. There is no charge for booth space. Or Call Lisa Hicks at the Chamber office at 252-4830, or Lori Listopad at Jamestown College at 252-3467, for booth space to for more information on becoming a sponsor.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP Jul 31, 2013) – North Dakota’s public college presidents will have to wait before getting a pay raise.
 
     The state Board of Higher Education on Wednesday delayed action on the pay hikes until several salary options presented by acting chancellor Larry Skogen are considered. Skogen is slated to work with two board members to come up with a recommendation to present to the entire board in the next few weeks.
 
     Raises for the 10 college presidents would be retroactive to July 1.
 
     Skogen himself is the president of Bismarck State College. Skogen took over for Hamid Shirvani, whose three-year contract was bought out by the board after just one year on the job.
 
     The board on Wednesday approved paying Skogen an additional $4,000 monthly during the search for a new chancellor.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A judge has blocked a North Dakota law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges, after opponents of the bill argued it was unconstitutional.
 
     East Central District Judge Wickham Corwin heard arguments Wednesday about the bill, one of four anti-abortion laws passed this year by the Republican dominated Legislature and signed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
 
     Afterward, Corwin said he would issue a preliminary injunction stopping the law from taking effect Thursday.
 
     Officials at the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, the state’s sole abortion provider, have said the bill would likely force them out of business. The clinic is served by out-of-state physicians.
 
     Republican Rep. Spencer Berry, the bill’s sponsor, has said the legislation is meant to assure the health and safety of women.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Two men have pleaded guilty in North Dakota to charges they smuggled guns into Canada.
 
     Federal prosecutors in Fargo say a 29-year-old Canadian, Shawn Hartnell, of Fort Frances, Ontario, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to export firearms illegally. Twenty-year-old Dylan Dowton, of Jerome, Idaho, pleaded guilty to aiding Hartnell in illegally obtaining guns.
 
  Hartnell had been smuggling firearms into Canada for more than a year.
 
     According to the indictment, Hartnell sent Dowton $10,000 to buy guns in Idaho and deliver them to Grand Forks. Hartnell then sold six semi-automatic weapons for $24,000 to undercover U.S. and Canadian agents posing as Canadian buyers last February in the parking lot of the Settle Inn hotel in Grand Forks.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man from Honduras will serve more than a year in prison for smuggling people into the U.S. through North Dakota.
 
     Twenty-six-year-old Darwin Cantarero-Sanchez was sentenced Wednesday in Bismarck to one year and one day in prison on a charge of conspiracy to transport illegal alien and then another 117 days for improper entry by an alien.
 
     Federal prosecutors say that on April 6, Cantarero-Sanchez and seven other people were arrested about a half-mile south of the Sherwood Port of Entry after illegally crossing the border.
 
     Two of the people say they paid Cantarero-Sanchez $2,000 and $1,500 to smuggle them into the U.S. from Montreal, Quebec, and he then led the group around the port of entry crossing illegally.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota has more than 320 new laws that will take effect Thursday, including limits on abortion and a measure that allows churchgoers with a concealed-carry permit to pack a gun if officials there allow it.
 
     Cruelty to animals also can be prosecuted as a felony in North Dakota beginning Thursday. And someone convicted of malfeasance or bribery can run for city council.
 
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed 503 bills into law this year after the Republican-led Legislature took the entire 80 days allowed by law to finish its work.
 
     Most of the laws take effect Aug. 1, although spending bills generally become law in July.

 

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – The suspect in a New Year’s Eve shooting outside a bar in the North Dakota town of Gladstone wants the case dismissed.
 
     Defense attorney Kevin McCabe is asking a judge to throw out an attempted murder charge against Robert York, saying prosecutors have presented insufficient evidence.
 
A hearing was held Tuesday in Dickinson. Judge William Herauf did not immediately make a decision.
 
     York is accused of trying to shoot Gladstone resident Justin Willis in the face with a sawed-off shotgun after an apparent bar fight in the oil patch community. Authorities say York came to North Dakota from Phoenix, but court documents list his address as Hedrick, Iowa. He has pleaded not guilty.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is warning that the Pentagon may have to mothball up to three Navy aircraft carriers and order more sharp reductions in the size of the Army and Marine Corps if Congress doesn’t act to avoid massive budget cuts beginning in 2014. Hagel told Pentagon reporters Wednesday that the full result of the sweeping budget cuts over the next 10 years could leave the nation with an ill-prepared, under-equipped military doomed to face more technologically advanced enemies.
 
     LAS VEGAS (AP) – The head of the National Security Agency  faced some heckling Wednesday at a hacker’s conference in Las Vegas, where he offered no apologies for methods used by the NSA to, in his words, connect the dots and go after bad guys who aim to kill people. Army Gen. Keith Alexander told the tech-savvy audience that the ability to look for patterns in telephone and email communications has stopped terror attacks in the U.S. and other countries. 
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve says the U.S. economy is growing modestly, a downgrade from its June assessment. The Fed expects growth will pick up in the second half of the year, but the more cautious message may signal it’s not ready to slow its bond purchases soon. The statement came after a two-day policy meeting. Stocks had held onto their earlier gains in Wednesday afternoon trading.
 
     WEST NEW YORK, N.J. (AP) – A bus driver in New Jersey is facing criminal charges — including using a cellphone while operating a vehicle — after a chain-reaction crash Tuesday afternoon that killed an infant and injured seven other people. Authorities say the bus hit a lamppost, which fell onto the baby’s stroller. The bus also hit a tree, another lamppost and a parked car. The bus driver is due in court tomorrow morning.
 
     CLEVELAND (AP) – An Ohio prosecutor says he’ll present evidence at the sentencing of convicted kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro that will prove he is a monster. Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Prosecutor Tim McGinty says experts at Castro’s sentencing tomorrow sentencing will explain how he manipulated three women to keep them captive for a decade or longer. Castro pleaded guilty Friday to 937 counts of kidnapping, rape, assault and other charges in a deal that sends him to prison for life plus 1,000 years.