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TODAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. NORTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. NORTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. LOWS
IN THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
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…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FOR
ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SUNDAY…WITH A SLIGHT
CHANCE MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – A state prison guard in Jamestown who authorities say was hospitalized after an attack by an inmate is now back home.
James River Correctional Center Warden Don Redmann says guard Jeremiah MacDonald was released from the hospital Monday, a day after the alleged attack. Redmann did not comment on MacDonald’s medical condition other than to say he is “doing as well as can be expected.”
The accused inmate, Shawn Ostafin, has been transferred to the higher-security North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck. The Highway Patrol says criminal charges are pending.
Ostafin is formerly of Mandan and has a violent criminal history. He served a lengthy sentence for the 1990 murders of his father and stepfather and is now serving time for terrorizing.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 1, 2013) — The Buffalo City Tourism Foundation Executive Board unintentionally violated the North Dakota Open Meetings Act Monday evening.
The BCTF had scheduled a meeting of its full board, but did not have enough members present to form a quorum. Its members then decided to have a meeting of the executive board but did not post the necessary public notice.
The next day, the BCTF Board and staff members attended a seminar, hosted by the North Dakota League of Cities, about how to make meetings work, which included a review of the state’s open meetings act and open records act.
BCTF Executive Director Searle Swedlund said he asked the presenter from the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office about the board’s action and learned it had violated North Dakota’s open meetings laws.
Swedlund said, “At the presentation, we learned we shouldn’t have done what we did.”
Jack McDonald, legal counsel for the North Dakota Newspaper Association, said the executive board could have avoided any problems by just continuing with the full board meeting and not taking any action.
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.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The City of Jamestown began another round of mosquitoe spraying Wednesday, evening 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.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – One of the suspects in the slaying of a South Dakota teenager in North Dakota has been ordered held without bond.
Twenty-six-year-old Theo Crowe, of Trenton, had been jailed in Williston on unrelated charges. He made his initial court appearance in Bismarck this week. He will be appointed a public defender.
Crowe and another man are accused of conspiracy to commit murder in the death of 18-year-old John Swain, who was reported missing in mid-May after moving to Bismarck from Sioux Falls, S.D., in search of work. Authorities say Swain’s body was found in late June at the home of Crowe’s grandmother in Poplar, Mont.
The other suspect, 20-year-old Joshua Clark, of Stanley, earlier had bond set at $1 million cash. He remains jailed.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – 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 Governor Jack Dalrymple (DAHL’-rimp-ul).
Afterward, Corwin said he would issue a preliminary injunction stopping the law from taking effect today.
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 Representative Spencer Berry, the bill’s sponsor, has said the legislation is meant to assure the health and safety of women.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – It takes more to be a felonious thief in North Dakota.
A new measure that goes into effect on Thursday makes it a felony if a thief steals $1,000 worth of property. The limit used to be $500.
Until today, someone writing a $500 bad check could be prosecuted for a felony. Now the minimum is $1,000.
North Dakota has more than 320 new laws that will take effect today, 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 this morning. And someone convicted of malfeasance or bribery can run for city council.
The measures are among more than 320 new laws that take effect today, Aug. 1.
(See paritial list of significant law changes at CSiNewsNow.com)
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. The Dickinson Press reports 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.
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.
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 bankruptcy judge has approved the auction sale for part of a former drug, dermatology and cosmetic research company that was one of Fargo’s biggest employers.
Bidding for two buildings on the PRACS Institute campus will start at $5.1 million.
Aldevron, a Fargo-based firm that provides customs materials like DNA and proteins to major research laboratories, petitioned for the sale of the buildings and has offered $5.1 million for the property.
PRACS closed abruptly in March and soon after filed for bankruptcy. The Fargo center had 544 beds and employed about 400 people.
Bankruptcy Judge Craig Gargotta said in court documents that all likely bidders for the property have been contacted.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A group that went on an annual tour of wheat fields in the Upper Midwest came up with yield estimates about the same as last year.
The Colorado-based Wheat Quality Council sponsors the tour every year to give the wheat industry an early look at the crop. The tour estimated this year’s overall wheat yield at just under 45 bushels per acre, the same as what the 2012 tour participants estimated for last year’s crop.
This year’s tour involved a record 75 people – mostly government statisticians and representatives of millers and other companies in the wheat industry. They made 472 stops in fields in North Dakota, northern South Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. They say finding a poor wheat field was difficult.
Sports…
AA…
Fargo-Moorhead 3, St. Paul 1
MLB…
AMERICAN LEAGUE…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Alex Gordon hit a two-out triple in the seventh inning and then scored the go-ahead run for Kansas City on an error by Minnesota, and the Royals won their eighth straight game with a 4-3 victory over the Twins on Wednesday night.
The Royals are above .500 at the end of July for the first time since 2003.
Final Toronto 5 Oakland 2, 10 Innings
Final Cleveland 6 Chi White Sox 5, 10 Innings
Final Houston 11 Baltimore 0
Final Boston 5 Seattle 4, 15 Innings
Final Texas 2 L.A. Angels 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Cincinnati 4 San Diego 1
Final San Francisco 9 Philadelphia 2
Final Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 4
Final Atlanta 9 Colorado 0
Final Miami 3 N-Y Mets 2
Final Chi Cubs 6 Milwaukee 1
INTERLEAGUE
Final Detroit 11 Washington 1
Final Arizona 7 Tampa Bay 0
Final N-Y Yankees 3 L.A. Dodgers 0
NEW YORK (AP) – A person familiar with the discussions tells The Associated Press that Major League Baseball is preparing to kick Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez out of the game for life unless he accepts a lengthy suspension for his role in the sport’s latest drug scandal. The person says whether Commissioner Bud Selig would actually issue a lifetime suspension was unclear and a permanent ban could be shortened by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz to about 200 games. A-Rod is the most prominent of 14 players linked in media reports over the past seven months to Biogenesis of America, a closed Florida anti-aging clinic that allegedly distributed banned performance-enhancing drugs.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Twins have traded catcher Drew Butera to the Los Angeles Dodgers for either a player to be named or cash.
The deal was done right before the non-waiver trade deadline on Wednesday afternoon.
Butera was the backup to Joe Mauer for most of the last three seasons, but he has spent all but the last week with Triple-A Rochester this year. When Mauer was out on paternity leave, Butera appeared in two games.
Butera, who will turn 30 on Aug. 9, missed time because of a broken left hand earlier in the season and was hitting .229 in 83 at-bats for the Red Wings. Defense has always been his strength. In 490 career at-bats for the Twins, Butera has a .182 batting average with five home.
The Astros also pulled off a deal with Kansas City, sending outfielder Justin Maxwell to the Royals for minor league pitcher Kyle Smith. Maxwell is hitting just .241 with two homers and eight RBIs in 40 games this season, but that includes a .302 average against left-handed pitchers.
UNDATED (AP) – The Baltimore Orioles found another starting pitcher at the major league trade deadline yesterday, while the Arizona Diamondbacks bolstered their bullpen. The Birds have acquired right-hander Bud Norris from Houston for outfielder L.J. Hoes and left-handed prospect Josh Hader. The Diamondbacks picked up lefty Joe Thatcher from San Diego, along with a minor leaguer and a draft pick for struggling starting pitcher Ian Kennedy.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Reliever Brian Wilson has signed his one-year contract with the Dodgers and will join the team following a minor league rehab assignment. Wilson hasn’t pitched in the majors since April 12, 2012, the same month he underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.
PGA…
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) – Rocco Mediate is already a fan of Minnesota. This weekend, he’s hoping to add a professional highlight to his personal experience in the state.
The Champions Tour rookie is engaged to a Minnesotan, Jessica Somers. The couple shares a summer home in Excelsior, a suburb west of Minneapolis. Beginning on Friday, Mediate will be one of several first-timers to play in the 3M Championship at the TPC Twin Cities.
The fun-loving Mediate turned 50 in December. He won the Allianz Championship in February. He finished third at the U.S. Senior Open two weeks ago and he was tied for 18th at last week’s Senior British Open.
NFL-EAGLES/COOPER
Cooper apologizes for slur
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Saying he was “ashamed and disgusted” with himself, Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper apologized repeatedly for making a racial slur at a Kenny Chesney concert that was caught on video and led to him getting fined.
The video of Cooper using the N-word surfaced Wednesday on the Internet. Cooper called it the lowest of lows and said he had no excuse for directing the slur at an African-American security guard.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A bill that would lower interest rates on student loans is awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature. The House yesterday gave final approval to the legislation, which also links rates to the financial markets. Undergraduates this fall would borrow at a 3.9 percent interest rate for Stafford loans, while graduate students would have access to loans at 5.4 percent, and parents would borrow at 6.4 percent. The rates would be locked in for that year’s loan, but each year’s loan could be more expensive.
CLEVELAND (AP) – Ariel Castro learns his sentence today after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping, rape, assault and aggravated murder for holding three women captive in a run-down Cleveland home for a decade. The prosecutor says one captive’s diaries document the horrific physical and sexual abuse that Castro subjected the women to on a daily basis. Castro could get as much as life in prison plus 1,000 years.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghan officials say a NATO helicopter mistakenly killed four Afghan troops in the country’s east last night. NATO says the incident is under investigation. Meanwhile, a Taliban ambush has left an official and three other people dead in the country’s south. And a roadside mine exploded in the northwest today, killing two policemen and a prosecutor, and wounding seven people.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – The main challenger to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH’-bay) is alleging that yesterday’s vote was heavily manipulated. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (CHAN’-gehr-eye) says the election did not meet regional or African standards, and he’s declaring it “null and void.” Mugabe has denied allegations of vote-rigging. But, a poll monitoring group not affiliated with the state says there was a campaign to stop voters from casting ballots.
ROME (AP) – Italy’s highest court deliberates Silvio Berlusconi’s appeal of a tax fraud conviction that earned him a four-year jail sentence and a five-year ban on political office. The five-judge panel heard two days of arguments by prosecutors and Berlusconi’s defense. The court’s decision could threaten the stability of Italy’s fragile coalition government, which depends on cross-party support to approve reforms intended to help lift the country out of recession.
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