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 TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
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.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
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.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.

 

Valley City, ND  —   (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 17, 2012) — Valley City officials hope to have repairs completed to the city’s Master Sewage Lift station by Saturday. (Aug 18, 2012).

However Valley City residents on Friday are still be asked limit water usage until the repairs are made.

Mayor Bob Werkhoven says residents downstream should not use the Sheyenne River being raw sewage is being pumped into it.

Residents are being asked to limit showering, doing laundry and flushing toilets until further notice.

The water is safe to drink.

An equipment failure at the master lift station occurred shortly midnight, Thursday, during maintenance, filling up the lift station with close to 30 feet of sewage.

A backup system was put on line within just a couple hours.

 

  MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a man’s body has been
recovered from the Souris River in Minot.
     Police say the body was pulled from the river near the Broadway
viaduct early Thursday afternoon.
     Police say the body was taken to a Minot hospital for autopsy.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Former University of North Dakota
basketball star Jerome Beasley has been released from jail in a
dispute over unpaid child support.
     A judge ruled the 32-year-old Beasley wasn’t told about his
rights in the case.
     Beasley was put in the Grand Forks County jail July 26 for
allegedly not trying hard enough to pay his debts.
     North Dakota child support enforcement records say Beasley owes
more than $204,000 in spousal support to his former wife and child
support for the couple’s two children.
     Beasley played two years at UND, averaging 24 points and eight
rebounds a game.

He was drafted by the Miami Heat in 2003 and released two years later.

 Beasley has played professionally with teams in Australia, Israel, France
and Cyprus.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – About 160 North Dakota National Guard soldiers who served a year in the Middle East are in the back in the state.
 
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the members of the Wahpeton-based 188th Engineer Company arrived in Fargo on Friday.
 
     The soldiers are from nearly 70 communities across North Dakota and into Minnesota. They deployed to Kuwait last August.
 
     The military says the soldiers completed numerous construction projects ranging from small repairs to major renovations and building construction.

 

(AP) – North Dakota’s top oil regulator says the state’s booming oil patch has about 35,000 wells yet to be drilled and companies increasingly are making inroads with speedier but more costly technology.
 
     State Department of Mineral Resources director Lynn Helms says drillers are finishing wells at a rate of eight daily.

That’s up from about one a day just five years ago
 
     But Helms says the advanced technology has come at a cost. He says a well costs about $10 million to complete. That’s about double the cost of a well drilled in 2007.
 
     Helms says much of the increase comes from a shortage hydraulic fracturing crews and soaring cost of so-called proppants that provide a pathway for oil to flow to the well.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad plans to donate his Senate papers to George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
 
     Conrad is an alumnus of the school. He earned a master’s degree in business administration at George Washington in 1975.
 
     Conrad and university President Steven Knapp are holding a news conference in Bismarck on Tuesday to announce the donation.
 
     Under the terms of the gift, North Dakotans will have access to the papers through the state Historical Society.
 
     Conrad was first elected to the Senate in 1986. He is leaving at year’s end. Conrad is a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
 
     Conrad is a former North Dakota tax commissioner. He was serving in the job when he defeated incumbent Republican Mark Andrews to win his Senate seat.

 

  BOWMAN, N.D. (AP) – Dirt moving work on a new Bowman airport is
likely to begin next month.
     The Bowman Airport Authority has accepted a bid of about $3
million to do the job. Once the earth moving is finished, the rest
of the job will be put out for bids.
     The new airport is expected to cost up to $12 million, and the
federal government is paying most of the cost. It’s supposed to be
finished in 2014.
     Bowman airport manager Brent Kline says the new facility will
have a longer runway to handle private jet traffic from oil
companies.
     It will be located about four miles east of Bowman, south of
U.S. Highway 12. Kline says the existing Bowman airport is hemmed
in by railroad tracks, wetlands and the city itself.
     
 
     
     MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A top Norwegian military officer says he’s
impressed by the Minot Air Force Base.
     Gen. Harald Sunde toured the base’s 5th Bomb Wing and the 91st
Missile Wing on Wednesday. Sunde is Norway’s chief of defense.
     A Minot base spokesman says the tour was to strengthen the
relationship between Norway’s Chief of Defense and the American
Defense Department.

The Minot base is equipped with B-52 bombers and Minuteman III
nuclear missiles.

The Minot spokesman says Sunde expressed his appreciation for the “strategic deterrence” that the base provides.

 

In world and national news…

MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) – Some miners in South Africa are
vowing a fight to the death, a day after 34 striking miners died when police opened fire on them.

Wives of some of the miners took the place of their dead and wounded husbands in staging a protest at a platinum mine northwest of Johannesburg.

 They’re demanding to know why police used automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns on the strikers.

Many of the strikers had been armed with spears, machetes and clubs as they rushed toward the officers.

Police have said they opened fire in self-defense.
     
     BOSTON (AP) – An offer from the Obama campaign is getting a
thumbs down from Mitt Romney’s people.

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said if Romney would release five years of tax returns, the Democrats wouldn’t push for him to release any more.

Romney’s campaign manager responds that President Barack Obama clearly wants to talk about Romney’s tax returns, instead of “the issues that
matter to voters.”
     
     HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Trials are scheduled for early next year
for two former Penn State officials.

They’re accused of lying to a grand jury and helping to bury an allegation of child sexual abuse in the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

A judge Friday ordered jury selection to begin in January.

 But he’s still considering motions by defense lawyers to throw out the charges.

Tim Curley is on leave from the post of athletic director. Gary Schultz is a retired senior vice president.
     
     DETROIT (AP) – Police are providing more details about the
deaths of a woman and two children whose bodies were found in a
suburban Detroit home.

They were found by officers who went there to notify the woman about the death of her husband in a head-on car crash.

Police say the three had been stabbed with a butcher knife.
They’re looking at whether the woman’s husband killed the three
before committing suicide by driving the wrong way on an
interstate, also killing the man whose car he hit.
     
     BOSTON (AP) – For just the second time in more than a century,
the world’s oldest commissioned warship will be setting sail under
its own power this weekend.

 The USS Constitution, which was first launched in 1797, will be tugged from its berth in Boston Harbor on Sunday to the main deepwater pathway into the harbor.

It will then set out to open seas for a 10-minute cruise.

The event will mark the day two centuries ago when the Constitution defeated a British frigate in a fierce battle that won it the nickname “Old
Ironsides.”