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VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP Aug 14, 2013) – Officials in Barnes County say two people have died in a fiery crash east of Litchville.
Barnes County Sheriff Randy McClaflin says the accident happened shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday (Aug 14, 2013) at the intersection of North Dakota highways 1 and 46.
Witnesses say the fire engulfed both semi tractor trailers vehicles
Highway Patrol Sgt. Tom Herzig reports, the driver of an eastbound semi failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with the northbound semi.
Sgt. Herzig says there are precautions on the road where the crash happened, including rumble strips and flashing red and yellow lights.
Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.
Both vehicles were destroyed by the fire.
Names and hometowns of the driver’s are being withheld pending family notification.
The crash remains under investigation.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown City Council started the 2014 Calendar Year budgeting, on Wednesday afternoon at City Hall.
At the outset of the meeting, City Administrator, Jeff Fuchs outlined the projected preliminary 2014 budget.
He said the total taxable value in the city for 2014 is $30,468,000, compared to the 2013 taxable value of $28,660,000.
The projected Mill Levy for 2014 is 98.97 Mills a decrease of 5.78 Mills from 2013.
The preliminary budget with requests and anticipated expenditures shows the city would deficit spend $905,000 in 2014.
The preliminary budget includes a 3% cost of living increase in city employee salaries, with those eligible, a step adjustment of 2.5%.
The health insurance increase is projected at 10.3%, workers compensation with an increase of 9.5%, Social Security 4.6%, and employee pensions at 1%.
Total benefits show a projected increase of $136,000, an 8.5% increase.
2014 projected wages and benefit increases are 6.1%, or $9.1 million, up from $8.6 million in 2013.
The Council also discussed a compensation increase for members.
City Administrator Fuchs said the changes would have to be an amendment to the City Ordinance.
General Fund expenditures are projected to increase by 15.8% at $7.83 million or an increase of $1.1 million.
The Jamestown City Fire Department is requesting equipment replacements, and City Fire Chief Jim Reuther indicated future requests will include water tankers, and one more employee, in light of future fire coverage as the city expands.
Jamestown Police Department, Chief Scott Edinger is requesting two additional patrol units, one marked, one unmarked, plus officer cameras, and computer software for the storage of evidence. The computer related costs may be shared with the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office and the local taskforce.
Presently the police department has five marked patrol cars, and 29 officers.
The city will continue to hear budget requests at subsequent meetings, and then began deliberating approving or paring requests.
The next budget meeting is tentatively set for Monday August 26, 2013 from 3-5-p.m., at City Hall.
Wednesday’s meeting was shown live on CSi 67.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 14, 2013) — The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation is moving ahead with addressing the challenges of workforce issues.
On Wednesday’s (Aug 14, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, JSDC Business Development Coordinator, DeAnn Brunner said, that the JSDC’s Holly Miller has additional trainning and is heading up a project concerning workforce presentations for schools and others in the community. She and Ms. Brunner recently attended a IEDC Workforce Conference.
She said that Ms. Miller is developing workforce issue ideas, including holding job fairs and trade shows, highlighting and showcasing positions available in Stutsman County, reaching individuals outside the area.
Jamestown will be joining the ACT program reaching middle school students, who may be looking at job training outside traditional higher education programs, and pointing out skill sets need for certain jobs.
The workforce campaign will be targeting others in the community as well.
Ms. Brunner pointed out that CSi video of the recent groundbreaking at Spiritwood, for the Dakota Spirit Energy project is available on line at
A link is also available at the JSDC web site,
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 14, 2013) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will complete a periodic inspection of Baldhill Dam, located northeast of Valley City, N.D., early next week.
The Corps will reduce outflows from 850 cubic feet per second, or cfs, to around 13 cfs next week in order to dewater the stilling basin. Once dewatered, engineers will inspect the structure. The Corps will hold the outflow at 13 cfs for the time needed to complete the inspection, which typically takes 24 to 48 hours. The Corps plans to return the dam to normal outflows by Wednesday, August 21, 2013.
The Corps’ comprehensive periodic inspections are performed every five years as part of its dam safety program. Routine or annual inspections are conducted at the site each year but do not involve dewatering the stilling basin.
The nearly 700 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, employees working at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states serve the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. Through the Corps’ Fiscal Year 2011 $175 million budget, nearly 2,800 non-Corps jobs were added to the regional economy as well as $271 million to the national economy. For more information, see
MINNEWAUKAN, N.D. (AP) – An explosion at an apartment building in Minnewaukan caused several thousand dollars in damage and injured one person.
Benson County Sheriff Steve Rohrer says the blast about 3 a.m. Tuesday was caused by a furnace propane line that wasn’t properly sealed.
The injured man was taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries. He was not immediately identified.
Authorities say the other apartments in the building are safe to occupy.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Minot School District is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of people who vandalized a middle school under construction.
Superintendent Mark Vollmer says it will cost more than $100,000 to clean and repair Eric Ramstad Middle School following two vandalism incidents last week involving first paint and then fire.
The school will replace one destroyed by historic Souris River flooding in 2011. Vollmer says security at the construction site has been increased.
The new school is still scheduled to open after the Thanksgiving break. Classes for Ramstad students have been held in the Minot Municipal Auditorium the past two years.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven is asking agriculture producers in the state to lobby lawmakers from “urban and suburban” areas of the country about passing a farm bill.
Hoeven has spent the last two days in North Dakota talking with state representatives of farm groups. He met with about 20 people Wednesday in Fargo.
Hoeven is one of the farm bill negotiators for the Senate, which has approved a bipartisan five-year bill to govern farm programs and food stamps. The Republican-controlled House doesn’t like the Senate version and has refused to name conferees.
The North Dakota senator says Congress needs to get some of “those borderline guys” to support a farm bill and tells local ag leaders not to shy away from reform ideas.
GRANVILLE, N.D. (AP) – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is introducing a program to help landowners enhance their property and restore habitat damaged by overland flooding, erosion and infestation by noxious and invasive species.
Goehring says the Land Enhancement and Habitat Renewal Program will provide up to 50 percent reimbursement of most costs associated with reclamation, landscaping, soil conditioning, revegetation and weed control.
Goehring announced the new program Wednesday during a public meeting in Granville, where many area farms were heavily impacted by the 2011 Souris River floods.
Proposed projects must involve land that has at least 10 percent woody vegetation or be adjacent to wooded vegetation.
In world and national news…
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s interior minister says 43 policemen have been killed in clashes with supporters of the ousted Islamist president. That raises the overall death toll for Wednesday to nearly 200. The interior minister says Mohammed Morsi’s supporters stormed 21 police stations and damaged or torched seven churches across the nation. He said they also stormed the Finance Ministry in Cairo and occupied its ground floor. The Health Ministry said 149 civilians also were killed in the clashes.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Tensions are high and expectations are low as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators begin their first substantive round of peace talks in nearly five years. They got together Wednesday at an undisclosed location in Jerusalem. But even ahead of the meeting, there were new signs of trouble. The Palestinians said the talks could be doomed by Israel’s new push to build hundreds of homes in Jewish settlements.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says it’s been “an extraordinarily difficult time” for his family. He was in court Wednesday to see his son, former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., sentenced to two and a-half years in prison. The younger Jackson had pleaded guilty in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign money on TVs, restaurant dinners, an expensive watch and other costly personal items. His wife received a sentence of one year on a tax charge.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Witnesses say they saw flames coming from a cargo plane before it crashed this morning in Birmingham, Alabama. And they say they heard its engines struggle as the plane flew overhead at tree level. The UPS cargo plane crashed into a field near the Birmingham airport, killing two pilots and scattering wreckage over a rural area.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Jackson’s ex-wife has been testifying in Los Angeles Wednesday about the singer’s fear of pain and the trust he placed in doctors. Debbie Rowe took the witness stand in a negligence lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother against a concert promoter in connection with his death. Rowe says Jackson trusted doctors to prescribe pain medication, but that the doctors sometimes tried to out-do each other, while losing sight of Jackson’s care.
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