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TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 20 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS AROUND 90. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
HEAT INDEX 90 TO 95.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. LOWS IN THE
UPPER 60S. EAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
60 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING. HIGHS AROUND 90. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
80S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.LABOR DAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. HIGHS IN
THE LOWER 80S.
MINTO, N.D. (AP) — Walsh County authorities say a 79-year-old Walsh County man was found dead at the scene of a reported tractor fire near Minto.
Minto fire crews extinguished the Monday evening blaze one mile east of Interstate 29 and less than a mile south of Walsh County Road 15. Firefighters then discovered the body of the driver inside the cab.
The name of the victim has not been released, and the body has been sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Bismarck.
The investigation is continuing
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say a man has been arraigned on civil rights and threat charges for threatening a synagogue in Fargo.
U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Jocelyn Samuels says Dominique Jason Flanigan was indicted under seal by a grand jury on Dec. 12 on charges of transmitting threatening communication and interfering with a federally protected activity.
The indictment alleges that Flanigan called Temple Beth El in Fargo in January 2011 and left a voice mail message threatening the employees of the synagogue. The indictment charges that the threat intimidated and interfered with Temple Beth El employees because of their religion.
Court records show that Flanigan was arrested on Monday. Attorney information for Flanigan was not listed.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The last airplane has departed from the North Dakota Air National Guard base in Fargo, after more than 65 years of flying missions.
The 119th Wing that was founded in 1947 has made the move to unmanned aircraft systems after flying fighter jets for 50 years and most recently transport planes.
The airmen for the unit have been known as the Happy Hooligans since the 1950s. Three of Hooligans in F-16 fighter planes patrolled the skies over Washington D.C. after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The last F-16 was flown from Fargo to McChord Air Force Base Museum near Tacoma, Wash., in December 2006, when the base switched to the C-21 Learjet.
The lone remaining C-21 took off from the Fargo base Tuesday morning.
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Rural airports in North Dakota that are seeing an increase in business because of the western oil boom are getting millions of dollars in state oil impact grants.
The state Legislature earlier this year approved $60 million over the two-year budget period to help deal with the growth. The state Aeronautics Commission is in charge of doling out the money.
Commission aviation planner Kyle Wanner says the Mohall airport is a good case study of what’s happening in western North Dakota. He says the small airport went from housing three airplanes to 25 within just one year.
Wanner says many small airports weren’t designed to handle such an increase, and they need money for improvements.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota Alumni Association and Foundation has a new leader.
A news conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday to announce the next CEO and executive vice president for the foundation, which is the fundraising arm of the university.
Tim O’Keefe, who has headed the organization for 11 years, plans to retire in March 2014.
UND President Robert Kelley and Kris Compton, head of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, are scheduled to speak at Tuesday’s event at the Gorecki Alumni Center.
In sports…
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The executive director of the 2013 Babe Ruth World Series says years of hard work planning for the event paid off and he couldn’t be more pleased with how Williston hosted the competition.
When area leaders began planning for the event several years ago, many were concerned that hotels in the western oil patch city would lack adequate space for incoming guests.
Larry Grondahl says that many more hotels have since been built, and space in the past year has become a non-issue.
Committee members will return to their jobs before beginning work in a year and a half on the next world series in 2016. Grondahl says for now, he’ll sit back and enjoy the memories and experiences of the 2013 event.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials have decided to hold off at least a year before starting a lottery for the paddlefish snagging season.
Lawmakers in the 2013 session passed a bill that allows the department to use the lottery for issuing paddlefish tags if and when needed.
Department fisheries chief Greg Power says biologists studied the 2013 season and determined that a lottery is not necessary in 2014.
Power says experts will continue to monitor the paddlefish population for possible regulatory changes.
A cap on the number of paddlefish caught per year was originally set at 1,500 in 1996, and reduced to 1,000 in 2003.
In world and national news..
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says any military action against Syria will be limited, and won’t be aimed at forcing Bashar Assad from power. The administration is getting ready to declare formally that chemical weapons have been used in Syria’s civil war. And White House spokesman Jay Carney says it would be “preposterous” to suggest that anyone other than the Syrian government was responsible for last week’s attack.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – Syria’s foreign minister is rejecting the U.S. allegation that Bashar Assad’s regime was behind a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The foreign minister compares the allegation to the U.S. claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion of that country in 2003. He says the United States has “a history of lies.”
TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. (AP) – The main attractions in the nearly 1,200-square-mile Yosemite National Park in California are still open as Labor Day weekend approaches. An eleven-day-old fire burning in and near the park has expanded in size to about 280 square miles — and the portion of the fire in Yosemite has doubled to about 64 square miles. But it’s still only burning in backcountry areas. The blaze is now the seventh-largest California wildfire in records dating back more than 80 years. Forecasters say an increase in humidity this afternoon could help suppress the flames.
WASHINGTON (AP) – In the first six months of the year, government agents in 74 countries demanded information from Facebook on about 38,000 of its users. And the company says about half of those orders came from authorities in the United States. Facebook and Twitter have become organizing platforms for activists — and as a result, they’ve become targets for governments.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – For the first time in more than six months, Sarah Murnaghan (MUR’-nuh-han) is back home. The 11-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis received two sets of lungs this summer in Philadelphia. She received the transplants after her parents went to federal court to challenge national transplant rules that put her at the end of the waiting list for adult lungs.
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