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CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. AREAS OF FOG LATE IN THE MORNING.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. WEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW
IN THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE
UPPER 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 20S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15. HIGHS
IN THE MID 20S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO 15. HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 20S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20.
HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
.FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS SATURDAY
NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE.
BEHIND THE FRONT VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL SURGE SOUTH ACROSS
WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT…AND WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. HIGHS IN THE TEENS AND 20S…AND LOWS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS ARE EXPECTED. WIND CHILL
TEMPERATURES BELOW ZERO WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT AS WELL.
Jamestown, (CSi) – The Jamestown Rural Fire Department was called to a shop fire in rural southeast Jamestown about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, two miles east of Hillcrest Golf Course.
The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reports a shop on the property was fully engulfed in flames when the units arrived.
The shop’s owner Jim Madsen says no one was home when the fire started.
Otter Tail Power Co. was on scene to cut off electricity to the property, and Montana-Dakota Utilities was there to cut off the gas.
Rural Fire Chief Rick Woehl says firefighters were on the scene for about two and a half hours.
The shop was destroyed.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Jamestown Rural Fire Department, with the estimated damage to the shop at about $50,000, not including the value of the contents.
The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office, North Dakota Highway Patrol and Jamestown Police Department were also at the scene.
Then 10 minutes after firefighters arrived at the shop fire scene, they were called to another fire, a small grass fire on Interstate 94, near the Spiritwood exit.
The Rural Fire Department sent two pickups to the second scene, and the grass fire was extinguished in about 10 minutes.
Jamestown (CSi) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol reported a rollover accident that occurred just after 9-a.m., Wednesday on I-94, at mile marker 240 between Cleveland and Windsor.
33 year old Katey Richter-Kappenman of Bismarck was operating a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer westbound at approximately 75 miles per hour on frost-covered roads. The driver crossed an overpass and lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle entered the median, rolled and continued sliding across both eastbound lanes, coming to rest in the south ditch.
She was not injured and was wearing a seatbelt.
Her passengers a three year old boy, and two year old girl also of Bismarck were not injured. The children were secured in car seats.
Jamestown Ambulance Service responded to the call.
The frost-covered roads were a factor in two additional property crashes this morning on I-94. Drivers are encouraged to continue to buckle up, slow down and remove cruise control as the winter driving season begins.
JAMESTOWN (AP, CSi) – Jamestown’s police chief says authorities plan terrorizing charges against a student who allegedly made threats that led to a brief lockdown of the University of Jamestown campus last week.
Chief Scott Edinger says the student is being evaluated at the state mental hospital. No charges will be filed until that is complete.
The 18-year-old student from California allegedly threatened to kill three students and drink their blood as part of a satanic ritual. The alleged threats last Thursday led to a half-hour lockdown of the campus while authorities searched for the student.
The student’s father tells The Jamestown Sun that his son was just joking around, and that his son has been expelled over the misunderstanding.
While in Jamestown, Ronald Flores has been in contact with Jamestown police and UJ officials.
The school won’t confirm that because of privacy rules.
The Flores’ are from Thousand Oaks, Calif., an outer suburb of Los Angeles.
Ronald Flores said Tuesday, “We just kid around. It’s like a punk thing. It’s like a goth thing. It’s just a thing in Los Angeles.”
Valley City, ND (CSi) — Valley City police reports, a second suspect has been arrested in connection with one of several late September Valley City church burglaries.
25 year old Andrew Miklas of Valley City was detained near Hillsboro on Thursday night.
Miklas is being held at Cass County Jail, charged with criminal conspiracy to commit burglary in Barnes County and possession of stolen property in Traill County. All charges are Class C felonies.
Miklas will be sent to Traill County first, then to Barnes County.
Miklas’ original arrest warrant from Valley City police was for charges of burglary, which is a felony, and theft of property, a misdemeanor.
Valley City police issued arrest warrants October 30th, for Miklas and 18 year old Nicole Lindermann, of Kathryn, in connection with a burglary at Faith Lutheran Church, in Valley City.
Lindermann turned herself in October 30, 2013 and was released from the Barnes County Jail on a $4,000 unsecured appearance bond.
Miklas and Linderman were arrested Thursday night, after Hillsboro Police received a call about two suspicious people staying at the Hillsboro Inn. The vehicle the people had arrived in was stolen out of Hannaford and matched the description of a vehicle used in a burglary in Aneta.
A second vehicle was found stolen out of Casselton.
Miklas and Lindermann were arrested for possession of stolen property, resisting arrest and outstanding warrants for burglary.
Lindermann is being held in the Cass County Jail, charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.
Miklas is being held at the Cass County Jail on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit burglary in Barnes County and possession of stolen property in Traill County, Class C felonies,
A series of church burglaries happened during the weekend of September 28 and 29 this year. Trinity Lutheran Church, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and the Congregational Church of Christ were burglarized that weekend, along with Faith Lutheran. The Valley City Public Library was also burglarized that weekend.
Valley City police have said the church burglaries appear to be related, based on observations at the scenes.
It is unclear if the church burglaries are related to an arson fire at Faith Lutheran Church Oct. 21. The fire caused about $2.2 million in damage and is under investigation by Valley City police and state and federal investigators.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Public Service Commission has approved a $350 million, 200 megawatt wind farm in the southeastern part of the state.
The PSC approved Geronimo Energy’s Courtenay Wind Farm on Wednesday. The commission’s action came after the company agreed to delete nine of the proposed 136 turbines from its plan after safety concerns were brought up by owners of a nearby crop-spraying business, at public hearing on the project July 12 in Jamestown.
The crop sprayers worried that the turbines were too close to their private runway in Stutsman County.
The entire project covers about 21,000 acres, or about 33 square miles. Developers hope to begin construction later this year, with completion done by late 2014.
Xcel Energy Inc. has agreed to purchase all power produced from the wind farm.
Cooperstown (CSi) — Authorities are investigating the shooting of a horse south of Cooperstown that occurred on Tuesday morning.
The owner, Kim Damsgard found her horse, “Buckskin,” lying half frozen in a pond shot through the neck.
A Cass County Sheriff’s Department detective is investigating the shooting, and a separate open case of three or four cattle that were reported shot within the past month in Cass County
Damsgard says a hunter may have mistaken the buckskin-colored horse for a deer.
Investigators plan to take a metal detector to the area today to see if they can recover a slug.
Valley City (CSi) — VCSU is hosting “Tuskegee Airmen,” historian, Ron Spriggs, with his presentation of the “Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen,”
The program is Thursday (Nov 14, 2013) from 4-p.m., to 5:30-p.m., at Froemke Auditorium inside Foss Music Hall.
A segregated unit, The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots in World War II, ttrained at the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Ron Spriggs is an oral historian, lecturer and curator of the Tuskegee Airmen exhibit.
Spriggs founded the Ron Spriggs Exhibit of Tuskegee Airmen in December 2002 as an independent means of telling the history and legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.
NOONAN, N.D. (AP) – The Highway Patrol has released the names of two men killed when a pickup and delivery truck collided in northwestern North Dakota.
It happened late Tuesday afternoon on state Highway 5 about 3 miles west of Noonan.
Authorities say 43-year-old Brent McCollum, of Crosby, was driving home when his pickup crossed the center line and struck the tractor-trailer head-on. Thirty-year-old Barry Morris, of Williston, was driving the Freightliner.
Both drivers died at the scene.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo man suspected of dealing large quantities of methamphetamine is facing a federal complaint. Court documents say Brian Anderson was arrested in July after selling four grams of meth to an informant for $800. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 26th.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say defense attorneys for a man sentenced to death for killing a University of North Dakota student were “zealous advocates” for their client who grilled witnesses and sought to exclude numerous pieces of evidence.
The 417-page document filed Wednesday is a response to what is considered the final appeal for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., convicted for kidnapping and killing Dru Sjodin (shuh-DEEN’), of Pequot Lakes, Minn., in 2003. Rodriguez sits on death row in Indiana.
Rodriguez’s appeal claims, among other things, that he is mentally disabled and his lawyers did a poor job of defending him. The appeal asks that the sentence be thrown out or amended.
U.S. attorneys say the verdict “speaks to the strength of the prosecution’s case, rather than a failure of the defense team.”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man whose murder conspiracy conviction was overturned by the North Dakota Supreme Court has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison on a murder charge.
The Bismarck Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/187rx7Z ) that 31-year-old Richard Whitman was charged, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Wednesday, in a streamlined hearing.
A jury in June 2012 convicted Whitman and Cody Borner of conspiracy to commit murder in the January 2012 shooting death in Beulah of Mike Padilla, of Billings, Mont. Padilla’s brother, Timothy, was wounded in the shooting that authorities say resulted from a drug-fueled dispute.
The Supreme Court overturned the convictions because of improper charging documents but said the men could be charged again. Borner faces a Nov. 27 preliminary hearing on new charges of terrorizing, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – No one was hurt when a drunken driving suspect rammed a Fargo police officer’s squad car.
The incident happened early Thursday during a traffic stop. As the officer questioned the driver, the driver sped off and slammed into the unoccupied police car, damaging the left rear side.
The 20-year-old Fargo man was arrested on nearly a dozen charges. Police say he had been cruising through his ex-girlfriend’s neighborhood, squealing his tires and playing loud music.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal health officials vowed that the new federally-run online health exchanges would improve, after releasing a report showing applicants had little success in enrolling for new plans in the exchanges’ first month. The report released yesterday showed that just 42 of the 969 completed applications from North Dakota were successful.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The mayor of North Dakota’s largest city says he’s leaning toward seeking a third four-year term.
Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker says he’s “seriously considering” a re-election bid next year. If he does win a third term, it will be his last because of city term limits.
Walaker says he’ll make a formal announcement of his intentions by the end of this year.
Two city commissioners – Brad Wimmer and Tim Mahoney – also have said they might run.
By The Associated Press
The Air Force is beefing up its hiring process for nuclear commanders.
The process will now include a review of candidates’ potential physical and mental health issues, and even a simple Google search.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh says the change was initiated as the Air Force searched for a successor to Maj. Gen. Michael Carey. He was fired in October for misbehavior as commander of 20th Air Force, which is responsible for all 450 of the Air Force’s Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.
The removal of Carey came amid a series of disclosures by The Associated Press about security and leadership lapses, morale problems, training flaws, and an assertion by one midlevel nuclear officer that he had found “rot” inside his unit at Minot Air Force Base.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Land Board has awarded $12.2 million in state grants to fire departments and emergency medical services providers in North Dakota’s oil-production region.
Officials say the money includes about $5.2 million to enhance the region’s emergency medical services and about $7 million for rural fire districts.
The grant money is going to communities that include Watford City, Beach, Dickinson, Williston, Wildrose, Tioga and Stanley.
Over the next two years, the Land Board is slated to award about $240 million in impact grants to counties experiencing rapid growth from the state’s oil boom.
The Land Board is headed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
In sports…
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Ricky Rubio had 16 points and 16 assists last night to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves past the Cleveland Cavaliers 124-95. Kevin Love added 33 points and Corey Brewer had 27 for the Timberwolves. Kyrie Irving led the Cavaliers with 20 points.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The Utah Jazz are the last team to record a win this NBA season after beating New Orleans 111-105.
Final OT Philadelphia 123 Houston 117
Final Orlando 94 Milwaukee 91
Final Charlotte 89 Boston 83
Final New York 95 Atlanta 91
Final Toronto 103 Memphis 87
Final San Antonio 92 Washington 79
Final Denver 111 L-A Lakers 99
Final Sacramento 107 Brooklyn 86
Final Portland 90 Phoenix 89
Final L-A Clippers 111 Oklahoma City 103
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Zach Parise and Jason Pominville scored in the shootout last night to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Parise tied the game in the third period for Minnesota. Josh Harding had 19 saves for the Wild in relief of Niklas Backstrom.
Final Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 1
Final Dallas 3 Edmonton 0
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Aaron Anderson scored 23 points last night as North Dakota routed Minnesota-Morris 110-69. Troy Huff, Lenny Antwi, Quinton Hooker and Jaron Nash also scored in double figures for North Dakota. Kevin Heysee led the Cougars with nine points and four rebounds.
TOP-25 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (18) Oregon 107 W. Carolina 83
TOP-25 WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final ( 7) Kentucky 103 Georgia Southern 38
Final (16) Texas A&M 76 Prairie View 27
Final (18) Purdue 76 IUPUI 56
Final (22) Iowa St. 88 South Dakota 72
NHL…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – The Buffalo Sabres fired long-time general manager Darcy Regier (reh-GEER’) and rookie coach Ron Rolston after the team opened the season with a league-worst 4-15-1 record. Former Sabres star and Hall of Famer Pat Lafontaine has been named director of hockey operations and Ted Nolan returns as the Sabres interim coach through the end of the season.
MLB…
NEW YORK (AP) – Detroit’s Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers are the runaway winners of the AL and NL Cy Young Awards, respectively. Scherzer led the majors with 21 wins this season while Kershaw topped the big leagues with a 1.83 ERA, the lowest in 13 years.
In world and national news…
TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) – The arrival of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its strike force in the Philippine Sea adds 21 helicopters which can help reach some of the most inaccessible areas of the typhoon-devastated region. As the relief effort gathers momentum, workers in the shattered city of Tacloban (tahk-LOH’-bahn) have begun to bury the dead.
BAGHDAD (AP) – A somber Shiite Muslim religious ritual in eastern Iraq is once again the target of a suicide bomber. Iraqi officials say at least 22 people died when the bomber set off his explosives. The Shiites were observing the annual commemoration of the 7th century death of Prophet Mohammed’s grandson. It’s often a target of Sunni extremists who consider Shiites to be heretics.
CAIRO (AP) – Russia’s foreign minister says world powers got ever-so-close to a deal with Iran last week in Geneva. Sergey Lavrov (SEHR’-gay LAHV’-rahf) says Iran had accepted a U.S.-draft proposal on a nuclear deal, but last-minute amendments blocked an accord. His account fits with comments from Iran and world powers. Lavrov did not mention which country got in the way. Others, however, say France raised some concerns.
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s foreign minister says Cairo is not trying to replace the United States as its key ally, despite speculation generated by a rare top-level Russian visit today. Nabil Fahmy (nah-BEEL’ FAH’-mee) says Cairo would like to boost ties with Moscow but it’s not indicative of a major policy shift.
ROME (AP) – There was no pomp and no pope-mobile today when Pope Francis made his first state visit to the Italian president, a tradition usually marked with great ceremony. The pontiff declined a presidential guard escort and arrived in a small motorcade riding in his own Ford Focus.
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