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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS
AROUND 20. NORTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW 50 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 20 BELOW.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. WEST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND
20 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. SOUTH WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. NOT AS COLD. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
SOUTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS
AROUND 10. HIGHS AROUND 20.
.THANKSGIVING DAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SNOW. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
A NARROW BAND OF LIGHT SNOW ALONG A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL DROP THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. WHILE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN AN INCH INCREASING NORTH WINDS AND SNOW SHOWERS MAY COMBINE TO BRIEFLY REDUCE VISIBILITY IN OPEN AREAS.
With the Jamestown Sanitary Sewer Project, Interstate Engineering reported Friday afternoon that 3rd Street SE is open from 11th Ave SE to Railroad Drive E.
Jamestown (CSi) — The James River Valley Library System, Development Director, Bill Kennedy is in the process of sending out letters, and E-Mails soliciting support of a new library.
He says about a thousand of the mailings and E-Mails will be sent to a cross section of the Jamestown community, businesses, service clubs and individuals.
The response Kennedy is looking for should start with “I’m in support of a new library in Jamestown.”
Kennedy says he hopes to get a 5% to 8% response, with why they support a new library and perhaps stories they have to tell as to why a library has been, and is, an important part of their lives.
He adds that the goal continues to be to have support for the on-going effort for a new Jamestown library, and to educate the community members on the importance of libraries and specifically a new library in Jamestown.
He says that those responding need…not…indicate a choice of location for a new library.
Reponses may be included in blogs, and social media.
Kennedy says anyone not receiving a letter or E-Mail may send an E-Mail to him indicating their support. His E-Mail address is
Valley City (CSi) — The Valley City holiday, Parade of Lights is set for Friday December 6, 2013.
Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce, Executive, Kay Vinje says the parade starts at 6-p.m., along Central Avenue.
Following the parade the Christmas tree lighting will take place at N.P. Park.
After those festivities a Christmas movie will be shown at 7-p.m., at the Vault.
She points out that pictures with Santa, available at Dutton’s Parlor.
Bring your own camera for picture taking.
Valley City (CSi) A river bank erosion study of the Sheyenne River in Valley City,
shows two major flooding events along with Devils Lake water being released in the summer months have all combined to cause damage to the river bank.
The study by engineers from URS Corporation is completed.
The Valley City commission previously approved of spending $60,000 for the comprehensive study of the Sheyenne River banks.
Valley City Commissioner Madaline Luke says the results will be available on the city of Valley City’s website in the near future.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Burleigh County deputies have taken a suspect into custody in connection with a threat that temporarily locked down the University of Mary in Bismarck.
The sheriff’s department confirmed a student posted a violent threat on Facebook on Friday that referred to the Virginia Tech shootings.
Authorities say the suspect was found in town.
Numerous students earlier reported receiving a text message from U-Mary telling them to take shelter in a safe, locked room.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The former head of a Bismarck nonprofit organization must perform 100 hours of community service for embezzling money.
Thirty-one-year-old David Mau pleaded guilty in September to forgery or counterfeiting and theft of property. An additional theft count was dismissed.
South Central District Judge David Reich gave Mau a suspended one-year jail term and three years of supervised probation, during which he must pay restitution and court fees and perform the community service.
Mau was executive director of the Arc of Bismarck, a nonprofit that provides education, advocacy and support for people with disabilities. Restitution will be determined later but is likely to total more than $7,500.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The leader of the National Socialist Movement says the group may help defend a North Dakota white supremacist against terrorizing charges.
Jeff Schoep (skoop) says he doesn’t know all the details of an incident that resulted in Craig Cobb’s arrest last weekend, but he’ll be reviewing videotape to see if Cobb was treated fairly.
Cobb could be imprisoned for up to 35 years if convicted. He first said he would defend himself, but has since been appointed public defenders.
Cobb wants to turn the small town of Leith into an Aryan enclave. He’s accused of terrorizing residents with guns. He says he was patrolling the town because of violence and harassment directed at him.
Schoep traveled to Leith in September to hold a town meeting in support of Cobb.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Bond has been set at $50,000 for a North Dakota inmate who escaped from custody and was recaptured in Montana.
Preston Sonstegaard, of Williston, faces a felony escape charge that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison upon conviction. Court documents do not list an attorney for him.
Williams County authorities say Sonstegaard was being held for violating probation when he escaped custody on Oct. 1 while being treated at a Williston hospital. He was captured in Glendive, Mont., a week later.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Bond has been set at half a million dollars for a man accused in a fatal stabbing west of Grand Forks.
Twenty-one-year-old Joe Saucedo is charged with felony murder and conspiracy to commit burglary in the death of 33-year-old Ruben Cisneros, of Grand Forks. He was found Sunday stabbed to death at a farm house.
Court documents don’t list an attorney for Saucedo, who’s from Tucker, Ga. He’s due to enter a plea Jan. 10, or on Dec. 23 if he waives his preliminary hearing.
The Grand Forks Herald reports Saucedo told a judge he came to the area about 1 1/2 months ago and is homeless. He could face life in prison without parole if convicted.
Three other people are charged in the case with conspiracy to commit burglary.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota is getting nearly $85,000 through a multi-state settlement with the Aviva life insurance company.
The settlement results from an investigation into the practices of the 40 largest life insurers. The new owners of Aviva’s life insurance business have agreed to a number of reforms, including using the Social Security Administration’s death master file to search for deceased life insurance policyholders so beneficiaries are paid.
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says the settlement calls for Iowa-based Aviva Life and Annuity Company and Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York to pay $4 million.
By DAVE KOLPACK
Associated Press
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – An investigation into people smuggling that began last spring when federal authorities thwarted an illegal entry in a remote part of northwestern North Dakota has resulted in another indictment, this time by Canadian authorities.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials say they have charged Jose Maria Gonzales-Vasquez with conspiring along with Darwin Cantarero-Sanchez to help eight people illegally cross the border near Sherwood in April.
Cantatero-Sanchez pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and improper entry by an alien. He was sentenced to a year in prison.
Authorities say the “smuggler for hire” operation was based out of Montreal.
U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says the charges by prosecutors on both sides of the border are the result of “tremendous cooperation” between law enforcement agencies in the two countries.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the North Dakota University System was at fault in an open records dispute over deleted emails of North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani (bruh-SHAW’-nee).
The state Legislative Council had requested to review Bresciani’s emails in the midst of a controversy involving former Chancellor Hamid Shirvani, whose contract was bought out by the state Board of Higher Education.
Stenehjem says the University System located and made a copy of more than 43,000 of the deleted emails, but failed to provide them to the Legislative Council in a timely fashion. Stenehjem says that’s a violation of open records law.
Bresciani denied accusations that the emails were intentionally deleted and said it was part of an auto-purge function. Stenehjem says there’s no way of resolving that issue.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota officials say more than half of a $1 million state grant given to Northern Beef Packers to cover construction and equipment costs was improperly diverted to pay immigration loan monitoring fees.
Attorney General Marty Jackley says $550,000 of the 2011 check issued by the Department of Tourism was used to pay the fees for SDRC Inc., a private company contracted by the state to handle federal EB-5 investments.
The EB-5 investment-for-green-cards immigration program helped fund the failed beef plant in Aberdeen and other large projects.
Jackley’s investigation also found that former economic development director Richard Benda double billed the state for two flights to China and one to Las Vegas.
Benda was found dead Oct. 22 with a shotgun wound to his abdomen. Officials ruled it a suicide.
AMIDON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s least-populated county is building a $4 million courthouse.
The dirt work has begun for the new facility in the Slope County seat of Amidon. It will replace a 1917 structure that is the last remaining wood-frame courthouse in North Dakota.
The existing courthouse needs major upgrades, and doesn’t even have space for a jury in its courtroom.
The new courthouse is expected to be ready next September. County Auditor Lorrie Buzalsky says hopefully it will last a century, like its predecessor.
Slope County, in southwestern North Dakota, has only about 750 residents, but officials say the county has enough money to pay for the new courthouse.
In sports…
Jamestown High School Activities Director, Jim Roaldson says Saturday evening’s Blue Jay Boys hockey game at Hazen/Beulah has been postponed due to lack of officials. A make-up date will be scheduled at a later time.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The next head coach of the University of North Dakota football team will earn more money than his fired predecessor.
The Grand Forks Herald reports that the minimum salary for the position is $150,000, about $25,000 more than Chris Mussman was making when he was fired Monday.
UND ranked 11th out of the 13 Big Sky Conference schools when it came to pay for head football coaches this year. Athletic Director Brian Faison says UND “absolutely” has to offer a higher salary.
The application deadline is Dec. 10. The job description says candidates must have the “ability to develop a nationally competitive NCAA Division I FCS program.”
Mussman won only 31 games in his six seasons at UND, which included the school’s transition from the NCAA Division II ranks.
In world and national news…
DALLAS (AP) – Americans Friday paused to remember John F. Kennedy, 50 years after he was gunned down in Dallas while riding in an open-top limousine. In Dealey Plaza in Dallas, just steps from where the president was assassinated, about 5,000 people gathered under gray skies in near-freezing temperatures. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings recalled the day when, in his words, “hope and hatred collided.” He said Kennedy and Dallas “will forever be linked in tragedy.”
DALLAS (AP) – Those who believe John F. Kennedy’s assassination was part of a conspiracy haven’t been silent on this 50th anniversary of his death. Several of them demonstrated during Friday’s ceremony in Dallas. They wore T-shirts showing Kennedy’s image on the half-dollar coin with a bullet hole, and they silently pointed to the “grassy knoll” from where some conspiracy theorists believe shots were fired.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – The woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend. A jury deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching their verdict in the trial of Crystal Mangum, who was sentenced to between 14 years and 18 years in prison. In 2006, Mangum claimed Duke lacrosse players gang raped her at a team party where she was hired as a stripper. The three arrested were eventually declared innocent by North Carolina’s attorney general after Mangum’s story crumbled and her mental stability was questioned.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) – The wife of an 85-year-old Korean War veteran who’s been detained in North Korea is pleading with authorities there to let her husband return home. Lee Newman said in a statement released from a California retirement community that the family believes a misunderstanding led to his detention. Her husband, Merrill Newman, was supposed to end a 10 day tour of North Korea on Oct. 26. She says that just before he was slated to fly out, he was escorted from his flight by a North Korean official.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – As New Jersey casinos do a five-night trial run for online betting, technology is in place aimed at making sure the people who are wagering are doing so from within the borders of New Jersey. But that didn’t stop a lot of others from trying. A company that is providing that technology to the casinos says people from at least 23 states tried to log onto casino gambling websites last night. The technology also locked out many people who were actually in New Jersey and should have been allowed to gamble.
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