CSi Weather…

.REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF FLURRIES EARLY IN THE
MORNING. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. WEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO
THE NORTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. WIND CHILLS AROUND
20 BELOW.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 35 BELOW.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. WEST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 35 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN
THE EVENING. LOWS NEAR ZERO. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS 15 TO 20. WEST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SNOW. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW.
.SATURDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS NEAR
ZERO.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SNOW. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
15 TO 20.

WELL BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK WITH
 PERIODIC HAZARDOUS WIND CHILL AS LOW AS 40 BELOW ZERO…ESPECIALLY
 DURING THE LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME LIGHT SNOW IS
 POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN ON THURSDAY…BUT TOTAL
 ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BE AN INCH OR LESS IN EACH INSTANCE.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The start of construction on the rail loop at the Spiritwood Energy Park could begin next spring.

The SEPA Board of Directors authorized advertising for bids for rail materials, ground preparation, installation and construction.

The rail loop will cover the 550-acre industrial park near Spiritwood. Plans for the industrial park.

Costs for the SEPA industrial park, including the rail loop, roads and other infrastructure is estimated at $7.5 million. The Jamestown/ Stutsman Development Corp. is making a $3.75 million investment with the other funds secured by GRE.

The awarding of the bids later this month willcoincide with the finalization of financing for the Dakota Spirit AgEnergy ethanol plant that will utilize the rail loop.

The ethanol plant is owned by GRE and will be the anchor tenant of the industrial park,

Dakota Spirit AgEnergy held an official groundbreaking on Aug. 10.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board has voted to accept a 25-year concept plan involving land use around Jamestown High School.

It includes a location for ball fields and the projected Two Rivers Activity Center.

School Board member Roy Musland, says he hopes the James River Valley Library System would consider locating in the TRAC building.

The School Board, Monday also talked about the possibility of creating school calendars for two years at a time rather than one, and discussed the state voter initiative to start school after Labor Day statewide.

In 2014, that would mean starting after the first Monday in September — Sept. 1 —but in 2015, it would mean starting after Sept. 7.

 

 OAKES, N.D. (AP) – A prosecutor has decided against filing any charges against the high school principal and athletic director in the southeastern North Dakota town of Oakes.
 
     Don Warren resigned late last month after being accused of twice entering the home of a student without permission after the student didn’t show up for class, and of making verbal threats to the boy in a classroom.
 
     Dickey County State’s Attorney Gary Neuharth says he considered at least half a dozen possible charges but decided against taking any criminal action. He did not give specific reasons for his decision.
 
     A Facebook page started in support of Warren has more than 460 members.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) has asked the state Department of Labor and Human Rights to dismiss a complaint filed by a white supremacist.
 
     Stenehjem said during a radio news interview last month that Craig Cobb and his supporters “are not the kind of people wanted in North Dakota.” Cobb alleges that’s discrimination.
 
     Stenehjem says he has the right under the First Amendment to express his views just like any other citizen.
 
     Cobb has bought land in the small town of Leith (leeth) and is trying to turn it into an Aryan enclave. He’s currently in custody on terrorizing charges and does not have an attorney. No one has been answering his cellphone.

 

 WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A caregiver and seven children escaped a small fire in a West Fargo mobile home daycare.
 
     The Forum reports that the kids were huddled in a sport utility vehicle as firefighters arrived about 10:15 a.m. Monday. A nearby sanitation worker who’s also a volunteer firefighter heard the call and responded.
 
     West Fargo Fire Chief Roy Schatschneider says the firefighter went inside, grabbed the burning material and hauled it outside. The firefighter then took shovels of snow inside to extinguish the burning carpet.
 
     Schatschneider says the fire started in a bedroom in an electrical outlet shared by a heater and radio. The wires shorted out, igniting a pair of blue jeans on the floor.
 
     He says there were no injuries, but the blaze left a smoky smell.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A mule deer shot by a hunter in western Grant County in southwestern North Dakota has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
 
     The testing done at Michigan State University is being verified by a national lab in Ames, Iowa.
 
     It is the fourth deer killed in the 3F2 hunting unit to test positive for the disease in the past five years. Infected mule deer were killed in 2009, 2010 and 2011, all in the same general area.
 
     CWD affects the nervous system of members of the deer family and is always fatal. The state Game and Fish Department has been monitoring for it since 2002 through samples taken from hunter-harvested deer.
 
     Scientists have found no evidence that the disease can be transmitted naturally to people or livestock.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A 14-year-old Bismarck boy who was shot in the eye while pheasant hunting has survived to celebrate his birthday Sunday and Christmas later this month.
 
     Kaelan Macdonald and his family spent three weeks, including Thanksgiving, in a hospital in St. Paul, Minn. Father Russell Macdonald says he and his son were deer hunting with two others Nov. 14 southeast of Bismarck when Kaelan was accidentally shot by a family friend.
 
     Kaelan was taken to a Bismarck hospital, where he had trouble speaking and moving his right arm and leg. He was transferred to the St. Paul hospital, where he underwent a six-hour operation to prevent a massive stroke.
 
     The shotgun pellet still remains in Kaelan’s brain.  He was released from the hospital Friday.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State health officials say a spill of oil and saltwater in western North Dakota’s Billings County has been contained but that some of the brine and oil reached a tributary of the Little Missouri River.
 
     The state Health Department says the spill about 15 miles northwest of Medora was reported Sunday by BTA Oil Producers. Officials estimate the size at 650 barrels, or more than 27,000 gallons. The department did not immediately say how much reached the waterway or whether any environmental damage resulted.
 
     The spill happened on private land and federal land. The state Health Department and the U.S. Forest Service both will oversee the cleanup.

 

  GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The Alerus Center in Grand Forks is negotiating to buy several lots adjacent to the city-owned events center.
 
  Officials don’t yet have a specific use in mind for the land. Minutes from a Grand Forks Events Center Commission committee meeting in October say that will depend on “what the other competitor cities do.”
 
     Commissioners say the group wants to ensure the facility has room to grow. The area where the Alerus Center is has seen a building boom in recent years with several new hotels, a strip mall and several office buildings.
 
     Commissioner John Schmisek says if lots adjacent to the center are purchased by companies or other developers, the Alerus could become landlocked with no room for expansion.

 

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) – An increase in freight traffic and hundreds of millions of dollars in improvements on BNSF Railway tracks across North Dakota and Montana combined to make Amtrak travel less-than-reliable in recent months.
 
     The Flathead Beacon reports the eastbound Empire Builder, which travels from Chicago to Portland and Seattle, had a zero percent on-time performance during October.
 
     BNSF spokesman Matthew Jones says one of the main reasons for the delays are track improvements being made in the railroad’s northern route between the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest.
 
     Jones says there also are more oil trains and general freight trains running across the Hi-Line.
 
     Jones says the track repairs are wrapping up. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says the railroad is expecting to be able to improve its on-time performance.
 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – More than 300 handmade wooden ornaments decorate North Dakota’s state Christmas tree this year.
 
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple and first lady Betsy Dalrymple turned on lights that illuminate the 25-foot balsam fir during a ceremony Monday night in the Capitol’s Memorial Hall.
 
     While the Christmas tree ornaments are from North Dakota, the tree came from Wisconsin. It was purchased for about $700.
 
     Dalrymple spokeswoman Jody Link says it’s tough to find a tall North Dakota-grown Christmas tree.
 
     Outside, windows on the north and south side of the Capitol also are lit up with an outline Christmas trees.
 
     Facilities Management spokeswoman Ronda Berg says the Christmas tree window lighting began in the mid-1940s. Each side of the building has 20 red and 24 green shades to create the tree.
 

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) Carrington is the top seed for the Stutsman County Boys’ Basketball Tournament.

The Cardinals will play the opening game at the Jamestown Civic Center, Thursday against eighth-seeded Midkota-Kensal at 3 p.m.

Number four 4 Ellendale takes on fifth-seeded Medina-Pingree-Buchanan in the second game, followed by Number two Kidder County playing seventh-seeded Napoleon and Number three Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier and South Border playing in the final game Thursday night.

The tournament continues on Friday and concludes on Saturday.

 

Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, Quarterfinals
NDSU vs Coastal Carolina


Saturday, December 14th

11 a.m. on ESPN – CSi 14

Playoff tickets will go on sale Sunday, December 8th at noon and will be available at GoBison.com, in person at the Bison Sports Arena or by calling 701-231-NDSU. Season ticket holders have until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10th to purchase their same seats for the game. Any season tickets not purchased by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10th will go on sale to the general public beginning at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 11th

　

NEW YORK (AP) – Sarah Palin will be host of a weekly outdoors-oriented program starting next year on The Sportsman Channel, CSi Cable 60.

The network said Monday that Palin’s program, “Amazing America,” will debut in April and will celebrate the “red, wild and blue” lifestyle.

The hire is a bid by The Sportsman Channel to raise its profile. The network is in some 32 million homes, or less than one-third of American households with television, showcasing programs geared to fans of hunting, fishing and shooting.

Palin will be a teammate of rocker Ted Nugent, who has a hunting-oriented show on Sportsman.

 

 NATIONAL  FOOTBALL  LEAGUE

 CHICAGO (AP) – The Chicago Bears have pulled even with Detroit atop the NFC North by scoring on their first eight possessions in a 45-28 rout of the Dallas Cowboys. Josh McCown threw for 348 yards and a career-high four touchdowns, and he also ran for a TD while the Bears were building a 42-14 lead. DeMarco Murray rushed for 146 yards, but the Cowboys dropped to 7-6 and slipped one game behind NFC East-leading Philadelphia.
 Mike  Ditka’s jersey No. 89 was retired at halftime of the game, the 14th Bear to be so honored. Ditka was a member of the Bears’ last two championship teams, serving as tight end for the 1963 title squad and as head coach of the Super Bowl 20 winners.
    
 
       NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION
 
   Final    Denver                  75    Washington          74
   Final    Charlotte          115    Golden  State    111
   Final    L-A  Clippers      94    Philadelphia      83
   Final    Memphis                94    Orlando                85
   Final    Portland            105    Utah                      94
   Final    Sacramento        112    Dallas                  97
 
 
       NATIONAL  HOCKEY  LEAGUE
 
   Final            Pittsburgh      2    Columbus                1
   Final  2OT    Ottawa              5    Philadelphia        4  (SO  Ottawa  1-0)
   Final            Vancouver        2    Carolina                0
   Final            Anaheim            5    N-Y  Islanders      2
 
 
       TOP-25  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL
 
   Final    (23)  Iowa      92    Fairleigh  Dickinson      59
 
 
       TOP-25  WOMEN’S  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL
 
   Final    (  8)  Maryland    105    Siena      49

 

NFL…

 X-rays on Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson showed no broken bones in his right foot, but he was having a CT scan for further evaluation. He was injured in yesterday’s loss to Baltimore.

 

 TOP 25 MEN’S  BASKETBALL-POLL
 
     UNDATED (AP) – Arizona has moved up one spot to No. 1 in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, the Wildcats’ first top ranking since 2003. The 9-0 Wildcats received 63 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel.
 
     Second-ranked Syracuse is followed by Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State. The Spartans fell four spots from first following last week’s home loss to North Carolina.
 
     Louisville, Oklahoma State, Duke, Connecticut and Villanova round out the top 10. ‘Nova was unranked two polls ago.

 

Heisman Trophy

 NEW YORK (AP) – Four quarterbacks and two running backs are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy, to be awarded Saturday in New York. Florida State’s Jameis (JAYM’-ihs) Winston, Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch, Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel (man-ZEHL’) and Alabama’s AJ McCarron made the cut, as did Auburn’s Tre Mason and Andre Williams of Boston College. Winston is the overwhelming favorite to win the award now that a sexual assault complaint against him in Tallahassee, Fla., has been closed without charges being filed.

 

MLB..
 
     LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) – Retired managers Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox have been unanimously elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the expansion era committee.
 
     Each of the inductees won more than 2,000 games in managerial careers that spanned more than four decades. Torre became the fifth manager to win at least four World Series titles. La Russa won championships with Oakland and St. Louis. Cox led Atlanta to one championship and 14 straight division titles.
 
     They will be inducted July 27 in Cooperstown, N.Y., along with any players chosen by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

 

  UNDATED (AP) – Two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay has retired after 16 seasons in the major leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies. The 36-year-old right-hander cited a desire to avoid surgery for an ailing back and spend more time with his family. Halladay was 203-105 with a 3.38 ERA in 416 career games, including 390 starts.

 

In world and national news..

 JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Soweto was once the stronghold for South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement that Nelson Mandela embodied as a prisoner of white rule for 27 years. Today, its soccer stadium has been a place of celebration of the life of the Nobel winner and former president who died last week at age 95. Tens of thousands of people braved a steady cold rain to pay tribute along with world leaders and other dignitaries.

 
     JOHANNESBURG (AP) – President Barack Obama says Nelson Mandela was “a giant of history” who moved South Africa toward justice and inspired the world. As Obama walked to the podium, he and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands. Obama then spoke to a cheering crowd about the man many considered the father of the nation.
 
     CAIRO (AP) – A third straight day of student unrest at Egypt’s Islamic Al-Azhar University drew tear gas fire from police.  A security official says police were trying to prevent students from taking protests outside their campus.
 
     BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) – France has suffered its first military casualties during its military intervention in Central African Republic. Two French soldiers have been killed. French forces are trying to bring stability to a largely anarchic capital. A mob stoned to death a suspected enemy yesterday and armed fighters have abducted and killed hospital patients.
 
     LONDON (AP) – The actor known to millions as Gandalf in the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” films says he was advised by the British government to stay out of Russia because of the country’s anti-gay “propaganda” law. Actor Ian McKellen told Radio Times magazine that the Foreign Office had informed him “they couldn’t protect me from those laws.” A Foreign Office advisory notes “a degree of intolerance” of homosexuality in Russia.