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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.TONIGHT…SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH RAIN IN THE EVENING…THEN
SNOW LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. BREEZY. SNOW ACCUMULATION 1-2  INCHES. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. EAST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
.WEDNESDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. BREEZY.
HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH.

SNOW WILL TAPER OFF BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTH WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH DECREASING TO AROUND 10 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH
SNOW IN THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE LOWER 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN THE
MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS AROUND 50.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER
30S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.MONDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.

 TUES EVENING AND WEDNESDAY, EASTERLY WINDS WILL GUST AT TIMES TO 25 MPH…
 POSSIBLY CREATING ISOLATED AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) has learned that a prospective business planning to build near Jamestown, has backed out on their plans.

Ambassador Steel Corporation had planned on purchasing land in the JSDC industrial park near Cavendish Farms.

Concerns centered on easements with BNSF Railway

The JSDC Board has pledged $100,000 over four years for a proposed manufacturing training center.

The project is to recruit high school students for careers in manufacturing and provide educational opportunities designed to help them fit into regional industries.

The project is a partnership of the North Dakota State College of Science, area businesses and economic development groups.

The project includes hiring a business developer and one or two recruiters.

The students could be educated at the NDSCS campus at Wahpeton or in specialized training hosted by industries in other communities.

　

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission has tabled action on a plat for Country Side Estates Addition.

The vote to table the plat passed on a 6-2 vote with Harley Trefz and Corey Bayer voting in opposition.

The Addition is planned to the north and west of 17th Street and 17th Avenue Southwest.

The parcel is presently farmed outside Jamestown city limits but within the one-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction where the city holds zoning and planning rights.

The action moves consideration on the plat to the Jamestown Building, Planning and Zoning Committee without recommendation for its April 22 meeting.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Help raise funds for Prairie Paws Rescue in Jamestown on Saturday April 19, 2014 from 11-a.m., to 2-p.m., at Hardee’s Restaurant in Jamestown.

Prairie Paws Rescue founder, Kaye John says the event, “Lunch With The Bunny,” includes pictures taken with the bunny (bring your camera) and a portion of the meal receipts at Hardees’s from 11-a.m., to 2-p.m., will go to Prairie Paws Rescue.

 

Valley City (CSi) Valley City State University presents the Third Annual Earth Day Festival on Tuesday April 22, 2014, from 5:30-p.m., to 9-p.m., at Medicine Wheel Park in Valley City.

There will be vendors, guided tours, entertainment, kids games and activities, along with star-gazing at dark.

Free Black Hills spruce trees will be given to the first 100 visitors.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota University System has named the members of a committee that will search for the new president of Valley City State University.

The members of the committee announced on Monday are tasked with finding the successor of Steven Shirley who will be taking over as Minot State University president in July 2014.

Kirsten Diederich is the chair of the state’s Board of Higher Education. She will head the committee that is composed of students, faculty, staff and community leaders.

A national search firm that is yet to be selected will assist in the process.

Shirley is in his sixth year at Valley City State. He has spent 17 years in higher education. He previously served as vice president and dean of student affairs at Dakota State University.

More details of the committee members posted on line at CSiNewsNow.com

　

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing and killing his brother during an altercation on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.
 
     Federal authorities on Monday said 26-year-old Orlen Smith Jr. was sentenced on charges of voluntary manslaughter, assault resulting in serious bodily injury and assault with a dangerous weapon.
 
     He was also ordered to pay more than $11,000 in restitution.
 
     The incident happened on February 2013 in St. Michael. Authorities say the Bismarck man swung a switchblade knife at Daniel Smith, striking his chest and piercing his heart. Daniel Smith died at the scene.
 
     Authorities say Orlen Smith proceeded to attack two others in the home, puncturing one person in the forearm with the knife. Another individual suffered a laceration on the forehead.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in a synthetic drug conspiracy case in North Dakota.
 
     Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Myers on Monday announced the sentence against 24-year-old Casey Stevens Rosen.
 
     Authorities say the conspiracy involved the distribution of hallucinogens through an online business called Motion Resources. The business imported illegal psychedelic hallucinogens from several countries and sold them throughout the United States.
 
     The U.S. Attorney’s office says Rosen and a co-conspirator distributed the hallucinogens throughout Grand Forks.
 
     U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson also ordered Rosen to forfeit $100,000 and serve five years of supervised release.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Government officials in the Dakotas say they’re ready for ranchers to start signing up for federal disaster aid to help them recover from an early October blizzard.
 
     Signup begins Tuesday for the Livestock Indemnity Program and also the Livestock Forage Disaster Program. Both were authorized in the new farm bill.
 
     South Dakota Farm Service Agency Executive Director Craig Schaunaman tells The Bismarck Tribune that he’s got extra help on board and overtime authorized to get paperwork processed after the biggest livestock disaster in recent memory. An estimated 43,000 cattle and other livestock died.
 
     The blizzard also killed more than 1,000 cattle in North Dakota. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says in a statement that ranchers who need help applying for disaster aid can contact the North Dakota Mediation Service for assistance.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Senator John Hoeven says BNSF Railway Company has promised to add more trains to ensure timely delivery of fertilizer for spring planting. Increased crude oil and freight shipments largely have been blamed for causing the rail delays. BNSF has said that rail service has been backlogged due to bad weather.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police say they’ve arrested a 33-year-old Surrey woman accused of eluding officers and ramming a patrol car during a traffic stop.
 
     Police say that when officers attempted to stop the vehicle just before 2 a.m. Monday, it drove over a curb and into another roadway. Officers say they attempted to make contact with the driver and it reversed and rammed a patrol car, nearly striking the officer.
 
     The vehicle fled again and was stopped a short time later.
 
     Police say Stacie Wattendorf was booked in the Ward County jail on charges of reckless endangerment and fleeing or eluding an officer in a motor vehicle. Attorney information for Wattendorf was not listed in court records.
 
   

 
     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – White supremacist Craig Cobb is friends with a man jailed in the killing of three people at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City on Sunday.
 
     Cobb says he last spoke with Frazier Glenn Cross on Thursday and that Cross gave no indication that he might be planning an attack.
 
     Cobb says the allegations against Cross have nothing to do with him and so he isn’t commenting. But he says he hopes Cross didn’t do it.
 
     Cobb is jailed in North Dakota while he awaits an April 29 sentencing for terrorizing residents of Leith.
 
     Cross, of Aurora, Mo., hasn’t been formally charged in the Kansas City killings, but U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says there’s enough evidence to justify submitting a hate-crimes case to a grand jury.
 
Meanwhile, Cobb  says he wants to leave the state if he’s released from jail and “retire from white nationalism.”
 
     Sixty-two-year-old Craig Cobb has been jailed since mid-November, when he was arrested for terrorizing residents of Leith during an armed patrol. He’s awaiting an April 29 sentencing, and hoping a judge will spare him more jail time by accepting a plea deal that calls for four years of probation.
 
     Cobb says if he gets out of jail he’ll petition another state to accept him, which would be a requirement of his probation. He didn’t say which state.
 
     Cobb says he feels he’s done his part to promote white nationalism and is tired of the spotlight.
 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota officials are negotiating a $3 million deal to keep Dakota the duckbilled dinosaur on permanent display in Bismarck.
 
     The rare mummified fossil is planned as a cornerstone of a $51 million expansion at the North Dakota Heritage Center.
 
     Tyler Lyson (LEE’-suhn) discovered the dinosaur on his uncle’s ranch in southwestern North Dakota in 1999.
 
     Researchers say Dakota is one of the most important dinosaur discoveries in recent times. The petrified beast has been the subject of a children’s book and an adult book, and National Geographic television programs.
 
     State paleontologist John Hoganson says negotiations to keep the petrified beast in Bismarck are ongoing. He says money for the deal would come from private donations.
 
     Dakota currently on loan to the North Dakota Heritage Center until July 2015.
 

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Residents in North Dakota’s largest city are ready to celebrate the premier of “Fargo” the TV show, along with a homegrown actor who plays a part in the series.
 
     The 90-minute episode on FX  (CSi 40) will be shown Tuesday night at the historic Fargo Theater. The Joel and Ethan Coen production stars Billy Bob Thornton, who plays the bad guy, and Martin Freeman, who plays an insurance salesman corrupted by Thornton.
 
     North Dakota native Tom Musgrave, who plays Freeman’s boss in the show, will attend the premier in Fargo and take the stage for a question-and-answer session afterward. Musgrave was born in Bottineau and grew up in Valley City.
 
     Musgrave says he had an advantage with his North Dakota background and jokes that he was the “expert on set.”

 

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) Blue Jay Girls Soccer Scheduled with Mandan TODAY (Tuesday, 4/15/14) in Jamestown is Postponed to May 17th.

Varsity will play at 12:00 PM with JV to follow at 2:00 PM on that date.

 Tuesday’s Jamestown High School Girls Fastpitch Softball vs. Bishop Ryan has been POSTPONED to Friday, April 25, 2014.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown City Park Board has approved raising the Skating rates at Wilson Arena.

The increase affects the local hockey and figure skating groups practice by $5.

Since 2010 the rates have been $45 per hour during prime time (October through March) and $40 for non-prime time.

The rates go up this year to $50 and $45, respectively, to help offset the rising costs of utilities.

The Park Board approved giving JamestownCity Forester Doug Wiles permission to to pursue grant funding and a cost-share program with the city to build a gravel-bedded tree nursery.

The trees would be used to populate local parks and boulevards, and some may be used to replace trees at Hillcrest Golf Course, where the nursery would be located.

 

Bismrack (CSi) State Game and Fish Director Terry Steinwand has appointed longtime employee Scott Peterson as the agency’s new deputy director.

Peterson, a native of Montpelier in southern Stutsman County, will begin his new
position May 1. He has been the Department’s wildlife resource management section
leader at the Lonetree district office, located southwest of Harvey, for 22 years.

Steinwand says, “Scott has proven his leadership abilities over the years. I look
forward to working closely with him on the issues.”

Peterson said he is humbled and honored to accept the position, saying “I have a deep appreciation for what the staff at the Game and Fish Department has been able to accomplish over the years, and know how hard they work to protect and maintain the resource.”

Game and Fish had been without a deputy director for more than a month since Duane DeKrey, who had served in the position since January 2013, left the agency to work for the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota men’s hockey team is ranked in the top five in the final edition of both national polls.

UND is fourth in the USCHO.com poll and fifth in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll, after losing to Minnesota in the semifinals of the NCAA Frozen Four.

National champion Union is ranked No. 1 in both polls, followed by Minnesota and Boston College. Massachusetts-Lowell was fourth in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll, and fifth in the USCHO.com poll.

 

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Penn State assistant Maren (MAHR’-ehn) Walseth is the new head women’s basketball coach at North Dakota State University.
 
     NDSU named Walseth to replace Carolyn DeHoff, who resigned after six seasons.
 

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Former Minnesota State-Mankato football coach Todd Hoffner is about to clear up the uncertainty over whether he will return to his old job.
 
     The school fired Hoffner last May without publicly disclosing the reasons. The dismissal came after Hoffner had been accused, and then cleared, of having pornographic images of his own children on his work-issue cell phone.
 
     An arbitrator last week ruled that Hoffner was unfairly fired, and ordered the school to reinstate him with back pay.
 
     But going back isn’t that simple. Hoffner was hired in January as head coach at Minot State University. He plans an afternoon news conference in Minneapolis to announce his intentions.

 

MLB…

 AMERICAN  LEAGUE
 
   Final    Baltimore        7    Tampa  Bay            1
   Final    Seattle            7    Texas                    1
   Final    Oakland            3    L.A.  Angels        2
 
 
       NATIONAL  LEAGUE
 
   Final    Atlanta            9    Philadelphia      6
   Final    Washington      9    Miami                    2
   Final    St.  Louis        4    Milwaukee            0
   Final    N-Y  Mets          7    Arizona                3
   Final    San  Diego        5    Colorado              4
 
 
   suspended    Pittsburgh      7    Cincinnati      7    (Bot  6th,  suspended,  rain)
 
 
       NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION

 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – The reeling Golden State Warriors rallied from 19 points down in the first half to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 130-120 last night. The Warriors withstood a strong start by Kevin Love to secure the sixth seed in the Western Conference playoffs. They finish the regular season today at Denver before beginning the postseason this weekend.
 
  UNDATED (AP) – The Indiana Pacers have wrapped up the top seed in the NBA’s Eastern Conference playoffs without playing on Monday.
 The Washington Wizards did all the work for the Pacers by hammering the Miami Heat 114-93. Trevor Ariza scored 25 points for the Wizards, who shot 59 percent and made 14 3-pointers.
 

Chandler Parsons scored 21 points and Houston clinched home-court advantage for its first-round series with Portland by downing San Antonio 104-98. Dwight Howard and Terrence Jones each added 20 points for the Rockets.

Memphis locked up the final Western Conference playoff berth as Zach Randolph finished with 32 points and nine rebounds in the Grizzlies’ 97-91 win at Phoenix.

Chicago was a 108-95 winner against Orlando behind Joakim (JOH’-keem) Noah’s 18 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. Mike Dunleavy scored 22 points as the Bulls won for the eighth time in nine games to stay in the hunt for the third seed in the East.

Charlotte overcame a 15-point deficit in the final period and beat Atlanta 95-93 on Chris Douglas-Roberts’ jumper as time expired. Al Jefferson had 27 points and 15 rebounds for Charlotte, which remained one game behind Washington for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
   Final    Philadelphia    113    Boston                  108
   Final    Toronto              110    Milwaukee            100

   Final    New  Orleans      101    Oklahoma  City      89
   Final    L-A  Lakers        119    Utah                      104
          

 NBA…

 
     SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The NBA has suspended Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins one game without pay for receiving his 16th technical foul of the season. The NBA said Cousins will serve his suspension during Wednesday’s season finale against Phoenix. He was called for a technical foul in Sacramento’s 106-103 win over Minnesota last night after waving his arm at an official.
 
      
     AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – Joe Dumars (DOO’-marhz) is stepping down as president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons. The move comes a day after the Pistons lost their home finale and dropped to 29-52 with one game remaining in the season. Detroit will miss the postseason for a fifth consecutive year.
 
     Drafted by the Pistons in 1985, Dumars spent his entire 14-year playing career with the franchise, winning NBA titles in 1989 and 1990.
 

 NHL…

 
     UNDATED (AP) – Barry Trotz had been the only coach in the Nashville Predators’ 15-year history, going 557-479-160 with seven playoff appearances. But the Predators are making a change after missing the postseason for the second straight year, dismissing Trotz and offering him a position in the team’s hockey operations department.

 

 COLLEGE BASKETBALL…

 
     UNDATED (AP) – Michigan State shooting guard Gary Harris is leaving school two years early to enter the NBA draft.
 
     Harris averaged a team-high 16.7 points last season to help the Spartans win 29 games, including the Big Ten tournament championship.
 

 

 SWIMMING-PHELPS…
  
     UNDATED (AP) – Michael Phelps, the winner of 22 Olympic medals, is coming out of retirement with an eye on competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Phelps will compete for the first time since the 2012 London Olympics at a meet in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24-26.
 
     Phelps returned to training last fall and re-entered the U.S. drug-testing program.

 

 OBIT-SMITH…
 
     FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – Former major leaguer Hal Smith has died. Smith was a native of Barling, Ark., who signed with the St. Louis Cardinals as a catcher in 1949. He played for the Cardinals from 1956-61 and was named to three National League All-Star teams. He later played briefly for Pittsburgh in 1965 before becoming a scout and coach for several teams.

 

In world and national news…

BOSTON (AP) – Today belongs to the victims and those who tried to help after the Boston Marathon bombings a year ago that killed three people and injured more than 260. A day of tributes is planned in Boston, where Vice President Joe Biden, Gov. Deval Patrick and former Mayor Tom Menino will be among the dignitaries expected to honor the victims. Speakers also will include survivors of the bombing. There will be a private moment of silence at the White House.
 
     HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian tanks have been seen today, not far from one city controlled by pro-Moscow gunmen in eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian insurgents who have seized government buildings in about nine cities across the region have been digging in. In Kiev, Ukraine’s acting president announced an “anti-terrorist operation” to root out the “separatists.”
 
     PERTH, Australia (AP) – Day one of the search in the depths of the Indian Ocean yielded no new clues from the U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 robotic submarine which aborted its first mission after only six hours. A safety feature kicked in when the sub exceeded its depth limit. Search crews plan to try again today.
 
     TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – There’s no word on who kidnapped Jordan’s ambassador to Libya today or who might be holding him. Authorities say masked gunmen seized the ambassador in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the latest in a wave of abductions and kidnappings amid general lawlessness since the 2011 overthrow of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A prehistoric predator is about to invade the nation’s capital — with a little help from FedEx. A Tyrannosaurus Rex is joining the dinosaur fossil collection on the National Mall after a 3,000-mile journey from Montana. The nearly complete skeleton is being delivered today in 16 crates. Visitors can get their first look as curators examine each bone over the next six months. But the 103-year-old dinosaur hall closes later this month for a five-year overhaul.