CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH.
.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. NORTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. EAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTH
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.MONDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 24, 2012) — Rural fires reported in the area late Monday afternoon.

At 3:50-p.m., the Jamestown Rural Fire Department was called to a field northeast of Jamestown, a mile and a half southwest of Spiritwood Lake, where a cornfield fire was reported.

About 4-p.m., the Medina Fire Department was went to a reported combine fire, about eight miles north of Medina.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a sobriety checkpoint and alcohol saturation patrol in Stutsman County last weekend netted several arrests for various offenses.

A sobriety checkpoint was set up Friday night in Jamestown in the 1100 block of 19th Street Northeast. Authorities stopped both eastbound and westbound traffic between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. and arrested two drivers for driving under the influence.

The Highway Patrol, Jamestown Police Department and Stutsman County Sheriff’s Department teamed up for the increased enforcement, which resulted in:
– five arrests for DUI
– two arrests for driving under suspension
– one minor in possession
– one open container of alcohol
– one deliver of alcohol to a minor
– one possession of marijuana
– one unlawful possession of marijuana paraphernalia

The saturation patrol included a sobriety checkpoint Friday night in Jamestown in the 1100 block of 19th Street Northeast. Authorities stopped both eastbound and westbound traffic between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. and arrested two drivers for driving under the influence.

　

From VCSU…

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) – A group of approximately 190 freshmen from Valley City State University will harvest fresh produce from an area farm that will be distributed to 278 food shelves, soup kitchens, shelters and other charitable feeding programs supplied by the Great Plains Food Bank, a program of Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota.

The project is part of VCSU’s “Learning to Live/Living to Learn” (L2L) program.

The event will take place from 9:00 am – 11:30 am, Tuesday, September 25, 2012, approximately 10 miles north of Valley City.

Each Fall semester all new students at VCSU take part in an orientation program known as Learning to Live-Living to Learn (L2L) in which upper class students serve as mentors for groups of new students and assist students in the transition to college.

L2L topics include team building, orientation to campus services, adjusting to college, substance abuse issues, academic advising, learning styles, stress management, and paying for college.

A component of the Learning to L2L program is a community service project that will allow the entire freshman class to participate as a group and make a significant contribution to the city or the region. In previous years, students have painted fire hydrants throughout Valley City and worked on flood clean-up efforts.

For the third year in a row, the L2L community service project will involve harvesting fresh produce (primarily squash) from a local farm that will be distributed to food shelves throughout North Dakota. Last year, the project yielded approximately 25 tons of produce.

 

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police say a grocery store employee was
shot twice during a robbery.

     Police Lt. Joel Vettelsays  the Sunmart Foods employee was taken to a Fargo hospital following the shooting late Sunday night.
     Vettel says the employee’s condition was unknown on Monday and
the suspect remained at large.
     Police responded at about 11 p.m. to the reported robbery.
Police say the victim and another employee were inside at closing
time when the suspect approached the victim and made demands.
     Vettel says the victim was shot during a physical altercation
with the suspect. No customers were inside at the time.
     Vettel says armed robberies in which someone is hurt are rare in
Fargo.

He says police recommend that people comply with the robber’s demands.orth Dakota’s state-owned
flour mill fell by half during its last budget year.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department
says two men were rescued from Lake Sakakawea after their boat
capsized
A third man was able to swim to shore safely and notify authorities.
     District game warden Mike Raasakka says the men’s boat began
taking on water early Friday night.

Raasaaka says he and Mountrail County Deputy Duane Marmon found the two men clinging to the swamped boat early Saturday morning, about a mile from shore.

     Raasakka says the men were cold and wet and “pretty happy” to
see rescuers.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – A regional bomb squad was summoned to
Moorhead to detonate an old grenade found by a citizen.
     Police say the man was walking along the Red River north of the
Hjemkomst (YUM’-komst) Center about 7:30 p.m. Sunday when he came
across the corroded grenade.

He called police who determined it to be authentic.
     Moorhead and Fargo, N.D., police cleared the river area and the
grenade was exploded about 10 p.m. No one was hurt.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Profits at    North Dakota’s state-owned
flour mill fell by half during its last budget year.

The mill’s manager says the $8 million profit is still one of
the best in the history of the mill.
     The mill has been grappling with wheat price increases, and
flour demand has risen only slightly.
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple is chairman of the North Dakota Industrial
Commission, which is the mill’s board of directors.
     He says flour milling is a cyclical business, and he’s not
concerned about the profit drop.
     The mill reported an $8 million profit during the year that
ended June 30. It made just over $16 million during its 2011 budget
year.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota wants to
set up a new geology school, with help from a major oil company and
its chairman.
     It’s a $14 million initiative. Continental Resources Co. and
chief executive Harold Hamm are putting $5 million each into the
project. A state oil and gas research fund is being asked to supply
another $4 million.
     North Dakota’s Industrial Commission is considering the request
Monday at a meeting in Grand Forks.

     The project’s promoters say the money will be used to equip the
school, pay its professors and provide financial aid to students.

The new school expects to graduate 50 petroleum geologists and
engineers every year.
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple says it’s an opportunity for North Dakota
students to train for a high-paying career at UND.
    

 
     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota residents needing to renew or
replace their driver’s licenses will be out of luck for most of the
week.
     The state Transportation Department says all driver’s license
offices statewide will be closed from Wednesday through Friday to
allow employees to attend training sessions.
     Officials say motor vehicle offices will remain open as
scheduled and will process vehicle registrations, titles and
plates.

 

In world and national news…

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) – Mitt Romney says U.S. foreign policy should
not be conducted “at the mercy of events” overseas.

 He also says the death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya and unrest in the Middle East are more than just bumps in the road.

Romney Monday was referring to President Barack Obama comments during a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast yesterday.

During the program, Obama said it was clear there would be “bumps in the road” for Arab countries going through the transition to democracy. 

Romney spoke Monday in Colorado.
    
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Marine Corps says it will court-martial
two non-commissioned officers for allegedly urinating on the bodies
of Taliban fighters last year in Afghanistan and posing for
unofficial photos with casualties.

The two are based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. They were charged with other misconduct on the same day as the urination incident.

Three other Marines were given administrative punishments last month for their role in that incident.
     
     BEIRUT (AP) – The head of the U.N.’s food agency says the number
of Syrians in need of food has jumped from 250,000 to 1.5 million
in the past five months, as more civilians are driven from their
homes by the escalating civil war.

The agency is warning that it is running short of supplies to cover operations in Syria. Meanwhile, the U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria has told reporters at the U.N. that the conflict is “extremely bad and getting worse” —
and that it threatens to spill across the Middle East.
     
     JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Missouri Senate candidate
Todd Akin may be getting some help from a conservative fundraising
group.

Until now, the Senate Conservatives Fund has steered clear
of him — partly because of his past use of earmarks to direct
federal money to specific local projects.

Akin says he’s had some discussions with the super PAC, which has raised more than $11 million for other GOP Senate candidates.

He needs a financial boost, in the wake of his controversial comments about rape and pregnancy that caused other GOP donors to withhold cash.
    
     UNDATED (AP) – For the first time, more high school students are
taking the ACT college entrance exam than its rival, the SAT.

The College Board is releasing its SAT scores for the high school class
of 2012, which scored one point lower on average than the class of
2011 on the critical reading and writing sections of the 800-point
exam, and the same on math.