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CSi Weather…
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. PATCHY FROST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE
MID 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER
MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTH
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 70. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH
INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 60S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
40S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
PATCHY FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY LATER FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City School District has announced plans to make-up the one hour of missed instructional time this school year.
Superintendent Dean Kopelman says school administrators and representatives from Dietrich’s Bus Service developed the plan, which includes:
Wednesday May 21, 2014, Valley City Public Elementary Schools will start classes at 8:25 a.m., and dismiss school at 3:25 p.m.
The Jr-Sr High School will start classes at 8:15 a.m. and dismiss school at 3:40 p.m.
Thursday, May 22, 2014, Elementary Schools start classes at 8:25 a.m., and dismiss school at 3:25 p.m.
The Jr-Sr High School will start classes at 8:15 a.m., and dismiss at 3:40 p.m.
All city and rural bus routes will run 15 minutes earlier to start the day and 15 minutes later at the end of the day on both days.
Jamestown (CSi) The 7th Annual Running Of The Pink will be held Saturday June 7, 2014 beginning at 9-a.m., at R.M. Stoudt in Jamestown. In conjunction with Runner’s World.
5K Run/Walk.
10K Run.
Early Packet Pickup Friday June 6, 2014 from 5-p.m., to 7-p.m., at R. M. Stoudt.
Proceeds go to help fund breast and cervical cancer screening through the local Women’s Way Resource Fund, and the Jamestown Regional Medical Center Foundation.
Mail registration and fees to:
R.M. Stoudt, Inc.
P.O. Box 949
Jamestown, ND 58402
Printable forms on line at
For more information contact Jason Holstad
701-252-2270 or 1-800-279-2886
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Prosecutors say one of two North Dakota brothers accused of scamming the government out of $2 million in crop insurance payments orchestrated a similar scheme nearly 20 years ago – but only pocketed about $33,000.
Fifty-year-old Aaron Johnson and 47-year-old Derek Johnson are accused of conspiring to receive illegal payments by intentionally destroying potatoes. They have pleaded not guilty.
Aaron Johnson pleaded guilty in a similar case in 1995. Court documents filed Friday say he falsely claimed he and his brother produced about 9,500 hundredweight of potatoes, when it was actually more than 76,000 hundredweight.
Prosecutors said Aaron Johnson obtained a book of blank scale tickets from the Northwood Elevator, falsified 21 scale tickets and submitted them to the government.
A federal public defender was not immediately available for comment.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits from several North Dakotans who claimed they are owed millions of dollars from oil drilling companies that burned and wasted natural gas instead of capturing it.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland’s ruling says the federal government lacks jurisdiction in the cases because the mineral owners did not “exhaust administrative remedies” with state regulators.
North Dakota mineral owners in October filed lawsuits seeking damages from oil drilling companies for natural gas that is lost when it is burned instead of being captured as a byproduct of oil production.
Derrick Braaten, a Bismarck lawyer representing mineral rights owners, says the loss in royalties amounts to more than $200 million to the dozen or so clients.
Braaten says he’s disappointed with Hovand’s ruling and may appeal.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota is among 20 states taking part in a new challenge to the federal health care law.
The challenge filed in the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals asserts that the Affordable Care Act violates the U.S. Constitution’s Origination Clause, which requires that all tax bills originate in the House of Representatives.
The U.S. Supreme Court has previously upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law, but some attorneys general including North Dakota’s Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) think the decision opens the door to additional scrutiny.
STANLEY, N.D. (AP) – The hospital in the western North Dakota oil patch city of Stanley is halfway through a multimillion-dollar upgrade.
The Mountrail County Health Center has scheduled a Sunday afternoon ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first phase of the project. The center invested more than $6 million to upgrade its emergency room area and enclose its ambulance bay.
Officials on Thursday broke ground for the second phase of the project – a $2 million expansion and remodeling of the clinic area.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s two largest universities are holding spring commencement ceremonies on Saturday.
The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks says 1,915 students are eligible to graduate; 2,068 are eligible at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
UND’s graduation ceremony is at the Alerus Center. NDSU’s is at the Fargodome.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Wildlife officials are closing North Dakota’s paddlefish snagging season on the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers at 10 p.m. Sunday, to protect the fish population.
The season is scheduled through May, but the Game and Fish Department can close it early if it appears too many fish will be caught. That has happened often in recent years, and Fisheries Chief Greg Power says it’s been another successful year.
Sunday is a snag-and-release-only day. An additional four-day snag-and-release season will begin Monday and run through Thursday. Rules can be found at www.gf.nd.gov .
Anglers with an unused paddlefish tag can continue snagging during the additional snag-and-release season but must release all fish immediately. Anglers who already used their tag on a harvested paddlefish are not allowed to participate in the additional snag-and-release period.
In world and national news…
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Residents of two neighborhoods of San Marcos, near San Diego, are back home, but others are still being kept away by one of the several wildfires burning in the region. A flare-up in the fire Thursday had prompted more than 18,000 new evacuation notices. Firefighters who’ve been working in temperatures sometimes topping 100 degrees this week are getting some relief today in the form of slightly cooler temperatures and lighter winds. A bigger cool-down is forecast for the weekend.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The top official in charge of veterans health care has resigned. The departure of Robert Petzel comes amid a firestorm over long appointment waits, treatment delays and falsified records at VA hospitals. And it comes a day after he and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki were both grilled by a Senate panel. Whistleblowers say there were efforts to cover up the deaths of up to 40 veterans while they were awaiting appointments at the VA’s medical center in Phoenix.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is sending congratulations to India’s next prime minister. Narendra Modi (nuh-REHN’-druh MOH’-dee) won a decisive victory but has an uneasy past with the United States. The U.S. denied Modi a visa in 2005 for alleged complicity in deadly religious riots in 2002. But White House spokesman Jay Carney says Modi will be allowed into the U.S. He says the U.S. looks forward to working closely with Modi and his new cabinet.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A spokesman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he’ll block a vote next week on legislation giving a path to citizenship to people living in the U.S. illegally who serve in the military. A Republican congressman from California had announced plans to try to bring the measure to a vote as an amendment to the annual defense bill. But conservative groups have recently announced their opposition. Cantor himself is facing a primary challenge from a tea party opponent who’s made immigration an issue.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A high school teacher who served one month in prison for raping a 14-year-old student is asking the Montana Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that could send him back to prison for at least two more years. The high court in April ruled that the original sentence given to former Billings teacher Stacey Rambold was illegal. Justices cited comments from the judge who oversaw the case and who said the victim shared control over the situation. Rambold was 47 at the time.
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