wbPM2CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TUESDAY…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN
RAIN LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 MPH IN THE
AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED
WITH SNOW IN THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH SHIFTING TO
THE WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA A 70 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN
CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 25 TO 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
30 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITYAREA.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW
IN THE EVENING IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS AROUND
20.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 15.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
50S. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 50.

A WARMING TREND INTO SATURDAY.  SATURDAY LOOKS TO BE THE WARMEST DAY OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD WITH HIGHS POTENTIALLY APPROACHING 70 DEGREES IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. 

 

Travelers Forecast…

SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE FORECAST NORTH OF HIGHWAY

2 FOR TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY…WITH THE HIGHER AMOUNTS EXPECTED

TOWARDS THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department early Sunday evening just after five o’clock was called a fire that destroyed an unoccupied trailer house at 1517 Highway 281 North.

JFD Lt. Sheldon Mohr says six units of the City Fire Department and 20 fire fighters were on the scene for about two hours.

The Jamestown Rural Fire Department was also called to the scene to provide more water to the Jamestown Fire Department due to the lack of fire hydrants.

No injuries reported.

The cause was officially listed as undetermined.

 

(CSi) A 62 year old Horace man was uninjured after losing control of the semi rig he was operating about 12:30 Monday afternoon.

Robert Olson was eastbound on I-94 about 20 miles west  of Jamestown when the semi went off the roadway, across the right shoulder and into the south ditch, missing the guardrail, going up an embankment, striking a vertical concrete overpass pillar, with the left front of the cab.

Olson told authorities that he may have fallen asleep.

He was wearing a seat belt.

Damage was estimated to be around $50,000.

The crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has killed a measure that would have allowed the Board of Higher Education to hold discussions in secret on the hiring and firing of a university system chancellor.
 
     The House defeated the bill 83-5 on Monday. The Senate had approved the measure earlier.
 
     The higher education board pushed to have chancellor discussion held in executive session unless the chancellor or candidate being considered asks for the discussion to be public.
 
     Interim Chancellor Larry Skogen says holding a secret meeting allows board members to be more candid in discussing evaluations of the chancellor.
 
     North Dakota Newspaper Association attorney Jack McDonald says the public should not be left out of the process.
 

 

Washington (CSi) U.S Senators Hoeven and Heitkamp announce, that North Dakota housing authorities have received 15 grants totaling more than $350,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Public Housing Operating Fund. The program reimburses the operating costs of local housing authorities, which seek to meet the housing needs of low-income persons who are elderly, disabled, veterans, homeless or working poor.

The grants are awarded as follows:

· Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority – $130,144

· Burleigh County Housing Authority – $62,511

· Minot Housing Authority – $41,388

· Housing Authority of Cass County – $31,482

· Housing Authority of the City of Williston – $19,590

· Rolette County Housing Authority – $16,715

· Ramsey County Housing – $10,101

· Mercer County Housing Authority – $9,096

· Barnes County Housing Authority – $6,492

· Towner County Housing Authority – $5,510

· Traill County Housing Authority – $5,496

· Nelson County Housing – $5,368

· Emmons County Housing Authority – $4,940

· Benson County Housing Authority – $2,863

· McIntosh County Housing Authority – $1,924

 

 MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A North Dakota man was killed when the motorcycle he was riding crossed into the path of a pickup truck on U.S. Highway 93 in western Montana.
 
     The Montana Highway Patrol says the 30-year-old man from Fargo was southbound near Arlee at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday when his motorcycle crossed into the northbound lanes and struck a pickup head-on. The motorcyclist died at the scene. His name hasn’t been released.
 
     The pickup caught fire, but the man who was driving was able to get out before emergency crews arrived.
 
     The crash and fire closed the highway for just over two hours. It remains under investigation.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says the state is getting more than $96,000 as part of multi-state life insurance settlements with Guardian Life and Pacific Life.
 
     Hamm says the states have reached agreements totaling about $4.5 million with the insurers related to use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File.
 
     Hamm says insurances have used the file for years to search for and stop payments to annuity holders, but haven’t used it to identify deceased life-insurance policyholders to pay their beneficiaries. Under the terms of the settlement, Guardian Life and Pacific Life will implement a number of business reforms.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two more mule deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in North Dakota, bringing the total since 2009 to seven.
 
     The Game and Fish Department says the latest positive tests were in deer killed during last fall’s gun season.
 
     All of the deer that have tested positive for CWD in recent years have been in the 3F2 hunting unit in southwestern North Dakota. Game and Fish Wildlife Veterinarian Dan Grove says having two more deer from that area test positive is not surprising. And he says the number of positive tests remains low.
 
     Game and Fish began monitoring for CWD in 2002. Since then, more than 25,000 deer, elk and moose have tested negative for the fatal disease that affects the nervous system of members of the deer family.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota House is considering legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, government, public services and the workplace.
 
     Testimony is being taken on the bill Monday.
 
     The Senate passed the bill last month despite the fact that it received a do-not-pass recommendation in committee.
 
     Exemptions for religious organizations and social clubs are in the bill.
 
     Similar legislation failed during the 2009 and 2013 sessions.
 

 In world and national news…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – Police say they can’t confirm that the gang rape at the University of Virginia described in a Rolling Stone article last year actually occurred. The police chief in Charlottesville told reporters Monday that police could not confirm that a rape occurred at any fraternity house. The Rolling Stone article described the gang rape of a student identified only as “Jackie” at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012. Police say the woman did not cooperate with investigators. Soon after the article was published in November, discrepancies were found in it. Rolling Stone has apologized and said it would investigate.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon says it is notifying 100 military members that their names and addresses were posted on the Internet by a group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Division. The group said it was posting the information to encourage Muslims in the United States to kill the military members. A Pentagon spokesman says there’s no indication that the information was obtained through a government data breach. He said it could have been gathered from public records and by searching social media accounts.
 
     JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized to Israel’s Arab citizens for remarks he made during last week’s parliament election — remarks that offended members of the community. Netanyahu, whose party won re-election in the vote, met with members of the Arab community at the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem Monday and apologized. Netanyahu drew accusations of racism in Israel — and a rebuke from the White House — when he said a few hours before polling stations closed that Arab citizens had been voting “in droves.”
 
     NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A magistrate in New Orleans has ordered millionaire Robert Durst be held without bond on weapons charges in Louisiana. The magistrate says that based on what he heard at a bond hearing Monday and what he read in court documents, Durst is both a flight risk and a danger to others. Durst is accused of killing a female friend in California 15 years ago, but his lawyers say his arrest was illegal and orchestrated to coincide with an HBO series about his links to three killings.
 
     PHOENIX (AP) – The man who recently stepped down as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is going to the NFL. Two people familiar with the hiring say Todd Jones is joining the league to oversee player discipline. He’ll be in charge of the league’s new personal conduct policy, including fining and suspending violators. The league has had several recent high-profile issues involving player conduct.