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TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 50 PERCENT CHANVE OF RAIN SHOWERS AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
CHANCE OF SHOWERS 60 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE EVENING…THEN
PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS AROUND 40. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 60 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
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.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. EAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID
40S. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
Valley City (CSi) A 63 year old Litchville man, Dennis Shape, died and his passenger injured about 10:24 am Saturday in a one vehicle accident, on Highway 1, about one mile south of I-94, two miles southwest of Valley City.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, while northbound on highway 1, Shape suffered an abrupt severe medical condition that caused him to loose control of the Silverado. The vehicle drifted into the east ditch and continued for a few hundred yards before striking a rock pile at the edge of a field.
Another motorist stopped to help and began CPR. A Trooper arrived to assist with an AED. Ambulance personnel took over medical care a short time later. The 58 year old female passenger Diane Shape from Litchville suffered a minor injury. Both occupants were transported from the scene by Barnes County Ambulance to Mercy Hospital, ambulance. The driver was pronounced dead at the Hospital.
Damage was estimated at $4,000 for the truck.
The crash remains under investigation.
Valley City and Litchville Fire & Rescue assisted at the scene.
CSi The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports a 56 year old Jamestown man was injured in a rollover accident about 2:10a.m., Saturday, on Highway 30 two miles south of Streeter.
The report says Steven Miller was southbound on highway 30 and approached the T intersection at highway 46. Miller failed to stop a the intersection and drove the Pontiac through a traffic sign, across the south ditch, through a fence and into a pasture.
The vehicle rolled several times. Miller was ejected. Approximately seven hours later, a motorist noticed the crash scene and contacted law enforcement.
Miller was later flown from Jamestown to a Fargo hospital. The crash remains under investigation.
Logan County Sheriff’s Department, Medina Fire and Rescue, Streeter Fire and Rescue, assisted at the scene.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a fire involving a Schwans refrigerated truck, located on the west side of Cross Roads Truck Repair.
Glenn Christianson said the call came in at 3:51 p.m., on Friday.
No damage estimate was available, or cause of the fire, and no injuries reported.
Four city fire units and 30 fire fighters cleared the scene at 4:20 pm.
Jamestown (CSi) Two officers involved in the March 17, 2015 shooting incident in Southwest Jamestown are back on the job.
Stutsman County State’s Attorney Fritz Fremgen released a memo he sent on April 12, 2015, to Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger, Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser and special agent Mark Nickel, with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, about the officer-involved shooting.
The Jamestown Police officer and Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy fired their weapons into a vehicle allegedly driven by a Tracy, Minnesota, man, who had led police agencies on a chase through southwest Jamestown in the early morning hours of March 17th
Fremgen wrote: “After considering whether any charges including attempted murder, aggravated assault, or reckless endangerment are warranted, I have determined no charge is warranted for either of those offenses or for any lesser offense.”
Fremgen did not name the Jamestown police officer and Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy who fired their weapons.
The North Dakota BCI also conducted use of force investigations on the Jamestown police officer and the Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy at the request of those agencies.
The North Dakota BCI investigated the incident involving 43 year old Lee Charles Ellingson, who allegedly led law enforcement officers from Jamestown Police and the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office and North Dakota Highway Patrol on a chase that started at the Exxon convenience store at 808 20th St. Southewest in Jametown, and ended in the 1000 block of 4th Avenue Southwest, between the Jamestown Motel and Dairy Queen.
Witness accounts and information from law enforcement agencies, indicated that during the pursuit, Ellingson allegedly rammed law enforcement vehicles. When he stopped on 4th Avenue Southwest, Ellingson allegedly tried to run over a police officer. It was at this time that a Stutsman County Sheriff’s deputy and a Jamestown police officer fired their weapons into the vehicle Ellingson was driving.
Ellingson was transported by ambulance to Jamestown Regional Medical Center after the chase ended for treatment of injuries.
He was later flown by air ambulance to a medical facility in Fargo. Ellingson’s present medical condition is unknown.
Ellingson was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and driving while under the influence of liquor or any other drug or substance, all Class C felonies. He is also charged with fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
He is scheduled to appear at 1:15 p.m. May 20 in Southeast District Court in Jamestown. An unsecured bond was set at $100,000 on April 2, 2015.
Cooperstown (CSi) Construction has resumed on the $3.5 million Griggs County Emergency Operations Center.
It’s been almost a year since a contract dispute led to contractors walking off the job.
Construction Engineers, based in Grand Forks, and subcontractors walked off the job last May over payment delays and contract language issues.
While crews are working in the Emergency Operations Center portion of the complex.
The project is estimated to be more than 90 percent complete as work remains quiet in the Griggs County Courthouse section.
Each party says it’s the other’s responsibility to pay for completing the courthouse part of the project.
The issue may end up in court.
Jamestown (CSi) Two more Two Rivers Activity Center community forums will in Jamestown.
The Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC) Board of Directors has approved a schedule for the three community forums/ workshops prior to the June 2, 2015 special election on a one percent city sales tax to fund the project.
The next forum will be April 27 at the Jamestown Middle School’s Thompson Community Room, followed on May 15 at the North Dakota Farmers Union headquarters. The forums begin at 7 p.m.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Steele woman is accused of stealing $250,000 from a Linton company and using some of the money to buy a home.
Police say Michelle Biegler had access to KEM Electric’s bank account information through her position with a Mandan company, and used that information to forge the check. She allegedly took it to a bank in Steele, deposited some of the money in a bank account and used the rest for a home.
Biegler faces felony charges of forgery or counterfeiting and theft by deception. She could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Court documents do not list an attorney for her, and a home telephone listing for her is disconnected.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CSi) – As part of her series of speeches to thank and honor North Dakota’s fallen heroes from the Vietnam War, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp again took to the Senate floor and discussed these servicemembers’ remarkable lives and contributions to North Dakota and the country.
“Nearly two hundred North Dakotans gave their lives for our country in Vietnam, fighting on the front lines to not only keep us safe but also for the ideals we hold most dear,” said Heitkamp. “We must always remember that every one of these men has a story as we recognize and honor the selfless sacrifices each made. I’m proud to represent a state with such a rich tradition of military service and with the continued support of students at Bismarck High School, the families of those North Dakotans lost during the Vietnam War, and folks all across our state, we can continue to honor our fallen heroes today and every day.”
During her speech, Heitkamp honored the following North Dakotans who were lost in the Vietnam War:
· Raphael “John” Frost – Hunter
· Jon Greenley – Fargo
· Dan Herdebu – Baldwin
· Alan “Pete” Hinzpeter – Minot
· Gerald Allen “Al” Iverson – Oakes
· Norbert Froehlich – Belfield
· Gerhardt Just – Wishek
· Gary Myers – Fort Yates
· Larry Olson – McHenry
· Richard “Rick” Borgman – Minot
· David Bujalski – Carrington
· Leslie Carter – Jamestown
· David Corcoran – Grand Forks
· Wilbert Fleck – Breien
· Lowell Hardmeyer – Mott
· Merlyn Paulson – Fargo
Last month, Heitkamp
began a series of speeches to honor servicemembers from North Dakota who lost their lives in the Vietnam conflict as our country remembers the 50th anniversary of the war. Heitkamp is collaborating with more than 150 eleventh-graders from Bismarck High School to gather information on these fallen North Dakotans and will incorporate their research into her speeches. In March, Heitkamp met with these students in Bismarck and discussed with them the importance of their joint effort to honor the sacrifice and service of the North Dakotans lost in the war.
To view Heitkamp’s new webpage dedicated to honoring North Dakota’s KIA and MIA Vietnam servicemembers – including her speeches on the Senate floor –
click here. The website will be updated with all of Heitkamp’s speeches on the Senate floor about these servicemembers. A copy of a poster recognizing these fallen men can also be found here.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two brothers who used a metal pipe and a bottle to beat a woman on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation a year ago have been sentenced to prison.
Jurors earlier this year found Christopher Rainbow and Jordan Rainbow guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The brothers were found not guilty of assault with intent to commit murder.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland recently sentenced Jordan Rainbow to six years in prison and Christopher Rainbow to 15 years behind bars.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Employees at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck are working to keep out of their facility the deadly virus that has rapidly spread among poultry in the Midwest.
Assistant zoo director Rod Fried says employees have emptied water sources to try to eliminate the number of wild birds that flock to the zoo for food and shelter. He says the zoo would be inviting wild ducks and geese if it had its ponds full.
The H5N2 virus has cost producers more than 7 million turkeys and chickens so far this year. Federal agriculture officials say the deadly strain of bird flu could be a problem for the poultry industry for several years.
The zoo also asked employees to be particularly careful if they have birds of their own.
HILLSBORO, N.D. (AP) – Formal charges are pending against the driver of a car hit by a train in Traill County.
The collision happened about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when the car became stuck on the tracks north of Hillsboro.
Sheriff’s Capt. Tony Ernst tells KFGO radio that the two people in the car were able to escape before it was hit by a BNSF Railway freight train and pushed several hundred feet. A 27-year-old female passenger was taken to a Grand Forks hospital with unspecified injuries that authorities said were not life-threatening.
The 26-year-old Fargo man who was behind the wheel was arrested on multiple charges including driving under the influence.
WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and school districts across the state are working to address a worsening shortage of agriculture education teachers. The Daily News in Wahpeton reports about 16 percent of the state’s educators teaching agriculture are eligible for retirement.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Some observers say a bill passed this session by the North Dakota Legislature that sets down guidelines for industrial hemp could help create an industry for Indian tribes. The measure sponsored by Republican Representative David Monson allows hemp to be grown through state agriculture departments and college research stations.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Potato stocks in North Dakota are up 14 percent from a year ago.
The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that growers, dealers and processors in the state held 7.4 million hundredweight of potatoes in storage on April 1.
Current stocks represent 31 percent of production, up from 29 percent in 2014.
Nationally, potato stocks on April 1 stood at 130 million hundredweight, up 9 percent over the year.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Time is running out for North Dakota farmers, food companies and researchers to apply for grants aimed at boosting the development of specialty crops.
Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says the deadline is 4 p.m. Thursday, the last day of the month.
North Dakota is getting $2.3 million from the federal government this year to dole out as grants to boost the production and processing of crops such as dry peas, lentils, honey and confection sunflowers. The state already is among the nation’s leaders in the production of those crops.
Last year, North Dakota received $3.1 million, thanks to a funding boost that resulted from an emphasis on specialty crops in the new federal farm bill.
BISMARCK (AP) – The North Dakota Petroleum Council’s “Pick Up the Patch” campaign is under way in several communities and will run throughout May.
The effort is aimed at cleaning up garbage that’s littering the oil patch in western North Dakota.
The Petroleum Council started the clean-up campaign in 2012 after complaints about the growing trash problem spurred by the oil boom.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The Williston Basin Petroleum Conference is being held this week in Canada.
The annual event alternates between locations in U.S. and Canada. This year’s conference is Tuesday through Thursday in Regina, Saskatchewan. Last year’s conference drew a record 4,500 people to Bismarck.
The conference enables people in the energy industry to learn about scientific and technological advances. It brings together engineers, geologists, investors, CEOs and government officials for seminars and marketing.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota President Robert Kelley is planning to participate in a conference of government and educational leaders from the U.S. and Canada.
Kelley is traveling to Minneapolis on Monday for the Canada-U.S. round-table at the University of Minnesota. The event will focus on how central and western Canada and the Upper Midwest of the U.S. can become a priority region for higher education partnerships.
Fourteen university leaders from the two countries will participate, along with Canada’s governor general and consul general for the Upper Midwest.
In sports.
Bismarck (CSi) Elite Wrestling Initiative presents the EWI Initiative Championship match in Valley City, on Saturday May 2, 2015, at 7:30-p.m., at the Valley City Eagles Club.
On Fridays’ Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, spokesperson and wrestler, Mercer Sage said the main event will be the championship match between Cory Diamond vs. Derrik Fury.
To start the evening there will additional matches.
Sage added that other wrestling matches will be held around the state, including Jamestown, with the dates to be announced.
Pre-sale tickets are $15 and available at the Valley Ctiy Eagles, $20 on the day of the event.
All matches are sanctioned by the Elite Wrestling Initiative.
More information on line at http://elitewrestlinginitiative.com/about-us/
INTERLEAGUE
Final N-Y Yankees 6 N-Y Mets 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
SEATTLE (AP) – Joe Mauer hit a two-run triple with two outs in the 11th inning to lift the Minnesota Twins over the Seattle Mariners 4-2 yesterday. Mauer got three hits and drove in three runs. He had an RBI double as the Twins won for the third time in four games. Seth Smith hit his first home run of the year and also doubled for the Mariners.
Final Detroit 8 Cleveland 6
Final Tampa Bay 5 Toronto 1
Final Baltimore 18 Boston 7
Final Chi White Sox 5 Kansas City 3
Final Texas 5 L.A. Angels 4, 11 Innings
Final Houston 7 Oakland 6
Final Minnesota 4 Seattle 2, 11 Innings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Chi Cubs 5 Cincinnati 2
Final Miami 6 Washington 2
Final Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 4
Final Milwaukee 6 St. Louis 3
Final San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 1
Final Pittsburgh 8 Arizona 0
San Francisco at Colorado (4:10 p.m., postponed, )
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
UNDATED (AP)- Cleveland and Washington have completed four-game sweeps to advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs. LeBron James had 27 in the Cavaliers’ 101-93 win over Boston and Marcin Gortat (MAHR’-chin GOHR’-tot) had 21 points and 11 rebounds in the Wizards’ 125-94 rout of Toronto.
Chris Paul had 34 points and seven assists, Blake Griffin added 20 points and 19 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the San Antonio Spurs 114-105 to even their first-round series at two games apiece.
Dallas avoided eliminating by beating Houston 121-109 to cut the Rockets’ lead to 3-1 in that series.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Zach Parise scored twice as the Minnesota Wild advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a 4-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues yesterday in Game 6. Justin Fontaine also scored, Nino Niederreiter added an empty-net goal and the Wild set up a rematch of their second-round loss last year to Chicago. The Blues had their third straight first-round ouster.
The Montreal Canadiens are moving onto the second round after eliminating Ottawa in six games, 2-0.
NASCAR…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Kurt Busch dominated once he took the lead and won the rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway. Busch led 291 of the 400 laps and outran Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Kevin Harvick over the final dozen laps. The race was delayed because of rain Saturday night.
INDYCAR…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Josef Newgarden of Hendersonville, Tennessee, held off a hard-charging Graham Rahal (RAY’-hahl) to win the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama for his first IndyCar Series victory. Newgarden had posted second-place finishes in each of the past two years before finally finishing up front.
GOLF…
AVONDALE, La. (AP) – Justin Rose finished first in the PGA’s Zurich (ZOOR’-ik) Classic in Avondale, Louisiana. Rose shot a final round 6-under-66 to complete play at 22-under, one in front of Cameron Tringale. Boo Weekley was another shot back.
To secure the win Rose birdied the final two holes. He has now won at least once in six seasons.
DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) – World No. 1 Lydia Ko won the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic for the second straight year, beating Morgan Pressel on the second hole of a playoff.
Brooke Henderson, the 17-year-old from Canada, had a 74 and missed the playoff by one shot.
RIDGEDALE, Mo. (AP) – Joe Durant had a hole-in-one and teamed with Billy Andrade to win the Champions Tour’s Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf. Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam finished second.
In world and national news…
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – A government official in Nepal says the country is lacking pretty much everything in the wake of the deadly, magnitude 7.8 earthquake. The government’s chief secretary and the rescue coordinator is appealing for more help from the international community, for tents, dry goods, blankets, mattresses and medicines. World Vision says its staff members have been able to reach the epicenter and are gathering information.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Lawmakers are staking out their territory for the Senate debate this week over a bill allowing Congress a major say in any Iran nuclear deal. It has tacit approval from the president and proponents are trying to discourage any changes. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says any attempts to tinker with the bill will “run into a buzz saw.” Republican presidential candidates are trying to prove their hawkishness toward Iran. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida wants to require Iran to accept Israel’s right to exist.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A long-running labor dispute could come to a head today at the nation’s busiest port complex in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Truck drivers might stay home. Most are independent contractors and they say they’d get a better deal as employees of the trucking companies. Results of a vote are expected today but port representatives say it’s too soon to tell what the impact would be.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A 17-year-old Connecticut girl is getting ready to go home after being forced by the courts to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer. Doctors say her Hodgkin lymphoma, diagnosed in September, is in remission. The teen, identified only as Cassandra C, and her mother initially refused the treatment, prompting the state to step in.
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) – The search for survivors continues in waters off Alabama after a powerful weekend storm capsized several sailboats in a regatta near Mobile Bay. The Coast Guard says two bodies have been recovered and one person was rescued.
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