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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON.
BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE EVENING…
THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST IN THE
AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 70 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 70 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.L OWS IN THE MID 40S. NORTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. EAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
70 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
CHANCE OF SHOWERS 70 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE
EVENING…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS POSSIBLY
MIXED WITH SNOW SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE LOWER
30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
NIGHT ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. SOME
THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT.
Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission reports that Jamestown boardings in April this year were 512 on UnitedExpress/SkyWest.
Jamestown was without airline service in April of 2014.
The next highest total for the month of April was in 2011, at 369 when Jamestown was served by Delta.
So far this year Jamestown boardings are at 2,621, with the next highest year to date boardings at 2,029 in 2012, with Delta.
Jamestown (CSi) New faces in tourism connected entities in the Jamestown area.
On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said the new tourism Office Manager is Emily Bivens.
Nicole Mosloff is the new Frontier Village Manager, and Ilano Xinos started her new position as Director, National Buffalo Museum, on May 4th.
Swedlund also pointed out that an Open House is set in conjunction with the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce, Business After Hours, as the community is invited to see changes and review upcoming plans there, on May 19th.
Swedlund also recently attended a three state conference in Minneapolis, held at the Guthrie Theater, where about 1,000 officials discussed and shared ideas about approaches to their communities.
Jamestown (CSi) The next informational community forum on the proposed Two Rivers Activity Center will be on May 15, 2015, at the North Dakota Farmers Union headquarters. The forum begins at 7 p.m.
Attend the forum to become an informed voter or goto tracjamestown.org for more information.
Jamestown city voters will vote on June 2, 2015, on a $28.6 million bond issue on a special election ballot. The ballot will ask voters if they want to approve a 1 percent sales tax to repay bonds used to finance the construction and operation of the first phase of the $28.6 million project.
The second phase, would be paid for by a separate capital fundraising campaign, bring the total cost for the project to about $40 million.
Polls will be open at the Jamestown Civic Center from 7-a.m to 7-p.m.
Jamestown (CSi) On a 3-1 vote, the Jamestown City Park Board has decided to keep the existing irrigation pond for Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course, with Mark Ukestad opposed. A new irrigation pond project was part of a $486,000 change order the commission approved in October, which included new irrigation pumps and improvements to the green at hole Number 16 and removing about 1,000 feet of a paved golf cart path.
Golf course architect, Kevin Norby previously suggested building a new irrigation pond with the existing pond having leakage issues and failed to meet watering needs of the golf course in a timely manner.
Hillcrest’s golf course superintendent, John Miller, has said the existing pond is big enough to fill the course’s wet well, the water source for the course’s irrigation system, adding that the existing pond has not been maintained.
Repairs to the existing pond was estimates to cost $176,000 and to install a new liner and drain that allow the pond to be drained for maintenance.
The commission has a contract with Duininck Construction Inc.,for the new irrigation pond and related work.
The contract indicated that the park board would have to pay Duinick $132,534 to get out of the contract, and to have the existing irrigation pond repaired, the project would cost about $346,000.
Parks and Recreation Director, Doug Hogan, said he wanted the project completed as planned, concerned that the commission had approved selling bonds to pay for the golf course improvement project and pay off $290,000 remaining on the winter sports building.
He said he wasn’t sure if the commission could use the bond funds that were going to pay for the new irrigation pond for a different use.
The park board has approved increasing ice rink rental rates by $5 for the 2015-16 hockey/ice skating season.
The nonprime hour rate goes to $50, $55 for primetime. The rental rate for public use, that is not for use by hockey or figure skating clubs, increased to $70 an hour.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission has approved an ordinance requiring traffic impact studies be done for large development projects.
The Ordinance will be forwarded to the Jamestown City Attorney for review.
The ordinance would require a traffic study for any development or change in zoning that generates traffic of 1,000 vehicles per day.
The city engineer’s office would have the discretion to waive the requirement or enforce it on smaller projects if needed.
SRF Consulting’s Cindy Gray says, the study would be performed by an engineering firm under contract to the city, with the costs billed to the developer.
City Engineer Reed Schwartzkopf says the study could indicate changes, to traffic signs or lights, blocks away from the development.
The Jamestown City Council to determine if the developer would be required to cover the costs of the upgrades to the city’s infrastructure.
The Planning Commission also asked SRF to continue researching the number of parking spaces required for assisted living centers and senior living centers.
Current city ordinances require 0.65 parking spaces per living quarter for such properties.
Clarice Liechty, said senior living centers could be re-purposed to standard apartments easily. If a building was built for assisted living and later converted into apartments, it would have too few off-street parking spaces resulting in residents parking on the streets.
Jamestown zoning ordinances currently require 1.5 parking spaces for a one-bedroom apartment and two parking spaces for larger apartments.
The Planning Commission has authorized Schwartzkopf to meet with city utility providers to determine what utility easements are necessary in new developments, to lead to a new zoning ordinance that would specify what land should be dedicated for utilities on new lots being created in new developments.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A federal judge has ordered the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority to halt construction on a ring levee south of Fargo until an environmental review is completed.
Opponents of the planned $2 billion Red River diversion filed a lawsuit against the dike project, which is meant to protect structures in the Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke areas that would be flooded by a staging area in times of high water.
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim of Minnesota says in a ruling released Wednesday that the law requires all federal and state environmental reviews be completed before construction.
Tunheim says the delay may result in higher construction costs and uncertainty for homeowners in the area, but that the environmental studies should be completed soon and the delay “need not be a lengthy one.”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The head of a group representing North Dakota retailers says the state’s economic growth in the past decade “has been phenomenal.”
North Dakota Retail Association President Mike Rud (rood) says “consumer confidence is high and that means people are going to spend more money.”
Data show North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases rose 11 percent in 2014 to a record $28.2 billion.
Taxable sales and purchases have doubled since 2010 and have risen 250 percent in the past decade with North Dakota’s oil wealth.
Data show North Dakota’s overall economic growth rate in 2014 was more than five times the rate of inflation.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The latest rankings from the federal Agriculture Department show that the Dakotas lead the nation in the production of nearly a dozen farm commodities.
North Dakota leads in spring wheat, durum wheat, oil sunflowers, honey, flaxseed, canola and pinto beans. It’s also the top state in the production of all dry beans and all wheat.
South Dakota leads in bison, oats and all sunflowers.
North Dakota is second in all sunflowers, as well as in confection sunflowers, black beans, navy beans, lentils and dry peas. South Dakota is second in hay and honey.
North Dakota has the seventh-most land in farms, at 39.3 million acres. South Dakota is fifth, with 43.3 million acres.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Supreme Court is taking action against two attorneys. The court has suspended the law license of Williston attorney Nicole Foster and disbarred Fargo attorney Terri Fahrenholtz. The court says its disciplinary board has received eight informal complaints about Foster’s work since February. Officials say Foster in an affidavit said she no longer wants to practice law and intends to move to California. A hearing panel of the disciplinary board ruled that Fahrenholtz violated rules of professional conduct. The court says she abandoned her practice and clients.
GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota woman has pleaded not guilty to locking four young children in a dog cage.
Tenty-three-year-old Jordan McKay Nelson, of Grafton, appeared in court Tuesday. She is facing four counts of felony abuse and neglect of a child, and four counts of felonious restraint.
The children, who range in ages from 5 to 9 years, told investigators they were locked in the kennel in the basement as punishment and the lights were turned off. Nelson allegedly forced one of the children to eat dog food. During a police interview, a boy drew a picture of himself in the cage with the words “help me.”
Police say Nelson is in a relationship with the children’s biological mother.
Defense attorney David Dusek declined to comment.
WARREN, Minn. (AP) – A North Dakota man accused of killing a man in Minnesota has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.
Twenty-five-year-old Ray Littlewolf Jr., of Devils Lake, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and felony theft in the March death of 64-year-old Ronald Foss near Viking, Minnesota. Sentencing is June 16.
During his court appearance in Warren on Tuesday, Littlewolf said he and Foss met at a Grand Forks bus station and went to Foss’s home. Littlewolf said he became angry after Foss made sexual advances to him following a night of drinking, and the two fought when he tried to leave. He said he stabbed Foss twice with a kitchen knife.
Littlewolf was arrested several days later in Devils Lake, where he had driven in Foss’s truck.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – The U.S. oil industry is challenging new rules aimed at reducing the risk of catastrophic accidents involving crude moved by rail.
The American Petroleum Institute petitioned the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. to block a requirement that railroad tank cars known to fail be phased out or upgraded.
The petition filed late Monday also challenges a requirement for more advanced braking systems on fuel-hauling trains.
At least 24 oil trains have been involved in major fires or derailments over the past decade in the U.S. and Canada. Another occurred last week when an oil train derailed and caught fire in central North Dakota, forcing the evacuation of a small town.
Environmental groups say the new rules don’t go far enough. They are considering their own legal challenge.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Family members of a Minot woman who is in Nepal are waiting to hear from her following the latest earthquake in the Asian country.
Twenty-five-year-old Shauntae Delmar has been in Nepal as part of a mission trip she organized. Sister Tiffany Thorson says the family was last in contact with Delmar last Thursday.
Nepal was just beginning to rebuild from a devastating April 25 earthquake when it was hit by a magnitude-7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed dozens of people and injured thousands.
Delmar arranged the mission trip following the first earthquake, to help in the cleanup and recovery.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk has been asked to testify in Washington about energy.
Kalk is scheduled to appear Thursday in front of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The panel is researching several energy infrastructure bills.
Kalk says his testimony will focus on how potential changes may affect the future of North Dakota’s generation and transmission facilities.
The PSC permits and regulates power plants, pipelines, railroads and a number of other businesses in the state. The three-member commission has approved more than $4 billion in energy projects in the past three years.
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota native and top-five finalist on NBC’s singing competition “The Voice” will perform at two Minot Air Force Base schools.
Kat Perkins will perform at North Plains Elementary and Dakota Elementary Wednesday. She will talk to students about anti-bullying measures before her performances.
Perkins participated on “The Voice” last year. The show is a talent competition in which viewers vote for their favorite performers, with the winner receiving a recording contract.
In sports…
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
Final St. Louis 8 Cleveland 3
Final Chi White Sox 4 Milwaukee 2
Final San Francisco 8 Houston 1
Final L.A. Angels 5 Colorado 2
Final Seattle 11 San Diego 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
DETROIT (AP) – Ian Kinsler hit an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th to give the Detroit Tigers a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins last night. Angel Nesbitt pitched the 10th for his first career victory, while Ryan Pressly took the loss for Minnesota. Torii Hunter drove in the Twins’ lone run on a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning.
Final Toronto 10 Baltimore 2
Final Tampa Bay 4 N-Y Yankees 2
Final Kansas City 7 Texas 6, 10 Innings
Final Oakland 9 Boston 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Pittsburgh 7 Philadelphia 2
Final Cincinnati 4 Atlanta 3
Final Chi Cubs 6 N-Y Mets 1
Final Arizona 14 Washington 6
Final L.A. Dodgers 11 Miami 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
UNDATED (AP) – The Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Clippers each have three-games-to-two leads in their respective NBA conference semifinal series. LeBron James finished with 38 points, 12 rebounds and six assists as the Cavs downed the Chicago Bulls 106-101. The Cavs can close out the series on Thursday in Chicago.
The Houston Rockets avoided elimination as James Harden delivered 26 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a 124-103 rout of the Clippers. The series shifts to Los Angeles for Game 6 on Thursday.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
TAMPA BAY, Fla. (AP) – Nikita Kucherov (KOO’-cheh-rahv) scored twice and had an assist as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat Montreal 4-1 to advance to the NHL’s Eastern Conference finals. Steven Stamkos and Ondrej Palat (pah-LAHT’) provided second-period goals that put the Lightning ahead 3-0. Ben Bishop turned back 18 shots and blanked the Canadiens until Max Pacioretty scored with 4:59 remaining.
HOCKEY-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
PRAGUE (AP) – Jack Eichel (EYE’-kul) scored with 28 seconds left in overtime to give the U.S. a 5-4 victory over Slovakia at the ice hockey world championship. The win enabled the Americans to finish first in Group B with six wins and one loss. The young U.S. team will meet Switzerland in the quarterfinals.
NFL…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The NFL Players Association has submitted its written argument to a federal appeals court in opposition to the now-expired suspension of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. The NFL had asked the appeals court to overturn a federal judge’s ruling on the grounds he didn’t have authority to usurp a case the league argued should be limited to a labor dispute with the union. In its brief, the NFLPA wrote the judge’s decision was “unassailably correct” in rejecting league arbitrator Harold Henderson’s decision.
NEW YORK (AP) – Ted Wells has answered criticism from the agent of Tom Brady, saying he found direct evidence to show quarterback the New England Patriots quarterback knew team employees were deflating footballs. Wells was the investigator whose findings led the NFL to suspend Brady for the first four games of the upcoming season, fine the Patriots $1 million and strip the team of two draft picks, including a first-rounder next year. Brady’s agent said Monday that he was very confident the Wells Report will be exposed as an incredibly frail exercise in fact-finding and logic.
NBA…
METAIRIE, La. (AP) – Head coach Monty Williams has been fired by the New Orleans Pelicans despite leading the team to 45 victories and its first playoff appearance in four years. The decision came only weeks after owner Tom Benson congratulated Williams and the entire basketball operations staff for “a job well done.” Williams was 173-221 with two playoff appearances in five seasons with the franchise.
NASCAR…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Kyle Busch will return in NASCAR’s All-Star race this weekend. He has been sidelined since a Feb. 21 crash in the Xfinity Series opener in which he broke his right leg and left foot in an accident that spurred safety reviews throughout NASCAR. Busch credited therapy sessions that sometimes spanned six hours for being able to heal ahead of schedule.
In world and national news…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Philadelphia’s mayor says not everyone has been accounted for following last night’s Amtrak train derailment that killed at least six people and injured dozens of others. Federal investigators are expected to arrive at the scene this morning. The train, which was traveling from Washington, D.C. to New York, derailed shortly after 9 p.m., sending all seven cars off the tracks. Some passengers escaped by climbing through the windows of toppled cars.
A Temple University doctor is one of the six reported dead.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Dozens of workers are feared dead after fire ripped through a slipper factory near the Philippine capital, Manila. Officials say at least three bodies have been recovered and that no survivors were found after the fire was brought under control. Relatives are reporting about 62 people missing, and the governor of a nearby city says only seven people are believed to have survived. The local fire marshal says there are “numerous bodies” on the building’s second floor.
LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) – A boat crammed with more than 500 refugees has been found off the coast of Penang island in northern Malaysia. A person involved in the situation says the overcrowded boat is full of desperate people and it’s too dangerous to board. The migrants are likely Bangladeshis and Rohingya (ROH’-hin-GAH’), a long-persecuted minority in Myanmar who’ve become victims of human traffickers.
TOKYO (AP) – Another 6.5 million vehicles are being recalled worldwide because of problem air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp. Toyota says it’s recalling nearly 5 million more vehicles, affecting some Corolla subcompact cars, RAV4 SUVs and Tundra pickup trucks. And Nissan is recalling an additional 1.56 million vehicles, affecting some Sentra compact cars, Caravan vans and X-Trail SUVs. The recall involves a new air bag problem, in which the front air bag inflators can deploy abnormally, or rupture.
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) – Two Florida hearse drivers have been fired for stopping at Dunkin’ Donuts while on their way to a funeral. Rob Carpenter spotted the hearse in the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot in New Port Richey Tuesday, with its curtains open. Inside was the flag-draped coffin of 84-year-old Ltc. Jesse Coleman, a decorated soldier who served in Korea and Vietnam. Carpenter confronted the driver and sent images to the Veteran’s Warriors group, which posted the images to Facebook.
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