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. TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS IN THE EVENING…THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…RAIN SHOWERS. AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOONHIGHS AROUND 60. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH. . HIGHS 60 TO 65. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. EAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE
EVENING…THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
70 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
CHANCE OF SHOWERS 70 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
IN THE EVENING…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND SNOW SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS AROUND 40.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. 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.
Jamestown (CSi) The identity of fatal rollover victim has been released.
The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reported the accident that occurred Wednesday May 6, 2015 about 11:30-p.m. about two miles west of Medina, that claimed the life of the lone occupant of the vehicle.
The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reported an accident that occurred Wednesday May 6, 2015 about 11:30-p.m. about two miles west of Medina, that claimed the life of the lone occupant of the vehicle.
Deputy Damian Hoyt, reported that 37 year-old Jonathan F. Jones of Bismarck was eastbound on I- 94 when the vehicle entered the median and rolled, coming to rest in the westbound driving lane on its top.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Sheriff’s Department was assisted by the Jamestown Police Department, Jamestown Ambulance, and Jamestown City Fire Department.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Board of Directors was given an update on the water supply projects for the planned CHS nitrogen fertilizer plant and enlarged the parcel of land set aside for a crew camp.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, JSDC, Vice President of Economic Development, Holly Miller said at the meeting, Stutsman Rural Water District, Manager, Geneva Kaiser discussed the Spiritwood Regional Water Reuse Facility Project.
The planned water reuse plant has enough capacity for about 300 gallons per minute above the needs of the CHS plant.
A water reuse plant would use wastewater from Great River Energy, Cargill Malt and Dakota Spirit AgEnergy in combination with water from the Jamestown and Spiritwood aquifers to supply the 3,800 gallons per minute of water required by the planned CHS nitrogen plant.
The North Dakota Legislature provided a $10 million grant and a $40 million low-interest loan for the $144 million project. The rest of the funds would be borrowed and repaid through the sale of water to CHS or other industrial water users.
In other business, the JSDC Board approved an increase in the acreage it will make available for a possible future crew camp to house construction workers for the planned CHS project.
The approval increases the land available for a crew camp from 40 acres to 80 acres at an annual rent of $600 per acre.
The JSDC land being made available for the crew camp is located southeast of Spiritwood and about 5 miles from the planned location of the CHS plant.
JSDC, CEO, Connie Ova has said developers have shown interest in starting businesses such as service stations, truck stops and restaurants in the area of the crew camp.
At the meeting the JSDC Board approved a revised version of its policies and procedures manual.
The revised policy and procedure manual now goes to the Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission for approval.
Holly also said the JSDC’s Annual Meeting was recently held, including the Annual Report being presented.
She added that a JSDC news letter is returning to the web site,
The Annual Report is posted in this story on line at CsiNewsNow.com
Bismarck AP, CSi) 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.
In the region taxable sales and purchases in 2014 compared to 2013
Jamestown $253,447,948 down 4.75%
Stutsman County $264,035,485 down 4.70%
Valley City $81,066,891 down 4.39%
Barnes County $87,949,282 down 5.02%
Carrington $62,073,979 down 12.29%
Foster County $62,969,684 down 12.59%
City of LaMoure $17,089,326 down 37.21%
LaMoure County $36,563,103 down 26.01%
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A lawyer for one of the organizations representing a number of Fargo high school students says the school district has taken back its original decision to deny the pupils the permission to form anti-abortion clubs.
Jocelyn Floyd is an attorney with the Chicago-based Thomas More Society. She says the Fargo school district is now allowing the students to start the clubs at North and Davies high schools.
The organization Floyd represents sent a letter to the district in early April arguing that the refusal of school officials to recognize the groups was a violation of the students’ First Amendment rights.
The school district has confirmed to KFGO-AM that it is letting the clubs gather but would not comment further.
The club at Davies High school already hosted its first meeting.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – An Underwood man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he knew and threatening her with a gun.
Brady Blotske is charged with gross sexual imposition, felonious restraint and terrorizing. He could face life in prison if convicted. His defense attorney was in a trial on Wednesday and not immediately available for comment.
The woman involved in the case previously was in a relationship with Blotske and shares custody of a child with him.
Blotske allegedly became angry about relationship issues on April 30. The woman told police that he punched and sexually assaulted her, then held a pistol to her head and threatened to kill her and himself.
Blotske is due in court June 3 and could enter pleas at that time.
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.”
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Family members of a Minot woman who is in Nepal say she has finally contacted them 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 finally heard from her Wednesday, after not being in contact since 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 oil drillers produced an average of about 1.19 million barrels of oil a day in March.
The Department of Mineral Resources says the March production was up about 12,500 barrels a day from February’s average.
Western North Dakota’s oil patch had a record 12,430 producing wells in March, up from 12,199 in February.
The state also produced 47.1 million cubic feet of natural gas in March. That’s up from 41.3 million cubic feet of natural gas in February.
The average drill rig count in March was 108, down from 133 in February.
Drilling activity has slowed in recent months with slumping oil prices.
The number of drill rigs operating on Wednesday was 83.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Unless oil prices take a sudden nosedive, North Dakota’s petroleum industry won’t start reaping the benefits of a tax cut that would decrease state tax collections by about $80 million a month through November.
State Tax commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger (RAW’-shuhn-bur-gur) and North Dakota Petroleum Council President Ron Ness say the “trigger” tax break for the oil industry likely won’t happen.
If oil prices average below $55.09 a barrel in May, it will mark the fifth straight month that they will lag below the trigger price and the tax break will go into effect. But oil prices have been about $4 above that so far this month.
Rauschenberger and state Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms are slated to discuss oil production numbers and the impact of the price trigger on Wednesday.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is urging North Dakotans who buy nursery stock to check for Japanese beetles.
The beetles have been found in North Dakota every year since 2012, but Goehring says officials don’t believe large numbers of the pest are yet in the state. They want to keep it that way. The Agriculture Department also is seeking volunteers to help place traps around the state.
The beetles feast on everything from rose bushes to corn crops. They’re about half an inch long, and metallic green with bronze wing covers.
The beetles were first found in the U.S. in 1916. They’ve since spread to every state east of the Mississippi River, as well as to Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana. They cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage annually.
In sports..
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Jimmie Booster Club reminds golfers that the Jimmie Scramble golf tournament, is set for Saturday June 20, 2015.
Get your teams together today. Plus, there are many sponsorship opportunities to promote your business.
Go to http://www.uj.edu/alumniandfriends/jimmie- scramble-2015 for info.
In world and national news…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – It appears that the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday night was traveling far faster than allowed on that section of track. Surveillance video from just before the crash has been analyzed by The Associated Press. And it indicates that the train was traveling about 107 miles an hour as it approached a curve where the speed limit was 50. The derailment killed seven people and injured more than 200.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Police officials in Philadelphia say the engineer of the Amtrak train involved in last night’s crash declined to provide a statement Wednesday to investigators. They also say the engineer had an attorney when he left a meeting with the investigators at a police precinct. The engineer has not yet been identified. Authorities say the locomotive’s data recorder has been recovered and that it should yield critical information, including the speed of the train.
BOSTON (AP) – A defense lawyer for the Boston Marathon bomber says the death penalty should be reserved for “the worst of the worst.” And she says that’s not Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv). She told jurors in closing arguments Wednesday that the attack never would have happened had it not been for Tsarnaev’s older brother. And she says Tsarnaev is “genuinely sorry for what he’s done.” A jury will soon be considering whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison.
MEXICO CITY (AP) – A teenage girl at the center of an international custody case won’t be sent to the United States until Mexican authorities confirm her identity through DNA testing. The search for 13-year-old Alondra Diaz Garcia attracted wide attention last month after a Mexican court erroneously sent another girl named Alondra to Texas in a case of mistaken identity. That girl was returned to Mexico after DNA testing confirmed that she’s not related to a Houston woman who’s been searching for her daughter since 2007. The daughter was allegedly taken to Mexico by her father.
LONDON (AP) – The entire U.S. men’s sprint relay team has been stripped of its silver medal from the 2012 London Olympics, because of the doping case involving Tyson Gay. That word comes from two officials with knowledge of the decision. They say a letter from the International Olympic Committee asks U.S. Olympic Committee officials to collect the medals and return them. Gay returned his own medal last year after accepting a one-year doping suspension and the loss of results dating back to July of 2012.
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