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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS
MAY BE SEVERE IN THE EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IN THE EVENING.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO
THE NORTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 80 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. .SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND HUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. LOWS IN THE
MID 50S.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT
CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ENTER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON…AND SPREAD INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH FRIDAY
EVENING. THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING
WIND AND POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IS ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.
SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE BOTH SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY. DAILY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY.
Valley City (CSi) An event sponsored by Stoudt Ross Ford and Ford Motor Company called “Drive 4 UR Community” will attempt to raise $6,000 to benefit the Barnes County Relay for Life.
The test drive event will be on the east side of Veterans Park in Valley City from 11am to 2pm on Saturday, June 20, 2015.
Ford Motor Company will donate $20 per test drive to the local American Cancer Society chapter.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Prosecutors are asking a judge to allow the government to seize money from an auction sale by two North Dakota brothers, from Cooperstown, who were ordered to pay back more than $900,000 for intentionally destroying potatoes to collect insurance payments.
A jury in December convicted Aaron and Derek Johnson of conspiring to receive illegal payments, after they were accused of applying chemicals to the potatoes and using other methods to accelerate deterioration.
Prosecutors say an auction was scheduled Thursday to sell a tractor, RV, pickup and other equipment belonging to the Johnsons. The government wants the proceeds.
Public defender Neil Fulton, who represents Aaron Johnson, says lawyers are evaluating the motion.
Aaron Johnson was sentenced to four years and Derek Johnson to 1 1/2 years, both at a federal prison in Duluth, Minnesota.
Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s assistance in locating an inmate, still being sought, as of Friday, that walked away from the Missouri River Correctional Center in Bismarck on June 14,2015. The man may be in the Bismarck or Williston areas.
The inmate is 39-year-old Ernesto Bovier Difabio. Difabio is a 5’6”, 180-pound male with black hair and brown eyes. Difabio was serving a five-year sentence and has a history of theft and narcotics offenses.
If located, do not approach him. Call 911 or the North Dakota State Emergency Communications Center at 1-800-472-2121.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Williston man is accused of using houses in remote areas including a ghost town to hide items he stole for future use in an oil field crew camp.
Thirty-six-year-old Toby McLaughlin faces four felony theft counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years if he’s convicted. Court documents do not list an attorney for him, and a home telephone listing is disconnected.
The Williston Herald reports that authorities allege McLaughlin stole large amounts of furniture, power tools and other items – including even paintings – around the region. Court documents show he’s due in court on July 23 and could enter pleas at that time.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police believe a reported letter in which an Iowa man accused of armed robbery admits to shooting first at police is authentic.
Eric Webb, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was injured in a shootout with police on June 4, after authorities allege he robbed a hotel. Webb is charged with robbery and a weapons crime.
The Forum newspaper in Fargo reported this week it had received a letter from Webb in which he said he’d decided to rob the hotel to get the money he needed to move his family.
Lt. Mike Mitchell tells The Associated Press that police believe the letter was written by Webb.
Defense attorney Patrick Rosenquist tells the AP that “any letter that may or may not have been sent was done so without my knowledge.”
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Williston man is accused of using houses in remote areas including a ghost town to hide items he stole for future use in an oil field crew camp.
Thirty-six-year-old Toby McLaughlin faces four felony theft counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years if he’s convicted. Court documents do not list an attorney for him, and a home telephone listing is disconnected.
Authorities allege McLaughlin stole large amounts of furniture, power tools and other items – including even paintings – around the region. Court documents show he’s due in court on July 23 and could enter pleas at that time.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Land Board has awarded $1.2 million in state oil-impact grants to counties, townships and other political subdivisions.
Officials say the money awarded Thursday was the final round of the state’s two-year budget cycle. The grants included the remaining funds that were set aside for contingency purposes.
The Land Board says it awarded a total of $240 million in impact grants for the current budget cycle to counties experiencing rapid growth from the state’s oil boom.
The Land Board is headed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) – Officials who unsuccessfully pushed for the merger of two large century-old agricultural cooperatives in the Dakotas say they will not try again, despite the idea being only narrowly defeated by co-op members.
The South Dakota Wheat Growers and North Central Farmers Elevator had been planning to join and become CentraGro Cooperative.
Sixty-one percent of Wheat Growers members voted to merge, but only 49 percent of North Central members voted yes. The proposed merger required majority votes from both co-ops.
North Central General Manager Mike Nickolas says the merger proposal was “a one-shot deal,” and Wheat Growers senior vice president Steve Briggs says “there is no appetite” for pursuing the merger, despite the close vote.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Officials in the Fargo-Moorhead area are making new efforts to stave off what they say is a critical worker shortage.
Minnesota Public Radio News reports area organizations unveiled a five-year plan Thursday that they say will focus in part on training workers. Officials also want to draw new workers to the area, with plans for a winter festival that would encourage people to “embrace the cold.”
Fargo-Moorhead Economic Development Corporation President Jim Gartin says the area’s unemployment rate is 2.6 percent, and that there are nearly 7,000 open jobs. He says manufacturers in the area have had to move production lines outside Fargo because they couldn’t find enough workers.
Local convention and visitors bureau president Charles Johnson says companies also need to increase pay to draw workers.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Security is being boosted at the new Vikings stadium after a photographer gained access to the under-construction building.
The photographer, Scott Heins, published photos and an accompanying essay Wednesday on Deadspin.com.
In the essay, Heins said got in by pushing open a gap in the fence in May and then shot photos throughout the stadium, including some taken from a crane hundreds of feet off the ground.
In a statement, John Wood, senior vice president of stadium builder Mortenson Construction, said trespassing on construction sites is “illegal and very dangerous.”
The statement also noted the company and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, the public entity that oversees the stadium, are evaluating all options with local authorities to have Heins face consequences.
In sports…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota sophomore hockey forward Nick Schmaltz and incoming freshman forward Brock Boeser (BES’-ur) have been asked to audition for a spot on the U.S. National Junior Team that will play in the 2016 World Junior Championship.
Schmaltz and Boeser are among 39 players that USA Hockey has invited to the U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in early August in Lake Placid, New York.
Schmaltz is one of 11 returnees from the 2015 U.S. National Junior Team, which finished in fifth place in Montreal and Toronto.
The 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship is Dec. 26, 2015, through Jan. 5, 2016, in Helsinki, Finland.
Schmaltz was a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Blackhawks in 2014. Boeser is eligible for the 2015 NHL draft next week.
In world and national news…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A judge has set a $1 million bond for a 21-year-old white man accused of fatally shooting nine people at a black church in Charleston.
The magistrate judge set the bond for a weapons charge but doesn’t have the authority to set bond on the nine murder counts that Dylann Roof faces. That will be left up to a circuit judge at a later date.
Roof appeared by video and stared straight ahead as five victims’ family members gave statements, some of them saying “hate won’t win.” Roof showed no reaction as they told him they would have mercy on him and that they forgave him.
The judge set the bond with the understanding that Roof will be held until his bond hearing on the murder charges.
Authorities say Roof opened fire at a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday night. He was at the prayer meeting for about an hour before he started shooting.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – The suspect in the killing rampage at a black church in Charleston is being held in a cell next to the former North Charleston police officer who fatally shot a black man running away from him. A sheriff’s official says Dylann Roof is in a cell next to former officer Michael Slager. Slager has been charged with murder in the death of Walter Scott, who was fleeing after a traffic stop in April. Each is alone is his cell. It’s unlikely the two can talk to each other.
WASHINGTON (AP) – If President Barack Obama’s health care law is repealed, the nation’s budget deficit would modestly increase, while the number of uninsured Americans would rise by more than 20 million. That’s the finding of a nonpartisan study from the Congressional Budget Office. It says repealing the law’s spending cuts and tax increases would add $137 billion to the deficit over the coming decade. On the other hand, the report says completely repealing the law would, on average, boost the economy by 0.7 percent a year, starting in the next decade. That’s mostly because more people would enter the workforce or work more hours to make up for the lack of health care subsidies.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration is proposing some tough new standards to reduce pollution from trucks and vans. It’s the latest move by the administration to address global warming. Medium and heavy-duty vehicles account for about 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and oil use in the U.S. transportation sector, even though they make up only five percent of vehicles on the road.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – It’s a city that has often made news for crime, corruption, protests and violence — but today Oakland, California, is shining in the national spotlight as it celebrates the NBA championship of the Golden State Warriors. Hundreds of thousands of fans have filled the streets in the team’s colors of yellow and blue for the victory parade. The Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA finals.
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