Subscribe by RSS
CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
40S. NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT…RAIN. LOWS AROUND 40. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE
OF RAIN 70 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 40 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS
IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 40 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO
AROUND 20 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN THE
MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. WINDY. HIGHS IN
THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND
30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
40S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
LOWS IN THE MID 20S TO LOWER 30S.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
50S. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 60.
MONDAY MORNING…
DENSE FOG (VISIBILITY OF 1/4 MILE OR LESS) MAINLY
WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.
WINDY CONDITIONS DEVELOP TUESDAY NIGHT
AND CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY
SOME SNOW MIXING IN WITH RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS
COLDER AIR COMES DOWN BEHIND THE STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. THERE
IS STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY AS MUCH DEPENDS ON GROUND
TEMPERATURES AND WHEN EXACTLY THE CHANGE OVER OCCURS…BUT A FEW
INCHES OF SLUSHY ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER PORTIONS OF
NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES
HIGH TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY SHOULD ONLY REACH THE UPPER
30S TO MID 40S. A SLOW WARMING TREND BEGINS FRIDAY…WITH
TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO REACH THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S BY
SUNDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning the public of a convicted sex offender who is residing in the City of Jamestown.
The report says 29 year old David Moses Cox resides at 517 4th Street Northwest, Jamestown, ND
He is a Native American male, five feet ten inches tall weighing 186 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
Cox has been assinged a high risk by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee, of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
When he was 12 years old, the report says Cox lured a 7-year old boy to a thicket near his home in a forced sexual encounter.
His was convicted of sexual assault in June of 1998, in Winnebago Juvenile Court. His disposition is unknown.
He is on GPS monitoring.
Cox is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.
This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.
Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of the demographics of David Moses Cox are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Cops & Kid’s Fundraiser, Bean Bag Toss Tournament, is Monday (Oct 26, 2015) evening at 6-p.m., at the Gladstone Inn & Suites, with the proceeds to help less fortunate kids, shop for Christmas.
On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the local Fraternal Order of Police, Liason, Nellie Degen said the cost to play the Bean Bag toss tournament is $10 per person, $20 per team, with two person teams.
Coming up in December a list of elementary school age children will be given to law enforcement to participate in the program at Walmart in Jamestown.
Volunteers are also need for the December event for gift wrapping and other support.
Jamestown (CSi) During National Massage Therapy Awareness Week, local massage therapists is offering massages to benefit the Community Action Region VI, Weekend Backpack Program.
The event takes place on Thursday October 29, 2015, from 10-a.m., to 3-p.m., at Jamestown Business Center (Use the west door).
Local massage therapists are offering 10 minute massaged, for a minimum $10 donation.
Also that day, the Noridian Bake Sale will benefit the Backpack Program with a Bake Sale from 10-a.m., to 3-p.m.
Jamestown (CSi) The Annual Turkey Trot in Jamestown is set for Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2015 at 8:30-a.m., starting at Cashwise Foods in Jamestown.
Last year, over 40 runners/walkers braved the minus 23 degree cold and slippery streets. Yes it was cold, and yes they had fun. Big smiles at the finish line. Photos for CSi by Roy Sheppard. MORE 2014 PHOTOS at Facebook.
T-shirt pick up and race day registration opens at 7:30-a.m. Register by November 19th to guarantee a race day T-shirt pick up.
The entry fee is $25, with proceeds donated for the Community Action Region VI Food Pantry.
Register with cash or check at Cashwise, or Bank Forward in Jamestown.
Additional cash donations or check payable to Community Action Region six food pantry, the day of the event.
Credit or Debit Cards accepted online at: www.jamestownturkeytrot.webconnex.com/2015
Also, everyone is asked to bring a non-parishable food item, and personal hygiene item to donate on race day morning. Bring as many items you can carry.
Sponsors are: Bank Forward, Cashwise, Big Dog & Ted, and Walmart.
(CSi) On Friday afternoon, it was reported that water line maintenance is scheduled near the Water Treatment Plant South of LaMoure, affecting the cities of Fullerton, Oakes, Edgeley, Ellendale, LaMoure and surrounding areas.
Water will be discolored with a reddish yellow tint from iron deposits. Residents can expect the discoloration for the next week.
Water is safe to drink, but not to wash light colored clothing.
Moorhead (CSi) Three-year-old Andrew Wollin was found unharmed by a Moorhead officer during a traffic stop at 11:32 PM Saturday.
Emily Wollin was taken into custody and Andrew was returned to his father.
The father took his son, Andrew Wollin, to visit his mother, 34 year old Emily Wollin, who does not have custody of him.
They were at Wollin’s home in Fargo, and around 6:15PM Saturday, Andrew and Emily went missing.
Initially, a CodeRed alert was sent to everyone who’s signed up for them in the metro.
An Amber Alert was issued Saturday for Andrew Wollin believed to have been abducted, or is otherwise endangered.
Fargo Police say just minutes after the Amber Alert was sent, officers found Wollin’s vehicle by tracking her cell phone around 11:30 PM in Moorhead. Police pulled her over, found Andrew safe and took Wollin into custody for kidnapping. Wollin is in the Clay County jail and is scheduled for an arraignment Monday, awaiting extradition to Cass County.
Police say 34-year-old Emily Wollin is the non-custodial parent of three-year-old Andrew Wollin. They say she took the child without permission.
CENTER, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified a Hazen woman who was killed in a rollover crash near Center over the weekend.
Authorities say 29-year-old Toni Bowers lost control of the car she was driving on state Highway 48 in Oliver County about 10 p.m. Saturday. The vehicle went in the ditch and rolled several times.
Bowers and a passenger were thrown from the vehicle. They were taken to a Bismarck hospital, where Bowers was pronounced dead.
The patrol says the passenger suffered injuries that were not life-threatening.
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – Fire has destroyed a Hardee’s restaurant in Devils Lake.
Devils Lake Fire Chief Jim Moe says crews got a call about smoke in the area around 3 a.m. Sunday after the restaurant on U.S. Highway 2 was closed for the night.
Moe says firefighters arrived to find the Hardee’s on fire, with the blaze mainly in the ceiling. He says crews tried to attack the flames from inside, but the ceiling already was coming down so they decided to fight the fire from outside the building.
The last person had left the building around 12:30 a.m. The North Dakota state fire marshal’s office has been called in to help investigate.
A damage estimate was not available.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – Police in Mandan are investigating vandalism to donations bound for a Standing Rock Indian Reservation community impacted by a wildfire earlier this month.
The donations for Cannon Ball were stacked in boxes outside the Community Blessings thrift store. The items including food, clothing, dishes and mattresses were damaged late last week to the point of being unusable.
Store owner Theresa Stockert said she planned to gather more items from the store’s back stock to send to Cannon Ball this week.
The grass fire on the Dakotas reservation on Oct. 11 destroyed three houses and a church and damaged the school in Cannon Ball, and prompted hundreds of people to temporarily evacuate.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Williston man accused of shooting a handgun inside a nursing home allegedly pointed the weapon at several people and threatened employees.
Authorities allege 50-old Henry Aiken walked into the Bethel Lutheran Nursing and Rehabilitation Center last Tuesday night. Surveillance video shows him talking to his fiancee at a nurse station before moving through hallways and firing a gun through a door.
No one was hurt. Aiken faces several felony charges including terrorizing. He’s being held on $750,000 bond and could enter pleas at a Dec. 10 hearing. He’s tentatively scheduled for trial late next January.
Court documents do not list an attorney for Aiken and he didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment The Associated Press left through a jail messaging system.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A program that helps needy North Dakotans pay winter heating bills is getting financial help from the federal government before winter sets in.
North Dakota’s congressional delegation says the state will receive $22 million from in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, better known as LIHEAP. It helps eligible families pay for home heating and weatherizing.
Officials say about 13,000 North Dakota households receive the heating help annually.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s prison director says negotiations are underway to send inmates to an out-of-state private lockup to relieve overcrowding.
Leann Bertsch says it’s likely an agreement will be reached soon to send some North Dakota inmates by year’s end to a private lockup in Colorado.
North Dakota’s prison system topped 1,800 inmates last week. Bertsch says that’s a record level for inmate numbers and 500 more than ideal. She says it’s mostly due to an increased population spurred by oil development.
Bertsch says North Dakota’s prison system population has tripled since 1995. She says at the current incarceration pace, the state’s prison population will double in the next decade and quadruple in 20 years.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has introduced legislation to allow the minting of coins to support breast cancer research.
The North Dakota Democrat is joined in the effort by Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, of New Hampshire.
The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to produce pink, silver and metal-alloy coins for one year to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s efforts. The coins would become available for purchase in 2018 and would be minted the following year using the funding from coin orders.
More than 200,000 women in the U.S. each year are diagnosed with breast cancer and about 40,000 die from the disease. Overall, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with the disease at some point and chances increase with age.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota organization and Verizon Wireless are partnering in an effort to collect old cellphones from Bismarck-area residents to raise money for victims of domestic violence.
The Abused Adult Resource Center in Bismarck has arranged with local businesses to collect cellphones and accessories that residents no longer use.
Verizon Wireless’s HopeLine program will recycle or refurbish and sell the phones. The company uses the proceeds from the sale of refurbished phones to fund nonprofit agencies and to purchase other wireless phones for victims of domestic violence.
The Abused Adult Resource Center has used HopeLine phones with airtime and text messages to help domestic violence survivors.
Diane Zainhofsky is the center’s executive director. She says the facility is grateful for the company’s “generosity and commitment” to preventing domestic violence.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – An oil industry company is trying to establish a biological process in which oil-eating bacteria are used to clean up a spill with the help of a Williston-based research center.
Compliant Resources founder and CEO Rick Reese calls his method aggressive bioremediation instead of land farming, a similar concept, mainly because it’s seen limited success.
While visiting the Bakken formation in the North Dakota-Montana border, Reese was able to develop his ideas and arrive at a successful grant proposal for a study involving the Williston Research Extension Center. Reese discovered the missing component in many oilfield-led efforts was agricultural expertise.
The goal of Reese’s process is to remediate oil-contaminated soil and improve the soil so it’s better than it was before the spill.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A local Marine Corps League group is revamping a 97-year-old former schoolhouse near Mandan as its new clubhouse.
The old Price Consolidated School building was built in 1918 and moved to its current location on the north side of Highway 10 in 1959. Over the years, the red building has undergone several reincarnations, serving as the Mandan VFW for more than two decades and then eventually falling into disrepair.
The Dakota Leathernecks plan to restore the building’s original features that were altered in the 1980s during its time as a VFW hall.
Owner Fred Berger donated the use of the building to the Leathernecks. The group hopes local businesses will donate the materials needed for an estimated $40,000 in repairs.
In sports…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – People with ties to the University of North Dakota will be voting again as the school moves toward a new nickname.
None of the five choices finalized by a committee last summer got a 50 percent majority in voting last week. UND says there will be a runoff vote next week with three choices on the ballot: Fighting Hawks, Roughriders and Nodaks.
Potential monikers that were eliminated in last week’s voting were North Stars and Sundogs.
Fighting Hawks got the most support, with about 31 percent of the vote, followed by Roughriders with 21 percent and Nodaks with just under 21 percent.
UND has been without a nickname the last three years after the state Board of Higher Education retired the controversial “Fighting Sioux” moniker that the NCAA deemed offensive.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Flip Saunders, the longtime NBA coach who won more than 650 games in nearly two decades and was trying to rebuild the Minnesota Timberwolves as team president, coach and part owner, died Sunday, the team said. He was 60.
Saunders was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in June and doctors called it “treatable and curable.” But he took a leave of absence from the team in September after complications arose during his treatment, which included chemotherapy.
This week, owner Glen Taylor announced Saunders would not be back this season and asked team employees to give Saunders time to heal. The Timberwolves open the season Wednesday.
Sam Mitchell has been named interim head coach and GM Milt Newton is heading the team’s personnel department.
Saunders went 654-592 in 17 NBA seasons with the Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons and Washington Wizards.
“He was a great human being and one of the best offensive minds in basketball,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, a friend of Saunders for three-plus decades, told The Associated Press. “I could talk basketball with him all day and night.”
His popularity transcended the sport.
“Couldn’t have asked for a better neighbor,” ex-Minnesota Vikings star Steve Hutchinson said on Twitter. “Loved his family like no other.”
Philip Daniel Saunders was born on Feb. 23, 1955, in Cleveland and was a prep basketball star at Cuyahoga Heights High School. His mother Kay nicknamed him Flip after hearing the name at a beauty salon. He played in college at Minnesota, teaming with Kevin McHale and Mychal Thompson as a senior to lead the Golden Gophers to a 24-3 record.
Not long after graduating, Saunders got into coaching to begin a long and winding path to the NBA. He started at Golden Valley Lutheran College just outside of Minneapolis and was as an assistant at Minnesota and Tulsa before seven seasons in the Continental Basketball Association.
Saunders often credited his stint in the CBA with instilling in him the work ethic and breadth of organizational knowledge he needed in the NBA. He made stops in Rapid City, South Dakota; La Crosse, Wisconsin; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and often retold stories of his backwater adventures in the minor league while expressing affinity for the NBA coaches who followed similar paths.
He landed in the NBA in 1995, when he wrote a letter to new owner Taylor asking for a job. His college buddy, McHale, took over the basketball operations with the Timberwolves and Saunders became the general manager. When Bill Blair was fired 20 games into the season, Saunders was suddenly the head coach of a struggling franchise that had never made the playoffs. He teamed with a young Kevin Garnett to turn the Timberwolves into a perennial playoff team.
Saunders led the Wolves to eight straight playoff appearances, the last a trip to the Western Conference finals in 2004. He was fired the next season when the team disintegrated thanks in large part to contractual battles with Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell. The Wolves have not made the playoffs since.
Saunders won 64 games in his first season in Detroit in 2005-06 and 176 in his three seasons coaching the Pistons. But he couldn’t quite get a veteran-laden team over the hump and into the NBA Finals, so he was dismissed in 2008.
He coached three more years in Washington before returning to Minnesota as president of basketball operations in 2013. Again, he took over a franchise in turmoil and was bringing the Timberwolves back to relevance before he fell ill.
Saunders deftly handled the exit of disgruntled forward Kevin Love, trading him to Cleveland for a package including budding young star Andrew Wiggins and Thaddeus Young, who was flipped to Brooklyn in February to secure Garnett’s return.
“Flip you were one of a kind. Great basketball mind and even better human being,” Love said on Instagram. “You had a great impact on my life personally and professionally. RIP my friend. Prayers are with the Saunders family during this time.”
Saunders also signed Ricky Rubio to a four-year contract extension, drafted Zach LaVine, Shabazz Muhammad and Karl-Anthony Towns, brought in veterans Andre Miller and Tayshaun Prince and helped design a new $25 million practice facility across the street from Target Center.
As team president, coach and a minority owner, Saunders grabbed a level of influence within his organization that was unmatched in the NBA. His fingerprints were on everything, from personnel decisions to in-game strategies, even down to the pregame entertainment.
He liked to sneak up behind unsuspecting visitors to Target Center, clamp his hand down on a shoulder and squeeze with a vise-like grip that came from hours of massaging his polio-stricken mother in his youth.
He would carry around autographed cards of himself to hand out to fans, and playfully give them to media members as well with a mischievous grin on his face.
“We have all been blessed by your wonderful life, Coach Flip,” Muhammad tweeted. “You will be deeply missed. Rest in peace.”
Gregarious and outgoing, he endeared himself to a Twin Cities community that viewed him as a hometown boy done good, with his Gophers roots overshadowing his Cleveland upbringing. And Flip loved Minnesota right back. When he returned to the organization after 10 years away, he recounted a story about working for ESPN and being asked why he still lived in Minnesota so long after he was fired.
“And I’d say ‘Well, you don’t really understand unless you’re from Minnesota. You really don’t get it. Even when it snows on May 3rd you really don’t get it,”‘ Saunders said. “And the loyalty and the passion that the people have here is what always drives me back.”
Jimmies, Vikings…
Valley City (CSi) The VCSU Vikings football team defeated the University of Jamestown Jimmie Saturday 12-6 at Shelly Ellig Field.
www.vcsuvikings.com/stats/2015-16/Volleyball/UJ%20at%20VC%20FB.htm#TOP
The game tied at six in the final minute when VCSU moved down the field, and Kurtis Walls connected with Colby Lum with an eight-yard touchdown to seal the victory.
Jamestown’s lone field goal miss was with just a few minutes left in the game, as Grant Linde missed from 25-yards away on a kick that would have broken a 6-6 tie.
The win is the fourth in a row for the Vikings over the Jimmies with a 12-6 victory.
UJ will host Waldorf on Halloween.
Up next for VCSU, The North Star Bowl November 8.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
DETROIT (AP) – Teddy Bridgewater threw for a season-high 316 yards and two touchdowns as the Minnesota Vikings beat the Detroit Lions 28-19 on Sunday. Adrian Peterson rushed for 98 yards as the Vikings won an NFC North game on the road for the first time in three years. Vikings rookie Stefon Diggs had six receptions for 108 yards.
Final Jacksonville 34 Buffalo 31
Final Atlanta 10 Tennessee 7
Final St. Louis 24 Cleveland 6
Final Miami 44 Houston 26
Final New Orleans 27 Indianapolis 21
Final New England 30 N-Y Jets 23
Final Kansas City 23 Pittsburgh 13
Final Washington 31 Tampa Bay 30
Final Oakland 37 San Diego 29
Final N-Y Giants 27 Dallas 20
Final Carolina 27 Philadelphia 16
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) – Drew Stafford scored twice as the Jets held off the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Sunday. Minnesota’s Jason Zucker scored 10 seconds into the game. Mikko Koivu, Justin Fontaine and Zach Parise also scored for Minnesota.
Final N-Y Rangers 4 Calgary 1
Final Los Angeles 3 Edmonton 2
NASCAR…
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) – In a wild ending, Joey Logano finished first at Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR said earlier in the week it would make just one attempt to finish the race under green-flag conditions, and Logano was the leader on what was supposed to be the final restart. But a spin in traffic behind him before he took the green extended the caution and set up one more chance for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and others.
Instead, reigning Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick sputtered on the restart to trigger a multi-car accident. Logano did pass under the green flag, though, and NASCAR quickly threw the caution.
It denied Earnhardt a chance to race for the win, and he was eliminated from the Chase for the Cup playoffs. So was Denny Hamlin, who used Twitter to call the end of the race “complete crap” and apologize to anyone who “spent money coming to this circus.”
Matt Kenseth and Ryan Newman also were eliminated from the Chase.
F-1
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has won his second straight Formula 1 world driving championship. He achieved it by finishing first in the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. Teammate Nico (NEE’-koh) Rosberg was second after starting from the pole, and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel third.
Hamilton overtook Rosberg when Rosberg locked his tires and helplessly watched his teammate zoom past with eight laps remaining.
Hamilton has now won the world title three times. The win in Austin was his third straight on the U.S. track.
GOLF…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Smylie Kaufman has earned a victory in just his fifth PGA start, taking the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after a 10-under 61 left him 16-under for the tournament. Kaufman played the final 11 holes in 9 under with an eagle and seven birdies to finish minus-16 for the tournament. Kevin Na, third-round leader Brett Stegmaier, Patton Kizzire, Cameron Tringale (trihn-GAH’-lee), Jason Bohn and Alex Cejka (CHAY’-kah) tied for second, one stroke back.
LPGA…
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Lydia Ko ran away with the LPGA Taiwan Championship to regain the No. 1 spot in the world ranking. The 18-year-old New Zealander holed a 30-yard pitch for eagle on the par-5 12th and finished with a 7-under 65 for a nine-stroke victory. Two South Koreans tied for second.
At 18 years, 6 months, 1 day, Ko is the youngest player to win 10 events on any major tour.
T25-FOOTBALL POLL
UNDATED (AP) -Top-ranked Ohio State picked up an additional 11 first-place votes in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll following Utah’s first loss of the season. The 8-0 Buckeyes have been No. 1 all season but had been losing first-place votes in recent weeks. The latest pole has them with 39 first-place votes following a 49-7 rout of Rutgers.
Second-ranked Baylor picked up seven first-place votes, third-rated Clemson claimed 6 and No. 4 LSU received five.
TCU is fifth, followed by Michigan State, Alabama, Stanford, Notre Dame and Iowa.
Utah slid from third to 13th with its loss to Southern Cal. Florida State fell eight spots to 17th with its last-second loss to Georgia Tech.
In world and national news….
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – At least 43 people died and buildings shook from Afghanistan to India during a strong, magnitude 7.5 earthquake that rocked much of South Asia. Officials say at least 12 students at a girls’ school became part of the deadly list after they got caught in a stampede. At least 29 people died in northwest Pakistan. Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah called an emergency meeting of the disaster management authority.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) – More about the case could be learned today during the first court appearance of a 25-year-old woman accused of driving a car into a crowd of people at an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade over the weekend. Four people were killed and dozens were injured. Adacia Chambers was arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence and faces second-degree murder charges. Her lawyer says he thinks she has a mental illness.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan may not have much time to bask in the limelight of his elevation to House speaker this week before he’s confronted by the reality of several potential crises. Lawmakers are barreling toward a Nov. 3 deadline to raise the federal borrowing limit or face an unprecedented government default, crucial highway funding authority expires soon and December could bring a partial government shutdown.
DETROIT (AP) – General Motors workers will keep the assembly lines churning for now. The United Auto Workers union and General Motors Co. have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract, just 16 minutes before a strike deadline. The UAW says local union leaders will meet Wednesday and if they approve it, GM’s U.S. hourly workers will vote on it.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – It didn’t take long, just two days, for Florida to shut down a controversial black bear hunt. Officials say it ended because a higher than expected number of bears, nearly 300, had been killed. Authorities say the figures suggest the bear population is higher than the 3,500 estimated to live in the state. Opponents of the hunt had challenged those numbers.
Comments are closed
Sorry, but you cannot leave a comment for this post.