CSi Weather…

TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COLD. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
30S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH IN THE
AFTERNOON.
.TONIGHT…CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE EVENING…THEN
CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW 30 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE
MORNING. COLDER. HIGHS AROUND 15. NORTH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10. SOUTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO
15. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO 15.
HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.

 A PERIOD OF LIGHT SNOW WED. MORNING WILL LEAVE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF
 FRESH SNOW ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.
 
 ANOTHER ROUND OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE  WED. NIGHT…WITHIN A NARROW BAND.
 THE LOCATION IS VERY UNCERTAIN…ALTHOUGH THE MOST PROBABLE
 AREA FOR ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL IS JUST NORTH OF A LINE FROM
 VALLEY CITY TO FARGO TO PARK RAPIDS. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WITHIN THIS NARROW BAND ARE ALSO UNCERTAIN…WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL INCHES BY THURSDAY MORNING.

AREAS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 2 AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 94 STILL APPEAR  FAVORED FOR 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW…MAINLY WED. NIGHT.

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a kitchen fire in one unit of a duplex at 1407 7thAvenue, Southwest.

Lt. Sheldon Mohr says the call came in at 3:44 a.m., on Wednesday (Dec 12, 2012).

When the five city fire units, and 27 fire fighters arrived on the scene smoke a flames were coming from kitchen area of the unit.

Lt. Mohr said a newspaper carrier alerted the residents to the fire.

The occupants escaped, and no injuries reported.

Extensive fire damage was reported to the kitchen, and smoke damage to the rest of the unit.

No damage was reported to the adjacent unit of the duplex.

The cause of the fire in under investigation.

The City Fire Department was on the scene about and hour and a half.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Stutsman Rural Water Users Board of Directors has responded to the City of Jamestown’s proposal, concerning if the City or Rural Water Users serves the area near Jamestown Regional Medical Center, and the Titan Machinery building under construction in that area.

The City and Rural Water Users representatives met early this week to negotiate.

At the meeting Rural Water proposed the city pay it a royalty of $1.50 per 1,000 gallons and the city suggested a royalty of about 6 cents per 1,000 gallons.

Rural Water Manager, Geneva Kaiser, says the two parties were far apart but hoped a compromise could be reached.

The Rural Water board also reviewed this year’s construction progress and looked ahead to next year’s projects.

　

Undated — The parents of two children killed in 2010, in an accident where a semi truck ran a red light on U.S. Highway Two, west of Grand Forks have sued the driver and three companies, including UPS.

41 year old Kevin Boyer Jr., and 35 year old Catana Boyer, filed the lawsuit October 31, 2012, seeking at least $50,000.

The driver, 64 year old Steven Nelson, of Jamestown, and two Jamestown companies filed denials last week.

They also asked that a lawsuit filed by UPS against them be dismissed.

A hearing in the civil case is scheduled for next month in state district court in Grand Forks.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Dec 11, 2012) – The Board of Buffalo City Tourism has elected Mitzi Hagar, Rev. Rich Fitzer, Jon Lillejord and Paul Buttenhoff to their Full Board of Directors with terms to begin after the Annual Meeting in January 2013.

Re-elected was Marlyn Bertsch as a Stutsman County representative.

Terms are for three years. Fulfilling their terms and leaving the Board of Directors in January are Pam Phillips, Mark Wolf, Corey Bayer and Bob Lulay.

The Grant and Executive Board members for 2013 are President, Alden Kollman; President-Elect Scott Hare; Treasurer-Beth Dewald; At-Large members Tanea Clocksene and Marlyn Bertsch.

The Grant and Executive Board meets on the 3rd Friday of every month and the Full Board meet three to four times annually.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KCSi-T.V. News) –North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad will deliver his farewell speech on the Senate floor today (Wednesday, December 12, 2012) at 11:00am.

Senator Conrad will reflect on his time in office and his work for North Dakota and the nation.

As the out-going Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, he will also discuss the nation’s fiscal challenges and possible solutions.

Senator Conrad will retire from the Senate on January 2, after 26 years of service.

The address will be carried live on C-SPAN-2, CSi 59.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota National Guard soldier
killed in Afghanistan was laid to rest, while the family of a
second soldier who died prepares for his burial.
     Services for 41-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Darren Linde, of Devils
Lake, were Tuesday in Sidney, Mont., where he grew up. The funeral
for 20-year-old Spc. Tyler Orgaard, of Bismarck, is Thursday in
that city.
     Orgaard’s body was brought to Bismarck on Monday and turned over
to family.
     The two members of the Williston-based 818th Engineer Company
died in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Dec. 3. A
third soldier was wounded but is recovering.
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple asked that flags be flown at half-staff on
Tuesday and again on Thursday in honor of the fallen soldiers.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Darren Linde’s widow says she and her four
children are “devastated” by his death. But she says they have a
lifetime of wonderful memories. The soldier from Devils Lake who
was killed in Afghanistan was buried Tuesday in Montana, while the
family of another soldier who was killed, Tyler Orgaard, prepares
for his funeral. That service will be Thursday in Bismarck.

 

 MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have captured three of five boys
who escaped from the Youth Correction Center in Mandan.

The boys were apprehended after they crashed a minivan in
Fargo. Authorities say the boys escaped Sunday after assaulting a
correctional officer.

 

GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) – A Minnesota man is accused of forcing his

girlfriend and her daughter to stand along a North Dakota highway

in extreme cold.

Forty-four-year-old Scott Boothman of Warroad, Minn., faces

three felonies including terrorizing and two misdemeanors including drunken driving. Court documents do not list an attorney for him.

The Walsh County Sheriff’s Departmentsays Boothman was driving with his girlfriend and her daughter from Warroad to Grand Forks Sunday when he allegedly forced them to stand outside at an Interstate 29 exit near Grafton. The wind chill that night was as cold as 30 degrees below zero. Sheriff Lauren Wild says the woman and girl were not injured by the cold.

Boothman was arrested after a chase that authorities say reached speeds of 100 mph.

 

 MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Mandan man accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed three of his friends has been sentenced to serve eight years in prison.
 
     A jury last month convicted 24-year-old Taylor Berhow on three counts of manslaughter in the deaths last year of 21-year-olds Charles Boehm and Trevor Erie and 22-year-old Eastman Nadeau.  Berhow was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Sonna Anderson.
 
     Authorities say Berhow had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit for driving when crashed into a tree on Oct. 29, 2011. Berhow pleaded guilty in January but withdrew the plea when Anderson rejected a plea deal that called for a five-year prison term.

 

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota business owners interested
in capitalizing on the oil boom in North Dakota don’t need to head
north to get involved. That’s according to former North Dakota Gov.
Ed Schafer, who gave the keynote speech of a conference about the
Bakken oil boom. He said the companies that supply labor and
materials to the oil companies are reaching out to communities
outside the boom in hopes of finding cheaper labor and rent.
     
     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State officials say contributions are
lagging for a North Dakota affordable housing fund. They say more
than $3.5 million in donations are needed by the end-of-year
deadline to fund all of the 26 low-income projects proposed.
Individuals and businesses get a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for
donating.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – More than 700 people and 50 exhibitors are expected at an agriculture conference in Grand Forks.
 
     The annual Prairie Grains Conference is Wednesday and Thursday at the Alerus Center. Agweek reports that the event is considered the unofficial kickoff to the agriculture meeting season in the region.
 
     Several commodity groups in North Dakota and Minnesota team up for the conference. Topics will range from wheat and soybeans to marketing and crop insurance.

 

 MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – The National Park Service killed 69 elk in
Theodore Roosevelt National Park this fall as part of an ongoing
effort to keep the herd at a manageable level.
     Superintendent Valerie Naylor says the backcountry in the park’s
South Unit is now open to visitors at all times. It had been closed
three days per week during the elk reduction effort Oct. 30 to Dec.
6.
     The western North Dakota park is in the maintenance phase of an
elk management plan that included large reduction efforts in 2010
and 2011. The herd had grown to more than 1,200 animals, when the
ideal size for the park is between 100 and 400.
     Meat from elk that are killed is given to the Sportsmen Against
Hunger program, which helps food pantries.

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A national animal protection group is offering a $6,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the deaths of a moose and two pronghorn antelope in central North Dakota.
 
     The Humane Society of the United states says the animals were killed in last month in Burleigh and Morton counties. The group says the illegal killings occurred during the first week of North Dakota’s deer gun season.
 
     The group says a young bull moose was shot near Moffit. And two pronghorns were shot and left along a county road northwest of Mandan.
 

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Georgia Southern University officials say they’re hoping to return home with more than a victory in Friday’s football playoff game against North Dakota State.
 
     They want to win over a North Dakota high school senior.
 
     The Georgia school with than 20,000 students has representatives from 90 countries and 49 states. There are no students from North Dakota.
 
     School officials are taking advantage of the football trip to recruit potential students and promote the balmy conditions of Statesboro, where the high temperature Tuesday was 68 degrees.
 
     Says Georgia Southern spokesman Christian Flathman, “Students are walking around on campus right now in shorts and flip flops as they are taking their final exams.”
 
     Flathman says the university has 120 degree programs ranging from business and engineering to liberal arts and health care.

BOYS BASKETBALL

 Barnes County Tournament
 First Round
     LaMoure-Litchville-Marion 41, Enderlin 32
     Maple Valley 65, Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page 36
     Milnor 68, Barnes County North 44
     Valley City 66, Griggs County Central 40
     Benson County 33, New Rockford-Sheyenne 31
     Cavalier 56, Hatton-Northwood 36
     Devils Lake 67, Fargo North 66
     Dickinson 49, Miles City, Mont. 46
     Four Winds/Minnewaukan 71, Harvey-Wells County 44
     Grand Forks Red River 76, Fargo South 48
     Grant County 47, Hettinger/Scranton 46
     Hazen 77, Underwood 40
     Lakota/Adams-Edmore 69, Rolla 50
     Larimore 72, Park River/Fordville Lankin 51
     Lidgerwood-Wyndmere 49, Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran 44
     Midway-Minto 59, Thompson 28
     Mohall-Lansford-Sherwood 54, Max 44
     North Border 62, Langdon 48
     Park Christian (Moorhead), Minn. 82, Kindred 45
     Rosholt, S.D. 71, Hankinson 60
     Sargent Central 64, Richland 63
     Towner-Granville-Upham 43, Rolette-Wolford 37
     Turtle Lake-Mercer 75, New Salem 35
     Wibaux, Mont. 59, Beach 44
     Williston 69, Sidney, Mont. 56

 Roughrider Tournament
 First Round
     Bowman County 74, Glen Ullin-Hebron 51
     Dickinson Trinity 70, New England 41
     Heart River 66, Killdeer 40
     Richardton-Taylor 74, Mott-Regent 72
 Stanley Lions Tournament
 First Round
     Lewis and Clark-Berthold 79, North Shore 49
     Trenton 65, Tioga 48
 Velva Tournament
 First Round
     Glenburn 67, Velva 47
     Kenmare 54, Westhope-Newburg 52
 GIRLS BASKETBALL
     Grand Forks Red River 56, Fargo South 44
     Miles City, Mont. 65, Dickinson 55

 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL…

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Rodney Williams scored a season-high 19
points last night to lead No. 13 Minnesota to a 70-57 victory over
North Dakota State. Trevor Mbakwe added 14 points and a career-high
18 rebounds for the Gophers. Lawrence Alexander led the Bison with
19 points.

 
   Final    (  3)  Michigan        67    Binghamton            39
   Final    (10)  Illinois        64    Norfolk  St.          54
   Final    (13)  Minnesota      70    N.  Dakota  St.      57

 

NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION

 Carmelo Anthony poured in a season-high 45 points and Jason Kidd
drained a tiebreaking three-pointer with 24 seconds left as New
York rallied for a 100-97 win at Brooklyn. Kidd had 18 points for
the Knicks, who rallied from an early 17-point deficit to improve
to 16-5. The Nets have lost five straight since an 11-4 start.

Kobe Bryant scored 42 points, but Kyrie Irving
and C.J. Miles each scored 28 points to lead Cleveland past the Los
Angeles Lakers 100-94. 
 
     Final    Denver                101    Detroit              94
   Final    Washington          77    New  Orleans      70
   Final    L-A  Clippers      94    Chicago              89
 

NFL…

 NEW ORLEANS (AP) – It’s being interpreted as a sharp rebuke of Commissioner Roger Goodell (guh-DEHLZ’) handling of the NFL’s bounty investigation. Paul Tagliabue (TAG’-lee-uh-boo) has overturned the suspensions of four current and former New Orleans Saints players. The former commissioner says three of the players did engage in a cash-for-hits program that was detrimental to the league, but he added the team’s coaches were very much involved and had “contaminated” the case.

The Chicago Bears placed kicker Robbie Gould (gold) on injured
reserve with a strained left calf. To replace one of the most
accurate kickers in league history, the team has signed Olindo Mare
(oh-LIHN’-doh MAHR’-ay) to a one-year contract.

MLB…
     NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Yankees have found a replacement for third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who’s expected to miss at least the first half of next season following hip surgery. A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that free agent Kevin Youkilis (YOO’-kih-lihs) and the New York Yankees have reached agreement on a one-year, $12 million deal, pending a physical. The 34-year-old Youkilis is coming off the worst season of his major league career, hitting .236 with 19 homers and 60 RBIs in 122 games for the White Sox and Red Sox.
     CLEVELAND (AP) – The Cleveland Indians have pulled off a three-team deal with the Cincinnati Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks. The Indians sent outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, utilityman Jason Donald and cash to the Reds, while shipping reliever Tony Sipp and first baseman Lars Anderson to the Diamondbacks. The Tribe picked up outfielder Drew Stubbs from Cincinnati and pitchers Trevor Bauer, Matt Albers and Bryan Shaw from the D-Backs.

     UNDATED (AP) – Brandon McCarthy officially became a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks once the two sides finalized a two-year, $15.5 million contract yesterday. And the Los Angeles Dodgers introduced Zach Greinke (GRAYN’-kee) at a news conference yesterday after signing him to a six-year, $147 million package.

 

NHL. LABOR…
     TORONTO (AP) – NHL labor negotiations are set to resume today with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location. Today marks the 88th day of the lockout. Wednesday’s session will be the first meeting since the sides blamed each other after talks broke off last week.

  COLLEGE FOOTBALL-AP ALL-AMERICA TEAM

     NEW YORK (AP) – Alabama is No. 1 when it comes to All-Americans.
     The second-ranked Crimson Tide placed four players on The
Associated Press All-America team released Tuesday. Among them was
center Barrett Jones, who became a two-time first-team selection.
     Notre Dame and Texas A&M were second with four players on the
three teams, though linebacker Manti Te’o was the only Fighting
Irish player to make the first team. Texas A&M Heisman Trophy
winner Johnny Manziel was the first-team quarterback.
     Wisconsin running back Montee Ball and Georgia linebacker Jarvis
Jones also became two-time All-Americans.

 

In world and national news…

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) – A spokesman for the Syrian opposition has told the fourth meeting of the “Friends of the Syrian People” that the new coalition seeks “real support” and not just international recognition. The spokesman called on the more than a hundred delegates from Europe and the Gulf countries to provide some concrete help in the nearly two-year battle against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
 
     KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is in Afghanistan today for consultations with top commanders and President Hamid Karzai. The visit comes at a difficult juncture in the Western coalition’s efforts to end the combat mission in December 2014. Security has generally improved but the Afghan government’s ability to effectively govern and to root out corruption is in great doubt.
 
     LONDON (AP) – New data provides another sign that the eurozone recession is getting worse and weighing on big economies like Germany. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, says industrial production across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro unexpectedly slumped in October, falling 1.4 percent despite expectations of a modest gain.
 
     VIENNA (AP) – OPEC oil ministers are signaling that they won’t be reducing the amount of oil at the pump. The ministers are meeting today in Vienna. Reducing output drives up prices, which in turn will lead to even weaker demand during the present economic hard times.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – A milestone in construction of a new World Trade Center complex takes place today. The first section of a spire that will rise atop the World Trade Center’s tallest building is set to be lifted into place. Nine of 18 giant steel pieces of the spire arrived at the site in New York City yesterday.