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.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH INCREASING TO NORTH 15 TO 20 MPH AFTER
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.SUNDAY…DECREASING CLOUDS. COLDER. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. HIGHS IN THE 20S TO MID 30S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
20S. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
MONDAY…THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL DIVE SOUTH INTO THE AREA
THROUGH THE DAY. THE COOLER AIRMASS REMAINS INTO TUESDAY WITH
WARMER AIR TRYING TO PUSH BACK IN BY MID-WEEK. UNSETTLED WEATHER
PATTERN REMAINS IN PLACE BRINGING LOW CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION
FROM TIME TO TIME.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown residents of a convicted sex offender WORKING in the City of Jamestown.
Willard Eugene Fontaine presently resides in Ypsilanti, ND.
His Vehicle is a white 1999 Pontiac Sunfire, with North Dakota license plate KPW928. Also a brown 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo with North Dakota license plate, JZR276.
Fontaine has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
Offenses: Corruption of minors including sexual acts with 15 and 14 year old girls.
Conviction Date: October 20, 2009, in Stutsman County District Court.
Disposition: 1 year, 5 years supervised probation.
Fontaine 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 communtiy, nor should this informaton be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender. Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, or their families, landlords or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of his demographics are available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site:
VCSU- CSi Valley City State University President, Tisa Mason has been named one of Prairie Business magazine’s 2016 Top 25 Women in Business. She is profiled in the March 2016 issue of the magazine.
Prairie Business annually recognizes successful businesswomen in the northern plains region—North Dakota, South Dakota and western Minnesota—who have made significant impacts in their chosen professions, industries and communities.
President Mason was one of 25 honorees selected from 150 nominations received. Honorees were selected through a nomination process that emphasized professional achievement, community contributions and work-life balance. The magazine is available online at prairiebizmag.com.
President Mason says, “I’m thrilled to be recognized among this group of exceptional women. Throughout my career in higher education, I’ve led so that my efforts can benefit students. At VCSU, I’m surrounded by a wonderful group of talented, hardworking faculty and staff who feel the same way; I’m proud to share this honor with them.”
A native of Massachusetts, Tisa Mason came to Valley City from Hays, Kan., where she served as vice president for student affairs at Fort Hays State University. President Mason previously served as dean of student life at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater in Whitewater, Wis.; executive director of the Sigma Kappa Sorority and Foundation in Indianapolis, Ind.; director of student life and assistant professor at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va.; and assistant dean of students, Hanover College, Hanover, Ind.
A frequent speaker on leadership, student involvement, adult learners, and fraternities and sororities on college campuses, she is a NASPA member and former president, treasurer and board member of the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity.
In 2013, Mason received the Robert H. Shaffer Award from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors for her long-term commitment to fostering positive change in fraternities and sororities. She received the Excellence in Service to Students Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success in the same year.
Her academic credentials include a Doctor of Education degree in higher education from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.; a Master of Science degree in education from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill., and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology/anthropology from Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. She has also earned the professional credential of Certified Association Executive (CAE).
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 21 North Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas due to recent damages and losses.
The first area designates Burke, Cavalier, Divide, Grand Forks, Nelson and Sheridan counties based on excessive heat, excessive rain, frost, excessive snow, drought, hail, flooding, high winds, lightning, weather-related insects and diseases since January 2015. The second area designates Billings, Eddy, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Ramsey, Stark and Williams counties based on freeze, frost, and drought from March-October 2015.
The third area designates Benson, Emmons, Golden Valley, Logan, McLean and Wells counties based on drought, excessive heat, high winds and hail from March-October 2015. The fourth area designates Burleigh and Walsh counties from excessive rain since April 2015.
Those in contiguous counties can also qualify for assistance.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a 31-year-old Arizona man has been found guilty of conspiring to distribute meth from Arizona to the Williston area of North Dakota.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Myers says a federal jury convicted Rocky Thomas Mayfield, of Goodyear, Arizona, on Thursday following a three-day trial. He was charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, two counts of possession with intent to distribute and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Officers arrested Mayfield in February 2015 during a traffic stop near Berthold after they discovered about one pound of methamphetamine in a car he rented. Investigators later found another 10 pounds in a Minot hotel, the largest methamphetamine seizure in the state.
Sentencing has not yet been scheduled.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The case of a Minnesota woman accused of robbing two banks across the North Dakota border in Grand Forks has been moved from state court to federal court.
Charlene Corona, of Crookston, Minnesota, has been indicted on two federal bank robbery charges. She could enter pleas at a March 8 hearing in U.S. District Court in Fargo.
Corona also goes by the last name Espinoza. She’s accused of robbing a Bremer Bank on Sept. 30, 2015, and Citizen’s Community Credit Union 12 days later.
There were no customers in either financial institution at the time of the robberies, and no one was hurt.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo police officer killed in the line of duty has been honored on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and John Hoeven on Friday joined on the Senate floor to speak about Officer Jason Moszer and to thank North Dakota law officers for their work.
The 33-year-old Moszer was shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance Feb. 10. He left behind a wife and two stepchildren. The six-year veteran of the force was the first Fargo officer to die in the line of duty in more than 130 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A government watchdog says federal regulators are failing to refer serious safety violations involving freight rail shipments of crude oil for criminal prosecution.
A report by the Department of Transportation’s inspector general also says the Federal Railroad Administration doesn’t have a complete understanding of the risks involving more than 400,000 tank cars of oil shipped across the country annually. The watchdog says the FRA only looks narrowly at operations in specific regions, not the nation as a whole.
There has been a series of fiery oil train explosions in the U.S. and Canada in recent years, including one just across the border in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people.
The agency’s complex records system also makes it difficult for inspectors to access safety information on rail operations outside their region.
In sports…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – The Devils Lake School Board has given a vote of confidence to two extracurricular activities that had been put on notice due to flagging participation.
The Devils Lake Journal reports that the board this week voted unanimously to remove wrestling and girls hockey from probationary status.
The board had put the two sports on probation two years ago, about the same time it voted to eliminate girls soccer, boys and girls golf and cheerleading.
In world and national news…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Donald Trump is campaigning Friday in Texas with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who today gave his support to Trump in a surprise announcement. Christie describes Trump as someone who “will go to Washington, D.C. and be able to absolutely turn the place around.” He says Trump is hands-down the better choice than Marco Rubio, describing Rubio as a first-term senator who “didn’t show up for work.”
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – As he accepts the endorsement of Chris Christie, Donald Trump is making it clear that there’s one Republican whose support he doesn’t want — Mitt Romney. The 2012 GOP nominee has been pressuring Trump to release his tax returns, which Trump has so far declined to do — saying it’s because he’s being audited. Trump told a campaign rally Friday that Romney should have won the 2012 election, and he accused Romney of “walking like a penguin.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the U.S. cannot become numb to mass shootings occurring once a week in the U.S. Obama offered his condolences to the victims and families affected by Thursday’s attacks at a factory in Hesston, Kansas. The president noted that the Kansas attacks follow a rampage last weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Obama says Congress has no appetite to do something about gun violence, but the U.S. needs a Congress that does.
SALEM, Mass. (AP) – A Massachusetts teenager who was 14 when he raped and killed his math teacher has been sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 25 years. Seventeen-year-old Philp Chism (CHIHZ’-uhm) was sentenced Friday in the slaying of Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer in 2013. The judge pronounced the sentence after hearing victim-impact statements from Ritzer’s parents, siblings and colleagues.
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A woman and two western Pennsylvania cheese firms her family controls have pleaded guilty to mislabeling grated parmesan and romano that actually contained only other cheeses and filler made from wood pulp. Under the plea, each company will forfeit $500,000. Michelle Myrter’s lawyer says she’s likely to receive probation. The FDA says the cheese was sold through Target stores and 3,400 stores supplied by Associated Wholesale Grocers of Kansas City, Kansas.
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