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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE
AFTERNOON IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT…RAIN IN THE EVENING…THEN RAIN LIKELY POSSIBLY MIXED
WITH SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. EAST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH 15 TO 20 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
MORNING IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. COOLER. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTH WINDS AROUND
20 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY
CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE UPPER 20S. NORTH WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH
RAIN IN THE MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS
IN THE MID 40S. NORTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
40 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW
IN THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
IN THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
40S. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN
THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN MONTANA. RAIN
WILL PUSH INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA LATER THIS MORNING. BY THIS
LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA.
THE BULK OF THE MOISTURE WILL BE ACROSS
SOUTH DAKOTA.
LIGHT RAIN IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF NORTH DAKOTA
TODAY/TONIGHT…BUT THE BEST CHANCES AND HEAVIER PRECIP
AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE CONFINED TO LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTH
OF INTERSTATE 94.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police Monday afternoon about 1:30-p.m., arrested a male, as the man’s vehicle was pulled over near Lincoln school.
Officer Logan Hord says the vehicle was stopped as the suspect was wanted under two outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court on a previous charge of possession of a concealed weapon violation.
Monday afternoon, a search of the vehicle turned up three automatic handguns, and narcotics.
Two Jamestown Police officers and one Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office deputy apprehended the man. A second individual in the vehicle was released.
The suspect was arrested for Driving While License Suspended.
He was also arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance, Marijuana, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Marijuana and Possession of Meth.
The suspect’s name was not immediately released.
He was transported to the Stutsman County Jail.
Hord says the man was taken into custody without incident.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department responded to a call just after 10:30-a.m., Monday to Eventide in Northeast, Jamestown.
The call came in as smoke in the basement from the boiler room.
Lt. Sheldon Mohr says the smoke had dissipated when the units arrived on scene. There was no need to evacuate the building.
The cause was electrical in nature, and an electrician was called to the location.
No smoke damage was reported with five city fire units on scene with 28 firefighers for about a half hour.
Jamestown (CSi) Monday evening just before 8-O’Clock, the city fire department was called to Econo Lodge, as 9-1-1 calls reported flames coming from the front of the building, where an outside wall on the deck of a manager’s apartment was burning.
When firefighters arrived on the scene at 7:53 p.m., someone had put the fire out with an extinguisher.
Firefighters sprayed down the area to make sure the fire was completely out, and the scene was cleared at 8:09 p.m.
Five units and 32 firefighters were at the scene, he said.
Lt. Mohr says smoking materials caused the fire.
Mohr says he would have a meeting with Econo Lodge about evacuation procedures. He says, the hotel should have been evacuated for safety.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Rural Fire Department responded twice to a brush fire south of Jamestown on Monday.
A controlled burn that was spreading was called in at 5:35 p.m. when rural fire fighters went to N.D. Highway 281 near the Millerton turnoff between 51st Street Southeast and 52nd Street Southeast.
JRFD was called a second time at 8:30 p.m. to control the fire at the same location.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Executive Board has approved grants for a wrestling tournament, a choral event and the National Buffalo Museum.
National Buffalo Museum, Executive Director Ilana Xinos says receiving the full $10,000 will go toward creating a 15-minute video depicting the museum’s origins in Jamestown, the historical importance of the American bison, conservation efforts and the current bison industry.
It is the first phase of a museum theater project that to enhance visitor experiences, prior to visiting the museum.
She says, the theater itself will cost around $70,000.
The Jamestown Tourism grant will give a boost to the capital campaign in its grant writing effort for the rest of the year.
North Dakota USA Wrestling received $3,000 of the $7,000 it requested to sponsor a youth tournament on April 29-30 at the Jamestown Civic Center. The funds were requested to purchase award trophies and for direct marketing and advertising.
The event also received $3,000 from 3X Gear and $1,500 from American Veterans Inc.
Jamestown Choralaires received the $1,950 it requested for the Big Sing 2016 event on April 22-23 at the Jamestown Civic Center. It will bring 11 male choruses from Minnesota and Wisconsin for a musical weekend culminating in the Big Sing concert.
The North Dakota Council on the Arts has also contributed $3,000 to the event.
The executive board voted 4-0 to approve each grant request. Executive board member Tanea Clocksene was not present. The $150,000 grant project budget has $54,179 remaining after all funds awarded or dedicated.
Tourism Director Searle Swedlund said that Erv Hamman of RES Specialties, a professional pyrotechnics company in the Twin Cities, was selected to manage the fireworks display for the 4th of July celebration at Jamestown Speedway.
The executive board conducted an annual review of Executive Director Searle Swedlund in closed session and approved a 4 percent salary raise retroactive to Jan. 1.
Valley City (CSi) Five Valley City residents have taken out a petition to run for two Valley City Commission seats up during the June 14, 2016 election.
The commission seats of Madeline Luke and Mary Lee Nielson are up for election.
Nielson says she’ll seek re-election.
Luke will not be running for the city commission seat due to family obligations. She says she’ll continue to work on projects that she started as much as the new commission allows.
Those taking taken out to run for City Commissioner include: Terry Jones, Rick Ross, Mary Lee Nielson, Mike Bishop and former mayoral candidate Jeff Edwards.
Interested Valley City residents have until April 11th at 4-p.m., to turn in to City Hall, the necessary signatures to run in the June 14th election.
Jamestown (CSi) The cause of a Saturday power outage in Jamestown was caused by an underground equipment failure.
The outage affected about 2,300 Jamestown residents without service for a half hour.
Otter Tail Power Company reports that the outage occurred at about 12:05 p.m., and affected two circuits in Jamestown.
Around 1,307 customers were affected on the north circuit, which is north of 3rd Street Northeast and east of 12th Avenue Northeast, to the University of Jamestown water tower. The customers were without power for about 30 minutes.
Around 985 customers were affected on the south circuit, which is south of 3rd Street Southeast to about 8th Avenue and down to the North Dakota State Hospital road, to include areas along 10th Street Southeast and southeast Business Loop. ThOse customers were without service for around 20 minutes.
Valley City (CSi-VCSU) The Dakota Festival of Singing, with support from the Bridges Arts Council, will present “A Night on Broadway” at the Vault Center for the Performing Arts and Coffee Shop in Valley City on Friday, April 8, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.
“A Night on Broadway” will feature popular songs and music written for the Broadway and concert stage presented cabaret style. Guest artist Joel Walters, a singer and pianist from Dickinson, N.D., will be joined by VCSU musicians in the performance, hosted by Robin Allebach, VCSU music instructor and artistic director of the Dakota Festival of Singing.
VCSU alumni, faculty and students performing include Brandi Aranda, Michael Bloch, Tyson Eli, Hannah Gress, Bernae Hertz, Christopher Redfearn, Annalicia Reinig, Jennifer Riemann, Lillian Smith, Rochelle Van Bruggen and Kirci Wagner, with Nora Hyde, pianist.
The event at the Vault, 223 Central Ave. North, is open to the public free of charge; goodwill offerings will be accepted at the door.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A disturbance at a Fargo hotel has ended peacefully after about five hours.
KFGO radio reports that police took a man into custody shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday and took him to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. Authorities said the man did not have a gun.
Officers responded to the Candlewood Suites near the Fargodome shortly after midnight Monday after a man reported seeing another man with a gun.
Police told WDAY-TV that the caller said he had post-traumatic stress disorder, and that he might have been having a mental health issue.
Some hotel rooms were evacuated during the standoff and some nearby roads were blocked off.
A person who identified himself as the desk manager at the hotel declined comment to The Associated Press.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Grand Forks police are investigating an early morning shooting.
Authorities say officers responded to a report of gunshots about 2 a.m. Tuesday and found a person who appeared to have suffered a gunshot wound. The wound is not believed to be life-threatening.
Witnesses described three males leaving the scene in a car. Police said the initial investigation indicated that the victim and suspects knew one another.
Authorities did not immediately release the victim’s name.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors in the death penalty appeal of a man who killed a University of North Dakota student in 2003 say a request by defense attorneys to withdraw from the case could be seen as a “disguised delay tactic.”
Alfonso Rodriguez Jr’s lawyers say a new defense team is needed because of staffing and personnel changes in the federal system and the Minnesota federal public defender’s office.
Prosecutor Keith Reisenauer says in his response that he is opposed to the change. He says granting the defense motion will likely postpone proceedings for at least a year or more. The final appeal was filed more than five years ago.
Rodriguez, of Crookston, Minnesota, sits on death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, for killing Dru Sjodin (shuh-DEEN’), of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man who pleaded guilty to murder in Bismarck will spend 16 years in prison.
Mark Butts was handed a 20-year sentence with four years suspended Monday. Butts pleaded guilty to a lower-level felony murder charge in January, and later unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his plea.
Butts is accused of stabbing 57-year-old Mississippi resident Richard Glover to death in a car in December 2014. Authorities say Glover died after suffering from more than a dozen stab wounds. Police found Glover’s body on the street next to the car.
Butts again tried to withdraw his plea on Monday saying he was pressured by his previous attorneys into pleading guilty.
Judge Bruce Haskell, however, told Butts he was aware of his rights when he entered the plea.
Court documents list Butts’s address as Rapid City, South Dakota.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors have beefed up charges against a Minnesota man accused of starting a fire that heavily damaged a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks.
Matthew Gust, of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, appeared in court Monday on a charge of use of a destructive device during a crime of violence. That charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a mandatory minimum term of 30 years. It is the second charge in the case.
Authorities say the Dec. 7 fire at the Juba Coffee House was started by a homemade explosive made from a 40-ounce beer bottle.
A spokeswoman for a group that supports refugees in the Grand Forks area says the cafe owners are looking at ways to pay for rebuilding the business.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A former University of North Dakota medical department chairman has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
Fifty-five-year-old Robert Beattie appeared Monday in federal court in Fargo on three counts, including receipt and distribution of materials containing child pornography. He pleaded guilty to two of the charges.
Beattie was the chairman of UND’s Family and Community Medicine Department. He resigned from the job last fall, after the school had placed him on administrative leave.
Authorities say Beattie had about 100 videos and more than 700 images of child pornography on a thumb drive seized from his office computer, some of which depicted “sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.”
Beattie allegedly accessed the images between April and August of last year.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Gasoline prices have risen above the $2 per gallon mark nationally, but in North Dakota the average is slightly less than that.
AAA estimates the statewide average at $1.97 per gallon and GasBuddy.com at $1.95. Both say the average price fell about a penny over the past week, while nationwide it rose about a nickel.
North Dakota motorists are paying more than 40 cents a gallon less for gas than they were last year at this time.
Experts say gas prices are likely to continue rising as oil prices strengthen and refineries continue seasonal maintenance.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota regulators have rejected a recommendation to dismiss $950,000 in fines against a trucking company accused of illegally dumping saltwater on a Williams County road in 2014.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission on Monday rejected the recommendation from Administrative Law Judge Patrick Ward in favor of Wyoming-based Black Hills Trucking Inc.
The company is accused of illegally dumping saltwater on gravel roads about five miles southeast of Tioga in February and March 2014. The Department of Mineral Resources sought the fines after an inspector witnessed illegal dumping firsthand.
Saltwater can pose a danger to the environment and must be disposed following rules established by the Industrial Commission.
Ward concluded the state’s Health Department, but not the Industrial Commission, has jurisdiction to impose the fines.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot has acquired more than 60 percent of the properties needed for a flood protection project that will begin construction next year.
Finance Director Cindy Hemphill says the city has bought out 99 properties and is attempting to buy another 65. Some homeowners don’t want to sell and the city might have to go through eminent domain.
The city earlier made buyout offers on about 125 properties needed to maintain an existing levee system. Between those purchases and the current ones, the city has closed on 183 properties.
The June 2011 Souris River flood caused an estimated $700 million in damage in Minot. The Army Corps of Engineers this year plans to study long-term flood protection for the city. That could cost $1 billion.
In sports…
College Baseball…
Concordia College 11,
University of Jamestown 8
The Jimmies play back-to-back doubleheaders against Presentation College on Saturday and Sunday in Aberdeen, S.D.
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Andrew Wiggins scored 32 points as the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Phoenix Suns 121-116 on Monday night. Wiggins needed just 13 field goal attempts to score his points. He made 17 of 21 free throws and 3 of 5 3-pointers as the Wolves won for the third time in their last four games.
Final Miami 110 Brooklyn 99
Final Oklahoma City 119 Toronto 100
Final Atlanta 102 Chicago 100
Final New Orleans 99 New York 91
Final San Antonio 101 Memphis 87
Final Dallas 97 Denver 88
Final Utah 123 L-A Lakers 75
Final Portland 105 Sacramento 93
Final L-A Clippers 114 Boston 90
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Washington 4 Columbus 1
Final OT Philadelphia 3 Winnipeg 2
Final Detroit 3 Buffalo 2
Final Tampa Bay 3 Toronto 0
Final Colorado 4 Nashville 3
Final Anaheim 2 Edmonton 1
Final Calgary 5 Arizona 2
Final San Jose 5 Los Angeles 2
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Augustana University has scheduled a welcome-home reception for its national champion men’s basketball team on Tuesday. The Vikings beat Lincoln Memorial of Tennessee 90-81 on Saturday in Texas to win the NCAA Division II championship. Augustana finished the season with 15 straight wins and a program-record 34 wins.
WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT….
UNDATED (AP)- Top-ranked UConn and Oregon State filled out the final spots in the Women’s Final Four last night. The 36-0 UConn women eliminated Texas 86-65 to win the East Regional and Oregon State captured the Dallas Regional by beating Baylor 60-57. They join Washington and Syracuse in the women’s Final Four starting Sunday in Indianapolis
MEN’S NIT…
NEW YORK (AP) -Valparaiso (val-pur-AY’-zoh) tries for its 30th victory when it takes on 26-10 BYU in one semifinal of the National Invitation Tournament tonight in Madison Square Garden. In the second game, George Washington tries to make its first appearance in an NIT semifinal a winning one when the Colonials play 28-9 San Diego State. The NIT championship is Thursday night.
TENNIS…
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) – Top-ranked Serena Williams’ quest for a tenth Miami Open title has come to an abrupt end.
The four-time defending champ has been beaten by Svetlana Kuznetsova (svet-LAH’-nah kooz-NET’-so-vah) 6-7, 6-1, 6-2 in the fourth round of the tournament. Williams faded fast after a grueling opening set of nearly an hour in sweltering conditions.
That ends Williams’s 20-match winning streak in the tournament. It marks the first time she hasn’t reached the quarterfinals at the event since 2000. Williams hasn’t won a tournament since taking the title at Cincinnati in August.
In world and national news…
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) – There continue to be conflicting statements about an Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane to Cyprus. Egyptian and Cypriot officials say most passengers were eventually allowed to get off, though seven passengers and crew remain on board. An Egyptian government spokesman said the hijacker is Ibrahim Samaha, but an Egyptian woman who identified herself as Samaha’s wife said her husband is not the hijacker. Officials say it’s not a terrorist incident.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – A Syrian antiquities official says two days of work has ended with hundreds of mines still inside the archaeological site in the historic town of Palmyra (pahl-MEER’-uh), recently liberated from the Islamic State group. Experts who have since returned to Damascus have so far removed 150 bombs planted by IS. Syria’s head of antiquities and museums says the technical team couldn’t reach some remote sites because of the mines.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Modern medicine in the Washington area has a decidedly 1960s look today at one of the area’s largest hospital chains. The MedStar system remains crippled by a virus that shut down its computers. The backup plan is paper record-keeping until technicians can get things sorted out. No word if the infection is ransomware, like attacks on other facilities recently.
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) – A hearing today in a 1957 Illinois murder case could mean freedom for a 76-year-old former security guard serving a life sentence. Jack McCullough was convicted in 2012. DeKalb County State’s Attorney Richard Schmack said in a scathing filing last week that a review turned up serious prosecutorial missteps. He also said new evidence supports a McCullough alibi.
FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) – Murder and other charges have been filed against seven people in the shooting death of a recent Georgia Lottery winner. Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore tells WFXL-TV the seven suspects, who range in age from 17 to 28 years old, all face charges of malice murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Craigory Burch Jr. was killed two months after he won $434,272.
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