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CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…CLOUDYCHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGHS IN
THE LOWER 40S. NORTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO
25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN AND
SNOW IN THE EVENING.SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN
AND SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTH WINDS 10 TO
20 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO
25 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 30.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IN
THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS
IN THE MID 50S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
LOWS IN THE 20S.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN AND SNOW. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. HIGHS IN THE MID
40S TO LOWER 60S.
A PERSISTENT BAND OF PRECIPITATION ACROSS
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SLOWLY SHIFTING SOUTH THROUGH THE MORNING
HOURS. AS MUCH AS A QUARTER INCH OF
PRECIPITATION FALLING BETWEEN BISMARCK AND JAMESTOWN.
THIS MORNING RAIN MAY BRIEFLY CHANGE OVER TO SNOW.
STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING…MAINLY
ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA AND THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.
A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE ISSUED FOR FRIDAY EVENING.
Jamestown (CSi) A 23 year old Jamestown man has been charged in connection with a Jamestown Police traffic stop on Monday afternoon, near Lincoln School that allegedly uncovered drugs and weapons after a search of the vehicle.
Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger on Wednesday said, Levi Guthmiller was charged with driving under suspension, in connection with the stop.
He also had two arrest warrants out on him for failure to appear in court.
Chief Edinger said that no complaints have been issued yet from the Stutsman County State’s Attorneys office on other possible charges, stemming from the search of Guthmiller’s vehicle during the Monday traffic stop.
On Monday Jamestown Police Officer Logan Hord said the vehicle was stopped near Lincoln School, as Guthmiller 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, that were loaded, a Taurus .45 caliber, a Taurus .40 caliber and a Smith & Wesson 9 millimeter, and narcotics.
Two Jamestown Police officers and one Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office deputy made the traffic stop and apprehended him. A second individual in the vehicle was released.
On Monday Guthmiller 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.
Following his arrest he was transported to the Stutsman County Jail.
As of Wednesday afternoon, no additional formal charges were lodged against Guthmiller on the weapons and narcotics.
The State’s Attorney’s Office on Wednesday was still reviewing the police report.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called out at 4:50am Wednesday morning, to a utility pole on fire in the 300 block of 2nd Avenue Southwest.
Three city fire units were called to the scene.
Otter Tail Power Company’s Jeff Hoff at the Jamestown office says, the fire itself did not cause a power outage, however the power was turned off about 7-a.m., until 8:50-a.m, to allow crews to disconnect the power to repair the pole’s cross-arms and replacement the insulator.
He says the power outage was limited to the small area of the fire.
The cause was a faulty insulator, as the morning rain entered the equipment causing it to fail.
Valley City (CSi) The Barnes County Sheriff’s Office reports, that two male juveniles, ages 16 and 17, have been charged with committing eight burglaries.
The charges followed an investigation of the burglaries that occurred in the southeast corner of Barnes County between October 2015 and March. The juveniles reportedly entered vacant farmsteads and stole various items.
Most of the stolen items have been recovered, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Some of the stolen items were recovered from a pawn shop in Fargo.
Neither of the two juveniles are residents of Barnes County.
Jamestown (CSi) A reminder, Jamestown city officials say that the Sales Tax Division of the North Dakota State Tax Department has notified the City Administrator’s Office that the 1% City Sales Tax for the construction of Phase 1 of the TRAC Facility as approved by city voters in 2015 will be effective April 1, 2016, rather than January 1, 2016 as provided in the ordinance adopted by the City Council in September of 2015.
The total Sales Tax in the City of Jamestown will return to 7%.
An additional 1% Sales tax is imposed for restaurant food and lodging.
The Tax Department revealed that no one at the Tax Department recalled receiving the letter and enclosed ordinance mailed by the City to the tax department on September 22, 2015. The state tax department’s deadline for increasing or lowering a local sales tax effective January 1, 2016 was September 30, 2015.
Bismarck (CSi) U.S. Senator, Heidi Heitkamp will join U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), in Jamestown on Friday April 1, 2016, to discuss the need for Paid Family Leave with North Dakota Working Families, at Jamestown Day Care Facility
The senators will meet with working families and community leaders at a daycare facility in Jamestown to talk about how a strong federal paid family and medical leave policy as the senators’ FAMILY Act would create would enable working families to get the paid leave they need to care for a newborn, a sick child, or an elderly parent.
Heitkamp says about half of the private sector workforce in North Dakota can’t earn a single paid sick day to care for a loved one. And only about a third of North Dakota’s working adults are eligible for let alone able to afford unpaid leave.
The roundtable will be held at the James River Family Fitness Center Facility, at 3:45-p.m.
Enter through the Larson door
Attendees joining Heitkamp, and Gillibrand will be:
District 12 North Dakota State Reprepresntative Jessica Haak (D) of Jamestown
Renee Stromme, Director of ND Women’s Network
Nick Archuleta, President of North Dakota United
Verla Jung, North Dakota Child Care Aware
Tammy Hoggarth, North Dakota Community Action
Adoptive parents who faced challenges with accessing paid family leave
Jamestown (CSi) The 2nd Act Community Theater presents,
Murder’s in the Heir.
Perfomances, Thursday – Saturday: April 21, 22 & 23, 2016
6:00 pm at The Arts Center
Murder’s in the Heir is an audience interactive murder mystery / comedy. Almost every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity and motive to commit the unseen murder.
And it’s up to the audience decide who did it! Each of the heirs to the tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and the motive to do away with him.
No two performances are the same.
Advance tickets required. Available at The Arts Center. $30 / $25 for members. Dinner is included.
Jamestown (CSi) James River Library announces the creation of a new book club for Jamestown and Stutsman County. The meetings will take place at Sabir’s Buffalo Grill in downtown Jamestown. The club will be called the Buffalo City Book Club for the first meeting. Club members will decide on a new club name at the first meeting.
The goal of the Buffalo City Book Club is to promote reading and discussion of a wide range of novels among adults. A small number of each months selected book will be available for check out from the Alfred Dickey Library branch, 105 SE 3rd St. Jamestown, four weeks prior to the scheduled meeting at Sabir’s.
The first book is The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,* a novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Future books will be selected by club members.
*The club will meet on the 4th Tuesday of every month, starting on April 26th, 2016, at 7:00 pm at Sabir’s Buffalo Grill, 320 SE 1st Ave., Jamestown, ND, 701 952-9529.
Register in person at the Alfred Dickey Library, 105 3rd St. SE, Jamestown.
Alfred Dickey Hours: Mon-Thurs: 10:00 am-8:00 pm, Fri: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sat: 11:00 am-4:00 pm.
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Dickinson police are searching for a man who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint.
Authorities say the man entered Lucky’s Express Tesoro about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, warned the clerk to stay back and jumped over the counter to take money from cash registers.
The man fled on foot, and a Highway Patrol police dog wasn’t able to track him down. It wasn’t clear how much money he got away with.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a Williston man who died in a camper fire at a truck stop near the city was overcome by smoke and gas fumes while trying to rescue a pet.
Twenty-three-year-old Phillip Unnerstall Jr. died March 21 in the fire behind the Pilot truck stop. The state medical examiner’s office determined that he died of smoke inhalation, and authorities ruled the death accidental.
The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says the fire is believed to have been caused by a small propane heater that was being operated inside the camper.
County Fire Marshal Chris Nelson says Unnerstall tried unsuccessfully to save his pet dog. Nelson says, “it was a heroic effort (but) unfortunately it was a foolish effort.”
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A judge has refused to accept a plea agreement for a Tucson, Arizona, woman accused of causing a crash in the western North Dakota oil patch that killed three men.
The deal between 20-year-old Kayla Ciha and prosecutors called for a day in jail, which she has already served, 300 hours of community service, three years of probation and restitution.
Judge Robin Schmidt rejected the deal Wednesday. Ciha then changed her pleas from guilty to not guilty on charges of negligent homicide and reckless driving. A trial date wasn’t immediately set.
Authorities say Ciha caused a July 2015 crash on a McKenzie County road while trying to pass in a no-passing zone. The crash killed men from North Dakota, Michigan and Idaho. Ciha wasn’t hurt.
STANLEY, N.D. (AP) – A Powers Lake man accused of killing his older brother and leaving the body in a camper for nearly six months has until early June to decide whether to enter into a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Aaron Larson is accused of killing 46-year-old Terry Larson during a fight in March 2015. A Mountrail County sheriff’s deputy conducting a welfare check found Terry Larson’s body.
Aaron Larson recently got a new public defender who wants more time to review the case. A June 2 pretrial conference has now been scheduled.
Larson could get up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the Class A felony murder charge against him.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A law enforcement report says a man who shot and killed a Fargo police officer during a standoff last month was brought to a hospital earlier in the winter after telling police he was violent.
The North Dakota attorney general’s office on Wednesday released law enforcement reports on the Feb. 10 incident that left Fargo police officer Jason Moszer dead. Authorities say Marcus Schumacher later killed himself after he was wounded by a police sniper.
A report on the incident filed by Fargo police officer David Cochran says Schumacher had “called himself in as a homicidal person” earlier in the winter. Cochran says Schumacher was transported by police to a hospital for an evaluation.
Another Fargo police report says Schumacher told dispatch during the standoff that he overdosed on pills.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A defense attorney says a federal civil rights complaint against the former director of the Minot airport has no merit.
Eva Lucke (LUCK’-ee), formerly known as Eva Rojas, accuses airport director Andrew Solsvig and the city of Minot of demanding unfair lease terms because she’s a Latina woman. She says in her lawsuit that there are other tenants at the airport’s industrial park that have more favorable lease agreements than her.
Attorney Scott Porsborg represents Solsvig and the city. Porsborg says in his response that other tenants have been offered lease terms “identical in all material respects” to the contract offered to Lucke. Porsborg says Solsvig is immune from legal action and the complaint should be dismissed.
Solsvig resigned shortly after a new $43 million terminal opened at the airport.
GRASSY BUTTE, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota oil regulators say more than 14,000 gallons of saltwater have spilled from a central tank battery about 14 miles southwest of Grassy Butte (byoot) in Billings County. The North Dakota Oil and Gas Division says Cobra Oil and Gas reported that the brine were released, contained and recovered at the site. The cause is listed as an equipment failure.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Democrats are kicking off their three-day convention in Bismarck.
The convention starts Thursday at the Bismarck Civic Center. About 500 delegates are expected to attend.
State Rep. Marvin Nelson is seeking the party’s endorsement for governor. He has chosen New Rockford Sen. Joan Heckaman as his running mate.
Democrats have no announced opponents for U.S. House and U.S. Senate, along with state public service commissioner, auditor, treasurer and insurance commissioner.
A U.S. senator from New York will be a featured speaker at convention. Kirsten Gillibrand will give the convention’s keynote speech on Saturday.
North Dakota Republicans are holding their three-day convention in Fargo. The convention begins Friday.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Fargo businessman Doug Burgum says he will not accept pay or a state pension if he’s elected North Dakota’s governor, though state law does not allow that move, and similar ones have drawn past criticism.
Burgum says North Dakota has tough spending decisions ahead and forgoing a $130,000-a-year governor salary is a start.
Burgum made the promise ahead of the state Republican convention in Fargo this weekend. But opinions by two North Dakota attorneys general have been critical of potential officeholders, during campaigns, promising to take less money for doing the job.
Burgum also this week sent campaign contributions of $200 to several GOP lawmakers, though it has caused some criticism.
Burgum says he has been a longtime contributor to GOP lawmakers and this year is no different.
In sports…
Valley City (CSi) The Duel in the Dakotas Dirt Indoor Racing Event is on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at the North Dakota Winter Show Event in Valley City.
There will be the Firefighter Challenge race, Go Carts, Jr ATV and Amateur Open ATV all on a 1/8 mile dirt oval track.
The Devils Lake Speedway is presenting the first annual Duel In The Dakotas Hooligan Flat Track racing featuring Legend cars, Hooligan motorcycles, ATVs and Go Carts.
Doors open at noon with the main event at 7pm.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota head hockey coach Brad Berry is a candidate for national coach of the year.
Berry is one of eight finalists for the Spencer Penrose Award. The American Hockey Coaches Association will present the award at a banquet in Naples, Florida, on April 27.
Berry has guided UND to the most wins in the nation and a spot in the NCAA Frozen Four in his first year at the helm. He was earlier named coach of the year in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
The last UND coach to win the national honor was Dean Blais, in 2001.
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Chris Paul had 20 points, 16 assists and eight rebounds as the Los Angeles Clippers bullied the young Minnesota Timberwolves in a 99-79 victory on Wednesday night. J.J. Redick scored 17 points to help the Clippers win their fourth straight game as they gear up for Blake Griffin’s return. The Clippers held Minnesota to 34.5 percent shooting and only turned the ball over seven times.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – The San Antonio Spurs set an NBA record with their 38th straight home victory at the start of a season by beating New Orleans 100-92 behind Manu Ginobili’s (MAN’-oo jih-NOH’-bleez) 20 points. The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls had set the mark during their record 72-victory season.
Final Toronto 105 Atlanta 97
Final Denver 109 Memphis 105
Final Milwaukee 105 Phoenix 94
Final Dallas 91 New York 89
Final OT Golden State 103 Utah 96
Final Sacramento 120 Washington 111
Final OT L-A Lakers 102 Miami 100
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Ottawa 2 Winnipeg 1
Final 2OT Philadelphia 2 Washington 1 (SO Philadelphia 2-0)
Final Anaheim 8 Calgary 3
MEN’S NIT…
NEW YORK (AP- Valparaiso (val-pur-AY’-zoh) or George Washington University will cut down the nets tonight at Madison Square Garden when they meet for the NIT championship. Valpo got there by beating BYU 72-70 while GW trounced San Diego State 65-46 to reach its first NIT final.
NBA-ARENA ACCIDENT…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Four fans trying to get an autograph from Stephen (STEH’-fihn) Curry fell out of the stands when a railing dislodged before the Utah Jazz hosted the Golden State Warriors last night.
Curry had just finished his pregame routine, which draws many fans at Warriors games, when he stopped to take a picture and sign a few autographs at the opening of the tunnel.
One fan went to first aid on his own and the other three were treated, released and returned to their seats.
Curry autographed an item for the three fans who did not leave the scene.
A Jazz spokesman says the team will re-evaluate the safety measures around the court.
In world and national news…
UNDATED (AP) – The other presidential candidates are criticizing GOP front-runner Donald Trump for his saying that if abortion becomes illegal, women who get one should face some sort of punishment. Trump later reversed himself, but the backlash was immediate. Republican rival Ted Cruz says once again Trump “has demonstrated that he hasn’t seriously thought through the issues.” Democrat Hillary Clinton tweeted, “We can’t let someone with this much contempt for women’s rights anywhere near the White House.”
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) – Police in Wisconsin say they’ve found the man suspected of pepper spraying a 15-year-old girl at a Donald Trump rally. Video on social media shows a girl at the Tuesday rally in Janesville accusing a man of touching her chest, then she punches or shoves someone in the crowd before another man pepper sprays her. Investigators say they’ve also talked to the alleged groper, and no charges have been filed.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Authorities in western Belgium are searching a wooded, residential area close to the French border. There are reports that the search is linked to the recent arrest of a man in Paris suspected of planning an attack. Reda Kriket (REH’-duh KRIH’-keht) is accused of participating in a terrorist group with plans for at least one imminent attack, possessing and transporting arms and explosives, and holding fake documents.
KOLKATA, India (AP) – Rescuers in eastern India have confirmed that at least 14 people were killed when an overpass collapsed while under construction today. Dozens of other people were injured. A section of the overpass in Kolkata fell on people traveling underneath, trapping them in their cars, trucks and motorized rickshaws.
DETROIT (AP) – Tesla Motors plans tonight to unveil its latest electric vehicle, and the base price may be a shocker – just $35,000. That’s a bargain, compared to its other two models that start around $70,000 and $80,000. The Model 3 electric car will be presented to the public at Tesla’s Los Angeles design studio. The car is expected to have a range of at least 200 miles when fully charged.
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