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TODAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER
MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. WINDY. NOT AS COOL. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
50S. SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 30 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUSTS UP
TO 30 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
HIGHS IN THE 40S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 20.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
50S. LOWS IN THE 20S TO LOWER 30S.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
30S. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY DUE TO
BREEZY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES…ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST AND
SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY.
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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning residents regarding a high risk sex offender living in Jamestown.
59 year old Walter Joseph Grant, JR.,is living at 517 4th Street NW, Jamestown, ND
Grant is 59 year old, American Indian, male, Five feet seven inches tall, weighing 204 pounds with brown eyes, and black hair.
He was convicted of Sexual Assault in April of 2005 in U.S. Federal Court.
Disposition, one year and one day, with 24 months suspended.
He was convicted of Gross Sexual Imposition in September of 1989 in Burleigh County District Court.
Disposition, Five years, with 69 days credit for time served.
Grant is currently on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation.
He is on GPS Monitoring.
Grant 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.
Attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders or their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of the demographics of Grant are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered offenders on the ND Attorney General’s web site:
Jamestown (CSi) April is “Fair Housing” month. Stutsman County Housing Authority will be hosting a Free Fair and Public Housing Conference at The Quality Inn & Suites April 12-14, 2016
This training session will involve HUD-Denver Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO), HUD-Denver Public Housing, USDA-Rural Development, High Plains Fair Housing, and multiple other organizations.
Topics will focus on Fair Housing, Section 8 Housing, and access, but training will include a few featured topics for other specific groups.
Agenda items include the following sessions:
High Plains Fair Housing
: Find out what services HPFH provides and how to contact them
Local Language services
: Find out how 3H Interpreting Services evolved and now assists businesses and government agencies
Media & Social
: how to promote your housing agency or development, respond without attack, and use the media as a tool.
Fulfilling the needs
Discussion hopes to shed light on the challenges, community impacts, and the continued needs of our elderly, disabled, single parent households, and working-poor.
Section 3
: FHEO representatives will discuss the Section 3 program and explain how your agency need to implement aspects of the program.
HUD/USDA Q & A
PHA Training
: HUD-Denver Office of Public Housing will discuss several public housing agency topics. Many include components of fair housing, but also how your local public housing agency can make efforts to streamline effects.
Fair Housing
: The HUD-Denver office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity will discuss the several topics of fair housing that pertain to housing authorities and many public entities. Training will include: Disparity discrimination, Limited English, Policies, & Furthering Fair Housing.
Additional information about the conference can be obtained by contacting Stutsman County Housing Authority,
or by visiting www.fairhousing2016.com.
Jamestown (CSi) Five Jamestown authors will be at a local author reading and signing event at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2016, in the lobby of the Reiland Fine Arts Center at the University of Jamestown.
Authors Bruce Berg, Bill Kennedy, Keith Norman, Nancy Kuykendall and Glauco Ortolano will be present at the event. James River Valley Library System will receive 15 percent of the proceeds generated at the reading.
Berg is the author of several books, including “Common Ground,” “Writer’s Block,” “Sun Sports,” “Hear It Now and Then” and “Pull Up a Chair.”
Kennedy focuses his writing on intermediate grade novels that feature Tramp, the world’s best dog detective. He is the development director for the James River Valley Library System.
His books include “The Singing Bone” and “Tramp, A Detective’s Story.”
Norman over the past decade, has written a dozen nonfiction books based on regional history. In the past two years, he has expanded into fiction with a special interest in historic fiction.
Norman’s books include “Chasing the Dream,” “The President’s Safari” and “Dog Days of the Great War.”
Following Nancy Kuykendall’s retirement from teaching, she began writing. Her books include memoirs “Mornings on the Porch” and “Ordinary Wonders.”
Ortolano is a writer and scholar who is originally from Brazil. He is currently director of Jamestown English language and culture at the University of Jamestown.
Ortolano has authored novels, short stories and poetry published in Portuguese and English, served as contributing editor for World Literature Today and is co-founder and vice president of the Brazilian Writer’s Association of New York.
His books include “Humaniqueness: The Gift of Your Inner God” and a historical novel published in Portuguese.
Berg, Kennedy and Norman recently together published a book, “Three Authors of Jamestown,” featuring poetry, commentary and short fiction.
The three local authors got together last fall to read each other’s works and talk about writing. From that initial collaboration the authors have written a book called “BBK: Three Authors of Jamestown,” a self-published book.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Berg, Kennedy, and Norman spoke about the collaboration, as each author contributed works including short stories, essays and poetry.
Kennedy said when he sat down to talk with Berg and Norman, it became clear that this collaboration would be successful.
The book costs $15 and may be purchased through Amazon.com or by going to www.keithnormanbooks.com.
The book will be featured at a Read Local, authors event. Berg, Kennedy and Norman will read selected works from the book. Norman says the book will be available for purchase starting April 9th, with copies included at the National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown.
Local authors Nancy Kuykendall and Glauco Ortolano will also read from selections of their works at the event.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A state lawmaker from Minot recently pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a drunken driving incident.
State Republican Rep. Roger Brabandt was arrested in December after allegedly hitting a parked vehicle and a tree.
Brabandt recently pleaded guilty in municipal court to drunken driving and in state district court to a charge related to hitting the parked vehicle.
Brabandt’s total punishment included 20 hours of community service in lieu of spending two days in jail, $1,200 in fines and fees, and a year of probation. He also must undergo a chemical dependency evaluation.
Brabandt declined comment other than to say “I don’t have any excuse.”
Brabandt has served in the state House since 2011. His current term expires in 2018.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A New Town man accused of assaulting a pregnant woman has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
Curtis Young Bear III pleaded guilty in December to assault with a dangerous weapon. Another assault charge was dropped in exchange for the plea.
Authorities say the assault happened last May. Young Bear allegedly hit, bit and kicked the victim, who was treated for numerous abrasions, a broken nose and a bite mark to the chin.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland says Young Bear must serve three years of supervised probation after he is released from prison.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A judge has approved a new legal team for the death penalty appeal by a man who killed a University of North Dakota student in 2003.
Lawyers for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. say the change is needed because of staffing and personnel changes in the federal system and the Minnesota federal public defender office.
Rodriguez, of Crookston, Minnesota, sits on death row for kidnaping and killing Dru Sjodin (shuh-DEEN’), of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. Rodriguez filed what is considered his final appeal more than five years ago.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson says the Minnesota public defender office doesn’t have enough money to pay the attorneys. The case will now be handled by the Federal Community Defender Office in Pennsylvania.
Federal prosecutors argued against the change, calling it a “disguised delay tactic.”
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – No one was hurt when a construction truck crashed into a home in a newly developed neighborhood in Mandan. Homeowner Carrie Zent tells KFYR-TV that she thought a window had blown in downstairs on a stormy Wednesday night. When she went to check she saw the damage and the truck and called 911.
FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) – TransCanada estimates that more than 16,000 gallons of oil leaked from the Keystone pipeline into a field in South Dakota. TransCanada says it reported the estimate Thursday to the National Response Centre and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration. The company says the leak was reported Saturday. TransCanada hasn’t said what caused the leak.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A contractor that supervised the $52 million upgrade of North Dakota’s Heritage Center is suing the State Historical Society.
Wahpeton-based Comstock Construction Inc. alleges in court documents that the state still owes it nearly $1.5 million in damages and unpaid bills.
Historical Society Director Claudia Berg says the agency has withheld payment to the company because the company still has not finished some work.
The State Historical Board on Friday voted to retain Serkland Law Firm in Fargo to defend the state.
The revamped Heritage Center opened in 2014. State lawmakers approved about $40 million for the 97,000-square-foot expansion in 2009. The Historical Society raised an additional $12 million from private sources.
Berg says all of the money has been spent.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Burgum has picked Watford City Mayor Brent Sanford as his lieutenant governor running mate. Sanford is a Watford City native and has been mayor of the oil patch city since 2010. Sanford previously supported Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem for governor.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A state Agriculture Department official is planning a trip north to get the seeds for North Dakota’s first crop of industrial hemp.
Three operations in three counties will be determining whether industrial hemp can be successfully grown in North Dakota, under a federally approved research program.
The Drug Enforcement Administration registered the state Agriculture Department as a hemp seed importer last August. Plant protection specialist Rachel Seifert-Spilde plans a trip to the Canadian border in a few weeks to get the seeds, after getting federal approval for the actual imports.
Seifert-Spilde says she’s getting 1,775 pounds of hemp seed in 10 varieties from Canadian suppliers.
One of the goals of the pilot program is to determine which varieties work best in North Dakota.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo’s Hector International Airport has landed the Fed Ex Express air cargo company.
Airport Authority Executive Director Shawn Dobberstein says a five-year contract has been signed that calls for the airport to make about $1.4 million in improvements to accommodate up to 20 Fed Ex Express flights daily.
In return, Hector International will receive about $115,000 in landing fees per year and could take in an additional $100,000 in federal airport funding related to air cargo operations.
Fed Ex Express will move from the Grand Forks airport, with the first Fargo flights expected in the fall. The company cites enhanced service to customers in North Dakota and northern Minnesota for the move. About 75 people will work for Fed Ex Express in Fargo.
In sports…
JHS Girls Soccer vs. Minot
Friday April 8th has been POSTPONED to May 14th @ 12:00 PM (JV) & 2:00 PM (V).
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State University assistant men’s basketball coach Freddy Coleman has resigned.
Bison head coach David Richman announced the move Friday, saying Coleman is pursuing opportunities outside of coaching.
Coleman had been a part of the NDSU staff for three years. A national search is underway to fill his position.
FROZEN FOUR…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Quinnipiac (KWIHN’-ih-pee-ak) goalie Michael Garteig made 34 saves and the Bobcats beat Boston College 3-2. That sent the tiny school located at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, Connecticut, to the NCAA hockey title game for the second time in four years.
Quinnipiac will play North Dakota, as Nick Schmaltz scored off a rebound with less a minute left as North Dakota beat Denver 4-2 on Thursday night to advance to the NCAA hockey championship game – Sat April 9 on ESPN2 – CSi 18 – for the first time in 11 years. Schmaltz’s backhand shot from in front of the net slipped past goalie Tanner Jaillet. North Dakota’s trip to the Frozen Four in its first season under coach Brad Berry is the 22nd for North Dakota.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BALTIMORE (AP) – Ubaldo Jimenez pitched seven sharp innings as the Baltimore Orioles rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2 Thursday night for a three-game sweep. Manny Machado and rookie Joey Rickard homered for the Orioles. Darren O’Day got three straight outs for his first save.
Final Chi White Sox 6 Oakland 1
Final N-Y Yankees 8 Houston 5
Final L.A. Angels 4 Texas 3
Boston at Cleveland (6:10 p.m., postponed, Rain)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Cincinnati 10 Philadelphia 6
Final Miami 6 Washington 4
Final San Francisco 12 L.A. Dodgers 6
Final Chi Cubs 14 Arizona 6
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gorgui Dieng had 18 points and 13 rebounds as the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Sacramento Kings 105-97 on Thursday night. Karl-Anthony Towns had 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Darren Collison had 19 points and six assists in the Kings’ third straight loss.
Final Miami 106 Chicago 98
Final Phoenix 124 Houston 115
Final Atlanta 95 Toronto 87
Final Golden State 112 San Antonio 101
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Boston 5 Detroit 2
Final Montreal 4 Carolina 2
Final N-Y Islanders 4 N-Y Rangers 1
Final OT Pittsburgh 4 Washington 3
Final Tampa Bay 4 New Jersey 2
Final OT Toronto 4 Philadelphia 3
Final Ottawa 3 Florida 1
Final OT Nashville 3 Arizona 2
Final Dallas 4 Colorado 2
Final OT St. Louis 2 Chicago 1
Final Calgary 7 Vancouver 3
Final Los Angeles 2 Anaheim 1
Final Winnipeg 5 San Jose 4
MASTERS…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)- Defending Masters champion Jordan Spieth (SPEETH) starts Day 2 at Augusta with a two-shot lead following his bogey-free 6-under 66 yesterday. New Zealand’s Danny Lee and Shane Lowry of Ireland are tied for second.
In world and national news…
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis isn’t actually changing any Catholic Church doctrine on divorce in a long-awaited document, but he is putting more emphasis on individual conscience as a guiding principle for Catholics. In the 256-page document “The Joy of Love,” Francis says the church must no longer sit in judgment and “throw stones” against those who fail to live up to the ideals of marriage and family life. He still says marriage is a lifelong commitment.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump is a dual-threat front-runner. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is also the most disliked by Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location. In a display of unprecedented unpopularity, seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, view Trump unfavorably. Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton also have significant negatives.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – President Barack Obama says a functioning American democracy is what’s at stake in November’s elections. He says it’s important to elect leaders who believe compromise isn’t a dirty word, and who respect those who are unlike them. Obama mentioned Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz several times in remarks at a House Democratic fundraiser late yesterday in Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The World Memory Project has reached a million person milestone. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announced today that the effort to build a free online database of Holocaust victims and survivors can now access and search the records of one million people. The crowd-sourced database was launched in 2011 using volunteers from around the world.
PARIS (AP) – For the first time in nearly two years, France is considering reopening its embassy in Libya. French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (zhawn mahrk eh-ROH’) says he will go to Libya “as soon as the conditions are met.” He says the building is currently empty and “preparatory work” is needed. Ayrault says France is ready to help secure the new U.N.-brokered unity government.
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