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8-hour Napoleon standoff Saturday

NAPOLEON, N.D. (AP) — A man has surrendered to police after a nearly eight-hour standoff in Napoleon. Authorities got a call around 6 a.m. Saturday that a 54-year-old man was threatening suicide. When officers arrived they found the man had barricaded himself inside his home and was threatening police. Logan […]

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Thompson, Boys “B” Tournament Champs

In Minot… Saturday… Championship Game… Thompson 57 Shiloh Christian 47 (OT) 3rd Place Richland 62 Bishop Ryan 47 Richland’s Cole Myers, Player of the Game   Fifth Place=New Rockford-Sheyenne 56, Beulah 53   ^Seventh Place= Powers Lake 56, Ellendale 42

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Jimmie Baseball Splits, Saturday “at home” Topeka

Saturday… TOPEKA, Kan.— Although being listed as the home team Saturday, the University of Jamestown opened Great Plains Athletic Conference play against Northwestern (Iowa) College in Topeka, Kan., due to unplayable field conditions at Jack Brown Stadium. The Red Raiders scored twice in the top of the seventh in a […]

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Controlled burn source of smoke, SW Jmst, Friday

Jamestown (CSi)  A call to Stutsman County Dispatch shortly after 5-p.m., Friday concerned about a possible apartment building fire, was smoke seen coming from an unlawful controlled burn. The Jamestown City Fire Department responded at 5:11 p.m., and Lt. Sheldon Mohr says callers thought the smoke was coming from an apartment building […]

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Boys “B” Tournament, Friday

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Class B State= Consolation Semifinal= Beulah 71, Powers Lake 44 New Rockford-Sheyenne 59, Ellendale 55 Thompson 68, Bishop Ryan 65, OT Thompson vs.  Shiloh Christian in Championship game Saturday

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VCSU’s Mackenzie Huber, NAIA Honorable Mention

By: Mark Potts  (VCSUVikings.com)– Valley City State junior Mackenzie Huber has been voted a NAIA Women’s Basketball Honorable Mention All-American, the national office announced Thursday.  A native of Clark, S.D., Huber led the Vikings this season with 13.8 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. The junior center shot a conference-leading 57 […]

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Mason Walters ND Boys Basketball Player of the Year

CHICAGO (March 15, 2019) — In its 34th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company Friday day announced Mason Walters of Jamestown High School as its 2018-19 Gatorade North Dakota Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Walters is the first Gatorade North Dakota Boys Basketball […]

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President Trump signs first veto overruling Congress

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has issued the first veto of his presidency, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding. Flanked by law enforcement officials as well as the parents of children killed by people in the country illegally, Trump says “our immigration system […]

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VCSU Student Lauren Roscoe, makes a difference

Valley City (By: Greg Vanney Valley City State University)  – Lauren Roscoe is not your typical Valley City State University first-year student. Sure, she’s an elementary education major, like many others at VCSU, but Lauren also serves as the 2018-19 National Student of the Year for SADD—Students Against Destructive Decisions—a […]