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Applebee’s to donate portions of proceeds Aug 21

Jamestown  (CSi)   Applebee’s in Jamestown will donate a portion of the proceeds from those dining there on Monday August 21, 2017 between 3-p.m., to 10-p.m., to the James River Humane Society.  A flyer being distributed through town must be presented to your server, during “Dining to Donate,” at Jamestown’s […]

Sports

F-M RedHawks Fire field manager Simunic

Fargo (WDAY)   – The F-M RedHawks have relieved Field Manager Doug Simunic of all duties. Starting Sunday Pitching Coach Michael Schlact becomes interim manager for the conclusion of the 2017 season. WDAY reports, Simunic has been Manager with the RedHawks for 22 years and was the organizations sole field manager since […]

Sports

Special Olympics softball Championship set

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than 400 athletes and volunteers from across the U.S. and Canada will be in Bismarck this week for the Special Olympics North America Softball Championship. Twenty-eight teams will compete at the Clem Kelley Softball Complex Friday through Sunday. North Dakota team coach Stacy Christian says […]

State

Family, friends mourn 3 dead in Virginia, violence

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Friends and family are mourning the death of a protester and two Virginia state troopers who died Saturday in Charlottesville, where a car plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally and a police helicopter crashed. Heather Heyer, who was protesting against white […]

State

$30 million water treatment plant for the City of Minot

Washington  (CSi)   Congressman Kevin Cramer attended a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday to mark the completion of a $30 million water treatment plant for the City of Minot. The project, which was backed by $22.5 million in federal dollars, will ensure the city’s water treatment plant remains operational during future […]

Valley City

City County Health, VC gets grant dollars, treat opioid use

Bismarck  (CSi)  The North Dakota Department of Human Services has awarded grants to five communities to strengthen local efforts to treat opioid use disorder, support recovery, and save lives by preventing overdose deaths. Laura Anderson, prevention administrator for the department’s Behavioral Health Division, says, each community will receive $180,000, and […]

Jamestown

Jamestown Fire Dept Run Report

Aug 4 – 10, 2017 Call No. 169    August 4th, 6:16PM, fire department responded to 311 5th Ave NE, to a report of a vehicle on fire. Fire was out upon arrival of fire units. Cause-engine malfunction. No injuries reported. Time out 15 minutes.   Call No. 170    August 5th, […]

Sports

Former MLB ump, Ken Kaiser passes, 72

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Former major league umpire Ken Kaiser, a colorful figure between the lines who briefly moonlighted as a professional wrestler to make ends meet while working in the minor leagues, has died. He was 72. The World Umpires Association said Thursday he died in his hometown of […]

State

Applebee’s to shutter 135 locations across US

(USA Today)  The parent company of Applebee’s and IHOP plans to close up to 160 restaurants, vastly boosting the number of eateries from the two comfort-food chains that it plans to shutter. The company declined to release a list of locations that will be shuttered. Some 105 to 135 Applebee’s […]

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U.S. engaged in “Back-Channel” diplomacy, N. Korea

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the Trump administration has quietly engaged in back-channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months. It was known the two sides had discussions to secure the June release of an American university student. But it wasn’t known until now that the […]