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Anhydrous leak Thurs am Sanborn

Sanborn  (CSi)  No injuries reported Thurs morning about 6:15 when a faulty valve let an anhydrous ammonia field tank to leak, near the old elevator. Barnes County Sheriff Randy McClaflin says two homes were evacuated as a precaution Fire and Rescue crews contained the leak. No injuries were reported.

Obits

Audrey R. Gohner – May 8, 2017

Audrey R. Gohner, 83, Montpelier, ND died late Monday evening May 8, 2017 at the Jamestown Regional Medical Center. Audrey Kono was born January 8, 1934 at Spring Valley, WI, the daughter of C. Watson Kono and Rose (Schafer) Kono. During her early years, Audrey lived on a farm south […]

Valley City

Winter Show Road utility work May 17-19

Valley City  (CSi)  Valley City motorists are advised that utility work  starts this week on Winter Show Road. Winter Show Road and 7th Street Southeast will be closed from 2nd Avenue Southeast to 6th Avenue Southeast, May 17-19 Updated maps for all road closures will be posted on the City […]

Sports

Jimmie softball team seeded No. 3 NAIA Tourney

Jamestown (UJ)  The Jimmie softball team will head to Sioux City, Iowa, for the Sioux City Bracket of the 2017 NAIA Softball National Championship Opening Round, beginning May 15,2017 at the Elizabeth and Irving F. Jensen Softball Complex. Joining Jamestown will be Reinhardt (Ga.) University, Ottawa (Kan.) University, and tournament […]

Sports

Jimmies Hanna Dunnigan, Pitcher of the Week

MADISON, S.D. – The North Star Athletic Association announced its final edition of the Softball Players of the Week Tuesday, following the conclusion of the NSAA Postseason Conference Tournament held in Dickinson, N.D. last weekend.  Erin Sharpe of Bellevue (Neb.) was selected to the Player of the Week for the second straight […]

State

Hoeven, Heitkamp react to Comey firing

BISMARCK (AP) Senator Heidi Heitkamp wants a special prosecutor to investigate possible ties between President Donald Trump and Russia following the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. The North Dakota Democrat says Comey’s firing “raises far more questions than it answers.” Republican Senator John Hoeven says the case has […]

State

Actor Michael Parks passes at age 77

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favorite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77. Parks’ agent, Jane Schulman, says the actor died Tuesday in Los Angeles. No cause of death was announced. In a career that spanned five decades, […]

Jamestown

Hanna sentenced, drug charge, traffic stop

Jamestown  (CSi)  A 48 year-old  California man, Samuel Henry Hanna was sentenced to four years in prison. On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, Hanna pleaded guilty to a Class A felony, drug charge, stemming from evidence gathered during a traffic stop by the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office on March 28, 2017. […]

Sports

Wife of Chris Berman dies in car crash

Woodbury, Conn.  — The wife of ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman died in a car accident in Connecticut. 67 year old Kathy Berman,  was one of two victims in the two-vehicle crash on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in Woodbury. She was married to Chris Berman for more than 33 years and […]

State

Ashley Wind project may soon be built

Bismarck  (PPR)  The delayed  wind farm project near Ashley, may soon be built. Prairie Public Radio reports, the Merricourt Wind Power Project in McIntosh County was given siting approval in 2008, but was not built. The Public Service Commission had given the project siting approval in 2008. However, it was […]