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Rusty brake pipes, older GM vehicles

DETROIT — If you live where salt is used to clear the roads of snow and ice, U.S. safety regulators have a message for you: Wash the underside of your car. The message came Wednesday from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which closed a five-year investigation into rusting pipes […]

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Actor Geoffrey Lewis passes

LOS ANGELES – Variety reports that actor Geoffrey Lewis, who appeared in several Clint Eastwood movies and made guest appearances on dozens of TV shows in the ’60s through ’80s, died Tuesday in Woodland Hills, Calif., of natural causes, according to a family friend. He was 79. The character actor, […]

Celebrate Jamestown

UJ theater presents “Twelfth Night”

Jamestown (CSi) University of Jamestown theatre director Mike McIntyre has announced an upcoming production of “Twelfth Night” to be performed April 16th, 17th, and 18th at 7:30 p.m. in Reiland’s Denault Auditorium. On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSI Cable 2 McIntyre said, Twelfth Night is a Shakespeare comedy centering […]

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4th Qt taxable sales, purchases down

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Taxable sales and purchases in North Dakota during the fourth quarter of last year increased nearly 17 percent from the final three months of 2013. Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger says taxable sales and purchases in October, November and December 2014 totaled $7.9 billion. He says the […]

Obits

John Colton Albohm – Apr 6, 2015

John Colton Albohm, 65, of Jamestown, ND, died Monday, April 6, 2015 at his home. John was born on June 12, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, the son of John C. and Shirley (Morris) Albohm. He graduated from Oak Ridge Military Institute/High School, Oak Ridge, NC in 1968. John enlisted […]

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Boston Marathon bomber, guilty, 30 counts

  BOSTON (AP) – A jury on Wednesday found Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 federal counts against him. Here are the charges:        – Conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death.        – Use of a weapon of mass destruction […]

Sports

New Vikes stadium construction update

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Construction of the Minnesota Vikings stadium has reached the halfway point.        Officials from the team, general contractor Mortenson and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, the public agency in charge of the venue, provided a media update and tour of the site on Wednesday.        […]

Jamestown

Jmst to host state fire fighters

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown, this summer will host the the 131st Annual North Dakota Firefighters Convention, June 4-6. Firefighters from rural areas across the state will be in Jamestown for the activities, which will include, a golf tournament, bike run, and a memorial service feature the Aberdeen Pipes and Drum Corps. […]

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Schneider resigns USDA state post

 Bismarck (CSi)   Jasper Schneider announced Wednesday that he will be stepping down from USDA on April 19, 2015, after serving five and a half years in office. Schneider was appointed by the President on September 30, 2009 as USDA Rural Development State Director in North Dakota and on October 1, […]

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James Best “Rosco” dies

 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The prolific character actor best known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard” has died. James Best was 88.        His wife, Dorothy Best, said Tuesday that Best died Monday night in hospice care in Hickory from complications of […]