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CSi Weather…<\/p>\nCSi Weather…<\/p>\n
TONIGHT…SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN NUMEROUS<\/p>\n
THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. EAST WINDS<\/p>\n
10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 PERCENT.<\/p>\n
.WEDNESDAY…WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME<\/p>\n
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. EAST WINDS<\/p>\n
10 TO 15 MPH.<\/p>\n
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND<\/p>\n
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND<\/p>\n
THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN<\/p>\n
THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. EAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH<\/p>\n
SHIFTING TO THE NORTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION<\/p>\n
40 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.<\/p>\n
.THURSDAY…DECREASING CLOUDS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHWEST<\/p>\n
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.<\/p>\n
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60. WEST WINDS 5 TO<\/p>\n
10 MPH.<\/p>\n
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.<\/p>\n
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.<\/p>\n
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.<\/p>\n
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE<\/p>\n
UPPER 50S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.<\/p>\n
.MONDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.<\/p>\n
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS<\/p>\n
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.<\/p>\n
.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.<\/p>\n
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TUESDAY NIGHT<\/p>\n
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH<\/p>\n
TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING WINDS…AND<\/p>\n
HEAVY RAINFALL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST<\/p>\n
NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY EVENING.<\/p>\n
AFTER MIDNIGHT\u00a0 THERE IS ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN WITH<\/p>\n
STRONGER STORMS.<\/p>\n
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT OVER<\/p>\n
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE…MAINLY<\/p>\n
ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83.<\/p>\n
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY.<\/p>\n
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WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING DURING THE DAY<\/p>\n
STRONGER STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND<\/p>\n
WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. .<\/p>\n
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Update…<\/p>\n
Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 Senator John Hoeven Tuesday spoke with Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary designee Mary Wakefield to help ensure that Jamestown Regional Medical Center (JRMC) retains its Critical Access Hospital designation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Following Hoeven\u2019s call Tuesday morning with Wakefield, the number two in charge at HHS, CMS agreed to continue JRMC\u2019s designation.<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently, the North Dakota Department of Health received notice from CMS\u2019s Denver Regional office that Jamestown Regional Medical Center\u2019s Critical Access status may be revoked due to its close proximity to the State Hospital in Jamestown, which is not a general acute care hospital. Critical Access Hospitals must be located more than 35 miles from another hospital and provide 24\/7 emergency care services, as does JRMC.<\/p>\n The State Hospital, however, treats patients with serious mental health illnesses or substance abuse and does not, like JRMC, provide a full range of health care services, notably emergency department services, which CMS requires for Critical Access Hospitals.<\/p>\n Hoeven says, \u201cThe State Hospital in Jamestown is clearly not a general service hospital, and doesn\u2019t provide the same range of health care services as JRMC,. I spoke with Secretary Wakefield to help us make sure that JRMC can keep its Critical Access designation and we appreciate her help in getting CMS to agree to maintain the designation. Jamestown Regional Medical Center provides important care to this community, and this designation makes a big difference to the center\u2019s financial reimbursement and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n Senator Heidi Heitkamps adds, \u201cThe care provided at Jamestown Regional Medical Center is absolutely essential for folks in and around Jamestown, which is why I pushed for the center to have continued status as a Critical Access hospital.\u00a0 To make sure JRMC could retain this needed designation, I pressed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to recognize that the State Hospital in Jamestown doesn\u2019t provide the broad range of services that JRMC does \u2013 from day-and-night emergency services, to run of the mill checkups.\u201d<\/p>\n Congressman Kevin Cramer adds, \u201cCritical Access Hospital\u201d is a designation given to certain rural hospitals by CMS to reduce the financial vulnerability of rural hospitals and improve access to healthcare by keeping essential services in rural communities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0U.S. Senator Heitkamp Tuesday gathered leaders in both Fargo and Jamestown to continue her listening series on the challenges faced by communities across the state in taking on the opioid abuse epidemic that has rapidly spread across the state. Tuesday\u2019s discussions follow yesterday\u2019s listening session in Grand Forks<\/a> which built on her legislative and on-the-ground work to make sure North Dakota families across the state receive the federal support they need to recover from and prevent opioid addiction.<\/p>\n Together with Cass and Stutsman County area public health professionals, law enforcement officials, treatment specialists, and educators in Fargo and Jamestown, Heitkamp discussed which policies and practices have been most effective in beating addiction and overcoming abuse for individual and families in those communities, as well as ways to expand those efforts across the state. Leaders also spoke with Heitkamp about the need for better federal support to help each community address a severe lack of resources for law enforcement and treatment professionals and programs. Heitkamp underscored how her bill, which she unveiled<\/a> during a discussion with Bismarck leaders in May, would make sure the federal government is treating opioid abuse as the national public health and law enforcement crisis that it is by making available the appropriate education, prevention, and treatment resources communities need to recover and fight back.<\/p>\n Across North Dakota, opioid-induced fatalities increased by 125 percent<\/a> from 2013 to 2014 alone according to the Centers for Disease Control. Just last week, Heitkamp joined Fargo\u2019s City Commission<\/a> for a meeting on a strategic response to the growing opioid addiction and abuse in the community. During a roundtable discussion in Bismarck in May, Heitkamp announced her Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment (LifeBOAT) Act<\/em><\/a> to provide communities with the resource funding they need to take on the opioid crisis by establishing a one-cent fee \u2013 with certain exceptions \u2013 on each milligram of active opioid ingredient in prescription pain pills.<\/p>\n Across the country, 47,000 Americans<\/a> lost their lives to the opioid and heroin abuse crisis in 2014. Since fighting North Dakota\u2019s methamphetamine crisis as the state\u2019s attorney general in the 1990s, Heitkamp has been working to stem the tide of addiction, abuse and illegal drug trafficking. On the federal level, Heitkamp has been working to address this issue by:<\/p>\n Valley City\u00a0 (CSi-Wes Anderson BCHS) Thanks to the efforts of Jay Cink, owner of the Duck Inn Lounge in Marion, the Ashley Lions Club has donated $1000 to the Barnes County Historical Society for the purpose of raising the level of the 2nd<\/sup> floor balcony railing from 36 inches to 42 inches to be in compliance with modern building code and safety requirements by their insurance company.<\/p>\n The Fair Store building was\u00a0built in 1957 and codes were different at that time. \u00a0The\u00a0funding from the Ashley Lions Club will be used to purchase necessary materials and the labor to install this additional height will be donated by Howard Langemo, Don Schaack, Jerry Langemo and Mylo Falstad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Update…<\/p>\n BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A 49-year-old man shot by Bismarck police Monday night also was shot by police in 2011.<\/p>\n Authorities say both incidents were similar, with Glenn Lovgren confronting officers after calling 911 and reporting that he held hostages.<\/p>\n Lovgren spent more than two weeks in the hospital after the January 2011 incident and eventually was sentenced to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n Police said he was in surgery Tuesday morning, after being shot multiple times late Monday at a softball field.<\/p>\n Authorities allege Lovgren appeared to point a gun at one officer and did not follow officers’ commands. Three other officers on scene fired at him. It wasn’t clear if Lovgren actually had a weapon.<\/p>\n The three officers have been placed on administrative leave while the state crime bureau investigates, per normal procedure.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A Warwick-area man is accused of possessing about $55,000 worth of stolen property.<\/p>\n Sixty-year-old Craig Estenson faces three felony charges and a misdemeanor count that together could land him in prison for up to 31 years if he’s convicted.<\/p>\n It wasn’t immediately clear who is representing Estenson in the case. Estenson is free on $20,000 bond while he awaits his initial court appearance Aug. 22.<\/p>\n Benson County Sheriff Steve Rohrer tells KZZY radio that authorities recovered various items from Estenson’s property that are believed to be stolen, including vehicles, construction equipment and snowmobiles.<\/p>\n Rohrer says multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in the investigation, which is continuing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota’s Transportation Department was threatened with a civil rights complaint before it dropped its nearly century-old image of a Sioux warrior from thousands of highway signs.<\/p>\n Transportation Director Grant Levi says the threat played no part switching the silhouette of Marcellus Red Tomahawk in favor of an outline of North Dakota.<\/p>\n Levi says the new signs are being placed in part to celebrate the agency’s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n Red Tomahawk was the first chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. He also was a government policeman involved in the killing of Sitting Bull.<\/p>\n Documents show the agency took complaints from Deborah Gaudet of New Mexico in 2015. Gaudet has called Red Tomahawk “merely an agent of a genocidal federal policy” for his role in the killing of Sitting Bull.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota’s State Health Council has ratified rules the panel approved a year ago to allow elevated levels of oilfield radioactive waste to be dumped at some landfills.<\/p>\n The 11-member panel voted to reapprove the rules Tuesday.<\/p>\n Environmental groups had alleged the August 2015 meeting was held illegally. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem had issued an opinion in March saying the council violated state law by not providing adequate notice of the meeting.<\/p>\n The North Dakota Energy Industry Waste Coalition and the Dakota Resource Council also are suing in state court over the new rules. They want a judge to void the rules allowing certain landfills to accept waste with higher levels of radioactivity<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In sports..<\/p>\n FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Former North Dakota State University standout golfer and current LPGA tour member Amy Anderson will be a volunteer assistant coach for the Bison women’s golf team this fall.<\/p>\n Head coach Matt Johnson announced the move Tuesday.<\/p>\n Anderson is in her third year on the LPGA tour. She’ll help the NDSU team during her tour offseason this fall.<\/p>\n The Oxbow native was a two-time All-American and a four-time NCAA tournament qualifier for the Bison from 2010-2013. She won 20 tournaments during her college career, breaking Juli Inkster’s unofficial collegiate record of 17 victories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n In world and national news…<\/p>\n JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Search crews have recovered the “black box” from the wreckage of the freighter El Faro that sank near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin (wah-KEEN’). Searchers found the voyage data recorder in April, but were unable to remove it until now. The National Transportation Safety Board hopes it will shed light on the ship’s final moments. El Faro sank while traveling between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico on Oct. 1, killing all 33 crew members on board.<\/p>\n DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Delta is cancelling hundreds more flights as it works to recover from Mondday’s global computer outage. By early afternoon, Delta said it had canceled about 530 flights as it moved planes and crews to “reset” its operation. Tracking service FlightStats says nearly 1,200 Delta flights have been delayed. The disruptions follow 1,000 cancellations and 2,800 delays yesterday.<\/p>\n KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 At least two people who’ve ridden the Kansas City, Kansas waterslide on which a 10-year-old boy was killed over the weekend say shoulder straps snapped or popped off during their rides. One man says the safety restraints on his raft weren’t working properly when he rode the slide on July 26 and he “just held on.” Another man says\u00a0 a friend’s shoulder strap came “completely off” when he rode the slide last year.<\/p>\n DETROIT (AP) \u2014 A Muslim flight attendant is suing ExpressJet for suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter says it filed the suit on behalf of Charee Stanley last week. The federal court case follows a discrimination complaint filed last year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which dismissed it without determining whether the airline violated the law. Stanley alleges ExpressJet didn’t provide a reasonable religious accommodation. She is seeking back pay and other damages.<\/p>\n RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 Food is so scarce at many of Rio’s Olympic venues that organizers are taking drastic action. The organizing committee for the Games says it’s letting people leave the venues for food and water in an effort to ease the pressure of supplying food and drink inside the gates. Fans have complained about the lack of food — or, when it’s available, the monstrous lines to pay for it. Organizers say several suppliers failed to deliver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CSi Weather… TONIGHT…SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 PERCENT. .WEDNESDAY…WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. .WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. 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\n<\/strong>Heitkamp says, \u201cAcross our state, too many lives and families have been ripped apart by opioid addiction and abuse \u2013 and to really fight this problem head-on, we need all hands on deck. \u00a0That\u2019s why I gathered leaders and experts from across the treatment and enforcement spectrum in Fargo and Jamestown today to make sure our communities are mounting the best possible defense across the state. And that means tackling opioid abuse by strengthening law enforcement, expanding best recovery practices, and identifying holes that still exist in our community infrastructure. In the Senate, I\u2019ve been working to achieve the real results families need \u2013 and helping pass legislation to expand existing tools was a good step, but it\u2019s not enough. North Dakotans I spoke with who on the front lines of this crisis in Fargo and Jamestown know we need the new, robust resources my bill would help provide, and I\u2019ll keep working to bring all sides together to deliver the support our communities desperately need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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