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<\/a>KCSi-T.V. Weather from Staff Meteorologist Steve Root<\/p>\nLATE THIS AFTERNOON…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
\nTHUNDERSTORMS. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
\n.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE EVENING…
\nTHEN CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS
\nMAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS…LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL
\nIN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
\n10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF
\nTHUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT.
\n.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. NORTHWEST
\nWINDS 5 TO 10 MPH INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
\n.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
\nTHUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
\n.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
\nTHUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO
\n20 MPH.
\n.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTHWEST
\nWINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
\n.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
\nLOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
\n.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
\nOF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
\n.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
\nHIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.
\n.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
\n.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
\nHIGHS AROUND 90.
\n.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
\nTHUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
\n.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 90.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a man was arrested for
\nattempted armed robbery at a downtown Bismarck loan business.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police say that a man wearing a ski mask walked into Money Bags on Monday afternoon brandishing a knife.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police say the would-be robber appeared to have “lost his
\nnerve” and walked back out of the business.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A passer-by chased the 45-year-old man, tackled him and held him
\nuntil police arrived.<\/p>\n
Responding officers arrested the man, who has not been formally charged.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police say an ambulance was called to check on the suspect, who
\nwas having trouble breathing after the chase.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Mandan man accused of possessing child
\npornography now also faces an unrelated charge for allegedly having
\nsexual contact with a child.
\n68-year-old Harold Fetzer has been charged with felony gross sexual
\nimposition.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was charged earlier this month with possessing prohibited
\nmaterials after officers identified him as a possible participant
\nin a peer-to-peer network that shared child pornography.<\/p>\n
\u00a0He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 14 in that case.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An affidavit says Fetzer told a Mandan police officer
\ninterviewing him about the child pornography case that he had
\ninappropriately touched a child for the past five years, starting
\nwhen the child was 5. The child confirmed it.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A message left at a telephone listing for Fetzer was not
\nimmediately returned.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a0DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A man involved in a methamphetamine lab
\nexplosion in Dickinson has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
\n40-year-old Shane Cook pleaded guilty Monday to felony reckless endangerment and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The blast in his apartment on Feb. 11 forced an evacuation of
\nthe building and Cook required medical attention.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southwest District Judge William Herauf also ordered Cook to pay
\nrestitution for the damaged caused to the apartment. A restitution
\nhearing has not been scheduled.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of leaving his 2-year-old
\nson home alone so he could go out drinking has been sentenced to
\ntwo days in jail.
\n32-year-old Adam Samuels pleaded guilty to child abuse and neglect on Monday.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick sentenced Samuels to
\ntwo years in prison with all but two days he had already served
\nsuspended.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police say officers responded to an apartment on June 22 to
\ncheck on a child who a woman had heard crying. An apartment manager
\nunlocked the door, and police found the boy alone inside.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prosecutors say Samuels had left his son alone so he could go to
\nthe bar and drink.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new audit says student fees have been
\nused to buy first-class plane tickets for the dean of North Dakota
\nState University’s graduate school.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The audit questions how NDSU and the University of North Dakota
\nuse the fees they require students to pay.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Associated Press obtained the audit from the North Dakota
\nstate auditor’s office. It’s being presented to legislators
\nThursday.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report says student fee money has been spent on everything
\nfrom first-class plane tickets to iPads for some NDSU employees.
\nUND used fee money to buy “Greek Life” T-shirts.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some fees are being used to build up large reserve funds. It
\nsays UND’s business school has a $370,000 reserve from the $150
\nsemester fees that business students pay.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University officials dispute some of the audit’s findings.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s largest newspaper is reviewing
\nits policy on same-sex wedding announcements in response to a
\ncontroversy that arose online.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Forum reports \u00a0it received multiple negative comments on its official Facebook page and an online petition was started after it refused to print a Fargo couple’s same-sex wedding announcement.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Forum Editor Matthew Von Pinnon says the newspaper’s rule is
\nbeing reviewed.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marriage in North Dakota is defined under state law as “between
\none man and one woman.”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The newspaper’s parent company, Forum Communications Co., also
\nowns the Grand Forks Herald, The Jamestown Sun and The Dickinson
\nPress.in North Dakota.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Hot, dry weather in North Dakota is hurting
\ncrops and grazing land in North Dakota.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop and weather
\nreport that most crop conditions have declined over the week. But
\nthe heat also has accelerated the maturity of crops, and the
\nharvest of small grains is ahead of the average pace.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report says about one-third of the pasture and range land in
\nNorth Dakota is in poor or very poor condition, and 39 percent of
\nthe hay crop is in those categories. Stockwater supplies are 40
\npercent short or very short.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In world and national news…<\/p>\n
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RENO, Nev. (AP) -Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama of leaking classified details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as details of covert actions in Iran, for political gain.<\/p>\n
The Republican presidential candidate made the accusation in an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev.,\u00a0Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Romney says such leaks compromise troops in the field and he’s demanding an investigation.
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WASHINGTON (AP) – The Congressional Budget Office has taken a fresh look at President Barack Obama’s health care law and still expects it to reduce federal deficits.<\/p>\n
The CBO says spending cuts and tax increases in the law more than offset new spending. It says repealing the law would increase the deficit by $109 billion from 2013 to 2022.
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgaria’s prime minister says the suicide bomber who attacked a bus full of Israeli tourists last week did not act alone.<\/p>\n
\u00a0He says a sophisticated group of conspirators spent about a month in the country planning the attack that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver.<\/p>\n
However, the prime minister stopped short of blaming Iran or the militant group Hezbollah. Israel claims they were involved.
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CHICAGO (AP) – The man convicted of gunning down the mother, brother and nephew of singer Jennifer Hudson will spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/p>\n
William Balfour received three life sentences for the 2008 killings, plus 120 years for other charges.<\/p>\n
Balfour was married to Hudson’s sister. Prosecutors say he shot the family members in a jealous rage.
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LONDON (AP) – The International Olympic Committee is praising the London Olympic organizing committee ahead of Friday’s opening of the 2012 Summer Games.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The IOC says it’s expecting the games to be a major success, despite the continuing challenges with security and transportation.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Britain’s Home Office says it will seek an injunction to halt a strike planned for Thursday by immigration staff at U.K. airports.<\/p>\n
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