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.REST OF TODAY…Partly to mostly sunny. Highs upper 40’s.\u00a0 West winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the west 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.<\/p>\n
.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Much colder. Highs in the lower 20s.<\/p>\n
Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.<\/p>\n
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 10. West winds 5 to<\/p>\n
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.<\/p>\n
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny with slight chance of snow in the<\/p>\n
morning, then cloudy with chance of light freezing rain and snow<\/p>\n
in the afternoon. Highs around 30. South winds 5 to 15 mph.<\/p>\n
Chance of precipitation 40 percent.<\/p>\n
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND Thanksgiving Day…Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to<\/p>\n
20. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.<\/p>\n
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.<\/p>\n
.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.<\/p>\n
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.<\/p>\n
Highs in the 30s to 40s.<\/p>\n
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 20.<\/p>\n
.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.<\/p>\n
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Holiday Travelers…<\/p>\n
There is a chance of a wintry mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain<\/p>\n
and rain across much of western and central North Dakota on<\/p>\n
Wednesday. The area of greatest concern for freezing rain and<\/p>\n
sleet accumulations is across northwestern North Dakota. Remember<\/p>\n
that even light amounts of freezing precipitation could result in<\/p>\n
very slick roads.<\/p>\n
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Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi) Jamestown Police informs residents of a High Risk sex offender living in Jamestown.<\/p>\n
Ronald Scott Thompson resides at 104 4th<\/span><\/sup> Avenue SW, Jamestown, ND<\/p>\n He is a 54 year old white male, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighting 235 pounds with Blue eyes and gray hair.<\/p>\n Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition, entering the home of a 42 year old female he did not know, using physical force and pressing a knife against her throat, and forcing her into a sexual act.\u00a0 The victim was cut with the knife and suffered other physical injuries.<\/p>\n Conviction:\u00a0 October 1995 in Burleigh County, ND District Court.<\/p>\n Disposition: 10 years, 3-years suspended, 125 days credit; consecutive.<\/p>\n Thompson is currently on probation with North Dakota Probation and Parole.<\/p>\n He is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.<\/p>\n This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.<\/p>\n Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.<\/p>\n Printed handouts of the demographics of Ronald Scott Thompson are available at the Jamestown Police Department.<\/p>\n More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General\u2019s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 November is National Epilepsy Awareness month, and on Friday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, we talked with a Jamestown girl, 10 year old Braelon Geerdes who is bringing awareness to National Epilepsy Awareness Month after she was diagnosed with the neurological disorder.<\/p>\n Braelon is a fourth-grader at St. John\u2019s Academy, who was in a music class when she was 9-years old when the teacher noticed Braelon\u2019s \u00a0face twitching and eyes rolling back.<\/p>\n Also on our show, Braelon\u2019s mom, Tara Geerdes said, following that seizure, Braelon was referred Sanford Children\u2019s Hospital in Fargo, and a pediatric neurologist, where Braelon had a seizure while undergoing an electroencephalograph, helping \u00a0doctors localize the activity in the right side of her brain.<\/p>\n Braelon has since be placed on medication, which is helping to control the seizures, but not eliminate them, as she has fewer twitches or seizures and continues to live a normal life, but staying away from contact sports.\u00a0 She does however participate in other sports, with head protection, and is active in other ways, playing the guitar, and the piano, and sings at public events.<\/p>\n Braelon has had a brief and sometimes undetectable absence seizure, which Tara said is a less severe seizure, one of 41 types of seizures.\u00a0 Epilepsy can range in severity \u00a0from occasional seizures to over 200 a day.<\/p>\n Also on our show, Braelon\u2019s Grandmother, Sharylin Geerdes a nurse at Ave Maria\u2019s Heritage Center in Jamestown, said she is looking to form a Jamestown area support group.<\/p>\n The Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, is presently serving a portion of North Dakota, offering support to cover expenses with Epilepsy seizure detection devices such as a sleep mat, sleep pillows, and a smartwatch all alerting parents, or in some cases a teacher, of the presence of a seizure.<\/p>\n Braelon said \u201cTeam Braelon,\u201d has been formed bringing awareness to Epilepsy in the community, which includes helping with fundraising bake sales, and other public appearances and participation.<\/p>\n Braelon said the team consists of classmates, family, and friends.<\/p>\n Sharylin said \u201cTeam Braelon,\u201d will be on hand at a bake sale fundraiser on Saturday November 25, 2017 at the Buffalo Mall.<\/p>\n Also \u201cTeam Braelon\u201d will have a purple float in the Jamestown Dazzle Parade, with family and friends, the evening of November 24, through Downtown Jamestown.\u00a0 Purple being the color of epilepsy awareness.<\/p>\n Braelon and others also hand out wrist bands, calling attention to #RiseAboveSeizures, and the website efmn.org<\/p>\n Sharylin pointed out that from the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, Fargo office, the Regional Coordinator, Janice Tweet, \u00a0has visited Braelon\u2019s school, \u00a0St. John\u2019s Academy in Jamestown, to educate the school staff and students about epilepsy.<\/p>\n Tara said as a result, St. John\u2019s Academy is now a \u201cSeizure Smart School.\u201d<\/p>\n On Friday November 17th<\/span><\/sup> the University of Jamestown nursing students participated in an epilepsy awareness presentation.<\/p>\n For more information or to arrange a presentation, or learn about starting an epilepsy support group, or make a donation, contact Sharylin Geerdes at 701-320-6441, or Tara Geerdes at 701-799-8922.<\/p>\n Brochures are also available by contacting Sharylin.<\/p>\n The Epilepsy Awareness group is sponsoring a Bake Sale at the vendor show at the Buffalo Mall on Saturday November 25, 2017. \u00a0 Come see the little purple elves from Team Braelon at work.\u00a0 We would welcome and donations of baked items, cracker mixes or anything else you may want to donate for this cause.\u00a0 Cash donations are always welcome.\u00a0 All proceeds will go to the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota\/North Dakota and The Chelsea Hutchinson Foundation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Washington\u00a0 (CSi) \u2013 Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation Appropriations Committee, has announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded three grants totaling $226,474 for infrastructure funding throughout North Dakota. The awards are distributed as follows:<\/p>\n Hoeven says, \u201cToday\u2019s funds will help ensure that roads and transportation facilities in our state can continue to be used safely.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Most of North Dakota remains at least abnormally dry heading into winter.<\/p>\n The Bismarck Tribune reports about 80 percent of North Dakota remains at least abnormally dry, and that isn’t likely to change anytime soon.<\/p>\n National Weather Service hydrologist Allen Schlag in Bismarck says most of North Dakota’s surface soil temperatures are at or below freezing. He says what moisture does come likely will stay on top \u2014 if it is doesn’t evaporate.<\/p>\n Schlag says from now until March, the U.S. Drought Monitor map , issued every Thursday, shouldn’t change much from its current pattern.<\/p>\n Divide and Williams counties in northwestern North Dakota are still experiencing severe drought. Parts of Bowman and Sioux counties in southwestern North Dakota are also in severe drought. Meanwhile, the Red River Valley is largely drought-free.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AMHERST, S.D. (AP) \u2014 TransCanada Corp. says the company has sent additional crews and equipment to the site of a 210,000-gallon oil spill in South Dakota from its Keystone pipeline.<\/p>\n TransCanada said Saturday it is making progress in its investigation into the spill cause on farmland in Marshall County, near the North Dakota border, about 250 miles (402 kilometers) west of Minneapolis. But the company did not elaborate on the cause. The company says additional equipment and workers continue to be dispatched to the site.<\/p>\n Company spokesman Terry Cunha said Sunday that about 150 people are now at the site. Cunha said a gravel road has been completed to handle heavy equipment.<\/p>\n Crews shut down the pipeline Thursday after discovering the leak.<\/p>\n TransCanada says the leak is under control and there is no significant environmental impact or threat to the public.<\/p>\n Nebraska regulators vote Monday on a proposed Keystone XL route, an expansion that also would be operated by TransCanada.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) \u2014 Nebraska regulators are set to decide Monday whether to approve or deny an in-state route for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It’s the last major regulatory hurdle facing project operator TransCanada Corp.<\/p>\n The Nebraska Public Service Commission’s ruling is on the Nebraska route TransCanada has proposed to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile (1,897-kilometer) pipeline to deliver oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The proposed Keystone XL route would cross parts of Montana, South Dakota and most of Nebraska to Steele City, Nebraska.<\/p>\n A vote in favor of the company’s proposed route through Nebraska would give a boost to the long-delayed project, which was rejected by President Barack Obama in 2015, citing concerns about carbon pollution. President Donald Trump revived it in March, approving a permit.<\/p>\n The project has faced a barrage of criticism from environmental activists and some landowners for nearly a decade. A ruling against the company would cast renewed doubt on the proposal and could lead to another drawn-out legal fight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) \u2014 More than 100 protesters gathered Sunday to speak out against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline before Nebraska regulators issue their ruling on the project.<\/p>\n The protesters gathered on the steps of the state Capitol building in Lincoln on Sunday. The Nebraska Public Service Commission is scheduled to announce its decision on the pipeline’s route on Monday.<\/p>\n Karin Carlson of Omaha says she doesn’t think the pipeline would benefit the state much.<\/p>\n TransCanada proposed the 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline the transport crude oil from Canada south to connect to another pipeline in southern Nebraska.<\/p>\n TransCanada officials have said their preferred route is the most direct way to transport oil and crosses few major bodies of water.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MINOT, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal court has ruled against the owner of an airport-based business who sued the city of Minot and its airport manager last year for racial discrimination.<\/p>\n Eva Lucke sued in March 2016, alleging the city and the airport director at the time demanded unfair lease terms because she’s a Latina woman. She maintained that other tenants at the airport’s industrial park received more favorable lease agreements.<\/p>\n The Minot Daily News<\/a> reports that a judge ruled against Lucke earlier this month, saying she presented no direct evidence of racial discrimination. She has until about the end of the month to appeal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MINOT, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Trial has been scheduled in early January for a lawsuit that a company filed against the Minot Public School District over unpaid cleanup expenses resulting from the 2011 Souris River flood.<\/p>\n\n
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