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Valley City (CSi) Valley News Live in Fargo reports that officials in the City of Lisbon have confirmed that raw sewage was recently pumped into the Sheyenne River for approximately 12 hours because a pump station had failed.<\/p>\n
Officials say the main lift station with two pumps failed on March 18, 2016. The pump station is where all the sewage in town ends up. That had to be bypassed and the sewage was pumped into the river from about 11:40 p.m. to roughly 11 a.m. the next day. The City has been in contact with the North Dakota Department of Health regarding what happened.<\/p>\n
Authorities add if this bypass wasn\u2019t used, the sewage would have backed up into homes. There\u2019s an alarm system in the lift station that went off just before 10 p.m. Electricians determined that it was not an electrical issue that caused the failure. Officials said because of past floods, they have an idea of how long they can let a situation like this go before having to act.<\/p>\n
City officials say luckily it occurred at night so the flow was much lower than if it had occurred during the daylight hours. Authorities say some emergencies are unavoidable and sometimes things just break. It\u2019s unclear at this point if there are any health or environmental concerns because of pumping raw sewage into the river.<\/p>\n
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WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified a Williston man who died in a camper fire at a truck stop near the city last week.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says the death of 23-year-old Phillip Unnerstall Jr. has been ruled accidental. The state medical examiner’s office determined that Unnerstall died of smoke inhalation.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The fire was reported shortly after 7 a.m. on March 21 near the Pilot truck stop. A Williston woman who also was in the camper was able to escape through a window. Fifty-seven-year-old Patty Fouse was treated at a hospital for undisclosed injuries and released.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The sheriff’s office says the fire is believed to have been caused by a small propane heater that was being operated inside the camper.<\/p>\n
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Grand Forks police continue to investigate an early Tuesday morning shooting.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authorities say officers responded to a report of gunshots about 2 a.m. Tuesday and found a person who appeared to have suffered a gunshot wound. The wound is not believed to be life-threatening.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police identified the victim as 30-year-old David Gomez, of Grand Forks.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Witnesses described three males leaving the scene in a car. Police said the initial investigation indicated that Gomez and suspects knew one another.<\/p>\n
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MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Formal charges have been filed against a Minot woman accused of driving drunk with two small children in her vehicle and crashing into a house.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twenty-four-year-old Bionca Lewis is charged with felony reckless endangerment and misdemeanor drunken driving with minors in the vehicle. She could face up to six years in prison if convicted.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Court documents do not list an attorney for Lewis. A home telephone listing for her could not be found.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police allege that Lewis crashed into a fence, a fire hydrant and a house about 4 a.m. Sunday. The 2- and 5-year-old children in the vehicle were not seriously injured.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Gasoline is again flowing through a pipeline between Fargo and Grand Forks that was shut down due to a leak.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magellan Midstream Partners shut down the segment of pipeline on March 21 after it leaked about 4,200 gallons of gasoline and prompted the precautionary evacuation of one home in the Harwood area.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The company removed contaminated soil and monitored air quality. No injuries were reported.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A company spokesman says the leak was repaired Friday.
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\u3000\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Democratic leaders in the North Dakota Legislature are asking Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple to call a special session to address the state’s budget woes.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate Minority Leader Mac Schneider says he believes a “very brief, very focused” session would help lawmakers make a plan to weather the effects of money problems due primarily to low oil and crop prices.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Grand Forks Democrat says there was no strategy involved in Dalrymple’s across-the-board budget cuts. Schneider says some individuals and groups should be spared from the cuts.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Zent, the governor’s policy adviser, did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Mild weather in North Dakota in March has been a boon for ranchers in the state.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Agriculture Department says in its latest crop report that the warm conditions during the month limited livestock losses and hay usage.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cattle, calf, sheep and lamb losses are rated average to light. Hay and roughage supplies are rated 95 percent adequate to surplus.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report says farmers are preparing for spring fieldwork as the month comes to a close. Topsoil moisture is rated 66 percent adequate or surplus and subsoil moisture is 71 percent in those categories.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The condition of North Dakota’s winter wheat crop is rated 65 percent good to excellent.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Trial has been delayed for a man facing a murder charge in a fatal beating outside of a Fargo bar last year.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thirty-five-year-old Jason Oien was to stand trial beginning Wednesday in the May 2015 death of 35-year-old Joey Gaarsland. The trial has been delayed due to new evidence and witnesses in the case. A new trial date wasn’t immediately set.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oien also faces criminal conspiracy charges. He could face life in prison without parole if convicted on the murder charge. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three other people charged in the case have pleaded guilty. They might testify against Oien.<\/p>\n
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T.V. Sports\u2026<\/p>\n
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State University football games will continue to be broadcast on NBC affiliates in North Dakota.<\/p>\n
NDSU announced it has reached a three-year, $1.2 million deal with KVLY-TV, CSi 11, in Fargo and other NBC affiliates. That continues a partnership that has existed since 2007.<\/p>\n
The Bison Football Show will continue to air live statewide in North Dakota on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
All KVLY-produced games will be provided to the ESPN3 cable network for national coverage.<\/p>\n
NDSU is the five-time defending champion in the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) – Ted Cruz says misdemeanor battery charges against Donald Trump’s campaign manager are “a very sad development.” Speaking to reporters ahead of a campaign stop in Wisconsin Wednesday, Cruz described his rival’s campaign as an “abusive culture.”\u00a0 Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is alleged to have grabbed former Breibart reporter Michelle Fields as she tried to ask Trump a question at an event earlier this month. Trump says Lewandowski is innocent.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department and Pentagon are ordering the families of U.S. diplomats and military personnel to leave posts in southern Turkey due to “increased threats from terrorist groups” in the country. A Pentagon spokesman says no specific threat triggered the order, but that it was done “out of an abundance of caution” for the safety of the families in that region. The move comes amid heightened security concerns throughout Turkey due to the ongoing fight against Islamic State militants in neighboring Syria and Iraq. It was accompanied by an updated travel warning advising U.S. citizens of an increased threat of attacks.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – A Nigerian official says a girl suicide bomber who surrendered in Cameroon is from a neighborhood near where 276 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram. But he says the girl is not one of the 219 who remain missing after the abduction two years ago. The girl, who appears to be about ten, turned herself in on Friday with explosives strapped to her body and said she was from Chibok. Authorities say she seemed heavily drugged and injured.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LOS ANGELES (AP) – Model Janice Dickinson is calling it a “victory” against Bill Cosby. A judge has ruled that Dickinson’s defamation case against the comedian can proceed. Dickinson sued Cosby for defamation after his legal team denied her allegations that he drugged and raped her in 1982. A judge says a jury can determine the credibility of Dickinson’s claims and whether a lawyer’s statement branding her a liar was defamatory.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NEW YORK (AP) – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is stressing that the Fed still envisions a gradual pace of interest rate increases in light of global pressures that could weigh on the U.S. economy. Speaking to the Economic Club of New York, Yellen says the central bank is monitoring the effects of a global economic slump, lower oil prices and stock market turbulence, and that it will “proceed cautiously” in raising rates. Most economists expect no hike at the Fed’s next meeting in April.<\/p>\n
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NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for \u201cThe Miracle Worker\u201d and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, has died at the age of 69.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Duke\u2019s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.\u00a0
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She built on her success in teenhood by playing identical cousins on a popular sitcom, \u201cThe Patty Duke Show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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