CSi Weather…
TODAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING
RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AND SLEET IN THE EVENING…THEN
SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS 15 TO 20. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 10.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 20S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LIGHT MIXED WINTRY PRECIPITATION ON
SUNDAY. THIS COULD LEAD TO HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. WINDY CONDITIONS ARE ALSO FORECAST TO DEVELOP LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
DRY CONDITIONS ARE THEN FORECAST AREAWIDE MONDAY
FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY… DRY CONDITIONS AND A WARMING TREND TO 35F-45F BOTH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
Valley City (CSi) The 28th Annual “Christmas in the Valley” Parade of Lights, is on Friday December 5th at 6-p.m., on Central Avenue. The Parade winner will receive the coveted traveling parade trophy!
Jamestown (CSi) Sanford Clinic in Jamestown, is moving the location of their Walk-in Clinic. Beginning Thursday, December 11, 2014, all walk-in patients will be seen at the Sanford Second Ave Clinic, in the Jamestown Business Center, 300 2nd Ave NE in Jamestown. Hours for Walk-In Clinic are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday and 9:00 am to noon on Saturday.
The Sanford Second Avenue Clinic has recently completed a 8000 square foot addition. Further renovations will continue in the near future. In addition to the Walk-in Clinic; Dr. David Muhs and Dr. Sarah Schatz will be moving their practices to the Second Avenue Clinic beginning December 11th. Any patients scheduled to see Dr. Muhs or Dr. Schatz on December 11th or later should report to the Second Avenue Clinic for their appointment.
Long range plans for Sanford include moving all family practice providers to the Second Avenue Clinic as further renovations are completed. The Physical Therapy Department will remain at the Fifth Avenue Clinic, located at 904 5th Ave NE.
Jamestown (CSi) Girl Scouts in Jamestown are holding a unique fundraiser, to support a trip to Orlando, Florida, in October of 2015.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Girl Scout volunteer, Cheryl Dewald along with Girl Scouts Hannah Kapp, and Izzy Dillingham were guests.
Cheryl said 35 Jamestown Girl Scouts and chaperones will spend six days in Orlando and participate in some Disney Youth Educational classes, learn about sea life at Sea World, take a day trip to the ocean and NASA Space Center, and volunteer their time at the World Village, as a service project.
Hannah has particular interest in the visit to NASA, while Izzy is looking forward to going to Seaworld.
One fundraiser is the Nightmare Before Christmas, haunted house.
The event will have over 15 different scarey themes, and includes a disabled accessible vortex, as the Haunted Hose is partially interactive, as patrons will be challenged to collect various good luck charms to help protect them and grant them safe passage.
Concessions will be available for sale, and there will be a special appearance by Santa.
The Nighmare Before Christmas is set at the former Home of Economy location at 830 18th Street Southwest in Jamestown.
The dates are;
December 5,6, 12 & 13 from 5:30-p.m. to 10:30-p.m.
December 7 from 5:30 to 9-p.m.
December 14 from 2-p.m. to 7-p.m.
Tickets are $8 in advance from a participating Girl Scout, or $10 at the door, with $1 off if you bring a non-parishable food item for the local food pantry.
For advanced tickets E-Mail cheryldewald@hotmail.com for a list of participating Girls Scouts, selling tickets.
Jamestown (CSi0 The James River Valley Library System is collecting donations of new or gently used hats, gloves, mittens, and scarves to help decorate the giving tree located in the Adult Library of the Alfred Dickey Library Branch, 105 3rd St. SE Jamestown.
After the holiday season, all items will be donated to the Salvation Army.
For more information, call the Alfred Dickey Library at (701)-252-2990.
Valley City (CSi) The 28th Annual “Christmas in the Valley” Parade of Lights, is this evening starting at 6-p.m., on Central Avenue. The Parade winner will receive the coveted traveling parade trophy
Carrington (CSi) The Foster County Board of Commissioners is in the process of dealing with the resignation of six county officials, including County Auditor Teresa Rivosi and Sheriff Michael Tufte.
During a Special County Commission meeting Tuesday the panel addressed Rivosi’s resignation, who lost in the November election to Casey Cables in
Foster County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bill Bauer, who was also just elected to the board, said Cables has agreed to take her elected position on December 15th. He said she was to take office on Jan. 1, and Rivosi was going to work with Cables until April 1 to train her.
Rivosi also served as the the county’s emergency manager. Deputy County Auditor Heather Martin has agreed to serve in that position until a replacement can be found.
Bauer said Rivosi’s letter of resignation was found on her desk Wednesday morning and was dated December 2nd.
Bauer says the board is also looking to hire either an individual or firm to come in and assemble the mill levy information as Rivosi did not complete this task before resigning her position.
County Treasurer Noreen Barton says she typically has the tax bills finished by Thanksgiving so she can review them and get them ready for mailing during the first week in December.
The tax bills must be sent by December 26th.
Tufte says he was resigning “due to circumstances beyond his control.” Tufte was re-elected to a third term as sheriff in the Nov. 4 general election,
At the upcoming December 16th county commission meeting the panel will also consider the resignations of Foster County Clerk of District Court Tamara Becker and deputy Clerk of District Court Jenna Weisenberger. Both submitted letters of resignation this week, with their resignations taking effect on December, 31st.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police are investigating the armed robbery of a Dollar Tree store.
Authorities say two people entered the store shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, and one of them was armed with a handgun.
The suspects fled on foot with an unknown amount of cash.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Ward County authorities have charged a 59-year-old man who they say inappropriately touched a girl he was babysitting.
Carl Short is charged with a felony count of gross sexual imposition for allegedly touching the 7-year-old girl. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and is set to return to court in February.
Short faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. It wasn’t immediately clear if he has an attorney.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bond has been set at $1 million for a homeless man in North Dakota charged with felony murder in death of a 57-year-old Mississippi man.
Forty-five-year-old Mark Butts was charged Thursday in Bismarck. He was arrested after police found the body of Richard Everett Glover on a street next to a car about 1:30 a.m. Police were impounding the car, in which two people were seen by patrol officers late Wednesday.
Butts in court said he has no home and is out of a job. He said he was on his “way back to California.”
Assistant State’s Attorney Pamela Nesvig says Butts has several convictions in the Dakotas and California.
Court records show Butts is from Rapid City. Records do not list an attorney for Butts.
BEULAH, N.D. (AP) – No one was hurt in a fire at the Coyote Station power plant near Beulah in western North Dakota.
Minnesota-based Otter Tail Power Co. says in a statement that a mechanical failure about 5 a.m. Thursday led to the fire. The cause of the equipment failure was not immediately determined.
Vice president Jan Rudolf says Otter Tail is still assessing the damage. The plant is off line in the meantime. The company doesn’t know for how long.
Coyote Station generates power for Otter Tail and for Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., Northern Municipal Power Agency and NorthWestern Energy.
Otter Tail provides electricity and energy services to more than a quarter million people in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A welcome home ceremony is scheduled for about 40 North Dakota National Guard soldiers who completed a yearlong peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
Members of the Bismarck-based Company C, 2nd Battalion, 285th Regiment operated UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and provided air transport to U.S. and NATO forces.
The unit is commanded by Capt. Russ Sundby, of Horace.
The ceremony is scheduled Saturday at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Bismarck. Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk (sprihn-suh-NAT’-ihk), the Guard commander, are scheduled to speak.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Repair costs for the Bismarck city-county building are nearing $100,000 after boiler pipes froze and burst, flooding the basement.
City facilities director Lavonne Wohl says the main government meeting room will remain out of commission through at least next week following the flooding over Thanksgiving. She says crews are tearing down pieces of the plastic ceiling and repair costs may still increase.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Many North Dakotans are staying in the work force after they reach 65.
Census Bureau figures show there are about 52,000 people in the state who are 65 or older, and more than a third of them are working.
Data show that for those in the age range of 65 to 69, the rate was nearly 50 percent.
Kevin Iverson manages the Census Office at the state Commerce Department. He says some seniors continue to work for economic reasons but many of them do so to remain active.
Data show that men over the age of 65 are more like to work than women, and they typically work longer hours.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The head of American Crystal Sugar Company says it’s likely that most shareholders in the sugar beet cooperative will lose money this year.
Company President and CEO David Berg says the poor financial results are due primarily to poor yields and Mexican sugar flooding the U.S. market. He says the beet payment for the current crop is a “miserable $37 a ton.”
Berg says there are signs of better days ahead. He says the sugar industry has prevailed in its illegal trade case against Mexico and the two governments are negotiating changes that should improve the market.
Berg says the company’s long-term financial health remains strong.
The joint annual meeting of American Crystal Sugar and the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association is going on Thursday in Fargo.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A pilot project is underway to outfit homes on the Standing Rock Reservation with heat stoves. Attorney and American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes launched the “Heating the Rez” effort in February after a woman froze to death in an unheated home. Iron Eyes said officials will monitor how well the stoves work and then decide whether to expand the project.
SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) – Efforts to conserve a struggling species of grouse that ranges across the Western U.S. are having far-reaching effects on the region’s energy industry. The Obama administration faces a September 2015 to decide whether greater sage grouse need more protections. Already sales of leases on 8.1 million acres of federal oil and gas parcels have been put on hold because of worries about the bird. That’s according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.
In sports…
Jamestown (CSi) The Jimmie volleyball team Thursday, at the NAIA national volleyball tournament, at Sioux City, Iowa, lost its last two matches of the season.
19th-ranked Indiana Wesleyan won the final two frames for the 3-1 win. The win gave the Wildcats a 1-2 record in pool play, while the 18th-ranked Jimmies went 0-3.
Meanwhile the sixth-ranked Missouri Baptist won the pool, defeating Northwestern College 3-1.Those teams advanced to the 12-team elimination round.
It was the final match for Jimmies’ Janna Johnson, Amanda Kramer, Naomi Walther and Kaitlyn Bollingberg, all seniors.
BOYS HOCKEY<<
Bismarck High 7, Hazen/Beulah 3
Grand Forks Red River 5, East Grand Forks, Minn. 0
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
CHICAGO (AP) – The Dallas Cowboys are 9-4 after building a 35-7 lead in a 41-28 blowout win over the Bears in Chicago. DeMarco Murray ran for a season-high 179 yards and a touchdown as the Cowboys bounced back from their Thanksgiving Day loss to Philadelphia. Tony Romo was 21 of 26 for 206 yards and three TDs.
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Cleveland 90 New York 87
Final Portland 88 Indiana 82
Final Golden State 112 New Orleans 85
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Vancouver 3 Pittsburgh 0
Final Washington 2 Carolina 1
Final Tampa Bay 5 Buffalo 0
Final 2OT Columbus 4 Florida 3 (SO Columbus 1-0)
Final Detroit 5 Dallas 2
Final New Jersey 5 Toronto 3
Final N-Y Islanders 2 Ottawa 1
Final Nashville 4 St. Louis 3
Final OT Calgary 4 Colorado 3
Final Los Angeles 4 Arizona 0
Final San Jose 7 Boston 4
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (13) San Diego St. 57 San Diego 48
Final LSU 74 (16) West Virginia 73
Final (20) Iowa St. 95 (18) Arkansas 77
TOP-25 WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final ( 1) South Carolina 82 Charlotte 61
Final 2OT ( 6) North Carolina 96 (18) Rutgers 93
Final ( 7) Louisville 86 (22) Iowa 52
Final OT (16) Michigan St. 79 Georgia Tech 73
Final (17) Oregon St. 75 Idaho 53
Final (19) Georgia 68 Mercer 49
Final (21) Syracuse 61 Penn St. 39
Final OT S. Dakota St. 80 (25) Arkansas 75
Wolves…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Timberwolves say they’re embarrassed by a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers the night before and are bracing for times to get even tougher. The young and banged-up Wolves delivered a lackluster effort against the Sixers. The Wolves are already missing three starters to injuries. Flip Saunders says point guard Mo Williams and sixth man Shabazz Muhammad both are questionable for the game against Houston tonight.
Peterson…
UNDATED (AP) – Adrian Peterson’s appeal hearing concluded yesterday in New York after about two hours. Peterson is seeking reinstatement after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him for the final six games of the regular season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Goodell also told Peterson he will not be considered for reinstatement before April 15.
College football…
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Mike Riley will be introduced as Nebraska’s new football coach at a news conference today. Riley is the longest-tenured coach in the Pac-12 and has coached at Oregon State for 14 seasons, but the Beavers just completed a 5-7 season in which they won just two conference games. He replaces Bo Pelini, who was dismissed after the Huskers finished the regular season 9-3.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Jim McElwain is Florida’s new football coach after going 22-16 in three seasons at Colorado State. He was offensive coordinator at Alabama, where he helped the Tide win two national titles before moving to Fort Collins, Colorado. The Gators announced McElwain agreed to a six-year deal that will average $3.5 million annually.
Golf…
WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) – Tiger Woods looked very rusty in his first competition in nearly four months, shooting a 5-over 77 in the first round of the World Challenge in Florida. Woods flubbed four chips, needed two shots to get out of a bunker on the par-5 seventh hole and didn’t have a birdie putt inside 20 feet until the 11th hole. He’s in last place in the 18-man field, 11 shots behind Jordan Spieth (speeth).
MLB…
SEATTLE (AP) – The Seattle Mariners have signed slugger Nelson Cruz to a four-year deal, adding a needed right-handed power hitter to their lineup. Cruz led the major leagues with 40 home runs last season and had 108 RBIs for Baltimore, which signed him to an $8 million, one-year deal. He served a 50-game suspension in 2013 for violations of the major league drug agreement in relation to the sport’s Biogenesis investigation.
The Texas Rangers have finalized a one-year, $4 million contract with Colby Lewis.
NASCAR…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Joe Gibbs Racing is shuffling its crew chief lineup as it expands to a new fourth team to accommodate addition Carl Edwards.
Darian Grubb will shift from Denny Hamlin to Edwards, Dave Rogers will shift from Kyle Busch to Hamlin, Adam Stevens will be Busch’s new crew chief and Jason Ratcliff will remain with Matt Kenseth in the only untouched driver-crew chief combination.
Boxing…
CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) – Former heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe and popular lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini are among those who have been selected for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
The induction ceremony will be held June 14 at the Hall of Fame in upstate New York.
In world and national news…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. calls it “Day One of the Mars era.” NASA’s new Orion spacecraft thundered off the launch pad this morning on a high-stakes, unmanned test flight. For the first time in 42 years, NASA is sending a spacecraft built for humans farther than a couple hundred miles from Earth. It’s aiming for a peak altitude of 3,600 miles so the capsule has enough momentum for a scorchingly high-speed re-entry to test the latest heat shield.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 130-mile protest march from Ferguson, Missouri to the state capital is expected to come to a close today with a rally protesting the police shooting of Michael Brown. Protesters plan to make their way into Jefferson City around noon and gather at a garden near the governor’s mansion before the rally at the Capitol.
NEW YORK (AP) – Coast to coast protests have continued following a New York City grand jury’s decision to clear a white police officer in the chokehold death of a an unarmed black man selling illegal untaxed cigarettes. New York demonstrators gathered near the Holland Tunnel, the Manhattan Bridge and on the Westside Highway, temporarily shutting them down yesterday. Authorities said arrests were made.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Labor Department is about to release last month’s employment data and economists surveyed by FactSet predict that November was a good month. In the latest sign that the United States is outshining struggling economies throughout the developed world, economists forecast that the economy generated 225,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate remained 5.8 percent.
NEW DELHI (AP) – In a case that once again highlights the perilous state of health care in India, an investigation has begun after at least 11 poor and elderly people went blind following cataract surgeries performed at a free medical camp run by a charity in the north. Last month, 13 women died after allegedly taking tainted drugs after undergoing simple sterilization surgeries.