KCSi-T.V. Weather from Staff
Meteorolgist Steve Root..

Includes the cities: Cooperstown, Valley City

Today...Partly sunny. Isolated flurries through the day. Highs 25 to 30. Temperature falling through the afternoon. North winds 15 to 25 mph.

Tonight...Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 5 above. North winds 15 to 25 mph.

Tuesday...Mostly sunny. Highs 10 to 15. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tuesday Night...Mostly clear. Lows zero to 5 above.

Wednesday...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

Wednesday Night...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 15.

Thursday...Partly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

Thursday Night...Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 5 above.

Friday...Partly sunny. Highs 10 to 15.

Friday Night...Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 5 above.

Saturday...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

Saturday Night...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.

Sunday...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) - A possible change in trial dates in connection with a man and woman from Jamestown, charge with murder.
22 year old Janelle Cave of Jamestown is scheduled to go on trial, today, Monday February 6, 2012, with jury seclection, in Southeast District Court in Jamestown. Judge Thomas Merrick will preside over the 12-person jury trial.
Cave is charged with murdering 18 year old Abdi Ali Ahmed, a Somali immigrant, on April 30, 2011.
Ahmed's body was discovered in a ditch near Spiritwood. An autopsy showed that Ahmed had been stabbed and suffered blunt force trauma to the head, the listed cause of death.

Ahmed moved to Jamestown in March of 2011, and had been living with a Somali family.
Cave, and 34 year old Leron Howard both are charged with murder and conspiracy, Class "AA" Felonies, and were arrested on the day the body was discovered. Cave and Howard are being held in the Stutsman County Correctional Center on $450,000. If convicted the felonies are punishable up to life in prison without parole.
Origiinally they were to stand trial together, but the cases have been separated.
If Cave's trial does not start Monday, Howard's trial will begin. If the Cave trial proceeds, Howard is scheduled for a 12-person jury trial beginning August 7, 2012.
75 potential jurors has been called during the jury selection process to start Monday and may carry over to Tuesday.
Extra security will be in place at the Stutsman County Courthouse.
The only available entrance to the courthouse will be the front door facing south to the parking lot, with a metal detector at the door. Bags, purses and briefcases are prohibited in the courthouse during the trial.
Prosecuting the cases is Stutsman County States Attorney Fritz Fremgen. Cave's attorney is court appointed, David Ogren, of Grand Forks.
The last murder case tried in Stutsman County was in October 2001. Tim Klose was convicted of murder in the death of Ray Schultes, who was killed March 22, 2001, in a Jamestown apartment building.



JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) - A man wanted by authorities in at least
five states is serving a year and a day in the North Dakota
Penitentiary.
Thirty-year-old Jeremy Blum was arrested last November after a
car chase and standoff with police in He pleaded guilty last month to
felony reckless endangerment and being a felon in possession of a
firearm. He also pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors, including
fleeing police and possessing marijuana.
Stutsman County prosecutor Ashley Heitkamp says Blum likely will
be transferred to South Dakota after he serves his North Dakota
prison time. Blum has been indicted in South Dakota in connection
with thefts and burglaries in the Lemmon area last fall. Wyoming,
Nebraska and Colorado also have warrants out for him.

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) -- The Jamestown College Performing Arts Series continues with the Core Ensemble performing the chamber music theatre work, “Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance” at 7:30 p.m. this evening, (Monday, February 6, 2012), in the Reiland Fine Arts Center’s DeNault Auditorium.
Tickets are $15 for Friends of the Fine Arts members and $20 for the general public and can be reserved through the Box Office. Call (701) 252-3467 ext. 2435, send e-mail to tickets@jc.edu, or visit the Jamestown College web site, www.jc.edu and click on “Community” and “Reiland Box Office.” The Box Office is located in room 130 of the Reiland Fine Arts Center. Box Office hours are 3 to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

On Friday’s (Feb 3, 2012) Wayne Byers Show, on CSi Cable 2, actor Chris White, o on the phone from New York City said, chamber music theatre is a unique performance format created by the Core Ensemble, featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance. White portrays multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano and percussion.

Celebrating the music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance era in New York City, “Of Ebony Embers” examines the lives of three outstanding but very different African American poets – Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay – as seen through the eyes of the great painter and muralist Aaron Douglas. The script was written by Akin Babatunde and the show is also directed by Mr. Babatunde.
The Core Ensemble performs music by African American composers ranging from jazz greats Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus to concert music composers Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.

Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, Ukraine, Australia and the British Virgin Islands. The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
This performance is sponsored in part by the Jamestown College Convocation Committee.

WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A Fargo toddler and her parents were
treated for smoke inhalation after an early morning house fire.
All of the people in the mobile home had escaped when
firefighters arrived shortly after 2:30 a.m. Monday. Police say
1-year-old Vanna Rae Hartman and her mother, Sarah, were taken to a
hospital by ambulance, and Desmond Hartman later followed.
Firefighters rescued a dog and a cat from the home.
The cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Damage was
contained to a bathroom and a bedroom.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A construction worker says he's lucky to
be alive and recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the
head with a nail gun.
Jeff Luptak says he was
sure he was going to die last Wednesday when he hit the trigger of
his nail gun, propelling a three-inch nail into his skull.
Luptak says, "All I could think about was my wife and kids -
what they were going to do."
Luptak, who was building a home in Bismarck, was flown to a St.
Paul hospital with the nail still inside his head. Doctors removed
it and repaired a vein.
Doctors say that Luptak is expected to have weakness in his left
leg, but he should otherwise make a full recovery.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Theater students at Horizon Middle School
are donating ticket sales from the final performances of "Squad
Room" to the memorial fund of a slain police sergeant.
Sgt. Steve Kenner was killed in July while responding to a
domestic disturbance. He is survived by his wife Deb and their four
children.
Deb Kenner says the middle school students' decision to donate to her family is "pretty awesome." And it's appropriate, as one of the Kenners'
sons, Stephen, performed in "Squad Room" when Horizon presented
it in 2008.
The newspaper reports that the charity performances will be at
3:30 and 6 p.m. Saturday at the Horizon Middle School auditorium.
Kenner was the first Bismarck police officer to ever die in the
line of duty.

SAPULPA, Okla. (AP) - A storm chaser featured on The Weather
Channel has been killed in a head-on collision in northeastern
Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol hasn't released the names of those
killed in a double-fatality accident on the Turner Turnpike in
Sapulpa Saturday afternoon, but the Weather Channel said one of
them was storm chaser Andy Gabrielson.
According to a statement on the
channel's website, Gabrielson had been chasing storms in Texas and
was headed home on Saturday. He was from Minnesota.
The statement said he was a contributor to severe weather
coverage on the network.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Average gas prices in North Dakota have
jumped 5 cents in the past week, meaning motorists are paying the
highest price at the pump since the Thanksgiving holiday.
The national average increased 6 cents higher.
According to AAA's daily Fuel Gauge Report, the average price
for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is just shy of $3.35. The
national average is nearly $3.48.
North Dakota gas prices are 7 cents higher than a month ago and
15 cents higher than this time last year. The national average has
increased 12 cents in the past month, and 35 cents in the past
year.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's unemployment rate is far
below the national average, but the rate has increased slightly in
the Bismarck area.
North Dakota Job Service statistics show that unemployment for
December rose a half-percent from 2.7 percent to 3.2 percent.
The Job Service's Michael Ziesch says the uptick is seasonal, and that the increase is actually gentler than usual.
That's in part because the mild winter meant that construction
and hospitality workers operated longer.
The region's highest unemployment rate was 7.3 percent in Mercer
County, followed by Kidder County at 7 percent and Emmons County at
6.3 percent. The lowest was in Burleigh County at 2.9 percent.
The national unemployment rate is 8.5 percent.

In sports...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Supporters of a campaign to restore the
University of North Dakota's retired Fighting Sioux nickname are
making a final push to get enough petition signatures to force a
statewide vote.
Petitions are due at the secretary of state's office in Bismarck
by midnight Tuesday. The group circulating them has set up drop-off
sites in Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, Bismarck and Devils Lake for
supporters to submit the signatures they've collected.
Minot attorney Reed Soderstrom said Friday the group was within
1,000 signatures of the 13,500 needed to force a vote on the
nickname issue during the June primary election.
Another proposal by the group would change the North Dakota
Constitution to say UND teams will always be known as the Fighting
Sioux. Those petition signatures are due in August.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Work is to begin this week on the replacement
of the floor at the All Seasons Arena on the North Dakota State
Fairgrounds in Minot. The new floor was made necessary when the
ice-making system in the current floor failed last November after
20 years of use.

SUPER BOWL...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -Another nail-biter, another Eli
Manning-engineered comeback, another New York Giants Super Bowl
title.
The Giants, executing another flawless fourth quarter rally,
climaxed their comeback season with a 21-17 victory over the New
England Patriots to win Super Bowl 46.
That gives the Giants their fourth Super Bowl title, and second
in four years. They also beat the Pats 17-14 in Super Bowl 42. The Giants are the only NFL team to win the Super Bowl in four decades.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Final Boston 98 Memphis 80
Final Miami 95 Toronto 89

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

Final Boston 4 Washington 1
Final N-Y Rangers 5 Philadelphia 2
Final New Jersey 5 Pittsburgh 2
Final Montreal 3 Winnipeg 0


MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Chip Armelin scored 15 points as Minnesota
topped Nebraska 69-61 yesterday. The Gophers used a 9-0 run in the
second half to break a tie and pull away from the Cornhuskers. Bo
Spencer had 18 points for Nebraska.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Draymond Green's 14-point, 16-rebound
double-double led No. 9 Michigan State to a 64-54 victory over No.
23 Michigan yesterday. The Spartans ended a three-game losing
streak in the rivalry. Zack Novak led the Wolverines in scoring
with 14 points.

Final OT Miami 78 ( 7) Duke 74


TOP-25 WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Final ( 2) Notre Dame 90 DePaul 70
Final LSU 61 ( 6) Kentucky 51
Final ( 7) Miami 68 Clemson 47
Final ( 8) Tennessee 82 Auburn 61
Final (12) Delaware 68 VCU 49
Final (15) Purdue 77 Illinois 66
Final (19) Penn St. 68 Minnesota 65
Final (21) Georgia 81 Alabama 66
Final (25) Texas Tech 76 Missouri 49

PGA-PHOENIX OPEN...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - One week after an embarrassing collapse
at Torrey Pines that kept him from capturing his first PGA Tour
title, Kyle Stanley is the winner of the Phoenix Open.
Stanley closed with a 6-under-par 65 to finish 15 under and one
shot clear of Ben Crane, who carded a 66.
Spencer Levin brought a six-shot lead into the final round at
TPC Scottsdale, before collapsing with a 4-over 75. He finished
alone in third place, two shots off the pace.

GOLF-QATAR MASTERS...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Paul Lawrie chipped in for an eagle and a
birdie on his way to winning the wind-shortened Qatar (GUH'-tur)
Open. The former British Open champion fired a 7-unde-par 65 in
Sunday's final round, beating runners-up Jason Day and Peter Hanson
by four shots.
It's Lawrie's seventh European Tour title and second in a year
following a nine-year title drought.

TENNIS-FED CUP...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Serena Williams and Christina McHale won
singles matches and Venus Williams returned from a five-month
layoff to help the U.S. defeat Belarus 5-0 in the first round of
the Fed Cup.
Now, the Americans head to a playoff in April in hopes of
earning their way back into the top tier of Fed Cup after getting
bounced last year.
This was Venus Williams' first sanctioned match since
withdrawing after the opening round of last year's U.S. Open. She
had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that can cause
fatigue and joint pain.

In world and national news...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Neither side likes a developing Senate plan
that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the
computer security of companies that run critical industries.
Legislation set to come out in the days ahead is drawing strong
opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security
experts who want it to have more teeth.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Final results are in from Nevada. With all the
Republican presidential caucus votes counted, Mitt Romney won
easily with 50 percent. Newt Gingrich was second with 21 percent,
edging out Ron Paul who had 19 percent of the vote. Rick Santorum
finished last with 10 percent. Party officials blame the delay on
voting discrepancies and their use of handwritten ballots.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The mayor of a town where people are
trapped after an earthquake collapsed buildings and triggered a
landslide says he's just hoping there are survivors to find.
Rescuers are digging with picks and shovels trying to reach people
who may be buried. The 6.9 magnitude quake in the central
Philippines killed at least 13 people.

BEIRUT (AP) - Activists say at least 17 people are dead in the
latest government shelling of the central Syrian city of Homs. Some
shells struck a makeshift medical clinic and residential areas in
the third day of a new assault on the epicenter of the country's
uprising.

MADRID (AP) - The doping scandal in international cycling has
claimed another top rider. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has
stripped Alberto Contador of his 2010 Tour de France title and
banned him for two years. The sport's highest court found him
guilty of doping. He claimed his positive test came from
contaminated meat.

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