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to do," he said.
• Jackley said his other proposals would strengthen consumer protection laws, change the fee structure for the state's 24/7 sobriety program, allow for electronic notification in the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification system and change how people can be cited for some livestock inspection violations.
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• Cat that fell into Minot pond found frozen to rock
• MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- Rescuers in Minot thought they had saved a wild cat that fell into a heated fish pond and then froze to a rock, but it had to be put down.
• Minot Daily News (http://bit.ly/1drdLve ) reporter Kim Fundingsland says he found the animal in his yard early Monday morning and initially thought it was a chunk of ice because the black cat was all white.
• He called the animal control officer who used warm water to free it.
• A police captain says a veterinarian examined the feral cat but it had been out in the cold too long and its injuries were too bad.
• He says it shows how cold it was -- a cat that normally wouldn't have trouble jumping out of a pond gets stuck to a rock.
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Dangerously cold weather blankets the Dakotas
BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press
DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Schools across North Dakota and much of South Dakota closed Monday amid subzero wind chills, but many people layered up and ventured out as usual.
• Brandon Schmidt of Jim's Towing in West Fargo, N.D., had icicles in his mustache and beard as he was hooking up a delivery truck that wouldn't start in 22 below weather. With the wind chill, the temperature felt like minus 45.
• "I sure hope that wind doesn't kick up," Schmidt said. "Nobody likes working in this weather, but you do what you have to do. I'm dressed in insulated pants, coveralls, Carhartt coat, hats and gloves ... and you still freeze your butt off."
• Schmidt said his company began towing vehicles at 3 a.m. Monday and it had been a busy day since.
• "Half of the other wrecking companies wouldn't go out yesterday, when it was warmer," he said.
• Jerry Hans was among several people at the Petro Serve truck stop in Fargo as dawn broke. Hans, 68, said he didn't even consider staying home and drove 3 1/2 (Continued on page 26)
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