The National Weather Service predicts that the Minnesota River will crest at 31 feet near Jordan on Tuesday.

Its 11:22 a.m. report today said that the river was at 27.9 feet, which is 1.4 feet higher than yesterday. Flood stage is 25 feet.

The Scott County Road 9 and Carver County Road 45 river crossing between Sand Creek and San Francisco townships has been closed for two days.

The Minnesota River crossing near Jordan has been closed for two days.

Check our flood map for the latest conditions.

Go to jordannews.com/floodmap.

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

Funding to complete a local training center for police and firefighters has been left on the cutting room floor, but Rep. Michael Beard, R-Shakopee, predicts the project could re-emerge in the final negotiated bonding bill.

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources:

Minnesota's ice fishing shelter removal dates are fast approaching. Dark houses, fish houses and portables must be off the ice of inland waters no later than midnight on March 1 in the southern two-thirds of the state and March 15 in the northern third.

Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Just hours before the final jurors could have been selected and opening arguments were to begin in the second-degree murder trial of Charles Anthony Maddox Jr., the Scott County Attorney’s Office on Friday filed a pretrial appeal of Judge Jerome Abrams’ decision to allow the defense to present expert testimony about acute stress disorder, which is the first stage of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Jury selection in the second-degree murder trial of Charles Anthony Maddox Jr., 46, started Tuesday in Scott County District Court in Shakopee.

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

As Scott County tries to civilly commit a seventh resident to the state’s sex-offender treatment facility, it is preparing to possibly take one back.

The county has been told it might receive one of the first waves of patients ever to be released from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

More than 550 Minnesotans are housed at the program’s two facilities — mostly paroled sex offenders who were indefinitely committed for treatment by the courts.

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety:

ST. PAUL — Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) and AAA Minnesota/Iowa is calling on Minnesota’s teenagers to do “thumbthing” about the dangers of texting and driving by participating in the Don’t Text and Drive, Teens! TV Commercial Challenge.

The winter storm that hovered over Minnesota early this week only caused one crash in the Jordan area. Police responded to a single-vehicle property damage accident on Highway 169 near 166th Street north of Jordan. There were no injuries.