Wayne Byers Show – Evening – June 3

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Public Works Department reports that due to Utility Service Work, WATER SERVICE WILL BE TEMPORARILY SHUT OFF on TUESDAY, June 7, 2016 in the following area:

2^nd Ave SE between 5^th St SE & 7^th St SE

WATER SERVICE WILL BE TEMPORARILY SHUT OFF on WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2016 in the following area:

6^TH Ave NW to 7^th Ave NW between 4^th St NW and 5^th St NW

Water outages will be temporary – water service will be resumed as soon as is possible.

PLEASE CALL THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AT 252-5131 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Parks and Recreation Department is offering the parks program at Meidinger Park, McElroy Park, Nickeus Park and Leapaldt Park beginning Monday, June 6, 2016 for children ages 6-12. These parks will provide supervised activities Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 12:00pm and 1:00pm to 4:30pm. Activities include arts, crafts, games and much more. The program is free. Parents are responsible for all transportation.

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) – A South Dakota man has been sentenced to serve four years in prison for a crash that killed a North Dakota woman on the first day of last August’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Authorities said 20-year-old Nickolas Hartwell, of Belle Fourche (foosh), was driving recklessly on Interstate 90 and using alcohol and illegal drugs when his car struck a motorcycle ridden by 63-year-olds Roger and Rose Ann Richard, of Belfield. Rose Ann Richard later died.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot man accused of invading a home, assaulting three people including a toddler and threatening a woman with a handgun has pleaded not guilty.
34-year-old Antwan Baker faces five felony charges, including assault and terrorizing. He could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. A trial date wasn’t immediately set.
Baker was arrested following a vehicle and foot chase after the alleged incident March 22.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of killing another man by running him over with his SUV on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in northeastern North Dakota says he will plead guilty.

Lance Robertson is charged in federal court with first-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Larse Azure Jr., of Fort Totten. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Authorities say Robertson was drinking with five other people in his Dodge Durango early on Dec. 19. Several occupants allegedly argued with Robertson about his erratic and unsafe driving and eventually left the vehicle while it was parked on a reservation road.

Investigators say Robertson ran over Azure as he was waving his arms at Robertson to stop.

A change of plea hearing has not been scheduled.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot man accused of trying to flee from officers two straight days last month is now accused in another chase in which a Highway Patrol vehicle was rammed.

Authorities say 34-year-old Trenton Kary was driving a stolen car recklessly when a trooper stopped him near Minot Thursday. Kary allegedly rammed the trooper’s vehicle, disabling it, and fled, leading officers with multiple agencies on an hour-long chase.

Kary allegedly tried to ram two more squad cars during the chase that ended when he went into a slough near Drake and was tracked down by a police dog.

Kary is charged with fleeing and felony assault on a peace officer for alleged incidents last month. Court documents don’t list an attorney for him and a home telephone listing couldn’t be found.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A California woman has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for dealing drugs in the North Dakota oil patch.

Forty-six-year-old Victoria Reyes, also known as Victoria Allen, pleaded guilty in February to one count of distributing methamphetamine and one count of distributing heroin.

Authorities say Reyes, of Taft, California, was arrested during a traffic stop in Bowman on March 23. Police seized about two pounds of meth and a half-pound of heroin that had been transported from California. Two other people in the vehicle were arrested.

Reyes’ attorney, Brian Toay, did not immediately return an email request for comment.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Head Start program in Minot has been forced to cut staff and reduce the number of students it can enroll this fall.

Director Karen Knowles says budget woes due in part to rising health insurance costs are to blame.

The Head Start and Early Head Start programs are aimed at affordable early childhood education.

The Minot program has laid off a family service worker and the entire staff at the Head Start classroom in Mohall, closing the program there. Other employees have had their hours cut back, and some classroom slots have been eliminated at the programs in Minot.

Knowles says the cuts couldn’t be avoided, but she says it’s still “the hardest decision I’ve ever had to do.”

IPSWICH, S.D. (AP) – An Edmunds County commissioner who posted a white supremacy symbol on Facebook says he didn’t realize what the symbol represented. Wade Eisenbeisz recently shared a link that included the symbol and the words “White Pride World Wide.” Eisenbeisz tells the American News he was unaware what the symbol represented. He says he only meant to show that he is proud to be white, and that the posting was “not a neo-Nazi thing.”

In sports…

Valley City  (CSi-VCSU)   Valley City State University alum Derek Elliott is tearing up the German Football League 2 through his first three games this season.

Elliott – who played football for VCSU from 2009 to 2013 – is averaging 296 all-purpose yards per game for the Potsdam Royals. Potsdam is a member of the German Football League 2, which is the second tier of American football in Germany.

Potsdam has a 1-2 record through its first three games. Elliott has handled the majority of the running back duties, along with serving as the punter and a kick returner.

Elliott has already rushed for 600 yards (200 yards/game) and five touchdowns, averaging 8.7 yards per carry. He also has a 97-yard kickoff return touchdown and is averaging 39 yards per kick return.

Four of Elliott’s six total touchdowns have been scored from 50 or more yards, showcasing the explosiveness Elliott possessed while excelling at both Valley City High School and VCSU.

After leading Valley City High School to a second place finish in North Dakota AA football during his senior season, Elliott chose to continue his football career at VCSU.

At Valley City State, Elliott rewrote the record books and holds 15 school records including rushing yards and rushing touchdowns for a single game, a single season and a career.

Elliott signed this spring to play professionally for the Potsdam Royals Football Club in Germany. Potsdam is a member of the German Football League 2, which is the second tier of American football in Germany. Potsdam is scheduled to play a 14-game season, which will conclude in September.

The German Football League’s top tier of American football recently made area headlines when the Minnesota Vikings drafted receiver Moritz Boehringer, who played for the Schwabisch Hall Unicorns.

In world and national news..

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Three Minnesota men accused of plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group have been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder overseas. A federal jury in Minneapolis convicted the three of the most serious charges they faced. Conspiracy to commit murder overseas carries the possibility of life in prison. The three are among 10 young men accused in the conspiracy. Six have pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization. A seventh is at large, believed to be in Syria.

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) – Crews in helicopters and boats are searching the 20-mile Owl Creek for four soldiers missing after a truck overturned in high water at Fort Hood in Texas. The creek winds through heavily wooded terrain at the Army post. The normally 30- to 40-foot-wide creek is swollen to some 500 feet wide where it feeds into Lake Belton.

DETROIT (AP) – An autopsy has determined that a 13-year-old Detroit boy who was abducted and killed this week was not shot to death. The Wayne County medical examiner’s office says the manner and cause of Deontae Mitchell’s death has yet to be determined, pending further investigation, but that the teenager was not shot. Deontae had been riding his bike with a cousin Tuesday night when he was abducted outside a market on the city’s east side. Surveillance video shows a man forcing the boy into a car. Police believe that man was 45-year-old Gregory Walker, who was arrested Thursday with a woman in Ohio.

REDDING, Calif. (AP) – Hundreds of people have been lining up for a Donald Trump rally in far Northern California but the atmosphere in the city of Redding is much different than it was in San Jose Thursday night, when protesters pounced on Trump supporters. There are no protesters in sight ahead of the scheduled Friday afternoon rally at the local airport, where a giant American flag flutters from a crane.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor Mark Salling has surrendered to federal authorities ahead of an arraignment in a child pornography case. Salling played “Puck” on the TV musical comedy “Glee.” He was indicted last week on two charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. Federal prosecutors are asking that the 33-year-old actor remain in custody until his trial.