Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Mar 31

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the 58.

Northeast winds around 5 mph.

.TONIGHT…Cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around

5 mph.

.SATURDAY…Decreasing clouds. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds

around 5 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. South

winds around 10 mph.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain in the

afternoon in the Jamestown area, a 20 percent chance in the Valley City Area.  Highs in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the

evening. Lows in the mid 30s.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after

midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain in the

afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows in the lower 30s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain in the

afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Police Department warns the public about a convicted sex offender who has changed his  Jamestown address.

Nelson Whitetail,Sr., now resides at 1610  Business Loop East #5, Starlight Motel #5.

He presently has no vehicle.

He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Whitetail is a 62 year old American Indian Male, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 258 pounds with brown eyes, and gray hair.

Offense:  Gross sexual imposition, involving two girls age 13 and 11

Conviction Date:  March, 1997 in Mercer County, ND, District Court.

Disposition: 10 years

Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition

Conviction Date:  September 1988, Burleigh County, ND District Court

Disposition:  five years, five years suspended.

Whitetail is currently on GPS Monitoring.

Whitetail is not wanted by police at this time, and has served the sentence imposed by the court.

This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.

Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of the demographics of Nelson Whitetail, Sr.,  are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

 

 

BENEDICT, N.D. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a 9-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the head while playing with his 11-year-old cousin in central North Dakota.

The Ward County Sheriff’s Department says the two were playing with a .22-caliber pistol at a home in Benedict on Wednesday evening when the gun fired and struck the 9-year-old in the head. The department says they didn’t know the weapon was loaded.

The boy was taken to a hospital in nearby Garrison, about 75 miles north of Bismarck. His condition hasn’t been released.

 

Washington  (CSi) U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp and many of her colleagues called on President Trump to stand with American consumers by vetoing recently passed legislation from Congress that would undo important privacy protections and instead allow internet service providers to automatically gather consumers’ personal information and sell it without their knowledge or approval.

 

Heitkamp says, “I don’t know why anyone would want the company they pay to get internet service to have access to their private information.  If a parent is looking into medical treatment online for a sick child, that information could be sold. If a business owner is looking into new contracts or services online, that information could be sold. If a worker is looking online for a new job, that information could be sold. Everything consumers do on the internet – the content in their emails, the books they purchase, and the apps they use on their cell phones – will automatically become fair game for their internet service providers to gather, share, and sell to advertisers without consumers’ knowledge or permission. And in many parts of North Dakota and other rural areas across the country, consumers have access to only one internet service provider, so they don’t even have a choice of which provider sees their information. North Dakotans value their privacy – as should every American – but this legislation takes away that fundamental right, and instead, sells it to the highest bidder.”

 

Click here to read Heitkamp’s letter, which she joined with 45 other U.S. senators.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline is opposing an attempt by Sioux tribes to argue the project should be halted because it interferes with their religious practices.

Energy Transfer Partners has asked a federal judge to reject an attempt by the tribes to amend their lawsuit to include the religion argument. The tribes sued last summer on other grounds, including that it threatened cultural sites and water supply.

The tribes raised the religion argument in February, after the Trump administration cleared the way for final pipeline construction. ETP maintains the argument was made too late in the legal process.

Federal Judge James Boasberg has already refused to allow the religion argument as a basis for stopping the pipeline from being finished. ETP says it’s preparing to put the full line into service.

 

 

KILLDEER, N.D. (AP) — A Montana man has died after being run over by a truck in the western North Dakota oil patch.

The Highway Patrol says the 41-year-old Culbertson man was a passenger in a service truck that stopped on state Highway 22 in McKenzie County on Thursday evening when some insulation blew out of the truck bed.

After picking it up, he was run over when the truck backed up and he fell. He died at the scene. He wasn’t immediately identified.

 

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Six people have been arrested in northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota in a large fentanyl bust.

Fentanyl is a powerful painkiller than can make heroin more potent. It also can lead to overdoses. Three people in the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks region overdosed recently.

Police this week seized 500 pills during a traffic stop. They’ve been traced to a fatal overdose in New Jersey, and it’s believed they came to the area via the internet.

Police don’t think any more pills from the batch are in circulation, and they don’t expect any more arrests.

 

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is appealing the dismissal of his sage grouse lawsuit against the federal government.

Otter late last week filed the notice appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Otter sued in September 2015 after federal officials opted not to list sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act but announced federal land-use restrictions.

U.S. Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan dismissed the lawsuit in January. Sullivan didn’t rule on the merits of the claims but said Otter lacked standing because the state didn’t prove it had been injured.

Otter has long complained that Idaho worked with federal agencies to come up with a sage grouse plan only to have Idaho’s plan ignored.

The sage grouse is found in 11 Western states.

 

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