– Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 14

CSi Weather…

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain in the

afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph

increasing to west 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds

10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to

20 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain in the

afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening, then

chance of rain possibly mixed with snow after midnight. Lows in

the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain possibly

mixed with snow in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow in the

morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower

50s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent

chance of rain possibly mixed with snow. Lows in the mid 30s.

Highs in the mid 50s.

There is a slight chance of thunderstorms over eastern portions

of central North Dakota Friday afternoon into early Friday evening.

Severe thunderstorms are not expected.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department, early Friday morning just after four o’clock, was called to a fire that damaged a mobile home at Sunnyside Trailer Court in Northwest Jamestown.

Jamestown Police Lt. Justin Blinsky says the occupants, a 25 year old male and his four year old son safely escaped, but suffered smoke injuries and were taken by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service to Jamestown Regional Medical Center, for treatment.

The fire is reported to have started in the rear of the mobile home, which was extensively damaged. The structure is uninhabitable and the Red Cross is assisting the family.

No other structures were involved.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says an electrical system problem may have been the cause of the fire as the investigation is continuing.

The units were on the scene about 90 minutes.

Photos on scene posted on line at csinewsnow.com

Valley City (CSi) City Fire Fighters had a busy April 13th. The fire whistle blew just before midnight and it wasn’t a tornado or a dam break.

Assistant Fire Chief Ron Burchill reports a home fire occurred Thursday in the 200 block of 3rd Avenue Northwest in Valley City. No injures reported.

At about 4-p.m., Thursday rural fire fighters were called to a cabin fire at Lake Ashtabula. which spread to an abandoned trailer home. No injuries were reported in that fire.

Jamestown (CSi) The 57th Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be Saturday April 15 at McElroy Park, starting at 11-a.m.

There will be drawings for prizes.

Bring along containers to collect your eggs.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say an elderly man has died and two women were hurt in an overnight fire in Moorhead.

Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Wallin says the victim’s body was found in the north side duplex after 2 a.m. Friday after the blaze was extinguished. An autopsy will be conducted by the Ramsey County medical examiner in St. Paul.

Wallin says two women were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and transported to a local hospital. Their conditions are not known.

No further information was available.

Pekin (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the indvicidual killed in a one-vehicle accident near Pekin, North Dakota, that occurred Thursday.

23 year old Kevin Lemna, of Enderlin, , was pronounced dead at the scene. Injured in the crash was 27 year old Jordan Borland,of Michigan, North Dakota.

The report says, a 2012 Dodge Ram pickup, occupied by Lemna and Borland, was traveling south on North Dakota Highway One during the early morning hours Thursday. The vehicle failed to negotiate a curve and rolled, about eight miles south of Pekin in Nelson County.

The report does not identify who was driving the vehicle.

Neither was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.

The accident remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota teachers will create new lessons for math and English now that the state Department of Public Instruction has approved new standards to guide teaching in grades K-12.

Educators are expected to meet over the summer to adjust their instruction. The state will also select a new standardized test.

Last year, 71 math teachers and English teachers began rewriting the standards. The department approved those standards last week.

The former math and English standards were based off the Common Core and had been in effect since 2011. Common Core aimed to instill a set of standards in schools throughout the United States, which faced backlash from parents and conservative groups who viewed them as a federal overreach.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A unique operation in northwestern North Dakota that turns paddlefish eggs into caviar and uses the revenue for community improvements and fish research is suspending operations.

North Star Caviar for a quarter century has offered free fish-cleaning services to anglers during the May paddlefish season on the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers in return for keeping the eggs.

Board chairman Greg Hennessy says a glut of cheap Chinese caviar on the market has affected sales.

North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department is trying to find a group to provide the fish-cleaning service, with the start of the season nearing.

Game and Fish has received 25 percent of the caviar proceeds, and Fisheries Chief Greg Power says he isn’t sure how that will be replaced should North Star Caviar’s problems prove long-term.

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota-based Pawn America has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but the company’s president says the move is a reorganization and not a shutdown.

The Burnsville company operates 23 pawnshops in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the company owes between $10 million and $50 million to fewer than 1,000 creditors.

Pawn America President and founder Brad Rixmann in a message to employees said he plans to reorganize and emerge from bankruptcy stronger.

The retail chain doesn’t yet have a restructuring plan in place, so it has no details on what stores might close or if any of the chain’s 450 employees will be cut.

In world and national news…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The biggest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped in combat by the U.S. military killed 36 militants in eastern Afghanistan, officials say, with villagers in the remote, mountainous area describing being terrified by the “earsplitting blast.” Pakistanis who live near the border say the explosion was so loud that they thought a bomb had been dropped on them.

WASHINGTON (AP) Pentagon officials say the U.S. commander in Afghanistan who ordered use of the “mother of all bombs” did not need approval in advance from President Donald Trump. The officials say Gen. John Nicholson has standing authority to use the massive ordnance air blast bomb, or MOAB. He had that authority before Trump took office in January.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration has settled on a North Korea strategy: “Maximum pressure and engagement.” U.S. officials say the president’s advisers weighed a range of ideas for getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, including military options and trying to overthrow the isolated communist dictatorship’s leadership. They also looked at accepting North Korea as a nuclear state. In the end, however, they settled on a policy that appears to represent continuity.

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump’s voters can be a forgiving lot _ up to a point. The president’s recent shifts in foreign policy positions have got his supporters pondering just where to position themselves – from a mere shrug of the shoulders to full-on cause for concern.

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis prostrated himself in prayer during a solemn Good Friday service in St. Peter’s Basilica, hours before he was due at the Colosseum for the Way of the Cross procession that is being held this year under exceptionally tight security. The 80-year-old pope lay for several minutes before the central altar at the basilica to recall the crucifixion of Jesus.