– Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Nov 9

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…Sunny. Highs around 15. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 5 to 10 above. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 20s. South winds 15 to

20 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. South winds 10 to

15 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.

.VETERANS DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s. Northwest

winds around 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Highs in

the 20s to upper 30s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.

Highs around 40.

Warm air will kick in tonight as southerly winds increase to around 20 mph.

Some light snow across far northern North Dakota. Little to accumulation is

expected.

By the end of the weekend a warming trend with temperatures near or even above normal.

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City-Barnes County Development Corporation is hosting a Workforce Opportunity Showcase on today at the AmericInn in Valley City.

The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce, and Valley City/Barnes County Development announce that the event will showcase primary sector technology businesses including a new business that intends to locate here very soon. In addition, we are showcasing positions at existing primary sector companies and other employers in our area. The event is scheduled from 6:00 am through 7:30 pm on the 9^th. For more details, see the flyer below.
Workforce Opportunity Showcase Flyer (PDF)

All job seekers should plan to attend and gather information about employment and training opportunities in the area. Job descriptions, company background, training opportunities, and contact information for various companies will be available at this event. Those unable to attend and would like more information on the opportunities available, may register to be contacted. Please call Trinity at 845-1891 or email vdgoffice@hellovalley.com with questions.

Note: Registration will be open until Wednesday, November 15 2017. Only job seekers who complete the ENTIRE form may receive reimbursement.

Jamestown (CSi) The 14^th Annual Holiday Dazzle on Main Parade in Jamestown is set for Friday, November 24, 2017 the day after Thanksgiving.

Float registration is through November 22, 2017.

The parade entry is $25 for Jamestown Downtown Association members and nonprofit organizations, $35 for non-members and $100 for a sponsorship recognition or a specific position in the parade lineup.

The parade lineup will start at 6 p.m.

The parade at 7 p.m. moving from McElroy Park north to First Avenue to First Street East.

The after parade party will be at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

The Jamestown Choralaires will provide entertainment offering holiday songs, and refreshments will be served.

At the party float award winners will be announced with trophies.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Gov. Doug Burgum learned of the North Dakota tax commissioner’s recent drunken driving arrest more than two weeks before it was publicly disclosed.

Spokesman Mike Nowatzki said Wednesday that Burgum learned within days of Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger’s Sept. 30 arrest.

Rauschenberger disclosed it on Oct. 20.

Nowatzki says Rauschenberger is an “independently elected official” and it was up to him when to disclose the arrest.

Nowatzki says the case was filed on Oct. 6 and became a record accessible to the public at that time.

Democratic-NPL executive director Scott McNeil in a statement criticized Burgum for “withholding” the news.

The timing issue surfaced as part of emails and text messages that political blogger and former Democratic state Sen. Tyler Axness obtained through an open records request.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — A National Transportation Safety Board report says witnesses told investigators a vintage airplane that crashed last summer was obviously in distress when it went down and killed the pilot near the Moorhead airport.

Mark Yaggie, of Breckenridge, the only person onboard died when the T-28 military training plane crashed July 2. KFGO reports Yaggie was headed from Fargo, North Dakota to Pelican Rapids when he asked air traffic controllers to be diverted to Moorhead.

One witness said there was a “terrible racket” like a gearbox or engine was failing.

The plane struck a light pole near an Interstate 94 weigh station before crashing into a field.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Grand Forks residents have overwhelming approved a sales tax increase.

Unofficial results from Tuesday’s election show more than 5,000 people voted, and nearly three-fourths of them favored an increase.

The city sales tax will go from 1.75 percent to 2.25 percent. The additional money will help fund water and road projects.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Transportation Department has finalized a statewide transportation improvement program for the next four years.

The improvements include state and county highways, urban streets, roadway safety features, bikeways and busing programs. They’re being funded with federal highway and transit funds.

Details of the 2018-21 program are available on the department’s website . Copies also can be obtained from the department’s programming division or viewed at district offices.

The department also is requesting public comments as it prepares the 2019-22 program.

HAZEN, N.D. (AP) — A new state-of-the-art medical center has opened in Mercer County.

After years of planning, the Sakakawea Medical Center formally opened Wednesday in Hazen. The Level 5 trauma center employs more than 130 people, has 13 critical access beds and 34 basic care rooms.

Patient care director Marcie Schulz says the new facility is not a whole lot bigger than the old one, but has more efficient use of space. It brings all nurses into one central area, whether is operating room, emergency room or floor nurses.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Trinity Health has received approval from the Ward County Commission to issue up to $380 million in bonds to finance a new hospital and medical park in southwest Minot.

Trinity President and CEO John Kutch says the money will be used in combination with operating funds and private philanthropy to finance construction of the health care complex.

The County Commission in August also approved up to $63 million for Trinity Health to refinance existing long-term debt at a lower interest rate, and to cover preliminary construction costs.

Trinity Health hopes to issue bonds before the end of the year and start construction in the spring.

In sports…

College Men’s Basketball….

JAMESTOWN– (UJ Sports) Jon Purintun (JR/Linton, N.D.) scored a career high 30 points, 26 coming in the second half, and Leighton Sampson (SR/Worthington, Minn.) added 25 as the Jimmie men’s basketball team defeated 10th-ranked Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) University Wednesday night at Harold Newman Arena.

West Region Volleyball Tournament Pairings

November 9, 2017, in Mandan

Quarterfinals

No. 1 Jamestown (33-4) vs. No. 8 Dickinson (10-27), 1 p.m.

The winner plays either Bismarck and Mandan in the semifinals on Friday.

No. 4 Mandan (22-15) vs. No. 5 Bismarck (22-15), 3 p.m.

No. 2 Century (30-8) vs. No. 7 St. Mary’s (19-20), 5 p.m.

No. 3 Legacy (26-11) vs. No. 6 Minot (19-18), 7 p.m.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Minnesota’s five-game winning streak is over after Klay Thompson hit six 3-pointers while scoring 28 points in the Warriors’ fifth consecutive win, 125-101 over the Timberwolves. Stephen Curry had 22 points, eight assists and eight rebounds to help Golden State win easily without the injured Kevin Durant. Andre Iguodala (ihg-ah-DAH’-lah) had 11 points for the Warriors, who led by just one before torching Minnesota for 74 points in the second half.

Final Detroit 114 Indiana 97

Final Orlando 112 N-Y Knicks 99

Final Boston 107 L.A. Lakers 96

Final Miami 126 Phoenix 115

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

TORONTO (AP) — Frederik Andersen made 35 saves to help the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Minnesota Wild 4-2. Nazem Kadri, Patrick Marleau, Connor Carrick and Connor Brown scored for Toronto.

Final N-Y Rangers 4 Boston 2

Final Tampa Bay 5 San Jose 1

NFL…

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have taken quarterback Teddy Bridgewater off the physically unable to perform list. He’s on the active roster for the first time in more than 14 months, when his left knee was badly injured during practice. Quarterback Sam Bradford was placed on injured reserve amid continued trouble with his left knee.

UNDATED (AP) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is reportedly ready to fight a proposed contract extension for Commissioner Roger Goodell (guh-DEHL’).

A person with knowledge of the situation says Jones told the six owners on the compensation committee he had hired high-profile attorney David Boies (boyz) and was prepared to sue if the group voted to extend Goodell’s deal. Jones has since been embroiled in a dispute sparked by Goodell’s six-game suspension of Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott over alleged domestic violence.

All 32 owners voted in May to extend Goodell’s contract and authorized the compensation committee to work out the details.

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has fined Oklahoma Thunder head coach Billy Donovan, forward Paul George and guard Russell Westbrook $15,000 apiece for publicly criticizing game officials following Sunday’s loss to Portland.

The three were angry after Thunder forward Carmelo Anthony was ejected for a flagrant-2 call on a play in which a foul was called on Jusuf Nurkic. Donovan said after the game that he thought the play should have been reviewed before Anthony was tossed.

The league says Anthony’s flagrant 2 foul from Sunday’s game will stand, but the flagrant issued to Russell Westbrook in last night’s loss to Sacramento has been rescinded.

MLB

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Witnesses to Roy Halladay’s fatal plane crash have told federal investigators the two-time Cy Young Award winner was flying his tiny sport plane low over the Gulf of Mexico shortly before it slammed into the water.

National Transportation Safety Board Investigator Noreen Price said Wednesday that Halladay’s ICON A5 experienced a “high-energy impact” with the water.

Price said it was too early to say whether Tuesday’s crash was related to two earlier crashes this year of A5s, one of them that killed both the plane’s chief designer and test pilot.

BOSTON (AP) — New Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora has filled out his staff on Wednesday by making Dana LeVangie the pitching coach and adding Ramon Vazquez to the coaching staff.

LeVangie has spent his entire 27-year baseball career in the Red Sox organization and has been the team’s bullpen coach for the past five seasons.

In world and national news…

BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump is attending a state dinner in his honor in Beijing. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived at the Great Hall of the People Thursday evening. The dinner was held in the Golden Hall and the Trumps were greeted with a standing ovation when they arrived.

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump was a cooperative partner for sweeping Chinese efforts to control the message of his heavily choreographed visit to China. Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, took no questions at an event billed as a news briefing, while censors scrubbed comments from Chinese websites.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea, ever so cautiously, is going online. For most that means a walled off intranet meticulously monitored and built in no small part on pilfered software. But not for trusted elites and cybersoldiers. The result: tight monitoring at home and an ability to create chaos abroad that is growing fast.

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at a memorial service for the victims of Sunday’s massacre at a small-town Texas church. Pence told the crowd Wednesday evening that the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs was the worst mass shooting at a church in American history and called the gunman “deranged.” Abbott began the service by praying “for healing and for help.” He also proclaimed Tuesday a statewide day of prayer.

UNDATED (AP) — Democrats have begun to reverse the big gains Republicans have made in state legislative chambers since 2010. In elections around the country Tuesday, Democrats flipped about two dozen state legislative seats. Those races matter because in most states the party that controls the legislature controls the redistricting process. How congressional and state legislative districts are drawn goes a long way in determining which party will have political control.