Wayne Byers Show – Evening -Apr 23

CSi Weather…

 

TONIGHT…Cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening, then rain likely after midnight. Lows around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in

the upper 50s. North winds around 15 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds around

5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the southwest

around 5 mph after midnight.

.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to

15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower 40s.

Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest after

midnight. Gusts up to 30 mph.

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

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.

 

 

Chances for precipitation move out through Tuesday morning as

high pressure scoots in from the west. Clear skies will ensue.

 

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CSi) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is delaying the start to the recreation season at Lake Ashtabula, near Valley City, North Dakota, due to weather.

Lake Ashtabula park ranger  Scott Tichy says, “Due to heavy snow, frost and lake ice we’re waiting until May 15 to open the parks. It will take a little longer for the snow to melt, and then a week or so after that for the ground to dry up. The late thaw will inhibit utilities, such as electric hook-ups and showers, as well as access to the campground and lake.”

The closure affects all facilities on Lake Ashtabula, including the park’s seven boat launching ramps and recreation areas. The Lake Ashtabula Recreation Area typically opens May 1, and individuals having already booked those reservations have been contacted and refunded.

For information on all of the district’s recreation areas, please visit: http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/.

 

 

Valley City   (VCSU)  The North Dakota University System has launched a search for the next president of Valley City State University.

The new VCSU president will succeed Tisa Mason, who departed Valley City in December 2017 to assume the presidency of Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas.

Margaret Dahlberg, VCSU vice president for academic affairs, has been serving as interim president since Dec. 16, 2017, by appointment of the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education.

Co-chairing the VCSU Presidential Search Committee are Greg Stemen, SBHE member and VCSU alumnus, and Wesley Wintch, VCSU vice president for business affairs. Other committee members include:

• Anthony Dutton, associate professor of history, VCSU
• Jody Henjum, administrative assistant, academic affairs, VCSU
• Paige Meyer, undergraduate student, VCSU
• Jerry Migler, dean, Dakota College of Bottineau (NDUS representative)
• Phil Mueller, member, VCSU Foundation Board; former North Dakota state representative
• Mike Nix, director for technology service desk, VCSU
• Steve Rindfleisch, graduate student and assistant volleyball coach, VCSU
• Larry Robinson, executive director of advancement, VCSU Foundation; North Dakota state senator
• Charlene Stenson, director for enrollment services, VCSU
• Jamie Wirth, assistant professor and director of Great Plains STEM Education Center, VCSU

VCSU and NDUS have retained AGB Search, a national higher education leadership search firm, to assist in the process.

More information about the search can be found at www.vcsu.edu/presidentialsearch.

Nominations and applications for the VCSU presidency should be sent electronically (in Word or PDF format) to valleycitypresident@agbsearch.com. To assure best

 

 

(CSi)  A new study from financial technology company SmartAsset ranks the most affordable places to live in North Dakota. This is SmartAsset’s fourth annual study on the Most Affordable Places in America. These communities are ranked on an Affordability Index weighing property taxes, homeowners’ insurance fees and mortgage payments relative to income.

Check out the table below for a more detailed look at the statewide leaders:

Rank	City	Avg. Closing Costs	Annual Property Tax	Annual Homeowner’s Insurance	Avg. Annual Mortgage Payment	Median Income	Affordability Index
1	Valley City, ND	$2,165	$1,359	$675	$4,164	$52,176	56.00
2	Williston, ND	$2,377	$1,850	$1,683	$10,376	$90,875	44.25
3	Wahpeton, ND	$2,015	$1,866	$778	$4,794	$49,375	44.10
4	Devils Lake, ND	$2,186	$1,440	$698	$4,303	$40,453	40.95
5	Jamestown, ND	$2,057	$1,919	$903	$5,568	$49,086	38.64
6	West Fargo, ND	$2,236	$3,054	$1,432	$8,828	$71,516	35.76
7	Dickinson, ND	$2,380	$2,202	$1,691	$10,423	$74,838	34.72
8	Mandan, ND	$2,198	$2,491	$1,319	$8,132	$60,034	33.12
9	Minot, ND	$2,322	$2,055	$1,518	$9,361	$62,324	31.63
10	Bismarck, ND	$2,331	$2,361	$1,545	$9,528	$60,320	29.27

Additional study details including the methodology and interactive map can be found here: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/how-much-house-can-i-afford#northdakota

 

Update…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Health Department will review 19 applications from potential manufacturers of medical marijuana.

Medical Marijuana Division Director Jason Wahl says that’s the number of applications that were submitted prior to Monday morning’s deadline.

Later Monday, a seven-member panel made up of health officials, citizens, law enforcement and a state lawyer will begin examining the applications. Applicants had to submit a $5,000 nonrefundable fee.

The state will register two manufacturers.

State officials have been developing the medical marijuana system since legislators crafted a law a year ago. That followed voters’ approval of the drug in November 2016.

Wahl says medical marijuana should be available in North Dakota by the end of the year.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say foul play is not suspected in the death of a man whose body was found in the median of U.S. Highway 2 in Grand Forks County.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene about 8:30 a.m. Saturday after a passing motorist alerted authorities. An autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death. Officials identified the deceased as 36-year-old Casey Myron Weekley of Grand Forks.

Deputy Jake Lanes says there is no known danger to the public.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state medical examiner’s report says a Bismarck man whose body was found in snow late last year died of hypothermia.

The report by Dr. William Massello III dated last month lists the cause of Clinton Kaseman’s death as hypothermia due to exposure to subfreezing temperatures.

The body of the 52-year-old Kaseman was found near the Missouri River on Dec. 30, beneath an Interstate 94 bridge.

Massello performed the autopsy. The Bismarck Tribune reports the medical examiner says Kaseman’s death was accidental. Temperatures at the time of Kaseman’s exposure were reportedly as low as 21 degrees below zero (29 below Celsius).

Kaseman had been receiving services from Enable Inc., an agency that serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Police say he was known to go for long walks.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Industrial Commission is eight months behind in publishing meeting minutes, according to the executive director.

Karlene Fine said her assistant has been out for an extended medical leave, which has contributed to the backlog.

“I’ve been having to carry the load for her and myself,” Fine said. “I haven’t had a chance to get the minutes finished or up and posted. Our goal is to get them up after every meeting.”

But similar delays also occurred in 2014 and 2015, The Bismarck Tribune reported.

In a 2014 opinion that was written by Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, the commission was found to be in violation of the state’s open records law for failing to provide copies of meeting minutes in a timely manner. The Office of the State Auditor also cited the commission in 2016 for untimely approval of meeting minutes in an audit for the biennium ending June 30, 2015.

Sarah Vogel, a former North Dakota agriculture commissioner, said the blame for the recent delay should fall on the elected members of the Industrial Commission, not the staff.

“It’s bad management,” Vogel said. “I find it extraordinarily frustrating.”

The commission is made up of Gov. Doug Burgum, Stenehjem and current Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The government is asking a federal judge to reject a request for evidence to be returned to a New York City woman who suffered a serious arm injury in an explosion while protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota.

Prosecutors contend authorities properly obtained the shrapnel and clothing from Sophia Wilansky while she was hospitalized in Minnesota following her November 2016 injury. They also said the evidence could be key to a criminal investigation into a violent clash between demonstrators and police that’s become the emblematic skirmish of the protest.

The $3.8 billion pipeline began carrying North Dakota oil to Illinois last June, though American Indian tribes who fear environmental harm are still fighting in court. On-the-ground demonstrations in 2016 and 2017 resulted in 761 arrests in a six-month span.

Wilansky was hurt in a clash that began when protesters tried to push past a blocked highway bridge near their main encampment but were turned back by authorities using tear gas, rubber bullets and water sprays. Police said protesters threw objects including rocks, asphalt and water bottles.

Authorities maintain the explosion that injured Wilansky was caused by a propane canister that demonstrators rigged to explode. Protesters contend the blast was caused by a concussion grenade thrown by officers.

Wilansky, who has undergone several surgeries, sued the FBI and other federal agencies in February in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, seeking the return of the evidence or the opportunity to have the items analyzed by a forensic scientist she hired. She hopes it will bolster a civil rights lawsuit she plans to file against law enforcement seeking money damages.

In his response filed with the court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Baune said the seizures were legally done and the items are evidence in a grand jury investigation into the altercation.

 

 

In world and national news…

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say the suspect in a quadruple homicide at a Waffle House in Nashville has been arrested.

Metropolitan Nashville Police announced Monday on Twitter that 29-year-old Travis Reinking was taken into custody not far from his apartment. Photos posted by police in Nashville showed him clothed and in a police car.

Police and agents with the FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol had mounted a massive manhunt following the slayings early Sunday.

Police say Reinking was nearly naked and brandishing an assault-style rifle when he opened fire in the parking lot and then stormed the restaurant. Four people killed, four others were injured.

 

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man who snatched an AR-15 rifle away from a gunman at a Tennessee restaurant says his was a “selfish” act of self-preservation and he doesn’t consider himself a hero. But he says he’s glad he could save other lives.

James Shaw Jr. says he made a split-second decision to challenge the suspect early Sunday at a Nashville Waffle House. He got the gun away threw it over a counter, adding, “It was hot, but I didn’t care. It was life or death.”

Authorities say they are still searching for the 29-year-old suspect, Travis Reinking, adding he fatally shot two people in the restaurant parking lot and two more inside the eatery.

Waffle House CEO Walter Ehmer told Shaw at a news conference Sunday: “You don’t get to meet too many heroes in life. We are forever in your debt.

 

 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The lynchings that killed thousands of people and terrorized generations of blacks in the U.S. are solemnly commemorated in a new memorial in Alabama’s capital city.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery. The organization says the combined museum and memorial will be the nation’s first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today.

Executive director Bryan Stevenson says people in the South don’t talk about slavery and don’t have monuments that confront the legacy of lynching.

He adds that without confronting the difficulties of segregation, “we are still burdened by that history.”

The memorial opens Thursday in Montgomery.

 

 

 

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police say a van in Toronto has struck at least 8 people, but that the cause of the incident and the extent of the injuries are not yet known.

Authorities say the white van hit the crowd of pedestrians in north Toronto.

Police spokeswoman Meaghan Gray says the van apparently jumped the curb, but the reason is not yet known.

The incident occurred Monday as Cabinet ministers from the G7 countries were gathered in Toronto to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June.

 

 

 

LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William have left a London hospital and headed home with their newborn son.

The duchess, who gave birth Monday morning, emerged from St. Mary’s Hospital about seven hours later alongside her husband, holding the baby wrapped in a white blanket. The trio posed for photographers before going back inside.

The royals emerged a few minutes later with their infant in a carrier and got into a waiting car.

The newborn prince’s elder siblings, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, already had gone home after a brief first meeting with their baby brother.

Royal officials say the baby weighed in at eight pounds, seven ounces (3.8 kilograms). The prince, whose name has not been released, is fifth in line to the British throne.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is taking a stroll around the White House before he is set to kick off his state visit to Washington with President Donald Trump Monday evening.

Macron says in a Monday afternoon tweet: “Before our first work meetings, let’s have a walk on Washington’s streets.”

Moments earlier, Secret Service officers and agents rushed to keep up with his entourage as Macron departed Blair House for an unscheduled walk, greeting well-wishers along Pennsylvania Avenue. Macron is joined by his wife, Brigitte Macron, on the walk.

The Macrons are being received by Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House later Monday, before flying aboard Marine One for dinner at Mount Vernon. Following business meetings Tuesday morning, Macron will be the guest of honor at the Trump’s first State Dinner Tuesday evening at the White House.