Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 2

CSi Weather….

TONIGHT…Increasing clouds.  A 20 percent chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds around 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy with slight chance of rain showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers in the evening. Lows 40 to 45. West winds 5 to 15 mph.

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

the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to

15 mph.

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

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.

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

.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs

around 50.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly 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 30 percent.

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

morning. Highs around 50.

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

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.

 

Showers and thunderstorms to develop over far western North Dakota by early Thursday evening.

Friday looks to be the warmest day for quite some time, with highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.

 

A cold front will move down from Canada Friday night through

Saturday afternoon, bringing a chance of rain showers as it moves

through. Temperatures behind the front are only expected to warm

into the upper 40s to mid 50s Saturday afternoon.

 

An active pattern looks to continue into early next week, with several

chances for rain and well below normal temperatures. Expect highs

mainly in the 50s through the middle of next week.

 

Jamestown  (CSi-5-2-19)  Jamestown Police Warns residents of a High Risk Sex Offender who has changed where he is residing in Jamestown.

Sawyer Suko now is listed as homeless.

He presently has no vehicle.

Suko is a 25 year old white male, five feet eight inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair.

He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Offense:  When he was 18 he had sex with a 13 year old girl, when she was intoxicated.

Conviction Date: January 2012, Stutsman County, ND, District Court.

Disposition:  One year, one day, 285 days suspended, five years supervised probation.

Suko 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 Suko 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

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Choralaires will host The North Dakota Men’s Choral Festival, May 11, at 7-p.m., at the University of Jamestown’s Reiland Fine Arts Center.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show, on CSi Cable 2, Choralaires member Roger Caine said, in addition to the Choralaires, participating groups will be from Bismarck- Mandan, Harvey, Minot, and the Valley City, Troubadours.

He said 125 singers will participate, including the Choralaires, and a number of visitors including family members from the out of town groups will be in Jamestown.

A grant from Jamestown Tourism will help to defray costs.

Tickets are Adults $15, Students $5, with tickets available from Choralaires members, Country Garden Floral, The Dakota Store, Looysen I Care, and at the door.

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown High School, Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)  Disaster Drill Exercise & Graduation was held on Thursday morning, May 2, at the Jamestown High School Gymnasium.

These students have been learning how to respond and take care of themselves, their family and their neighbors in the event of a disaster.

This spring, 95 JHS freshmen students participated in the Teen CERT program.  These students have been learning how to respond and take care of themselves, their family and their neighbors in the event of a disaster.  This hands-on course has taught students about emergency preparedness, fire safety, medical triage, disaster medical, search and rescue, disaster psychology, and terrorism by professional emergency responders from Stutsman County.

As the ninth year of JHS Teen CERT comes to a close, these freshmen will participate in a disaster exercise where they will be acting as the responders during a simulated bleacher collapse scenario.  This will give each of them the opportunity to utilize the skills that they have learned throughout this 6-week program.  The event was overseen by personnel from various local emergency response agencies and school staff.  The JHS Drama students performed as the injured victims in the scenario.  Each of the Teen CERT students was  presented with Certificates of Completion in the graduation ceremony.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Gov. Doug Burgum vetoed legislation Thursday that would have prevented the state from budgeting earnings from its $6 billion oil tax savings account until they are in hand, saying legislators are trying to make it appear the state has less money than it does.

The veto is the latest flashpoint between Burgum, a moderate Republican, and the more conservative Republican-controlled Legislature.

Burgum wrote in his veto message that the legislation passed on the session’s final day “ignores all generally accepted accounting principles” and “manipulates the recognition of state revenues” to make the general fund appear smaller by hundreds of millions of dollars.

“It misleads legislators tasked with voting on appropriation bills and taxpayers who deserve to know the true financial status of the state,” Burgum wrote.

Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner said legislative leaders were undecided Thursday whether to call lawmakers back to Bismarck to challenge the veto.

“I don’t know if it’s important enough to waste a day on it,” he said.

The Legislature has power over the budget, not the governor. Wardner said there is strong consensus among lawmakers that future budgets will be set as provided in the legislation, whether or not the veto stands.

Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatzki said he could not speculate on whether that would draw legal challenge.

Wardner defended the idea.

“There is stability in the budget when you have the cash in hand,” he said. “I think a lot of legislators agree to leave (Legacy Fund earnings) alone until you have them.”

Voters approved the Legacy Fund in 2010 as a way to set aside money after North Dakota oil production had entered a new boom period. It requires setting aside 30 percent of state tax revenues on oil and natural gas production in the fund. It currently holds about $6 billion, and has long been a point of contention over how and when the money should be used.

A two-thirds vote of the North Dakota House and Senate is needed to spend any of the fund’s principal, which lawmakers have not yet had the appetite to do.

Earnings from the fund are now put into the general fund, which is spent on an assortment of programs and projects.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Two former Minot nurses accused of stealing prescribed drugs for hospice patients have pleaded guilty.

The Minot Daily News reports that 40-year-old April Beckler, now of Fargo, and 47-year-old Kim Kochel, of Minot, pleaded guilty Wednesday to endangering a vulnerable adult and criminal conspiracy. The state is recommending five years in prison for Beckler and three years for Kochel.

Kochel and Beckler allegedly stole the drugs between December 2012 and September 2014 while working for Trinity Hospice.

Kochel’s lawyer, Tom Slorby, entered a conditional plea for his client because he believes a statement by Beckler that implicated Kochel could not have been used at trial because they were scheduled to be tried together. Slorby said Beckler’s late decision to plead guilty changed his defense strategy and he plans to appeal.

 

In sports…

VCSU SOFTBALL

GAME ONE

Valley City (VCSU)  . – Tatum Lundin‘s RBI double in the top of the fourth inning broke a scoreless tie and ignited a three-run rally as the top-ranked Valley City State softball team opened the NSAA Softball Championship with a 3-0 win Thursday against Presentation College.

Lundin’s double to the fence in left-center scored pinch runner Madison Gronau for a 1-0 lead, and then Jayme Menard followed with a two-run single through the right side, scoring Autumn Perry and Lundin to put the Vikings ahead 3-0.

That’s all the run support VCSU starting pitcher Emily Smith would need. Smith, who was named the NSAA Pitcher of the Year on Wednesday night, cruised to a complete-game shutout in the opening round game.

Valley City State (47-3) moves on to play at 2 p.m. Thursday in the winner’s game of the gold bracket. No. 8 seed Presentation College (4-41) drops into a loser-out game, also at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Smith allowed just four hits to the Saints, did not walk a batter and struck out six en route to the shutout.

Bibiana Villeda took the loss for the Saints, giving up 10 hits and three runs. She did not walk anyone and struck out two.

VCSU senior Tatum Lundin had a big game for the Vikings, going 3-for-3 with a run and RBI. Autumn Perry collected two hits, and Jayme Menard went 1-for-3 with two RBIs.

Sierra Kilmer had two of the Saints’ four hits. Cherie Malacas and Jadwyn Parrish each collected one hit.

GAME TWO…

 

 

UJ Softballl….

FREMONT, Neb.  (uj.edu) — Mikayla Frost (JR/Melba, ID) and Allie McCain (SR/Duvall, WA) each had three hits to pace the Jimmies’ 14-hit attack in an 11-0 win over Northwestern (Iowa) in Thursday’s opening game of the Midland Bracket in the GPAC Postseason Tournament.

Jamestown advances to play the winner of top-seeded Midland (Neb.) and eighth-seed Dordt (Iowa) at 4 p.m. Friday.

Meghan Ramage (SR/Grand Forks, ND) and Sydney Prussia (SO/Detroit Lakes, MN) both finished with two hits for Jamestown, who put up six runs in the second inning for an early 7-0 lead.

McCain and Ramage finished with three RBI, while Prussia and Katie Reisdorfer (SO/Fresno, CA) drove in two each.

Prussia drove in Jamestown’s first run with a single to center, scoring Frost, who led off with a walk and moved to second on a single by McCain.

Three Northwestern errors coupled with four Jimmie hits led to a six-run second inning. Reisdorfer’s two-out double scored Morgan Geiszler (SO/Horace, ND) and Prussia to make it 7-0.

Frost and McCain hit back-to-back doubles in the third for UJ’s eighth run, then Ramage brought home two more with a double of her own to make it 10-0. Prussia followed with a single to center scoring Ramage for an 11-0 advantage.

Katie Merchant (FR/South Haven, Minn.) (13-8) recorded her third shutout of the season. In five innings, Merchant gave up five hits, struck out two, and did not issue a walk.

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Berrios won his fourth straight start, Jason Castro homered off former battery mate Brad Peacock and drove in four runs, and the AL-leading Minnesota Twins beat the Houston Astros 8-2 on Thursday afternoon.

Backed by a six-run fourth from the Twins against Peacock, Berrios (5-1) finished seven smooth innings with seven hits and two runs allowed to push the Twins to their first season series victory over the Astros since 2013. Berrios is 4-0 in four starts at home this year.

With 52 home runs in 29 games, the Twins have powered their way to or near the top of the league in several hitting categories with one of the most balanced lineups in the majors.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Deer hunting licenses in North Dakota are taking a big jump this year.

The Game and Fish Department is issuing 65,500 licenses for white-tailed deer and mule deer, up 19 percent from 2018. It’s the fourth consecutive year of an increase.

Game and Fish this year also is fully lifting restrictions on mule deer doe hunting in the west that were implemented eight years ago following a string of harsh winters.

State Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says it’s “shaping up for a pretty decent fall.”

Hunters have through June 5 to apply for a 2019 license. This year’s regular gun season opens at noon on Nov. 8 and runs through Nov. 24.

State Tourism Division data show that deer hunting contributes tens of millions of dollars to the state economy.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House lawyer Emmet Flood is objecting to what he calls the “political” report by special counsel Robert Mueller. In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Flood says President Donald Trump will protect executive privilege in the face of congressional inquiries.

Flood says Mueller’s comments that the president could not be exonerated on obstruction of justice “do not belong in our criminal justice vocabulary,” and says Mueller and his staff “failed in their duty to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors.”

The White House sent the letter to Barr last month, a day after Mueller’s report was released publicly. Its existence was first reported by CNN.

Flood adds that though Trump allowed his staff to be interviewed by Mueller’s team, he did not waive executive privilege and reserves the ability to instruct his aides to decline to testify in congressional investigations.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his pick for the Federal Reserve board, conservative commentator Stephen Moore, has withdrawn from contention. The decision comes amid controversy over Moore’s past writings about women. He lost Republican support in the Senate, which would have to vote on a potential nomination.

Trump tweeted the news Wednesday, calling Moore “a great pro-growth economist and a truly fine person.”

Numerous GOP senators said they objected to Moore’s disparaging past writings about women or sidestepped questions about whether they would back Moore. Moore has said he regretted the writings and said they were meant as humor columns.

Moore was an adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign and helped design the 2017 tax cuts.

Trump’s other Fed board pick, Herman Cain, withdrew over past allegations of sexual harassment and infidelity

 

 

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — The gunman who attacked a Southern California synagogue last week fired at worshippers near a front entrance that leaders earlier identified as needing improved security.

The Poway Chabad Synagogue north of San Diego sought a federal grant last year to better protect that area.

The $150,000 was approved in September but only awarded in late March.

The rabbi who oversees security grants tells The Associated Press that the timing means the synagogue had no chance to start spending the funds before the shooting.

He says Jewish leaders are considering asking authorities to allow some of the money be used to hire security guards, which it doesn’t have now.

The shooter killed a woman and wounded an 8-year-old girl and two men, including the rabbi presiding at the Passover service.

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many states are spending millions to make sure their residents fill out next year’s census form.

One main reason is that activists and others fear that a question about citizenship that the Trump administration wants to add to the form could scare off Hispanics and other immigrants.

At stake are billions of dollars in federal money for health care, education and other services, as well as a state’s representation in Congress.

Perhaps no state has more at risk than California, where no racial or ethnic group constitutes a majority and Hispanics outnumber whites.

California has budgeted about $100 million for education and media campaigns, a figure expected to rise to about $150 million.

 

 

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Former Venezuelan politician and U.N. ambassador Diego Arria says he believes the events of the past two days “mark the end” of President Nicolás Maduro’s regime.

Arria, a former National Congress deputy, minister and governor of Caracas who now lives in exile, told a press conference Thursday at U.N. headquarters in New York it is incorrect to think of the military as separate from Maduro’s regime.

“When you have more than half of the ministries controlled by the army, and they control the oil, the diamonds, the coal, the minerals, the gasoline and the justice and economic system, you have to understand that fundamentally the regime is military,” Arria said. “So what has to collapse is the regime itself.”

He said Venezuela has become “a criminal state controlled by mafia and narco-traffickers” and it “will not come out of this without the use of force.”

“I hope it will be our armed forces, and we don’t need to appeal to outside,” said Arria, who backs opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate president.

 

 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Emails obtained by The Associated Press show a Missouri lobbyist suggested pushing the idea that the real problem on college campuses is not rape but women regretting casual sex.

Richard McIntosh was working worked to advance legislation to help students like his son who have been disciplined for sex-discrimination complaints.

A bill sponsor has said McIntosh told him that his son was expelled for a Title IX complaint. Title IX bars sex-based discrimination in education, including harassment and assault.

McIntosh suggested that “a couple of shots at the rape equals regret wouldn’t hurt” in an email to a lawmaker before a February hearing on the legislation. The proposals appear unlikely to pass this year.

McIntosh has declined to comment when asked by AP about his son’s expulsion.