Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 13

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows around 50. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds

5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast

winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to south 15 to 20 mph in the

afternoon.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain showers in

the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows in the lower 50s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain

showers. Highs in the mid 60s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows in the mid 40s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.

Highs around 60.

There is a slight chance of thunderstorms Monday evening and

Monday night south, however severe weather is not expected.

There is a chance of thunderstorms Wednesday and Wednesday night.

Some stronger storms, even a few severe storms, are possible across central North Dakota Wednesday afternoon and evening.

The second chance for precipitation arrives Friday. Precipitation

chances increase and become more widespread early Friday and

continue through the weekend.

This will also lead to cooler temperatures for the weekend, with highs in the 50s and 60s.

 

Jamestown  (CSi) 5-13-19  Jamestown Police is warning residents regarding a convicted sex offender who has changed his Jamestown address.

Charles Matthew Carrington resides at 1610 Business Loop East No. 14, Norway Inn, Jamestown, ND .  He presently has no vehicle.

He is a 51 year old  American Indian male, five feet seven inches tall, weighing 167 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.

Carrington has been assigned a High Risk Assessment by the  Risk Level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’ Office.

Offense:  Sexual Abuse of a Minor, sexually assaulting a 12 year old girl on approximately 25 occasions over a two year period.

Conviction Date: May 2006 in U.S Federal Court.

Disposition: 65 months, three years supervised release.

Carrington is not wanted by police 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 Charles Matthew Carrington 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

 

Update…

Valley City  (NDHP)  The North Dakota Highway Patrol has issued the report about the the crash early Sunday morning about 2-O’Clock in the 900 block of 12th Street Northwest in Valley City when a 2018 GMC Sierra pickup struck an unoccupied parked Ford F150 pickup and proceeded to strike two utility poles.

The report by Captain Bryan Niewind says, the GMC driven by  44 year old Justin Drake, of Litchville, was traveling on 12^th St. NW in the 900 block in Valley City, when the lost control.  The GMC left the roadway and struck two power poles.  Both power poles were sheared off.  The GMC then struck a parked Ford F150.  After striking the Ford, the GMC came to rest on top of an electric power box.

Law enforcement and fire department personnel responded to the crash and had to be assisted by Valley City Public Works to make the area safe.   Drake had to be extricated from his vehicle.  Before that could happen, power had to be stopped to the downed wires and electric power box.

Mr. Drake suffered serious injuries.  He was transported by Barnes County Ambulance to an awaiting Sanford Life Flight helicopter at the Valley City Airport.  Power had been knocked out at the airport and the Valley City Police Departmetn assisted Life Flight by establishing a landing zone.

The crash remains under investigation.

Previously…

CSi TV & Internet service was interrupted in Valley City Sunday morning due to a pickup truck crash that knocked down several Public Works utility poles.  The pickup hit a utility pole, a parked pickup, and came to rest on its top.  The driver of the truck was airlifted to a Fargo Hospital for treatment of serious injuries after the crash.  The man’s condition has not been released.

 

The outage also effected Internet Service in Jamestown Sunday morning.  As of 11:30am normal CSi Internet Service was restored in Jamestown,  and shortly thereafter TV & Internet service for Valley City returned to  normal.

Valley City Public Works crews worked to replace the poles and restore power in the area.   CSi fiber technicians then were able to start the fiber splicing needed to repair the main transmission fiber severed by the crash.

Your patience and understanding are appreciated.  More details on the crash as information becomes available.

Photos by CSi repair technicians.

 

Bismarck (CSi)  The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission reports, that the Jamestown Airline boardings in April this year were at 694, down from 877 in April of 2018.

A decrease of almost 21 percent.

The year to date numbers show Jamestown Regional Airport boardings were 3,338 through April, compared to 3,861 boardings through April of 2018, down 13.5 percent.

 

Bismarck  (NDDOT)  The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) and the North Dakota Highway Patrol want to remind drivers ahead of the Memorial Day holiday there are a million excuses to not buckle up, but not one of them will save your life.

Law enforcement across the state will have extra patrols from May 20 to June 2 for the Click It or Ticket campaign enforcing the state seat belt law. Some agencies are also participating in “Border to Border,” a high visibility campaign on May 20. “Border to Border” aims to increase both public awareness and law enforcement participation by coordinating a synchronized operation, educating motorists about the importance of buckling up.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of injury-related death in North Dakota. Lack of seat belt use is the number one contributing factor in these vehicle deaths. In 2018, of the fatalities that were seat belt eligible in North Dakota, 48% were not wearing their seat belt. That means one unbelted occupant died every ten days on North Dakota roads.

The best way any driver or passenger can protect themselves and their loved ones is always wearing a seat belt, no matter where they are going. Driving is a privilege but buckling up is a choice that impacts those you love. Always buckle up, every trip, every time.

“Before you go anywhere in a vehicle, take a few seconds to make sure you and your passengers are secured,” says North Dakota Highway Patrol Captain Bryan Niewind. “If you have young children with you, be a good example and reinforce how important seat belts are at saving lives.”

This campaign is part of the Vision Zero strategy to eliminate motor vehicle crash fatalities and serious injuries on North Dakota roads.

Visit the North Dakota Crash Memorial wall to view memorials built on the hope of preventing another death on North Dakota roads.

 

Bismarck  (NDHP)  The North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP) and the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (NDDES) will conduct the annual test of the AMBER (America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert system from 2-4 p.m. central time on Thursday, May 23, 2019.  All AMBER Alert components will be tested except for the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) which is sent to mobile devices. Advanced notification is provided to avoid misinterpretation of this test as an actual AMBER Alert.

AMBER Alerts are recorded on the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) 511 road and weather information system and displayed on the NDDOT roadside message signs, the NDResponse web page at https://ndresponse.gov/alert, and at North Dakota Lottery terminal locations.

The goal of an AMBER Alert is to prompt the community to assist in the search for and safe return of an abducted child. The program is a voluntary partnership between law enforcement, state agencies, the National Weather Service (NWS), and the North Dakota Broadcasters Association to activate various systems in child abduction cases meeting AMBER Alert criteria. NDDES, in collaboration with the NWS, uses the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to provide a description of the abducted child, suspected abductor, and vehicle to statewide radio and television stations. AMBER Alerts are also automatically sent through WEA to mobile devices.
To learn more, visit the ND Response Alert page at https://ndresponse.gov/alert.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner says lawmakers won’t be called into session over legislation that limits the powers of the state auditor.

Legislative leaders met with Auditor Josh Gallion on Monday to discuss legislation passed late in the session that requires the auditor’s office to get lawmakers’ permission to conduct “performance audits.”

Wardner and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Joan Heckaman acknowledged discussion on the last-minute legislation was lacking. They say any issues can be solved before the Legislature meets again in 2021.

The say a committee of lawmakers needs to meet more often with Gallion in between legislative sessions for better communication.

Gallion says he intends to do business as usual. He has asked for an attorney general’s opinion on how the legislation with affect his office.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The director of North Dakota State Radio is retiring after a decade on the job.

Mike Lynk was appointed in January 2009 to lead the agency that oversees emergency communications. He made upgrading technology a priority.

Before that, Lynk had a long career in the security and law enforcement fields. Since 1999 he also has worked security for the Minnesota Vikings training camp in Mankato, Minnesota, most recently as on-field supervisor.

His retirement is effective at the end of June.

 

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The remains of two Navy seamen from Minot who were killed in World War II have been identified.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says 23-year-old Calvin Palmer and 21-year-old brother Wilferd Palmer were assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma. They were among 429 crewmen on the ship who died in the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The remains of the two brothers were exhumed in 2015 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. They were positively identified in March, in part through DNA analysis.

The brothers’ names are listed on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery. A rosette will be placed next to their names to indicate they have now been accounted for.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Capitol will soon welcome visitors with a new public entrance.

State lawmakers have approved $2 million to remodel the Capitol building’s only public entrance before the next legislative session in January 2021, the Bismarck Tribune reported. The south entrance is accessed through a tunnel that’s long been closed to vehicle traffic.

Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg said the tunnel would cause winter winds and extreme cold to seep into the Capitol’s ground floor.

“It’s just a terrible entrance,” Holmberg said. “The people who work there on security, they freeze.”

The plan calls for enclosing the tunnel and converting the drive lanes into sidewalks with landscaping, said John Boyle, the state’s facilities management director. The remodel would also improve handicapped accessibility.

 

In sports…

 

NAIA Softball Tournament Opening Round – Antimi Sports Complex Columbia Missouri.

 

COLUMBIA, MO.  (VCSU) – Emily Smith pitched a complete game Monday afternoon as the Valley City State softball team started the NAIA Softball Championship Opening Round with a 2-1 victory over Madonna University (Mich.).

The top-seeded Vikings manufactured just enough offense for Smith, who was dominant throughout the day and allowed only three hits while striking out eight. Two-out RBI singles by Jayme Menard and Joelle Aiello pushed across VCSU’s two runs.

Valley City State, the No. 1 seed in the four-team bracket, advances to play No. 2 seed Columbia (Mo.) in a winner’s bracket game Tuesday at 10 a.m. Columbia defeated No. 3 seed Brenau University 4-0 on Monday. The winner of VCSU and Columbia will earn a spot in the championship on Wednesday.

 

On Monday, Smith and Madonna’s Madisen Henry were locked in a scoreless pitcher’s duel through four innings, getting some great defensive play behind them. The Vikings finally broke through with a single run in the top of the fifth. Jayme Menard‘s two-out RBI single scored Kadie Anderson from third base, putting the Vikings ahead 1-0.

Valley City State added a big insurance run in the top of the seventh. Kadie Anderson opened the inning with a single and then was lifted for pinch runner Nichole Reed, who moved to second base on a groundout. Joelle Aiello delivered a two-out RBI single and Reed scored from second base, avoiding the tag with a nice hook slide at home plate.

That run proved to be vital as Madonna’s Kerstyn Comerzan would hit a two-out solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning, cutting VCSU’s lead to 2-1. That was the only blemish against Smith, who settled in to strike out pinch hitter Yogi Hang to end the game.

Smith gave up just three hits in the complete game and earned her 32nd win of the season. She did not walk a batter and struck out eight. Henry took the loss for Madonna after giving up six hits and two runs over her seven innings. She walked one and struck out three.

Anderson was 2-for-3 and scored a run for the Vikings. Aiello and Menard each collected a hit and an RBI, while Autumn Perry and Smith each had one hit as well.

Comerzan’s home run was the highlight for Madonna’s offense. Sarah Holton and Makayla Bassage each had a hit.

Up next: Valley City State (52-3) plays Columbia (Mo.) in a winner’s bracket game Tuesday at 10 a.m.

 

Bismarck (Game & Fish)  The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has completed an investigation into the 16-pound, 9-ounce walleye taken April 21 from the Heart River, and based on evidence provided, department officials have concluded the fish was foul-hooked, and therefore cannot be recognized as a state record.

To qualify as a state record, a fish must be harvested in accordance with rules for recreational fishing.

Anglers can visit the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov, to see a complete list of state record fish requirements.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The director of North Dakota State Radio is retiring after a decade on the job.

Mike Lynk was appointed in January 2009 to lead the agency that oversees emergency communications. He made upgrading technology a priority.

Before that, Lynk had a long career in the security and law enforcement fields. Since 1999 he also has worked security for the Minnesota Vikings training camp in Mankato, Minnesota, most recently as on-field supervisor.

His retirement is effective at the end of June.

 

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The remains of two Navy seamen from Minot who were killed in World War II have been identified.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says 23-year-old Calvin Palmer and 21-year-old brother Wilferd Palmer were assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma. They were among 429 crewmen on the ship who died in the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The remains of the two brothers were exhumed in 2015 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. They were positively identified in March, in part through DNA analysis.

The brothers’ names are listed on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery. A rosette will be placed next to their names to indicate they have now been accounted for.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s going to take further action to help the nation’s farmers in the midst of an escalating trade war with China.

Trump is telling reporters that China has been taking advantage of the U.S. for many years, hours after China announced increased tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods.

The move comes after Trump pushed up tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports from 10% to 25% Friday — the same day U.S.-China negotiations trade ended without a breakthrough or any specific plan for further talks.

Trump says as he meets with Hungary’s Viktor Orban that U.S. farmers are going to be “very happy” with is plan.

He also says he’ll meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Doris Day, whose wholesome screen presence stood for a time of innocence in ’60s films, has died, her foundation says. She was 97.

The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed Day died early Monday at her Carmel Valley, California, home. The foundation says in an emailed statement she was surrounded by close friends and “had been in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia.”

She was known for her honey-voiced singer and actress whose film dramas, musicals and innocent sex comedies made her a top star in the 1950s and ’60s and among the most popular screen actresses in history.

Day’s lilting voice, wholesome blond beauty and ultra-bright smile brought her a string of hits, first on records, later in Hollywood.

She celebrated her 97th birthday on April 3.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing consumers to pursue an antitrust lawsuit that claims Apple has unfairly monopolized the market for the sale of iPhone apps.

New Justice Brett Kavanaugh is joining the court’s four liberals Monday in rejecting a plea from Cupertino, California-based Apple to end the lawsuit over the 30% commission the company charges software developers whose apps are sold through the App Store.

The lawsuit was filed by iPhone users who must purchase software for their smartphones exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

Four conservative justices dissented.

 

 

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Burgeoning numbers of Cubans are trying to get into the U.S. by way of the Mexican border, creating a big backlog of people waiting on the Mexican side for months for their chance to apply for asylum.

The surge over the past several months has been propelled in part by loosened traveled restrictions in Central America and deteriorating living conditions in Cuba.

About 4,500 people, the vast majority of them Cuban, are waiting in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, for their asylum interviews.

For Cubans and others, one of the biggest obstacles is simply getting an opportunity to apply for asylum. Over the past year, the Trump administration has sharply limited the number of asylum claims it processes at land crossings. That has forced people to wait their turn in Mexico.

 

 

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say Phoenix Suns forward Josh Jackson was arrested after refusing to leave a VIP area at a South Florida hip-hop festival.

A Miami-Dade police report says Jackson was arrested Friday night and charged with resisting arrest and escape at the Rolling Loud Festival, which was held Friday through Sunday at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. Police are investigating connections between the festival and a series of shooting that killed a Chicago rapper, wounded another rapper’s girlfriend, left a bystander dead and injured a little boy.

An officer says Jackson was told to leave a VIP because he didn’t have a pass. The report says Jackson left, returned and then refused to leave, prompting the officer to handcuff Jackson and remove him from the area.

The report says Jackson was told to sit on a golf cart but ran away when the officer wasn’t looking. Jackson was located a short time later and taken to jail.

Jackson was released Saturday on $1,000 bail. His next hearing in June 10.

 

 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The owners of a Norwegian-flagged oil tanker say their vessel sustained a hole in its hull from “an unknown object” while off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, amid what Gulf officials describe as sabotage targeting ships there.

Thome Ship Management said in a statement Monday that the MT Andrea Victory was still off the coast of Fujairah and was “not in any danger of sinking.”

It said the rear section of the ship was hit by the object on Sunday.

It added its sailors were supporting local authorities and were conducting a full inspection of the vessel.

Saudi Arabia said earlier Monday that two of its oil tankers also were targeted in “sabotage operations” off the UAE coast, with one of them as it was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the United States.