Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Dec. 29

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Valley City  (Valley City)   –  Valley City officials have updated the garbage pick up schedule.

City Administrator Gwen Crawford says due to the weather, Friday’s garbage this week will not be picked up on Thursday like originally planned. Those with Friday garbage pick up are able to haul it to the landfill for free December 29 30 and 31. This includes Monday and Tuesday residents that we were not able to pick up this week due to the weather.

The Valley City Transfer Station hours this week are 8am to 4pm Wednesday, December 29 and Thursday, December 30.  On Friday, December 31 the landfill will be open from 8am to 3pm on Friday only. Residents are also allowed to place their garbage on the curb for next Friday’s pick up as usual and if they have extra garbage within reason there will be no extra charge

Also due to the New Year’s Holiday there will be no garbage pick up on Friday December 31.

 

 

The North Dakota Department of Health dashboard is updated daily by 11 am and includes cases reported through the previous day. The investigations are ongoing and information on the website is likely to change as cases are investigated. The information contained in this dashboard is the most up to date and will be different than previous news releases. This dashboard supersedes information from previous news releases or social media postings.

Check out our other dashboards: The COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, NDUS Dashboard.COVID- 19 stats:

COVID-19 Stats

Wed. Dec. 29,  2021

10:20 -a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 6

Total Positives: 2206

Active: 16

Recovered:  2138

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 411

 

Stutsman

New Positives: 16

Total Positives: 5131

Active: 28

Recovered: 4997

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 461

North Dakota Cases Reported On Dec. 29, 2021

NEW CASES REPORTED: 646

ACTIVE CASES: 1,903

DAILY POSITIVITY RATE: 9%

14-DAY ROLLING POSITIVITY RATE: 6%

TOTAL KNOWN CASES THROUGHOUT PANDEMIC: 172,607

TOTAL RECOVERED THROUGHOUT PANDEMIC: 168,699

North Dakota:

ACTIVE HOSPITALIZATIONS: 108

DEATHS REPORTED WEDNESDAY: 3

TOTAL DEATHS: 2,005

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CVHD)  Central Valley Health District reminds residents that COVID testing is  on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, at the Jamestown Civic Center, Exchequor Room, from 11-a.m. to 1-pm.

Call CVHD at 701-252-8130 to register.

 

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Salvation Army is $80,000 behind the goal, of $167,000 for the 2021 Christmas campaign. Officials say due to the recent cold, snowy weather the campaign may be extended past December 31, 2021.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota spent $8.4 million this year on bonuses for some state workers, a record sum that was more than double paid out in 2020. A little more than a third of the nearly 9,300 state employees received the bonuses, including several from Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s office. The bulk of bonuses paid to employees comes from agencies in the governor’s cabinet, records show. The Legislature approved the program in 1999 in an effort to reward, recruit and retain employees for hard-to-fill state jobs. The program is drawing increased criticism because not all agencies give out the bonuses.

 

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Heart River 51, Richardton-Taylor 30

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May Port CG 75, Hillsboro/Central Valley 24

In world and national news..

NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict announced Wednesday capped a monthlong trial featuring accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of every count except one. She faces years in prison. It’s an end long sought by women who spent years fighting to hold Maxwell accountable for abusing them. Her lawyers said she’s being used as a scapegoat for crimes committed by Epstein, who killed himself in 2019.

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due to new COVID-19 cases aboard. The agency says 88 vessels are now either under investigation or observation, but it does not specify how many cases have been reported. None of the ships appear to have so many cases they would overwhelm medical resources on board and require a return to port. But some have been denied entry at some foreign ports. Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for the CDC and cruise lines to again halt cruise travel, six months after the industry mounted its comeback.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of flights are being cancelled as the omicron variant creates havoc both for travelers and for airlines who are having to cobble together flight crews as infections rise among pilots and flight attendants. According to data from the flight-tracking website FlightAware, 832 flights were cancelled by midday Wednesday and that number has ticked higher throughout the day. There were nearly 1,300 cancellations for flights entering, leaving or inside the U.S. on Tuesday, and about 1,500 Monday. Cancellations began to spike the day before Christmas during what is typically an already buzzing pace for airlines.

SEATTLE (AP) — A thaw-out is coming for the frozen Seattle and Portland, Oregon, but not before another round of snow that could compound problems for a region more accustomed to winter rain than arctic blasts. And in Nevada the governor plans to declare a state of emergency due to snow and storm conditions affecting travel in the Lake Tahoe area of northern Nevada. Forecasters say parts of western Washington could see up to 3 inches of snow Thursday and northwestern Oregon could see a similar amount. The normally temperate part of the Pacific Northwest has shivered with temperatures hitting the single digits in some areas this week after extreme cold air from Canada’s Fraser River Valley blew in on Sunday.

 

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago men have been charged in a shooting at a suburban Chicago shopping mall that wounded four bystanders and sent thousands of last-minute Christmas shoppers running for cover last week. Thirty-two-year-old Tyran Williams and 29-year-old Steve Lane face multiple felonies, including aggravated discharge of a firearm, in the Dec. 23 shootout at Oakbrook Center. A judge issued a $1 million bail Wednesday for both men during a court appearance. Williams was hit four times in the shooting, while three women and a man who were in the area were also wounded. Authorities say Lane and his companion fled after the shooting.

 

MILL SHOALS, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in two states are searching for a gunman who killed an eastern Illinois deputy and is suspected in a carjacking in Missouri. The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office says Deputy Sean Riley responded to a motorist assist call on Interstate 64 early Wednesday. A second officer who arrived at the scene in Mill Shoals found Riley dead. The deputy’s squad car was later found abandoned on I-64. The search for the suspect extended to St. Peters, Missouri, where police believe the person who killed Riley also shot and carjacked someone shortly after 7 a.m. at a convenience store. The carjacking victim is expected to recover.

 

DENVER (AP) — Four of the people shot in deadly rampage in Denver were attacked at tattoo shops, raising questions about why they were targeted. Police say 47-year-old Lyndon James McLeod knew most of the people he shot Monday at several locations around the metro area, through either business or personal relationships. They were still investigating his motive. McLeod once owned a business called Flat Black Ink Corp. at a Denver address that is now home to the World Tattoo Studio. The first shooting happened at a tattoo shop about a mile away. Two women were killed there, and a man was wounded.

 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has postponed the penalty trial for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to Feb. 21. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer said both parties requested more time to prepare experts for trial, which had been scheduled to start on Jan. 4. Cruz pleaded guilty in October to the February 2018 killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Jurors will now decide in February whether he is sentenced to death or to life without parole. The trial has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and arguments over what evidence and testimony will be permitted.

 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 27-year-old Florida man accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed two children and injured four others caused a disturbance during his first court appearance, hours after sheriff’s deputies arrested him. Detectives say physical evidence led them to Sean Charles Greer. He was arrested Tuesday night, a day after the crash in Wilton Manors. During a court appearance Wednesday, deputies led Greer away after he apparently objected to attending the proceeding. Officials say Greer veered around a transit bus and crashed into the children. He was ordered held without bond on two probation violations.