– Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Dec 30

CSi Weather…

.NEW YEARS DAY…Sunny. Highs around 12 below. West winds 10 to

15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 23 below.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10 above.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero.

.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 10 to 15.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow.

Lows around 5 below.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.

Highs zero to 5 above.

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

Thurs. Dec. 30, 2021

10:20 -a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 6

Total Positives: 2214

Active: 10

Recovered: 2150

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 418

Stutsman

New Positives: 21

Total Positives: 5152

Active: 36

Recovered: 5011

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 467

Valley City (CCHD) City County Health in Valley City announces their COVID-19 testing days and site location in Valley City.

Testing is at the REC Center at 140 4th Street Southwest.

Testing will be 12:30-2:30 Mon, Weds, and Fridays.

There are opportunities for vaccinations, both for annual influenza and for the COVID vaccine. Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

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.

Bell ringers are at: Walmart, Jamestown Business Center, Cashwise Foods, and Home of Economy at the Buffalo Mall. Virtual Kettles are also available.

Jamestown (City) The Jamestown baling facility and recycling center will be closed

Fri & Sat Dec 31 & Jan 1

In observance of the New Year’s Day holiday.

Garbage and recycling collections were delayed one day due to no collections on Monday December 27 due to the winter storm.

For more information, contact the baling facility at 252-5223 and the recycling center at (701) 320-9218.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Parks and Recreation Department reports that Cabin Fever Days in Jamestown is planned for February 4-13 2022, with information on Cabin Fever Days specific events to be announced later.

Businesses and organizations interested in participating in Cabin Fever Days can fax information to 252-3914 or email john@jamestownparksandrec.com.

The deadline to submit information is Thursday, January 13, 2022

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former U.S attorney and lieutenant governor Drew Wrigley has launched a bid for North Dakota attorney general. The Republican said Thursday that he aims to fill the seat held by Wayne Stenehjem, who will not seek reelection next year. The 56-year-old Wrigley was U.S. attorney from 2001 to 2009, and again from 2019 to 2021. He was lieutenant governor from 2010 to 2016 under former GOP Gov. Jack Dalrymple. Wrigley’s most high-profile case as U.S. attorney was the conviction of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. in the death of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Regulators in North Dakota have signed off on a new plan to tear down a wind farm. The Bismarck Tribune reported Wednesday that the Public Service Commission voted 2-1 to approve a new plan to remove 61 turbines on the North Dakota side of the Tatanka Wind Farm. The farm straddles the border between North Dakota and South Dakota. Tatanka wants to make cuts in the turbine towers and drag them to the ground with a cable. The company originally wanted to use a crawler crane to take down the structures, but says the cable method would cost about $5.5 million less. Commissioner Randy Christmann cast the dissenting vote, saying he was worried about environmental damage when the turbines come down.

In world and national news…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a California man arrested in Iowa had an assault rifle, ammunition and a “hit list” that named President Joe Biden, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and others. The Des Moines Register reports that police pulled over the man on Interstate 80 on Dec. 21 because he was driving aggressively. Police say the man made concerning comments about Biden during the stop, so he was taken to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office for questioning. According to the criminal complaint, he told investigators he left his home in Sacramento on Dec. 18 to drive straight to the White House to kill people in power. The man has been charged with making threats to a former president.

DENVER (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have written fictional books self-published online that named some of his real-life victims and described similar attacks. Denver police spokesman Doug Schepman says the writings are part of the investigation into what led Lyndon James McLeod to carry out Monday’s shootings. Four of the people shot were attacked at tattoo shops, raising questions about why they were targeted. Police say McLeod knew most of the people he shot at several locations around the metro area, through either business or personal relationships. They were still investigating his motive.

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two people believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel. The Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that two Bradley police officers were shot late Wednesday while speaking to people in a room at a Comfort Inn. The Bradley Police Department says the officers were taken to nearby hospitals, where one died and the other was listed in critical condition. The county coroner identified the slain officer as 49-year-old Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic. An arrest warrant was issued for 25-year-old Darius D. Sullivan and police say they are also searching for a person of interest in the case.

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a man identifying himself as a German army soldier who recorded a threatening video with demands including the removal of coronavirus restrictions has been arrested. The roughly one-minute clip circulating online featured the man, who said he was a staff sergeant, demanding a response “by tomorrow” to his calls for a lifting of restrictions and the cancelation of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for servicepeople. He said that “this is a warning.” A text that accompanied the video said that “soldiers are prepared for dialogue until 16:00 tomorrow.” Police said that the man was arrested in central Munich early Thursday evening.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol says the Supreme Court should let stand an appeals court ruling that the National Archives turn over documents from former President Donald Trump that might shed light on the events leading up to and including that day. In a filing Thursday with the court, lawyers for the committee argued that it is within its jurisdiction to seek the information. Earlier this month Trump’s lawyers asked the court to hear arguments on his claim that executive privilege prevents the release of the documents, describing the committee as engaged in “meandering fishing expeditions.”

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man on death row for the killings of two people near Cache in 2009. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Thursday that the land in southwest Oklahoma where the murders were committed was not Indian Country because the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservation there was formally disestablished by Congress. Mica Martinez was convicted and sentenced to die for the slayings of Carl Miller and Martha Miller at their home in the Comanche County community of Cache. The district court in Comanche County held a hearing specific to the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation and determined that reservation was formally disestablished by Congress in the early 1900s.

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis by delivering a verdict in a sweeping lawsuit filed by New York state. Attorney General Letitia James’ office said Thursday that the Suffolk County jury found the company played a role in furthering a public nuisance. Teva says it strongly disagrees with the verdict and plans to appeal. The company was the sole manufacturing defendant left in the suit after settlements had been reached with other parties. Thousands of lawsuits have been filed in connection to the nation’s deadly opioid crisis.