Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Jul 22

Jamestown, ND  (CSi)The Jamestown Fire Department was called at about 6-p.m.,  Monday evening to the University of Jamestown Apartments, to a report of smoke coming from the laundry room.

Jamestown Fire Chief Jim Ruether stated that the units were called to the scene because of reported smoke coming from the laundry room.

The fire department ventilated the building, with the source of the smoke undetermined.

Six units were on the the scene for about 45 minutes.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department pursued a vehicle through a part of Southwest Jamestown starting about 1:40-p.m.. Monday.

Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger says the driver of the vehicle, 30 year old John Martin Rech of Reno, Nevada, exhibited “road rage” to an unmarked police vehicle, including an obscene gesture following a “burnout” on First Avenue South.

The report says Rech went around the police vehicle and refused to stop when indicated to do so, by the police vehicle with flashing lights, and a pursuit ensued from the area Taco bell.

The pursuit continued to Highway 281 South to the State Hospital road.

Edinger said during the chase, Rech attempted to crash into police vehicles and members of the public.

Rech drove back into city limits and was apprehended behind Dakota Engine Builders.

Chief Edinger stated that officers were unaware that a five month old and a 2 year old child were in the vehicle during the chase. It wasn’t immediately known if the children are his.

Both children were turned over to Stutsman County Social Services.   They were released back to their mother.

Chief Edinger says, Rech has outstanding warrants currently in Reno, Nevada.

No one was injured during the chase.

 

Jamestown (CSi) At Monday’s School Board meeting, Jamestown Public School Board, Superintendent Rob Lech reported that the end-of-the year deficit was $474,452, substanially less than the approximate $800,000 deficit that had been projected.

Lech adds that factors that lower deficit included under-spending on textbooks by $146,000 under the estimated budget. Materials, workbooks and equipment were a combined $97,000 under the budget.

Lech also credited building administrators and staff who have reviewed efficiencies.

Business Manager Sally Ost reported that the district will have $25,612,622 in projected revenue for the 2014-15 school year, and $26,471,276 in expenditures for a projected deficit of $858,653.

The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL, with showings starting Tuesday.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Dickinson man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for robbing a Medina bank at gunpoint.

Forty-one-year-old Rendell Hardy was charged with bank robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. He pleaded guilty in April.

Authorities say Hardy and Satrone Boyd were wearing Halloween masks when they held up Northland Financial in Medina on Oct. 25. They were later identified by video at a truck stop near Jamestown, where authorities say they threw the masks and a set of keys into a dumpster.

U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson on Monday sentenced Hardy to 12 years and six months in prison.

Boyd was sentenced earlier to seven years and six months behind bars.

　

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Engineer’s office announces that spraying in the City of Jamestown for adult mosquitoes is scheduled to begin Tuesday night, July 22, 2014 and will continue throughout the week as is necessary.

 All spraying is contingent upon weather conditions.

All spraying operations will take place between approximately 8:30 PM (dusk) until approximately 6:00 AM.

Parents are advised to keep children out of the streets and away from the spray machines.

Motorists are urged to use caution when traveling in the vicinity of sprayer units.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Arts Park Summer Arts Festival, Saturday July 26, 2014 combines with the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce’s “Chef’s Challenge,” and an afternoon Farmers Market.

Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive, Lisa Hicks says during the Summer Arts Park Festival that runs from 1-p.m., to 5-p.m., the Chef’s Challenge begins at 4-p.m..

She points out the event is open at 3-p.m., when individuals and teams of not more than three individuals set up.

Rules for the Challenge include, contestants using all the local ingredients provided.

Contestants may bring additional ingredients to complement or enhance the local ingredients.

Contestants need to provide their own grill, preparation equipment and cooking equipment.

Food will be judged on: taste, presentation, and use of fresh ingredients.

The winner receives $50 in Jamestown Chamber Bucks.

Contact Lisa Hicks at the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce to sign up, at 701-252-4830, or E-Mail lisa@jamestownchamber.com

The street between the Art Park and The Arts Center will be closed. Food vendors, demonstration tables, artists, and organizations to be scattered throughout the park. There will be music, crafts, food, and games.

The Farmers Market will be held later that day in The Art Park.

Anyone wishing to participate as an artist (visual or musical), or wanting to sell produce, canned goods or flowers, contact Sally Jeppson at 701-251-2496 at the Jamestown Arts Center, or email: sjeppson@jamestownarts.com.

 

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A massive fire at an industrial area in Williston has prompted authorities to shut down a major highway.
 
     State Highway 1804 was closed and onlookers moved away as flames and smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air late Monday and early Tuesday. The Williston Herald says no injuries were immediately reported.
 
     The site is near three oil companies and a rail line, just east of Williston’s downtown. Explosions could be seen and heard at the scene. Police attributed them to barrels but didn’t immediately say what was in them.
 
     The fire was still burning and the highway still closed at dawn Tuesday.
 
     The city police and fire departments didn’t immediately provide updates to The Associated Press. A state Emergency Services spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Texas man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in a synthetic drug operation traced to the deaths of two North Dakota teenagers. Twenty-six-year-old John Polinski, of Houston, is the last of 15 people to be convicted in a case that federal authorities dubbed “Operation Stolen Youth.” He is the 14th person to be sentenced. Eighteen-year-old Christian Bjerk, of Grand Forks, and 17-year-old Elijah Stai, of Park Rapids, Minnesota, died within a week of each other in June 2012.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Republican state lawmaker from Wahpeton has died.
 
     The North Dakota governor’s office says Rep. John Wall died Friday. He was 70.
 
     Wall was elected to the North Dakota House in 2004. That came following his retirement from a 34-year career of teaching high school English and journalism.
 
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple says Wall worked hard on improving education funding for kindergarten through high school and on education policy in general.
 
     Dalrymple says Wall was an “outstanding legislator” and a “kind and thoughtful person.”

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot City Council President Mark Jantzer says the experience of the incoming city manager will be valuable as the community continues its recovery from the 2011 Souris River flood.
 
     Fifty-seven-year-old Lee Staab graduated with an engineering degree from the West Point military academy and later earned his master’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois.
 
     He worked for the Corps of Engineers for 28 years before spending more than seven years in private industry. He has made more than 50 trips in connection with his work to Iraq, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates.
 
     The City Council officially hired Staab for the city manager job at a special meeting on Friday. He’ll replace the retired David Waind. He starts his duties on Sept. 15.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger has approved for the ballot an initiated measure on parental rights.
 
     Jaeger says supporters needed to submit 13,452 valid petition signatures, and they submitted 1,000 more than the required amount. He says the measure will appear on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
 
     The proposed law would give both parents equal rights and decision-making responsibilities in child custody cases. A similar measure failed in 2006.
 
     Many supporters of the initiated measure are from Walsh County, where voters passed a similar law in 2012 that has been challenged by Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem as usurping state authority.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A former officer on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for roughing up suspects during two separate arrests.
 
     A jury in April convicted Lindrith Tsoodle on two counts of using excessive force and one count of making false statements. He was acquitted of tampering with a witness.
 
     Authorities say in one case Tsoodle twisted the neck of a handcuffed suspect, threw him to the ground and kneed him in the stomach. In the other case he allegedly tightened the handcuffs on a suspect, slammed him against the wall, used pepper spray and struck the man with his hands and a baton.
 
     U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland on Monday sentenced Tsoodle to 15 months in prison and two years of supervised release.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new report says strong local economies and an oil boom have helped the Dakotas lead the nation in terms of economic well-being for children.
 
     But the 25th annual Kids Count report says there’s still room for improvement in education and the number of children living in poverty. The report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation is being released Tuesday.
 
     The economic well-being category measures the percentage of children in poverty, along with parental employment, housing costs and the number of teens working or in school. The report takes information from 2012, the most recent year for which data is available.
 
     But the report also notes that most children ages 3 and 4 in the two states are not attending nursery or preschool.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Most crops across North Dakota were in good shape despite a week without rainfall.
 
     The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that subsoil moisture is 94 percent adequate or surplus because of abundant precipitation in the spring. Topsoil moisture was rated 86 percent adequate or surplus.
 
     Conditions for durum, spring wheat, barley, oats and canola were all reported to be at least 80 percent good or excellent.
 
     Pasture and range conditions were rated 25 percent excellent, 60 percent good, 12 percent fair, 2 percent poor and 1 percent very poor. 

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The FX network CSi 40, is planning a second season of “Fargo” the TV show, but with a new cast and a new story line that will take place a little farther south.

Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks and Allison Tolman shored up the cast for “Fargo’s” first season, which recently picked up 18 Emmy nominations. The show was based on the 1996 Coen brothers movie that’s considered a crime classic and made Fargo a household name for many across the country.

The second season of the TV show will be set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Luverne, Minnesota.

The show is filmed in the Canadian city of Calgary. The second season likely will air in fall 2015.

 

In sports…

Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Game and Fish Department report, it has partnered with the Fish and Wildlife Service to make improvements to the 50-year-old Valley City hatchery, which resulted in a hatchery record 2.5 million walleye fingerlings produced this year.

Meanwhile, Game and Fish reports record numbers of Lakes Stocked with Walleye. Personnel recently wrapped up stocking walleye in a record 133 lakes across the state. Jerry Weigel, fisheries production and development supervisor, said thanks to the excellent walleye fingerling production from the Garrison Dam and Valley City national fish hatcheries, these waters received nearly 10 million fingerlings.

Weigel adds, that stocking conditions were optimal this year, with cooler weather and increasing water levels at many lakes, adding “Later this fall fisheries personal will sample walleye lakes to access the success of this year’s walleye stocking, as well as what Mother Nature provides.”

Upcoming Events: July 18-26: Conservation and Outdoors Skills Park, State Fair Complete List of Schedule of Events http://gf.nd.gov/calendar>

　

　FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Former North Dakota State University men’s basketball standouts Taylor Braun and TrayVonn Wright have signed contracts to play professionally in Europe.
 
     Braun has signed with a team in Belgium’s top league, and Wright with a team in Austria’s top league.
 
     Braun, of Newberg, Oregon, was the Summit League player of the year this past season and an honorable mention selection for The Associated Press All-America basketball team. Wright, from Waterloo, Iowa, was an All-Summit League second-team selection last season.

 

AA…

 Fargo-Moorhead at Winnipeg, ppd., rain

 

MLB…

INTERLEAGUE
 
   Final          Detroit                  4    Arizona                3
   Final          Seattle                  5    N-Y  Mets              2
 
 
       AMERICAN  LEAGUE

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Josh Willingham’s tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning sent the Minnesota Twins to a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians last night. Kurt Suzuki had a two-run double among his three hits as the Twins beat the Indians at home for the first time in more than 11 months. Glen Perkins pitched a perfect ninth for his 23rd save in 26 chances.

  TORONTO (AP) – Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has passed Boston great Carl Yastrzemski (yah-STREM’-skee) on baseball’s career home run chart with two homers in Boston’s 14-1 victory over Toronto. One inning after matching Yastrzemski with No. 452 on Monday night, Ortiz connected again to take over sole possession of 36th place on the all-time list.
 
   Final          Texas                      4    N-Y  Yankees        2
   Final          Chi  White  Sox      3    Kansas  City        1
   Final          Baltimore              4    L.A.  Angels        2
 
 
       NATIONAL  LEAGUE
 
   Final          L.A.  Dodgers        5    Pittsburgh          2
   Final          San  Francisco      7    Philadelphia      4
   Final          Miami                      3    Atlanta                1,  10  Innings
   Final          Milwaukee              5    Cincinnati          2
   Final          Washington            7    Colorado              2

WNBA…

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota Lynx forward Maya Moore has been named the WNBA’s Western Conference Player of the Week for the second consecutive week. Moore scored a game-high 32 points in a 93-82 Lynx win over the Tulsa Shock last week. Moore posted her ninth 30-point-plus performance of the season. Moore also added nine rebounds, five assists and two steals.

 

TOUR…

 CARCASSONNE, France (AP) – Vincenzo Nibali is in the yellow jersey as the Tour de France peloton set off on the longest stage, into the Pyrenees.
 
     The Italian holds a lead of more than 4 1/2 minutes over second-place Alejandro Valverde of Spain.
 
     The 237.5-kilometer (147-mile) Stage 16 from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon features an ascent up the super-tough Port de Bales.
 
     Valverde won a stage in the 2012 Tour that had a similar climb over the Port de Bales and a finish downhill.
 
     Before the stage, the Lampre-Merida team said world champion Rui Costa would not start due to pneumonia. The Portuguese rider had been in 13th place, about 13 minutes behind Nibali.

 

In world and national news…

 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – The Russian Embassy in Malaysia’s capital drew several hundred protesters today, demanding justice for victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Russia’s ambassador reiterated that Moscow had nothing to do with the plane crash and pointed the finger at Ukraine.
 
     KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) – A refrigerated train carrying the bodies of Malaysia plane crash victims is now in a city controlled by the Ukrainian government, which is promising to do its best to send the victims on to the Netherlands, which had 193 people on the flight. Meanwhile, the crash site remains unsecured today, five days after the disaster that killed 298 people.

 
     JERUSALEM (AP) – At least 585 Palestinians and 29 Israelis have now died during the conflict in the Gaza Strip and one Israeli soldier is missing. Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of targets in the coastal strip today and diplomatic efforts to end the fighting intensified. A defense official says it’s not known if the Israeli soldier is still alive.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – As he prepares to sign bipartisan legislation today, aimed at improving business engagement and accountability in federally-funded programs, President Barack Obama is also releasing a six-month review of job-training programs which recommends improvements. The report concludes that the government needs to better engage U.S. employers, improve the use of data, and boost apprenticeship programs so workers can train and earn.
 
     PARIS (AP) – The 2009 death of a horse and the near death of its rider on a Brittany beach have been laid at the feet of the French state. The decision by an appeals court in western France represents a major victory for ecologists and for the horse’s owner. He and his mount became mired in muck that gave off toxic hydrogen sulfide emitted by rotting algae. The court ruled there was insufficient protection of water against farm pollution. Fertilizer is a known cause of algae blooms.