Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 27

CSi weather…

..TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE
 EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS LATE IN
 THE EVENING. PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. PATCHY FOG LATE IN THE
 NIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE
 OF SHOWERS 60 PERCENT.

.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. EAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID
40S. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.

 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY  NIGHT…AND AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY.

  WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
 THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY.
 COOLING INTO THE 60S SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown City Engineer’s Office is informing residents in the area of 8^th Ave NW & 17^th St NW that the area will experience intermittent water outages throughout the day starting at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

Residents in the area of 9^th Ave SE & 11^th St SE and 12^th Ave SE & 11^th St SE will experience intermittent water outages throughout the day starting at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 and possibly during the daytime hours on Thursday, April 30, 2015. It is anticipated that the utility repairs will be completed within the two working days in this area.

Update…

Spiritwood (CSi) (photos posted on line at CsiNewsNow.com) Authorities are investigating a crash on I-94 near the Spiritwood Exit that occurred Monday morning about 10-O’Clock.

The accident stemmed from an investigation into a van fire, by the Sheriff’s Office, and led to a crash at mile marker 270 at the scene between a semi and a Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office pickup. The westbound semi struck the rear of the Sheriff’s pickup. (Photo provided by passing trucker).

The Volvo was traveling westbound on Interstate 94. A deputy with Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office was conducting traffic control for a vehicle on the shoulder of the road that had burned up.

The deputy was standing outside of the patrol vehicle. The driver of the Volvo truck pulling a trailer, 39 year old Travis Bell, of Belmond, Iowa, failed to move over and began reaching for a water bottle. The Volvo struck the back end of the patrol vehicle and then traveled into the median. The patrol vehicle was totaled.

The K-9 in the patrol vehicle received several cuts and was transported to the vet and will be fine. The crash is is still under investigation by the NDHP.

The owner of the van provided a photo showing extensive fire damage to the van.

The fire was extinguished by the Jamestown Rural Fire Department.

More information when the accident report is filed, under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

Jamestown (CSi) The Public is cordially invited to a celebrationas the Jamestown Kiwanis Club will be giving eight Jamestown Schools a Buddy Bench .

The Buddy Benches are supported locally by the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 4, the Jamestown Kiwanis Club, and is being coordinator by the local FOP Liason, Nellie Degen.

On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Nellie said, when a student sits on the Buddy Bench , it’s a signal for other students to approach them , asking them to join play . A Buddy Bench eliminates loneliness and fosters friendship.

She added that here are Buddy Benches all over the United States; however this is the first time any community will receive eight Buddy Benches as a donation. The eight schools receiving a Buddy Bench are Gussner, Lincoln, Louis L’Amour , Roosevelt, Washington , Victory Lutheran, Hill Crest, and St. John’s Academy.

She said to support our children and our schools the public is invited to join the Jamestown Kiwanis Club, Jamestown students, School principles, board members, Senator John Grabinger, Jamestown City Council Member Charlie Kourajian, and other government officials and the North Dakota Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 4 ( who helped put them together and will be delivering the benches) in a brief ceremony, at the Jamestown middle school, 203 2nd Ave SE , Friday , May 8, 2015, at 10: 30 am .

Also on our show from the Jamestown Kiwanis Club, Janna Bergstedt said, the Kiwanis Club’s theme is “Focus on Kids,” and is one of a number of ways the Kiwanis Club supports young people. She added that those wanting to support the Jamestown Kiwanis Club may send donations to post office box 1462 in Jamestown.

On our Show, Jamestown Police Detective, Tom Nagel President of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge four, pointed out that FOP Lodge four is involved in several youth activities, in addition to the Buddy Bench, which includes the Cops & Kids Christmas shopping event, along with the Bike Rodeo, and after prom and after graduation activities.

To support the Fraternal Order of Police send donations to post office box 1851 in Jamestown.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Kiwanis Club is holding the annual Pancake Day on Monday May 4, 2015, from 7-a.m., to 7-p.m., at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for Children 6-12 years old, and a family ticket is $22.

The menu is all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, coffee, milk, juice.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A 26-year-old Bismarck woman is dead after a single-car rollover in Burleigh County.
 
     The Highway Patrol says the woman failed to negotiate a curve on state Highway 1804 in foggy conditions about 6:30 a.m. Monday. Her car went into the ditch, struck an approach, became  airborne, landed and rolled before coming to rest on its wheels.
 
     The woman died at the scene. Authorities did not immediately identify her. She was alone in the vehicle.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Police in Fargo say the man who they suspect robbed a Gate City Bank over the weekend has been arrested in Minnesota.
 
     The 34-year-old man was arrested on an initial charge of robbery. Authorities say they used information from the man’s cellphone to locate him in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where he was taken into custody Sunday.
 
     Authorities say the man entered the bank on South University Drive around 12:20 p.m. Saturday and gave a bank teller a note demanding cash.
 
     The suspect was given an undisclosed amount of money and fled on foot.
 
     The man of Litchfield, Minnesota, will remain at the Stearns County Correctional Center until he is extradited to Fargo.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Four Minot men face charges after an undercover police operation aimed at consumers of commercial sex trafficking.
 
     Authorities say the arrests were made Friday.  The suspects range in age from 21 to 45.
 
     All four men face a charge of solicitation of prostitution. One also is charged with preventing arrest, and another also is charged with solicitation of a minor and luring a minor by computer.

HILLSBORO, N.D. (AP) – Formal charges are pending against the driver of a car hit by a train in Traill County.
 
     The collision happened about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when the car became stuck on the tracks north of Hillsboro.
 
     Sheriff’s Capt. Tony Ernst says  the two people in the car were able to escape before it was hit by a BNSF Railway freight train and pushed several hundred feet. A 27-year-old female passenger was taken to a Grand Forks hospital with unspecified injuries that authorities said were not life-threatening.
 
     The 26-year-old Fargo man who was behind the wheel was arrested on multiple charges including driving under the influence.

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple and the GOP-led Legislature are at odds over how earnings should be budgeted from the state’s trust fund for oil taxes.
 
     The Legislature passed a measure this session that bars the governor from considering money from the fund’s principal when crafting budgets.
 
     Dalrymple vetoed the legislation but the House voted 67-23 Monday to override the veto. It now goes to the Senate.
 
     North Dakota voters approved the Legacy Fund in 2010. The fund gets 30 percent of the state’s oil and gas tax collections. None of the money can be spent until 2017, and only then if the Legislature decides by a two-thirds vote to dip into it.
 
     The fund is expected to top $3 billion this month.

  CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) – Federal investigators have released hundreds of pages detailing the fiery 2013 oil train derailment near Casselton, North Dakota, that forced 1,400 to evacuate for several days.
 
     Interviews with the BNSF workers operating the two trains in the derailment are included in what the National Transportation Safety Board posted online Monday.
 
     The two men onboard the BNSF oil train describe losing sight of the tracks in a cloud of blowing snow shortly before seeing a derailed grain car lying across the tracks. Emergency brakes were applied, but the train was still moving faster than 40 mph when it collided.
 
     Everyone aboard both trains escaped unharmed. But just a couple minutes after conductor Pete Rigpl exited the oil train he looked back to see flames engulf the locomotive he had been in.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Western North Dakota farmers this year have agreed to plant 6,000 acres of jet fuel.
 
     The farmers actually will be seeding carinata, a variety of mustard seed that can be made into a biofuel. Canadian seed producer Agrisoma Biosciences over the winter sought farmers to plant the crop.
 
    One potential customer is the U.S Navy, which is targeting carinata to help reach its goal of serving half of its energy needs with non-oil sources by 2020.
 
     Carinata looks similar to canola, only a little bushier. It will be grown near Mott, Carson, Tioga, Ray, Williston, Noonan and Flasher.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Board of University and School Lands has awarded more than $12.3 million in Energy Impact Grants.
 
     The grants go to political subdivisions that have been impacted by rapid development in the state’s oil and gas counties. More than 130 grants were awarded during the current grant round to.
 
     The Legislature provided nearly $240 million in Energy Impact Grants for the current two-year budget cycle. Other grant rounds include cities, fire districts, emergency medical services, K-12 schools, higher education, airports and law enforcement.

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Hess Corp. says it’s willing to do more inspections than required on proposed pipelines that would pass under Lake Sakakawea in northwestern North Dakota.
 
     Hess North Dakota Pipelines LLC wants to build a crude oil pipeline and a natural gas liquids pipeline in McKenzie and Williams counties. Officials say they would connect Bakken production fields south of Lake Sakakawea to existing processing and truck facilities north of the lake.
 
     The Williston Herald reports Hess officials said during a public hearing earlier this month in Williston that the project is critical to its plan to reduce flaring.
 
     The estimated cost of the oil pipeline is $105 million. An estimate isn’t yet available for the gas pipeline.
 
     The North Dakota Public Service Commission is deciding whether to approve the Hawkeye Pipeline Project.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says at least four Americans have died in Nepal’s earthquake. A spokesman says all four were killed at the Mt. Everest base camp. The official death toll from the disaster has soared past 4,000 people, though that number is expected to climb significantly.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Tuesday is a potential watershed moment for gay and lesbian couples. After rapid changes that have made same-sex marriage legal in all but 14 states, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over making it the law of the land. All eyes will be on the justices for signals they might be prepared to rule that the Constitution forbids states from defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Outside the court, people have been waiting in line since Friday for prized seats.
 
     BALTIMORE (AP) – A nearly two-hour funeral Monday  for Freddie Gray has ended in Baltimore. Gray died of a mysterious spinal injury he suffered while he was in police custody. One of the speakers at the funeral, congressman Elijah Cummings, said, “We will not rest until we address this and see that justice is done.” 
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – A prosecutor says toxicology results show that an off-duty New Jersey officer who was behind the wheel in a wrong-way crash that killed another officer and a friend on a New York City highway was drunk. The prosecutor isn’t commenting on possible charges against Pedro Abad stemming from the March 20 crash. Authorities say Abad crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer after leaving a Staten Island strip club.
 
     PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Philadelphia woman is facing charges including false imprisonment, after authorities say she locked her four children in the basement for more than 13 hours without food or a bathroom as punishment. Firefighters broke through a second-floor window of the home Sunday after one child used a cellphone to dial 911. The children range in age from nine to 13. Police say Charnae Lee acknowledged telling the children to stay in the basement, but she said she didn’t know the door was locked.