Wayne Byers Show – Evening July 25, 2012

KCSi-T.V. Weather from Staff Meteorologist Steve Root

 

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. WEST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 60. SOUTH WINDS AROUND
5 MPH.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 90. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 90.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reports, a man was arrested, in connection with a burglary that occurred on Tuesday (Jul 24, 2012) three miles northwest of Eldridge. The incident was reported at 5:49-p.m.

Sheriff Chad Kaiser says, Thomas Hoggarth was arrested on charges of burglary, theft and criminal trespass.

The reports says the Sheriff’s Office and Jamestown Police apprehended the suspect after the resident returned home to find her house has been broken into and burglarized.

She confronted the man who the report says returned most of her property to the driveway from his car, and the then left.

She followed the car and the suspect was located, and taken into custody.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — A Stutsman County Sheriff’s Deputy escaped serious injury when his Sheriff’s pickup truck unit, was involved in an accident during a pursuit, on July 19, 2012.

Sheriff, Chad Kaiser said, Deputy Damien Hoyt was in pursuit of a car reported stolen in Iowa. The pickup missed a curve about five miles north, and six miles east of Jamestown at about 1:40-a.m., on Thursday July 19, 2012.

The pickup landed on its side. Hoyt was checked for injuries and released from the hospital. About $7,600 damage was reported to the Sheriff’s unit.

The two suspects were apprehended later in the day in Barnes County by the Sheriff’s Office there.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Drag racers, and fans from around the region will turn out for drag racing, on Saturday and Sunday, July 28, and 29, 2012, at Jamestown Regional Airport.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Drag Racing Association, President, Leon Westerhausen said dragsters from the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana, and Canada are expected to compete in six classes.

He said the vehicle classes range from everyday street vehicles, to modifieds, with the 16 fastest modifieds in the “Pro E.T.,” competing in the “Quick 16.”

A highlight on Saturday is the “Sheriff’s Race,” featuring Stutsman County Sheriff, Chad Kaiser, versus Burleigh County Sheriff, Pat Heinert, starting between 12:30 and 1-p.m.

The Junior Dragsters are small versions, operated by youth 8- 16 years old.

Also competing will be snowmobiles modified to race on pavement, along with ATVs and motorcycles.

The gates open at 7-a.m. each day, with the time trials starting at 9-a.m., with eliminations starting at 1-p.m.

Admission is $8 per person and children under six are admitted free.

The vehicle entry fee is $40, or $35 per day if entered both days.

Trophies will be given out to winners in the various classes.

Food vendors will also be on hand.

Westerhausen thanks the major sponsor, Buffalo City Tourism, along with the support of the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority, and the City of Jamestown, along with other sponsors.

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A farm aid organization that started in North Dakota six years ago is expanding into its fifth state.

Farm Rescue was started by North Dakota farm native Bill Gross, who flies cargo airplanes for UPS.

Farm Rescue organizes volunteers who help injured, ill or disaster-stricken farmers plant and harvest their crops.

The effort began in 2006 with Gross, three other volunteers and not much money. It has since expanded into South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, and the group is now going into Iowa.

Farm Rescue has helped almost 200 farmers, with aid from volunteers from around the country. It’s supported largely by donations from around the nation – and by more than 200 business sponsors.

Gross says it’s “exciting and inspirational” to see how Farm Rescue has grown.

 

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A suspect in an armed robbery in Williston has been arrested in Kansas.
 
     Williston Police Detective Cory Collingssays the 60-year-old man has made an initial court appearance.
 
     Police say the man had a gun, but he didn’t point it at anyone when he took an undisclosed amount of money from the bank on July 18.
 
     Collings says the department is checking to see why the man was in Williston.

 

 DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – The former director of a vocational
rehabilitation program on the Spirit Lake Sioux Indian Reservation
has been sentenced for improperly approving program benefits.

     Martina Kazena, of Fort Totten, will have to serve three months
in a halfway house and seven months of home detention.

     She pleaded guilty in January to charges that she conspired to
steal from a tribal organization and that she aided in the thefts.

     She said that while she was the vocational rehabilitation
program’s director, she approved benefits for her husband William
and other people who didn’t qualify for them.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new study says North Dakota’s oil
production could jump more than threefold by 2025 to more than 2
million barrels a day.
     The study released Wednesday by Bentek Energy LLC of Colorado
also says natural gas production could more than quintuple by 2025
in the Williston Basin. The basin includes the Dakotas and Montana.
     Natural gas is a byproduct of oil production in North Dakota,
which is the nation’s No. 2 oil producer behind Texas.
     About a third of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is
wasted because there aren’t enough pipelines to carry it to
markets.
     State Pipeline Authority director Justin Kringstad says the
study estimates future gas production and the number of facilities
and pipelines needed to process and transport the fuel.
    

 

WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – West Fargo’s school board has agreed to
buy as much as 12 acres of land for the possible construction of a
new elementary school.
     The district has been steadily gaining students. It has more
than 7,500 students in kindergarten through the 12th grade, and
officials expect enrollment to grow another 5 percent in the coming
school year.
     The land is about a half-mile east of Veterans Boulevard in
Fargo. The  district is paying $30,000 an acre.
     The money will come from an $82.5 million bond issue that was
recently approved by West Fargo voters to pay for school
construction.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Ward County Commission may ask voters to
approve a one-half percent sales tax for county building projects.
     The proposed tax would take effect in November and last for no
more than 10 years. It would finance construction of a county
office building, an expansion of the county jail and a renovation
of the Ward County courthouse.
     Some sales tax money would also be used to pay for repairs to
public works that were damaged during last year’s Souris River
flooding.
     The commissioners plan to decide Aug. 21 whether they’ll put the sales
tax on the November ballot. The commission approved an initial
draft of the proposal on Tuesday.
     Cass, Steele, Walsh and Williams counties already levy a local
sales tax.

 

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – Neither version is given a chance of passing both the House and Senate, but senators today will get a chance to vote on rival Democratic and Republican plans for extending the tax cuts that will expire in January.

The Democratic plan would extend cuts for all but the nation’s highest earners. Even if it passes in the Senate, it appears certain to fail in the House — the same fate that awaits the Republican plan in the Senate.

That measure would let the top earners keep their tax cuts as well.
 

 
     ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – The streets of downtown Anaheim, Calif., are showing the scars of a fourth day of violent protests — which left businesses with smashed windows and other damage.

Police headquarters and City Hall were also targeted by protesters angry over two deadly police shootings.

Two dozen people were arrested after 1,000 people surged through downtown last night.

The city’s mayor says the U.S. attorney’s office has agreed to review the killings that sparked the protests.
 
     BEIRUT (AP) – Dozens of government tanks are converging on Syria’s largest city. President Bashar Assad is marshaling his forces to stamp out a five-day effort by rebels to take the city of Aleppo from government hands.

 Fierce street battles have raged in the city since Saturday as rebels have pushed through friendly neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city toward its ancient center.
 
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – A judge is appointing one of Michael Jackson’s nephews to be a temporary guardian of the late singer’s children.

T.J. Jackson, a son of Tito Jackson, appeared in court today and sought the temporary appointment — but his lawyer said he wasn’t trying to permanently replace Jackson’s grandmother, Katherine.

The judge temporarily suspended her as the children’s guardian because she is in Arizona and hasn’t spoken with them in several days, amid an apparently bitter conflict within the Jackson family.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Astronaut Sally Ride — America’s first woman in space — always valued her privacy.

And she chose not to reveal publicly until after her death this week that she had been in a same-sex relationship for 27 years.

The disclosure came at the end of an obituary she had co-written with her partner.

 Some commentators have second-guessed her decision to opt for privacy, saying she could have been a role model for gay youth — but others have been supportive.