Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 29

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, a 40 percent chance in the Valley City area. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms

in the morning, then showers likely and chance of thunderstorms

in the afternoon. Highs around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph

shifting to the northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance

of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy

after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to

10 mph.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds

5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East

winds around 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Chance of showers in the morning, then

slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.

Highs around 80. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely and chance of

thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of

precipitation 60 percent.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

 

 

Scattered rain showers and thunderstorms may

continue west and central Tuesday night. The potential for severe

weather is marginal. However, small hail, gusty winds to 40 mph,

locally heavy rain, and dangerous lightning are expected with the

stronger storms.

Scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are forecast across

central North Dakota on Wednesday. Severe weather is not expected.

The active weather pattern continues with additional rounds of

thunderstorms possible Thursday through Friday night across

western and central North Dakota. These days will have to be

monitored for possible severe weather.

 

Jamestown (CSi) May 29, 2018  The Jamestown Police Department wants to warn Jamestown residents that a convicted sex offender has  again  changed his address in  the City of Jamestown.

40 year old Larry Gant is now homeless at the 100 block of 1st Street West, living on a City Park Bench in Jamestown, ND.

He presently has no vehicle.

Gant is a black male 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 177 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.

He has been assigned at high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee, of the office of the North Dakota Attorney General.

Offense:

Gant and two other individuals entered a residence through a bedroom window. They raped a developmentally disabled teenager who was sleeping in the bedroom

Conviction Date: February 11, 2003 at Shelby County District Court, in Tennessee. Disposition: 8 years.

Gant is present on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation.

Gant is not wanted by police at this time, and is currently serving the sentence imposed by the court. This notification is meant for public safety, and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender. Attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, or their families, landlords or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of Gant’s photo and demographics are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered offenders is available on the Attorney General’s web site:

www.sexoffender.nd.gov

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota farmers are taking advantage of good weather to catch up on spring planning.The U.S. Department of Agriculture says there were 6.1 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Sunday.Soybean planting was 72 percent, behind last year’s pace of 79 percent but ahead of the five-year average of 61 percent. Twenty percent of soybeans had emerged, near last year’s 24 percent and on par with average.

Farmers had planted 87 percent of the corn crop, which is behind last year’s 92 percent but near the 84 percent average. Of the planted corn, 34 percent had emerged, well behind 62 percent last year and behind the 46 percent average.

Pasture and range conditions in North Dakota are rated 27 percent poor or very poor.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials have offered a glimpse of the interior of North Dakota’s new $5 million governor’s mansion, calling the new home more suitable and secure for the state’s first families.Capitol Facilities Manager John Boyle told reporters Tuesday that final touches are still being done to the 13,700-square-foot home on the state Capitol grounds. He says a public open house will occur later this summer.Republican Gov. Doug Burgum and first lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, along with Mr. Gray the cat, moved into the home in March.The old mansion that had served North Dakota’s first families for more than 57 years was torn down earlier this month.The Legislature in 2015 approved construction of the new mansion, stipulating that $1 million of its cost be funded by private donations.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Members of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation’s board have voted to pursue trademarks through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.The board’s executive committee on Tuesday voted to obtain trademarks for both “Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library” and “Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum,” along with associated logos.Board attorney Murray Sagsveen recommended getting the trademarks before someone outside the state decides to do so.The foundation is working to develop a presidential library at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline is showering Nebraska public officials with campaign cash as it fights for regulatory approval in a state that is one of the last lines of resistance for the $8 billion project.

A political action committee for TransCanada Inc. has donated more than $65,000 to campaigns within the last year, mostly to Republican state lawmakers, the Nebraska GOP and Gov. Pete Ricketts, according to an Associated Press review of campaign disclosure records.

Pipeline opponents say the company’s contributions show it’s trying to exert influence over the state’s top elected officials at the expense of landowners who don’t want the pipeline running through their property.

“There is no question big political donations have bought some politicians,” said Jane Kleeb, president of the Bold Alliance.

Kleeb said her group has worked to recruit and support candidates who openly oppose the Keystone XL pipeline. She noted that activists have kept the project from moving forward for a decade, despite being outspent. TransCanada first proposed the pipeline in July 2008.

Within the past year, TransCanada has given $25,000 to Ricketts’ re-election campaign, $15,000 to the Nebraska Republican Party and $25,500 to state lawmakers, according to filings with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission.

 

ANTLER, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian woman is dead after a crash in northern North Dakota involving two motorcycles.The Highway Patrol says 64-year-old Judith Brown, of Macoun, Saskatchewan, was traveling with another woman from Bottineau to the Sherwood Port of Entry late Sunday afternoon.Brown’s motorcycle struck the rear of the other bike near Antler, and both motorcycles overturned on state Highway 256.Both drivers were taken to a Minot hospital, where Brown was pronounced dead. The other driver suffered unspecified injuries.

 

BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — The Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation is getting $1 million in federal money to upgrade its water system so it delivers clean water.

The grant funding is through the federal Agriculture Department’s Rural Development agency.

It will pay for replacement of the reservation’s water mains, which are too small to adequately supply residents and are at risk of contamination when under low pressure.

 

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — A large agriculture cooperative created by a merger is moving forward after starting operations in the Dakotas this year.

The Daily Republic reports that Agtegra Cooperative purchased 85 million bushels of grain from February to April and has shipped more than 60 million bushels.

The newly formed Agtegra has been up and running for three months. The cooperative was created by the merging of former South Dakota Wheat Growers and North Central Farmers Elevator co-ops.

Mike Nickolas is the executive vice president for grain at Agtegra and the former CEO for North Central. He says the new company has benefited from a small increase in prices in February, and good corn and soybean exports in the Pacific Northwest.

Agtegra has 6,770 member-owners and about 20,000 equity holders in the company.

 

World and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump “continues to actively prepare” for the president’s “expected summit” with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon) in Singapore. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh AH’-bay) at the White House on June 7.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos this weekend of young-looking detainees at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating children from their parents. The 2014 photos were taken during the Obama administration. Trump noted their mistake in his Twitter feed Tuesday, saying Democrats linked to the photos “to make us look bad.” He says Democrats must agree to his plan for a border wall.BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Michel says the convict who killed two police officers and a bystander in the city of Liege was indirectly mentioned in state security reports on radicalization. Michel said Benjamin Herman, who was killed by police after he shot the three victims with the female officers’ service weapons, appeared in the security reports “in notes that did not primarily target him, but others.” He says Herman did not his name on a list maintained by an anti-terror assessment group.ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — Police say a body found in the Patapsco River has been identified as 39-year-old Eddison Hermond, the sole person reported missing following the torrential rains that prompted destructive flash flooding in a historic Maryland town. The Howard County Police issued the confirmation Tuesday shortly after they announced that crews had found a man’s body. He was reported missing early Monday in Ellicott City.