Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Jun 12

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS. HIGHS
 AROUND 70. NORTH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS
 40 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA…30 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
 .TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
 .THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
 .THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY
 CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
 .FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 15 TO
 20 MPH.
 .FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
 .SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
 .SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
 .SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.

THE NEXT BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON SUNDAY.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Stutsman Rural Water District will meet on Monday (Jun 17, 2013) at their offices at 9-a.m. to vote on approving the draft agreement between it and the City of Jamestown, to settle a seven month old territorial dispute.

The meeting will be open to the public.

The settlement will end the question of which entity will provide water to Titan Machinery’s new building west of Jamestown, including the area around Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

The draft agreement approved by the City Council last week, includes a territorial

exchange, which gives Titan Machinery to SRWD and an area south of the airport to the city of Jamestown.

Territorial boundaries between the two groups would be set at the 2010 Jamestown city limits.

After representatives of Rural Water and the city sign the agreement, it will go to the North Dakota Public Finance Authority and then to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development for signatures.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 11, 2013) — There will be a meeting on the planned T-hangar construction at Jamestown Regional Airport on Wednesday June 12, 2013 at 6-p.m., at the airport’s administrative office.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Regional Airport Manager, Matt Leitner said the meeting open to the public will update plans to construct the initial 10 T-hangars on the southwest side of the airport land, which will be owned by the airport and leased.

Leitner recently attended a meeting with the State Aeronautics Commission which has earmarked an increase in funding for the project.

He added the funding amount from the state has been increased from 75% to 90% from $390,000 to $468,000, for hangar construction including taxi lanes and apron construction.

Future plans call for constructing additional T-hangars in lots of 10.

Other projects this summer at the airport includes installing a new rotating beacon, along with a new electronic access gates, and a new guidance system.

With Jamestown boardings, Leitener pointed out that in May 2013 boardings increased to 206 from 193 in May of 2012. He anticipates the June 2012 boardings of 175 will be surpassed this year.

Leitner noted that drag races at the airport will be July 27, 28, 2013, in conjunction with Jamestown Drag Racing Association.

　

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 11, 2013) – Following a request by the State Historical Society that the Barnes County Commission delay plans to remodel the courthouse basement, until the Historical Society had the opportunity to review plans, in accordance with state law, the Historical Society gave the go ahead this week, to proceed.

The plan was delayed at the , request of the City Building Inspector after a recent asbestos check in the basement of the courthouse.

Commission President Eldred Knutson says the county should hear soon from the state Health Department on the results of the test, before moving forward to remodel the space for a Public Service Answering Point Center.

Knutson asked if the city did the same asbestos inspections following their clean up of lead in the basement of city owned law enforcement center.

Barnes County is moving ahead with plans to remodel the basement space for the new Public Service Answering Point Center.

Earlier this year the Barnes County Commission relocated the Sheriff’s offices from the city owned law enforcement center stemming partially because of airborne lead particles from an indoor shooting range, and because the building is in the flood plain.

　

 MOTT, N.D. (AP) – A 19-year-old Mott man has died in a farming accident.
 
     Hettinger County Sheriff Sarah Warner says  Mike Wehri was reportedly spraying a field about 2 miles north of Mott on Monday when he struck something electrical.
 
     The incident caused power outages for Montana Dakota Utilities customers in Mott, Regent and New England.
 
     Authorities are still investigating.

 

AMIDON, N.D. (AP) – A Bowman man has died after tangling with a cow on a ranch in southwestern North Dakota’s Slope County.
 
     Sheriff Pat Lorge says 81-year-old Stanley Pope was pronounced dead at the scene Monday night. Lorge says Pope and one of his sons were preparing to transport the cow to the family ranch near Amidon when the animal threw Pope over a fence and he landed on his head.
 
     Pope and his wife, Joan, were preparing to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in September. He is survived by his wife, three sons, a daughter, a grandchild and two great-grandchildren.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have recovered the body of a man who is believed to have drowned in the Missouri River near Bismarck.
 
A dive rescue team pulled the body of 52-year-old Ralph E. Haycock from the water Monday afternoon in the area of the Kimball Bottoms boat ramp. The man was last seen while swimming on Sunday.
 
     Sgt. Trent Wangen says Haycock had a Bismarck address and previously lived in Texas.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Texas man is facing two counts of manslaughter in North Dakota for allegedly causing a traffic crash that killed two motorcycle drivers from Montana.

Authorities allege that Joshua Everett tried to pass a semitrailer on state Highway 1804 near Trenton on Thursday night and collided head-on with the two oncoming motorcycles.

The Highway Patrol identified the victims as 20-year-old Blake Reynolds of Fairview, Mont., and 18-year-old Edmund Kimmel of Roundup, Mont.

Everett could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Court documents do not list an attorney or a hometown for him. He is due back in court on July 9, at which time he might enter pleas to the charges.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A midsummer trial has been scheduled for an Idaho man accused of driving a kidnapped woman’s car to North Dakota and pulling a gun on a trucker there. Fifty-seven-year-old Mitchell Walck has pleaded not guilty to four felonies, including terrorizing. Authorities allege he shot at an Idaho state trooper last Nov. 30, kidnapped a woman from her Rathdrum, Idaho, home a day later, released her the next day in Glendive, Mont., then drove to Bismarck and threatened  a trucker whose semitrailer sleeper cab he had entered.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Attorney General’s office is getting an additional $30,000 to help cover the costs to defend a 2011 state law that seeks to limit the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies.
 
     North Dakota’s Emergency Commission unanimously approved the funding on Tuesday.
 
     North Dakota has spent more than $52,000 defending the 2011 state law. Records show that Dr. Donna Harrison has billed the state more than $49,000 to act as an expert witness in the case.
 
     East Central Judge Wickham Corwin said in April that he will rule in favor of the state’s sole abortion clinic in its challenge of the state law. Corwin has not officially ruled on the case. 
 
     Lawyers for the state say they would appeal if Corwin rules against them.
 
     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Caught on the wrong side of the power curve, Democrats in the state Legislature won’t be heading up any of the interim committees that will suggest legislation for the 2015 session. Democrats simply are too outnumbered to flex any political muscle.
 
     The Legislative Council on Monday named the members of 22 study committees that will be submitting reports, including suggested bills for the next Legislature to consider.
 
     The council is a committee of 17 lawmakers that oversees the Legislature’s business between sessions. It is headed by Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg of Grand Forks.
 
     Republicans have two-thirds majorities in both the North Dakota House and Senate, and they control the study and committee selection process.
 
     Democrats protested the selection process. But Holmberg says Republicans held chairmanships during the regular session and it provides continuity to keep it that way between sessions.

 

 PEMBINA, N.D. (AP) – The fire chief in the northeastern North Dakota city of Pembina isn’t happy that a fire left him without a place to live. But he says the experience isn’t nearly as harrowing as when he lost a home to flooding in 1997.
 
     The cause of last Thursday’s blaze in the home Jon Kalka was renting wasn’t immediately determined. No one was hurt.
 
     The home was one of the oldest in Pembina, having been built in 1861.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Meetings have been scheduled to allow residents of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, Minn., to speak out a bridge project.
 
     Proposals have been made to improve or replace the Sorlie Memorial Bridge that spans the Red River and connects the two downtowns.
 
     Public gatherings are scheduled Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Grand Forks City Hall, and Thursday at 5 at the East Grand Forks City Hall.
 
     Members of the North Dakota and Minnesota transportation officials will be there to answer questions.

 

In sports…

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 11, 2013) — Improvements to the McElroy Park diamond number 11 are progressing.

Joan Morris, representing a group advocating updating the diamond for fast-pitch softball, told the parkboard members that the dugouts are finished and the project is about two weeks from completion.

Still left is installing the backstop support poles and the scoreboard.

The $70,000 in project cost is paid by funds from Jamestown Parks and Recreation, Jamestown Public Schools, Jamestown College and other donors as Ms. Morris said the project is close to budget..

Parks and Recreation Director Doug Hogan says Parks Department workers will assist at the ball diamond as time allows.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The attorney for a star North Dakota State University linebacker facing an aggravated assault charge says his client’s conduct can be defended.
 
     Twenty-one-year-old linebacker Travis Beck was suspended from the team indefinitely earlier this week after allegedly hitting a man until he was unconscious outside a downtown Fargo bar early Sunday.
 
     Defense attorney Bruce Quick says he believes Beck was acting in self-defense. He says Beck is cooperating with the police investigation.
 
     NDSU is the two-time defending champion in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision.

 

  GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A University of North Dakota aviation student and a flight instructor are slated to compete in a transcontinental air race for female pilots.
 
     School officials say student Amy Warbalow and instructor Katrina Kugler are slated to leave Thursday from the Grand Forks airport. The Air Race Classic begins next week in Pasco, Wash. Aviation teams are given four days to fly the 2,400 miles to Fayetteville, Ark. The race is run only during daylight hours.
 
     UND says it’s the first time the school has fielded a team for the event, which traces its roots to 1929.

 

AA…

 St. Paul 8, Fargo-Moorhead 7

 

MLB…

 INTERLEAGUE

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Justin Morneau hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning yesterday to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Morneau added an RBI double earlier in the game. Brian Duensing earned the win and Glen Perkins picked up his 14th save for Minnesota.
 
    
 
       AMERICAN  LEAGUE
 
   Final          Baltimore            3    L.A.  Angels          2
   Final          Tampa  Bay            8    Boston                    3
   Final          Cleveland            5    Texas                      2
   Final          Detroit                3    Kansas  City          2
   Final          Toronto                7    Chi  White  Sox      5,  10  Innings
   Final          Oakland                6    N-Y  Yankees          4
   Final          Seattle                4    Houston                  0
 
 
       NATIONAL  LEAGUE
 
   Final          Pittsburgh          8    San  Francisco      2
   Final          Miami                    5    Milwaukee              4
   Final          St.  Louis            9    N-Y  Mets                2
   Final          Cincinnati        12    Chi  Cubs                2
   Final          Colorado              8    Washington            3
   Final          San  Diego            3    Atlanta                  2

 LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ian Kennedy hit Yasiel Puig and Zack Greinke with high pitches, sparking a heated brawl that involved players and coaches and resulted in six ejections in a game in which the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 Tuesday night.
 
     Kennedy, Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson and coach Turner Ward, along with Puig, reliever Ronald Belisario and Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire were ejected in the seventh inning after the prolonged scuffle that nearly spilled into the stands.
 
     In the top of the seventh, Greinke hit Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero in the back and both teams came charging onto the field, but the scrum broke up quickly with no punches thrown.
 
     That was payback for Kennedy hitting Puig in bottom of the sixth – the ball deflected off Puig’s shoulder clipped his nose.
 
 
       NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION  PLAYOFFS

SAN ANTONIO (AP) – The San Antonio Spurs own a two-games-to-one lead in the NBA Finals rolling to a 113-77 rout of the Miami Heat. The Spurs set a finals record by hitting 16 three-pointers, with Danny Green hitting seven from beyond the arc and finishing with 27 points. Gary Neal contributed six treys and 24 points while San Antonio limited LeBron James to 15 points on 7-of-21 shooting. 
 
    
 
       WNBA  BASKETBALL

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Lindsey Whalen scored 23 points last night to lead the Minnesota Lynx to an 87-72 win over the San Antonio Silver Stars. Lynx forward Maya Moore finished with 19 points on her 24th birthday. Shenise Johnson led the Silver Stars with 16 points.
 
   

 NBA

 MONTREAL (AP) – The Minnesota Timberwolves will play the Boston Celtics in Montreal next season as part of the NBA’s Canadian series. The league announced the pairing yesterday. The Wolves and Celtics will play a preseason game at the Bell Centre in Montreal on October 20th.

 

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing is apparently on his way to the Charlotte Bobcats as their new associate head coach. A person familiar with the situation says the Bobcats and the 50-year old Ewing have reached an agreement in principle. The person spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the hire has not yet been made official.
 
     Ewing worked for five years as an assistant coach with the Magic alongside Steve Clifford, who was hired as the Bobcats head coach last month.
 
     The 50-year-old Ewing was a teammate of Bobcats owner Michael Jordan on the 1992 USA Olympic “Dream Team” that won gold at the Barcelona Games.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Forecasters say nearly 64 million people in 10 states are at risk today from the possibility of very nasty weather. A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms is expected to roar from Iowa to Maryland packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds. Meteorologist are warning of a possible derecho (duh-RAY’-choh), which is a massive storm of strong straight-line winds.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – New dashboard infotainment systems that let drivers use voice commands do a plethora of things are being pitched by automakers as safer, but a new study is saying not so fast. The study from AAA finds that the new controls are more distracting and dangerous. AAA compared the new controls to talking to a passenger, listening to a recorded book or to the radio.
 
     PARIS (AP) – A plan to simplify Europe’s patchwork airspace and open up more air traffic duties to private enterprise isn’t sitting well with air traffic controllers in France and elsewhere. A French strike has canceled about 1,800 flights. The umbrella union for air traffic controllers said 11 countries would take part, but the significant job action appeared limited to France.
 
     MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AP) – New rules in the Netherlands that say only residents can get high are being tested by the owners of three cannabis-selling cafes who are being tried for selling weed to foreigners. Both sides of the heated debate hope the trial can help the smoke clear. Supporters say hundreds of thousands of drug tourists are a nuisance.
 
     JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A recurring lung infection is keeping former South African President Nelson Mandela hospitalized a fifth day. The 94-year-old icon was taken to the hospital on Saturday. Two of Mandela’s daughters and his former wife visited the hospital yesterday. President Jacob Zuma (ZOO’-muh) called Mandela’s situation “very serious” but said he has stabilized.