Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Aug 9

REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 80. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS AROUND 80. LOWS
AROUND 60.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. LOWS AROUND 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 80.

 

Undated — The North Dakota Tea Party Caucus has announced Tea Party Rallies in seven North Dakota cities, on September 17, 2012, Constitution Day.

A news release says, the goal is to bring concerned citizens of North Dakota together to express Constitutional solutions in what is the most important election in a generation. All times will be at 6:30 PM local time.

The cities hosting the rallies are:

Fargo – City Hall (207 4 th St N)

Jamestown – KC Hall (519 1st Ave S)

Bismarck – State Capital (Front Steps)

Minot – Oak Park (11th to 14th block of 4th Ave NW)

Dickinson – Gate City Bank (204 Sims St, basement)

Williston – Airport Int’l Inn (3601 2nd Ave W)

Grand Forks – Sept 15 or 17th, location/time to TBA

(locations are subject to change)

NDTPC, Executive Director, Perry Schumacher says, “The North Dakota Tea Party Caucus remains committed to action by shaping a new political reality in our state.

Once again we want to provide an opportunity for North Dakota citizens to express to all candidates how America’s future is tied to the Constitution.

The energy we saw in the election of 2010 remains. From now until November we will do everything possible to assure the momentum created in 2010 continues.”

NDTPC, President, Leon Francis, says, “The citizens of North Dakota will do our part to assure this President does not fundamentally transform America as he has stated is his goal.”

Mike Motschenbacher of Bismarck, says “These simultaneous rallies once again demonstrate the united efforts across our state by concerned citizens.

Those who believe in the principles of the NDTPC will have an opportunity to come together in a city near them to demonstrate their strength of commitment.

Since 2009 the tea party has shaped the debate of our country.

On September 17th, we in North Dakota will continue adding to that debate.”

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Montana man accused of abducting and
killing a man in North Dakota has pleaded guilty to murder and
kidnapping.
     Forty-two-year-old John Bridges, of Missoula, appeared in court
Thursday.
Judge Cynthia Feland repeatedly questioned his decision to proceed
without an attorney but Bridges said he wanted to “get this over
with.”
     Bridges is accused of killing 40-year-old Lee Clay, who had
recently moved to Bismarck from Georgia. Court documents show that
the two apparently met while working at a temp agency, and that
Bridges had a dream that made him suspicious of Clay.

     Clay was found dead in a van that crashed in a ditch off
Interstate 94 on July 6.

An officer became suspicious that Clay’s injuries didn’t match the severity of the crash.

 

GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) – Four city workers in Grafton accused of
stealing city property have pleaded not guilty.
     The charges are filed against former Utilities Superintendent
Brent McMillan and three of his employees, Brady Strom, Russell
Geddes and Kelly Laskowske.
     All four were fired in June. The City Council reinstated Geddes
and Laskowske last week, but Walsh County State’s Attorney Barbara
Whelan says she still plans to prosecute them.
     The four men are accused of stealing and reselling copper wire
and electrical equipment.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A group says it will stop airing a television ad that is critical of North Dakota Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp’s record as attorney general.
 
     The ad claims when Heitkamp was attorney general during the 1990s, she spent taxpayer money on private airplanes.
 
     Heitkamp on Thursday called the statement “completely false” and asked TV stations to quit running it.
 
     It was produced by Crossroads GPS, an organization that supports Republicans.

A Crossroads spokesman says the ad has been taken down voluntarily. The group had intended to spend $191,000 running it into the middle of next week.
 
     Heitkamp says when she was attorney general, her office got two surplus planes for free from the Department of Defense.

One was flown on anti-drug missions. The second was used for spare parts.
 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Public Service Commission
wants to participate in a federal lawsuit that accuses two
commissioners of taking improper campaign contributions.
     Two environmental groups have filed the lawsuit against federal
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

It says Salazar should take away the North Dakota agency’s responsibilities for regulating coal mining. Instead, the federal government would do the job.
     The lawsuit says Commissioners Brian Kalk and Kevin Cramer have
taken campaign donations from the coal industry.

It says that’s reason enough to disqualify the commission from regulating coal mining.
     Cramer says the commission needs to take part in the lawsuit
because North Dakota should keep control of coal mine regulation.

     Sierra Club spokesman Wayde Schafer says taxpayers shouldn’t
have to foot the bill to defend the ethical choices of Cramer and
Kalk.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple has appointed longtime educator Rick Buresh to serve as an adviser on rapidly growing schools.
 
     Buresh also will help form an advisory group to be comprised of western North Dakota school superintendents, teachers, counselors and school board members.

That part of the state is seeing big student increases because of the oil boom.
 
     Buresh was a longtime school official in Bismarck before taking the superintendent’s position in Fargo five years ago.

He retired in June and this summer was a candidate for a seat on the state Board of Higher Education.

Dalrymple chose someone else for that position.
 
     Dalrymple says he will include assistance for fast-growing schools in his budget proposal for next year’s Legislature.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A plant pest widely found in the eastern
U.S. has been detected in North Dakota for the second time in 11
years.
     Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says Japanese beetles
have been found in traps in West Fargo.

He says the bugs mainly damage trees, ornamental plants and turf grass, but they also can harm soybean and corn crops.
     Japanese beetle trapping has been ongoing in North Dakota since
1960. The last time a beetle was found was in 2001, in Burleigh
County.
     Goehring says his department monitors about 80 traps.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Frontier Airlines is returning to North Dakota’s largest city.
 
     Frontier will begin nonstop flights between Fargo and Denver on Nov. 16.

 There will be flights from Denver to Fargo on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and Fargo-to-Denver flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
 
     Frontier last served Fargo in 2010, with 74-seat turboprop aircraft. The new service will use 138-seat planes.

 

In sports…

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State University head football
coach Craig Bohl has dismissed linebacker Brandon Jemison for an
unspecified violation of team rules.
     Jemison is a 6-foot-1, 217-pound senior from Fargo. He played in
all 40 games during his first three years and started 27 of them.
He had 185 career tackles, four forced fumbles and four fumble
recoveries.
     NDSU is the defending Football Championship Subdivision
champion.

 

In world and national news…

LONDON (AP) – A computer security firm says it has discovered a
new batch of malicious software linked to the Stuxnet virus.
Moscow-based Kaspersky says the “Gauss” virus was aimed at
stealing financial information from mainly Middle Eastern victims.
The company says the virus is similar in structure and operation to
Flame, a program aimed at vacuuming information from target
computers.

Stuxnet and Flame have been attributed to the U.S. and
Israeli governments, and Kaspersky says all three likely came from
the same source.
     
     MILWAUKEE (AP) – A ceremony is being planned at a Sikh (seek)
temple in Wisconsin where six worshippers were gunned down by a
white supremacist on Sunday.

Temple leaders were allowed to return to the building today for the first since the shootings.

Tomorrow’s ceremony to honor the victims involves a series of priests reading their holy book aloud from cover to cover.

The rite takes 48 hours.
     
     NEW YORK (AP) – Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama
and his allies of launching personal attacks and perpetuating lies
about him in TV ads.

Meanwhile, the Republican presidential candidate has rolled out a new commercial of his own questioning Obama’s values and accusing the president of waging war on religious freedom.

Obama’s campaign disputes the charge. At a rally in Colorado Thursday, the president predicted voters would see “more negative ads” than ever.
     
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A prototype NASA lander has crashed and burned
in a test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA says it appears that the methane-powered Morpheus lander is a total loss, but nobody was hurt in the unmanned test.

The lander was built mostly with off-the-shelf equipment at Johnson Space Center in Houston in an attempt to use cheaper, more readily available and
environmentally friendly rocket fuel.
     
     PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – The Curiosity rover is sending back
fresh images from Mars.

The latest is a 360-degree color view from the crater where it landed. Curiosity is on a two-year mission to study whether the Gale Crater ever had conditions favorable for microbial life.