Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Sept 20

CSi Weather…

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 60S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 50.
.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.

Here’s the latest update on the Jamestown, ND Sewer Construction Project.

3rd Ave NW, from 4th St NW to 3rd St NW, and 3rd St NW, from 3rd Ave NW to 1st Ave N, are now open to traffic.

3rd Street SE from 9th Ave SE, to Railroad Drive is open to traffic. Other miscellaneous work is expected to take place in this area periodically during the next few weeks.  12th Avenue SE is expected to remain closed from 3rd Street SE to 5th Street SE until early next week.

Motorists and residents should be aware that cleanup and other miscellaneous work is expected to take place in these areas periodically during the next few weeks.

2nd St SW is now closed from 3rd Ave SW to the river.   Drivers need to use detour to 1st St West bridge to access the Klaus Park area of SW Jamestown.  A detour is in place on 1st St SW.

3rd Ave SW is closed between 1st St. West and 2nd Street SW.

Enter CSi Cable and Computers via 4th Ave. SW.

 – Starting Friday, a segment of 8th Avenue SW, south of Grizzly’s restaurant, will be closed to traffic so crews can install a water main. 8th Avenue SW will be closed from 28th Street SW to 29th Street SW.

The closure is expected to last for one day. Local businesses will be accessible from the north. In addition, 37th Street SE is open to the public.

For more information, contact Travis Dillman with Interstate Engineering at (701) 252-0234.

The latest updates on line at CSiNewsNow.com and on The Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 20, 2013) The Jamestown Public School Board and Jamestown Education Association have reached an agreement on teacher salaries, ending negotiations that started in April this year.

They agreed to have the two-year contract reflect the recommendation by the North Dakota Education Fact Finding Commission.

The JEA offer was to follow the fact finders’ recommendation.

Under the agreement, teachers receive a 4 percent salary increase for this school year and a 4.3 percent increase for 2014-2015.

School Board President, Roger Haut says the School Board would accept the Fact Finding Commission’s proposal, “in the best interest of time, money and the well-being of our students and our community.”

The negotiating session was the next step in a process that had the government-appointed Fact Finding Commission review the School Board’s and JEA’s offers after negotiations hit impasse, with neither side adjusting its offer.

Business manager Sally Ost said contracts will be made for the teachers as soon as possible.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Williams County authorities say they believe a shooting this week was the result of a prior altercation between the two men involved, but they’re unsure how the suspect and victim knew one another.
 
     The sheriff’s office has released few details in the shooting early Wednesday that sent a 42-year-old Idaho man to the hospital with two gunshot wounds. He is expected to recover.
 
     A pickup truck believed to be driven by the male suspect was found in Bismarck later Wednesday, but the suspect was not in it.
 
     The  shooting happened in a makeshift recreational vehicle park outside of Williston. Authorities have not identified the victim or suspect.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Jurors in Fargo have started deliberations in the trial of a man accused of killing two children on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.
 
     Twenty-year-old Valentino “Tino” Bagola is charged with murder for the May 2011 slayings of 9-year-old Destiny Jane Shaw-Dubois and her 6-year-old brother, Travis Lee DuBois Jr. in St. Michael.
 
     Their mother found their bodies under a mattress at the home she had once shared with the sibling’s father.
 
     Authorities allege that Bagola stabbed the children to death after he sexually assaulted the girl, and that he did so because he was angry at their father but couldn’t find him.
 
     The defense alleges that the children’s father killed them. He denies the claim.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal jurors in Bismarck are deliberating the fate of a man accused of stabbing to death another man on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
 
     Waylon Hicks has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the July 2012 slaying of 30-year-old Jeremiah Sage, of Halliday, at the New Town Marina.
 
     Hicks is accused of stabbing Sage in the heart multiple times and slashing his throat. Hicks acknowledges killing Sage but says it was self-defense.
 
     Prosecutors argued that Hicks had a hatred of homosexuals and acted violently because he was appalled another man would come on to him, not because he was afraid for his life.
 
     Authorities found Sage’s vehicle engulfed in flames, with his body inside burned beyond recognition.
 

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has ordered a Wyoming-based company and its operators to stop doing business in North Dakota.
 
     Stenehjem issued the cease-and-desist order against Direct Recovery Service Inc.
 
     Stenehjem says the company was involved in an “office supply scam” in North Dakota. He says the company threatened legal action against companies to collect on bogus bills for toner cartridges and other office supplies that were never ordered or received.
 
     A telephone listing for Direct Recovery Service could not be found.
 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Fire officials are investigating the cause of a blaze that damaged a Grand Forks business that makes coating products used in the aerospace industry. The Wednesday fire at Technology Applications Group Incorporated damaged the building and some equipment. It is believed to be electrical in nature.  A damage estimate was not immediately available.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Montana-Dakota Utilities Company is asking North Dakota regulators for a 6.4 percent increase in its natural gas rates. The request would raise a typical residential customer’s natural gas bill by about $5.15 a month.
 
     President and chief executive officer Frank Morehouse says the company has made “significant” investments in its natural gas infrastructure and the increase is needed to help recover the costs.
 
     MDU’s proposed natural gas increase would raise $6.8 million in additional revenues for the Bismarck-based company each year. The utility has about 99,000 North Dakota customers.
 
     North Dakota’s Public Service Commission has seven months to review the request.
 
     MDU says its last natural gas rate increase was 2.1 percent in 2004.
 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Nevada have sued the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it has failed to determine the states’ compliance with a new federal clean air requirement that limits sulfur dioxide emissions.   
 
     The lawsuit was filed last week in federal district court in Bismarck.
 
     Attorneys general say in court papers that the states meet the new standard under the Clean Air Act. The states allege the EPA is in violation federal law by missing its deadline to make the required determinations.
 
     EPA officials did not immediately return telephone calls from The Associated Press on Thursday.
 
     Sulfur dioxide smells like rotten eggs and is a major emission from coal-fired power plants. The air pollutant has been linked to acid rain and various respiratory ailments.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota officials are in Washington showing off the state’s capacity for unmanned aircraft systems.
 
     Representatives from the Northern Plains Unmanned Systems Authority attended a science and technology fair Thursday in a U.S. House office building.
 
     The authority includes experts from the University of North Dakota, North Dakota State University, state Aeronautics Commission, state Department of Commerce,  and the North Dakota National Guard.
 
     The state is hoping to land one of six Federal Aviation test sites for unmanned systems.
 
     Robert Becklund, executive director of the Northern Plains group, says North Dakota has “all the elements needed” to assist the FAA in its plan to safely integrate unmanned aircraft into the same airspace as manned vehicles.

 

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A movie prop used in an unsettling scene from the movie “Fargo” will be part of tomorrow’s ESPN broadcast from the city of the same name. The wood chipper from the movie “Fargo” will be on the set of “College GameDay.” Officials don’t know how ESPN will use the device.

Game Day will be on CSi Cable 14 Saturday from 8-a.m., to 11-a.m.

 

In sports…

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Craig Bohl is having the time of his life at North Dakota State.
 
     His program is bidding to join Appalachian State as the only schools to win three straight Championship Subdivision titles. There was that season-opening victory over Kansas State. And this week ESPN’s popular College GameDay show is setting up shop in downtown Fargo in advance of the Bison’s game against Delaware State.
 
     The 55-year-old Bohl has overseen the Bison’s ascent in the FCS only nine years after beginning the transition from Division Two.
 
     Along the way the Bison have won seven of 10 games against the Bowl Subdivision.
 
     A win over FCS Delaware State would be Bohl’s 92nd and make him the career leader at North Dakota State.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota is picked by the media to finish second in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference in its inaugural season.

Miami of Ohio tops the preseason poll, followed by UND, St. Cloud State, Denver and Western Michigan.

Miami received seven of the 16 first-place votes in the poll. UND got five and St. Cloud State four.

Minnesota Duluth, Colorado College and Nebraska Omaha round out the poll.

UND returns 18 letter-winners from last year’s team that reached the NCAA West Region championship game. UND is joining the NCHC after having won a league-record 15 regular season titles in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association

 

MLB…

 AMERICAN  LEAGUE

 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – The Oakland Athletics lowered their magic number to clinch the AL West to four with a back-and-forth 8-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins last night. Sean Doolittle recorded the final four outs for the victory to end the 3-hour, 41-minute game in front of less than 11,500 fans.

 The Red Sox  clinched at least a wild card berth by beating Baltimore 3-1 on a John Lackey two-hitter.

Texas climbed into a tie with Tampa Bay for the two AL wild card spots with an 8-2 win over the Rays.

Matt Carson hit a winning single with two outs in the 11th inning, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Houston Astros 2-1 Thursday night to close within a half-game in the AL wild-card race.
   Final            Detroit                  5    Seattle              4
   Final            Toronto                  6    N-Y  Yankees      2

    
 
       NATIONAL  LEAGUE

 UNDATED (AP)- The Los Angeles Dodgers are the first team to clinch a postseason berth in baseball with a pair of home runs from Hanley Ramirez to nip Arizona 7-6 and clinch their first NL West title since 2009.

-The Pirates have helped their cause with a 10-1 win over San Diego. 

They sit a game ahead of Reds.
    Final            San  Francisco      2    N-Y  Mets            1
   Final            Chi  Cubs                5    Milwaukee          1
   Final            Colorado                7    St.  Louis          6,  15  Innings
   Final            Washington            3    Miami                  2
 
  UNDATED (AP) – In the wild card update, Tampa Bay and Texas are tied for the top two American League spots with Cleveland a half-game behind. In the National League, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are tied at the top with the Washington Nationals five back with nine games left.
       NATIONAL  FOOTBALL  LEAGUE

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Andy Reid got a Gatorade shower to remember his first trip back to Philadelphia. The former Eagles coach returned to the City of Brotherly Love and his Kansas City Chiefs responded by improving to 3-0 with a 26-16 victory over the mistake-prone Eagles, who lost their eighth straight home game dating to last season.
 
 
 
     BEREA, Ohio (AP) – The Browns have signed free agent running back Willis McGahee (muh-GAY’-hee), giving them a capable veteran after trading Trent Richardson. The 31-year-old McGahee, passed his physical as the Browns were practicing. He brings much-needed experience after the Browns dealt Richardson to Indianapolis on Wednesday.
 
     McGahee played for Denver last season.

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL…

 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Tajh Boyd threw for 244 yards and three touchdowns to help third-ranked Clemson beat North Carolina State 26-14 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. The Tigers are 3-0.
 
     Sammy Watkins added 10 catches for 96 yards on a night when Clemson’s explosive offense didn’t manage many big plays yet finished with 415 yards.
 
     N.C. State fell to 2-1.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -A University of Texas regent and a former regent talked with Nick Saban’s agent about the possibility of the Crimson Tide coach replacing Longhorns coach Mack Brown, The Associated Press has learned. The contact came just days after Saban led Alabama to the 2013 national championship.
 
    MLB…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – General manager Terry Ryan and manager Ron Gardenhire remain optimistic Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer will play again this season after a concussion. Mauer returned to the ballpark to do some cardio exercise and leg work. He hasn’t resumed baseball activities.

 

GOLF…

 ATLANTA (AP)- Henrik Stenson takes a one-shot lead over Masters champion Adam Scott into today’s second round of the PGA Tour Championship. Tiger Woods was the only golfer in the 30-man field not to post a birdie as he shot a 3-over 73, matching his highest opening round of the year on the PGA Tour.

 

 NASCAR-MWR-NAPA…

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) – Michael Waltrip says he is willing to let driver Martin Truex Jr. leave for another team if Michael Waltrip Racing is unable to find sponsorship for the 2014 season.
 
     NAPA Auto Parts will end its multimillion-dollar sponsorship of MWR at the end of the year, the latest fallout from the team’s attempt to manipulate a race to get Truex into NASCAR’s version of the playoffs.
 
     Napa is Truex’s primary sponsor and in the first year of a three-year extension announced last August. The deal ran through the 2015 season and is believed to be worth at least $15 million a year.
 
     Waltrip said Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway that he hoped Truex will stay with the organization. Waltrip says he “will not hold him back” if another team wanted to sign Truex.
 
      

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans plan to add a catch today when they vote on a temporary spending measure intended to keep the government open past the end of the month. Part of the bill would defund the health care overhaul. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, heads to a recently expanded auto plant near Kansas City, Mo., to press his case that a government shutdown would threatens the economy.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Economists say the threatened government shutdown over spending isn’t where the real consequences lie. Social Security checks will still go out. Troops will remain at their posts and the government won’t actually shut down. They say the greater danger is failure to increase the borrowing limit, which could push the federal government toward default. It could also have a practical impact, possibly delaying Social Security benefits and federal paychecks.
 
     CHICAGO (AP) – Police are hunting for the assailants who shot 13 people, including a toddler, at a Chicago park. A witness tells the Chicago Sun-Times that the shooters were in a gray sedan and wore dreadlocks. A 3-year-old boy and two other people are in critical condition.
 
     BAGHDAD (AP) – An Iraqi official says at least 11 people have been killed in an explosion today inside a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad. The deputy head of the municipal council in the largely Sunni city of Samarra says the blast also wounded at least eight people.
 
     LONDON (AP) – British police say they’ve cracked the case and arrested eight men in the cyber theft of about $2 million from a Barclays bank branch. Police say the thieves had installed a device on the bank’s computer system that allowed it to carry out the theft. Police say raids around London also recovered cash, jewels and thousands of credit cards.