Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Nov 25

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. COLDER. HIGHS AROUND 15. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 20 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. SOUTH WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS
10 TO 15. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S.
LOWS 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
IN THE MID 20S.

 COLD WIND CHILLS 10 TO 20 BELOW TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY
 MORNING. THERE IS A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW FRIDAY AND AGAIN SUNDAY.
 AMOUNTS ARE FORECAST TO BE LIGHT.

Update

Valley City (CSi) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol, Valley City Police and Fire/Rescue and Valley City Ambulance responded to the scene of a two vehicle accident, Monday Morning (Nov 25, 2013) about 4:30-a.m., on a frost-covered I94 at mile marker 292 at Valley City.

The reports says an SUV was eastbound operated by 38 year old Ayman Ewina of LaCrosse, Wisconsin when the vehicle crossed a frost-covered bridge deck. The driver lost control of the vehicle which slid into  pickup pulling a trailer, that was parked on the south shoulder of the highway.

At the time of the collision the 45 year old driver of the pickup, Larry Cummings from Staples, Minnesota, was standing outside the vehicle re-connecting the trailer and was struck by the SUV and seriously injured. He was taken to Mercy Hospital in Valley City and then air-lifted to Sanford Hospital in Fargo.

No injuries reported to a female passenger the pickup, 41 year old Barbara Cummings nor to an 8-month old child in the pickup who was in a car seat.

The driver of the SUV was not injured.

The accident remains under investigation.

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The 23^rd Annual, Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be at Concordia Lutheran Church at 502 First Avenue North in Jamestown.

Dinner will be served from 11-a.m., to 1-p.m., Thanksgiving Day, in the church basement, handicapped accessible.

Drivers will deliver meals, or give a ride to the church, for services and the meal.

Those wishing to have a ride or meals delivered may call the church at 252-2819.

The meal is free to anyone, and consists of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, and dessert.

On The Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Pastor Tom Eckstein said the dinner started 24 years ago by the late Fritz Buegel, who owned and operated The Pantry Cafe, and wanted a free meal available to the community on Thanksgiving Day. About 40 individuals attended that meal.

He added that over the years at Concordia Lutheran Church in Jamestown attendance has grown, with over 500 last year, and 600 the year before.

This year the church will serve about 22 turkeys with all the trimmings.

He thanks the about 100 indivuals affiliated with the church and other community volunteers that make the dinner a success every year.

PARK RIVER, N.D. (AP) – Walsh County prosecutors have charged a Park River teacher with having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
 
     Fifth-grade teacher Justin Kiefer is charged with two counts of corruption or solicitation of a minor.
 
     Bond was set at $25,000.
 
     The complaint released Monday says Kiefer had sex with the girl two separate times, on Nov. 8 and Nov. 16.
 
     The 25-year-old is also a girls hockey coach in Park River.
 
     Court documents do not list a lawyer for Kiefer.

 By BLAKE NICHOLSON
 Associated Press
     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A white supremacist charged with terrorizing the small North Dakota town he’s trying to take over is refusing food.
 
     Prosecutor Todd Schwarz says Monday was the fourth day that Craig Cobb refused to eat at the Mercer County Jail in Stanton, where he’s held without bail.
 
     Cobb told The Associated Press it’s not a hunger strike.
 
     He says he’s practicing mahasamadhi (muh-haw-suh-MAW’-dee), a form of spiritual enlightenment in which the physical body is permanently left behind. Cobb says that will happen for him at yuletide, another term for Christmas.
 
     He’s been trying to turn Leith (leeth) into an Aryan enclave. He’s accused of terrorizing residents with guns earlier this month.
 
     Cobb says he was patrolling the town because of violence and harassment directed at him.
 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Prosecutors have charged a 35-year-old man with killing two people in north Fargo over the weekend.
 
     David Stevens is charged with two counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of 23-year-old Samantha Wickenheiser, of Fargo, and 30-year-old Ward Berg, of neighboring Moorhead, Minn.
 
     April Stevens, the wife of the suspect, told police she and her husband drove from Brookings, S.D., late Friday because David Stevens said he wanted to pick up clothing from the apartment where he lived with his former girlfriend.
 
     Police say David Stevens told dispatch officers he stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in her apartment.
 
     The bodies of both Wickenheiser and Berg were found outside the apartment. Police say Wickenheiser had a serrated knife lodged in her head.
 
     Court documents don’t list an attorney for Stevens.

BISMARCK (CSi)  –An annual survey conducted by 24/7 Wall St. ranks North Dakota the best-run state in the nation for the second consecutive year. The national survey evaluates hundreds of data sets including statistics on financial health, standard of living and government services to determine how well each state is managed. The top five best-run states were: North Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska and Utah.

“This study recognizes that North Dakota’s sound fiscal policies are working,” Gov. Jack Dalrymple said. “We are in a strong position to provide tax relief, maintain a healthy reserve while also investing in statewide infrastructure improvements, education, enhancements to our quality of life and other priorities.”

            The study determines how well states are run by looking at fiscal management, taxes, exports, and GDP growth by sectors, as well as, quality of life components such as poverty, income, unemployment, high school graduation, crime and foreclosure rates. The best-run states had certain characteristics in common, including well-managed budgets, high-living standards and low-unemployment. High-ranking states also demonstrated stable fiscal management and have earned high credit ratings.

            In the survey, 24/7 Wall St. noted that North Dakota’s GDP grew by 13.4 percent last year, fueling the nation’s strongest state economy. North Dakota’s economy has outpaced all other states for the past three years, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. Since 2000, North Dakota’s per capita personal income has increased by more than $29,000 while the nation’s average per-capita personal income has increased by $13,400.

The 24/7 Wall St. survey report is available at:  http://247wallst.com/

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Postal Service says mail delivery to some customers in the North Dakota oil boom town of Williston has been disrupted after some carriers quit their jobs.
 
     Sen. John Hoeven is holding a public meeting Monday with Postal Service officials in Williston to discuss mail delivery in the region.
 
     Postal Service spokesman Peter Nowacki says four mail carriers resigned this month with little or no notice. He says some people in town haven’t got mail for several days.
 
     Nowacki says the resignations also have caused mail to back up in the town’s post office because the carriers were needed to help sort mail.
 
     Nowacki says the Postal Service is working to temporarily move some carriers from other states to help out in Williston.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Bureau of Land Management says 75 percent of available federal land in western North Dakota has been leased for oil and gas development.
 
     BLM says federal oil and gas lease sales in the Dakotas and Montana topped $64 million in fiscal 2013.  North Dakota accounted for more than $61 million.
 
     Montana tallied just under $3 million and South Dakota fetched about $68,000.
 
     BLM offered about 215,000 acres in the three-state region in fiscal 2013, with more than 52,000 acres leased. All of North Dakota’s 8,900 acres offered received bids and fetched a record average of $8,900 an acre.
 
     Only two of the 187 rigs in North Dakota’s oil patch are on federal, non-tribal land.
 
     Drillers say federal permitting is too onerous. BLM says it’s clearing the backlog of permits.

 WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – Crew camps for oil field workers have become common in western North Dakota in recent years. Watford City is home to a unique camp – one for county government workers.
 
     County workers have moved their offices to five mobile homes at the fairgrounds on the outskirts of town.  They’ll be there for up to a year while the McKenzie County Courthouse is renovated and expanded.
 
     All county offices except the sheriff’s department and clerk of court have moved to the double- and triple-wide trailers.
 
     The number of county employees has grown along with the oil boom – from 130 to 160 in the past year alone. Cramped quarters for workers prompted the courthouse expansion.

 ROSEAU, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota prosecutor says an 18-year-old who doesn’t have a pilot’s license is expected to plead guilty to stealing an airplane and taking it for joyrides.
 
     Geoffrey Biteman was due in Roseau County District Court in northwestern Minnesota on Monday. Assistant County Attorney Michael Grover says Biteman is expected to plead guilty to a felony charge of motor vehicle theft and a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized use of an aircraft. He says the plea agreement includes 60 days in jail, 60 days of home monitoring, a stayed prison sentence of 13 months, up to five years’ probation and just over $1,000 in fines and fees, plus restitution.
 
     Biteman is accused of flying a Cessna 150 from Roseau to several cities in northwestern Minnesota and northeastern North Dakota over the summer.

In sports…
     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s deer gun season has closed, but the state Game and Fish Department says there are still some hunting opportunities in North Dakota.
 
     Several national wildlife refuges in the state opened to late-season upland game bird hunting on Monday They include Arrowwood, Audubon, Des Lacs, J. Clark Salyer, Lake Alice, Lake Zahl, Long Lake, Lostwood, Tewaukon, and Upper Souris.
 
     Game and Fish says hunting on the Tewaukon refuge is for pheasants only, and portions of all refuges are closed to hunters. Other restrictions also apply, such as the use of nontoxic shot.
 
     The hunting seasons for pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse close statewide on Jan. 5.

In world and national news…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghanistan’s president says he has told the U.S. national security adviser that he won’t back down from his refusal to sign a security agreement with the United States. Hamid Karzai says he still wants his successor to sign the agreement next year. A statement issued by Karzai’s office says that in a meeting Monday with Susan Rice, he also asked for further assurances from the United States that its forces will not raid Afghan homes, and that the U.S. is committed to helping start peace talks with the Taliban.
 
     STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s attorney general says you can’t hold teenagers responsible if you don’t also hold adults responsible. Mike DeWine announced today the indictment of a school superintendent in Steubenville, along with an elementary school principal and two coaches, in connection with the rape of a drunken 16-year-old girl by two football players. A grand jury had investigated whether school officials knew of the rape allegation but failed to report it. The superintendent is facing felony counts of obstructing justice.
 
     DALLAS (AP) – Some of the country’s biggest airports — in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and Charlotte — could be seeing some major delays between now and Thanksgiving, as a winter storm system continues to move eastward. The storm Monday brought a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Forecasters say it will bring mostly rain to the East Coast, with up to three inches of rain drenching travelers. Further inland, they expect sleet and snow. 
 
     MIAMI (AP) – Saturday marks the end of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. And it’s delivered the fewest hurricanes since 1982. Government scientists say it’s because of drier-than-expected air. There were 13 named storms, but only two became hurricanes. And only one storm — Tropical Storm Andrea — made landfall in the United States.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – The future of plastic-foam food containers in New York City is up for debate. A City Council committee began a hearing Monday on proposals to ban the containers or explore recycling them. Street vendors and eateries value the lightweight, heat-keeping plastic foam cups, plates and to-go cartons. But they take a long time to break down in landfills. San Francisco and several other cities have banned the containers. New Yorkers throw out about 23,000 tons of foam per year.