Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jan 22

CSi Weather…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND
CHILL WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST THURSDAY VALLEY CITY AREA..1-P.M., JAMESTOWN AREA. THE
WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…CROOKSTON…EAST GRAND FORKS…

HALLOCK…ROSEAU…BAUDETTE…WARREN…NEWFOLDEN…RED LAKE…

THIEF RIVER FALLS…RED LAKE FALLS…FOSSTON…BAGLEY…BEMIDJI…

MAHNOMEN…LAKE ITASCA…PARK RAPIDS…DETROIT LAKES…

WOLF LAKE…FERGUS FALLS…NEW YORK MILLS…WADENA…ELBOW LAKE…

CANDO…LANGDON…CAVALIER…MADDOCK…LEEDS…DEVILS LAKE…

GRAFTON…NEW ROCKFORD…LAKOTA…GRAND FORKS…COOPERSTOWN…

FINLEY…VALLEY CITY…LISBON…GWINNER…ADAMS…CROSBY…BOWBELLS…MOHALL…
 BOTTINEAU…ROLLA…NEW TOWN…MINOT…TOWNER…RUGBY…
 KILLDEER…BEULAH…HAZEN…CENTER…GARRISON…MCCLUSKY…
 HARVEY…CARRINGTON…DICKINSON…MANDAN…BISMARCK…STEELE…
 JAMESTOWN…ELGIN…FORT YATES…LINTON…NAPOLEON…EDGELEY… ASHLEY…OAKES

 
WIND CHILL VALUES…TO 50 BELOW ZERO.
 
EXPOSED SKIN CAN FREEZE IN MINUTES WITH WIND  CHILLS THIS COLD.

A WIND CHILL WARNING MEANS THE COMBINATION OF VERY COLD AIR AND
WINDS WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. THIS WILL
RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA OR DEATH IF
PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.

Forecast…

.LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON…SUNNY. PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.
WIND CHILLS AROUND 40 BELOW. NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. COLDER. LOWS AROUND 25 BELOW.NORTHWEST
WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 45 BELOW.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 50 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW. NOT
AS COLD. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE MID 20S
AFTER MIDNIGHT. WEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IN THE MORNING. CLOUDY
WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. BREEZY. NOT AS COLD. HIGHS IN
THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IN THE
EVENING. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. BREEZY.
LOWS 10 TO 15. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH DECREASING TO AROUND
15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
IN THE LOWER 20S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. PATCHY
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. HIGHS AROUND 10.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING
SNOW IN THE EVENING. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS ZERO TO
5 ABOVE. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
5 TO 10 ABOVE.

TEMPERATURES WILL FALL THROUGH  WEDNESDAY…INTO THE TEENS BELOW BY
 NIGHTFALL. EXPECT WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 40 BELOW ZERO THROUGH
 THURSDAY MORNING.
 
 
 THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW FRIDAY…SATURDAY…AND SUNDAY…
 POSSIBLY AFFECTING TRAVEL WITH REDUCED VISIBILITIES.

Valley City (CSi) Valley City Police is looking for information, into pickup crash into the front yard of a Valley City residence, in the 200 block of 6th Street Northwest, about 6:30 Tuesday evening.

Valley City Police Chief Fred Thompson says witnesses say the driver and a passenger, a man and a woman, left the scene immediately after the crash and are wanted for questioning.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Valley City police department at 845-3110.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – One of two men charged with robbing a Medina bank at gunpoint has pleaded guilty in Fargo to one count of bank robbery.
 
     The U.S. attorney says 38-year-old Satrone Rashard Boyd, of Dickinson, is scheduled to be sentenced in April.
 
     Prosecutors say he and Rendell Hardy were wearing masks when they held up the Northland Financial bank in October.
 
     Boyd was later picked up in Fargo and Hardy was apprehended in Dickinson.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Three Affiliated Tribes Business Council says it has not been involved with a former business associate of a Spokane, Wash., man killed in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
 
     Thirty-four-year-old James Henrikson was arrested Saturday in Mandan on a weapons charge. He has not been charged in the killing of Doug Carlile, who was shot by an intruder Dec. 15 at his Spokane home.
 
     Authorities say in court documents that Henrikson is under investigation for allegedly defrauding a company owned by Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Tex Hall. The tribe’s Business Council issued a statement Wednesday saying the tribe itself hasn’t had any dealings with Henrikson.
 
     Hall has declined comment on the matter through his spokeswoman, Glenda Embry. Cell phone mailboxes for Embry and Hall were full and not accepting messages Wednesday.

 BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Prosecutors have netted a string of guilty pleas among the suspects in an interstate drug trafficking case that highlighted the criminal underside of an oil boom sweeping the Northern Plains.
 
     The latest suspect is Robert Farrell Armstrong of Moses Lake, Wash., – described by authorities as the supplier for a large methamphetamine ring in the Bakken oil patch.
 
     He was scheduled to appear in federal court in Billings on Wednesday to plead guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. He faces a minimum 10 years in prison.
 
     Armstrong was arrested in October in a crackdown aimed at offsetting rising crime in the oil producing region along the Montana-North Dakota border.
 
     Nine others have pleaded guilty in related cases in Montana. Several cases in North Dakota remain pending.

 BEACH, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says the state will receive more than $42,000 as part of a multistate $1.9 million settlement with Genworth life insurance companies.
 
     Hamm says the agreement stems from Genworth’s use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. Life insurers for years have used the file to search for and stop payments to annuity holders, but they have not used the database to identify deceased life insurance policyholders to pay beneficiaries.
 
     Hamm says Genworth is improving its payment practices.
 
     The agreement was coordinated with state insurance departments in North Dakota, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New Hampshire and Virginia.

In world and national news…

 MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) – With a peace conference on Syria off to a rough start, a U.N. mediator will meet with opposing negotiators separately tomorrow to see if they can even sit together in face-to-face talks due to begin Friday.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (bahn kee-moon) says “no one underestimated the difficulties” of the task at hand, or expected “instant breakthroughs” when the parties gathered Wednesday in Switzerland. But a bitter clash over the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they began.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – On a cold day in Washington with wind chills in the single digits, thousands of abortion opponents have rallied and marched on Capitol Hill to protest legalized abortion. The annual “March for Life” is held every January on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion. Pope Francis tweeted his support for the march. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, said it’s a chance for people to “recommit” themselves to the principle that “every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and her health.”
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says if a woman who is sexually assaulted feels like she doesn’t have recourse, then, in his words, “Shame on us.” He spoke on the day a new White House report is being released turning a spotlight on sexual assault, especially on college campuses. Obama is touting steps his administration has already taken to crack down on sexual violence, including in the military. Earlier today, Obama met with members of his Cabinet to press them to address the problem.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court Wednesday has been considering just how much money a person who views child pornography on his computer might owe to the person who is seen in those images. A man was held liable in federal court for a nearly $3.4 million judgment stemming from the Internet viewing of images of a woman known as Amy being raped by her uncle when she was 8 and 9 years old. The man had been found with two of the images on his computer — along with hundreds of other images of children. Justices questioned whether he should really have to pay all of the costs himself.
 
     NORMAN, Okla. (AP) – It appears to be a false alarm. Officials at the University of Oklahoma say they’ve seen no evidence of a shooting on campus Wednesday. Reports that shots had been fired at the university’s architecture school prompted a brief lockdown.  Officials say the sound of construction work may have been mistaken for gunfire. Tuesday, a teaching assistant at Purdue University in Indiana was shot and killed in a classroom, allegedly by another student.