Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Feb 18

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS IN THE
MORNING. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 15. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE MORNING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY
WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE
MID 30S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS 15 TO 20. WEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. AREAS
OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW
IN THE EVENING. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 10.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND
5 BELOW. HIGHS AROUND 10.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a 68 year old Spiritwood man was injured about 9:48 a.m., Monday in a one vehicle rollover accident, on I-94 near the Bloom Exit.

The report says Gerald Carlson of Spiritwood was operating his 2005 Ford Ranger westbound, when he lost control on the icy roadway, and entered the median, overturning several times coming to rest in the south ditch.

He was extricated with the Jaws of Life, by the Jamestown Fire Department.

Carlson was transported to Jamestown Regional Medical Center and later Life Flighted to Fargo for treatment of injuries.

The accident remains under investigation.

Assisting the Highway Patrol were the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office, Jamestown Police, and the Jamestown Fire Department.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board Monday evening voted 8-1 to cut $800,000 from the 2014-15 school year budget.

Board member Roy Musland, cast the only dissenting vote, and  said aside from the budget cuts the board will have to make, the proposal also includes a raise in property taxes on landowners in the district. The tax increase would bring in approximately $191,000 a year in revenue.

The school district is looking at a projected $800,000 shortfall at the end of this school year and a possible $1.8 million deficit in 2015.

Superintendent Robert Lech says about80 percent of the JPS budget is earmarked for staff salaries, and Lech said expected staff attrition this spring would allow the district an opportunity to save $200,000 by hiring new teachers at starting salaries of around $40,000 a year.

Two teaching positions are being vacated by retirement, a foreign language teacher at the high school and the Safe Drug-Free Schools coordinator.

The proposed budget plan will be reviewed by the school board including a budget hearing later this year.

The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL with showings starting later Tuesday.

 

 WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – West Fargo authorities say a daytime burglar caught in the act was apprehended after being bitten by a police dog.
 
     Police say the 29-year-old Fargo man holed up in a home he had entered midafternoon Monday when officers arrived on the scene. The dog was sent into the home and bit the suspect when the man refused to surrender.
 
     The suspect was treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening and arrested on a burglary charge and a drug warrant.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man has pleaded guilty to illegal weapons charges.
 
     Gary Hinton, of Minot, is charged in federal court with possession of firearms by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
 
     Authorities say Hinton was found in January 2013 to be in possession of three pistols and seven brands of ammunition. 
 
     Hinton has four previous felony convictions, including reckless endangerment and contact by bodily fluids.
 
     Sentencing is scheduled for May 27 in Bismarck.

 

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A new Associated Press report underscores a lesser-known danger of America’s oil boom: freight train derailments. At least 10 times since 2008, freight trains hauling oil across North America have derailed and spilled significant quantities of crude. Adding to the danger is the unusually high volatility of the light, sweet crude from the Bakken oil patch.

 

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Dakotas-based Sanford Health has opened a new clinic in Dickinson that is six times the size of the old facility.
 
     Ground was broken for the 85,000-square-foot facility in December 2012.
 
     Dickinson is one the main cities in western North Dakota’s booming oil patch. Officials say the new clinic can house more than 20 doctors.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux says a propane crisis on the Dakotas reservation is easing due to warmer weather and a drop in the price of the fuel.
 
     Chairman Dave Archambault (AHR’-sham-boh) says the tribe has ensured that everyone in need of propane has received some. He says the tribe has used $1.7 million in federal money and a $500,000 charitable grant from the Shakopee Mdewakanton (mehd-WAH’-kuh-tuhn) Sioux tribe in Minnesota.
 
     As many as 5,000 homes on the reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border rely on propane. Residents have been struggling to afford higher prices tied to a nationwide shortage of the fuel.
 
     Archambault says the tribe will continue to seek more federal money to ensure reservation residents make it through the rest of the winter.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A nonprofit that operates five health centers in central and northern North Dakota to serve the needy has opened a sixth facility in Minot.
 
     The federally supported Northland Community Health Center clinics offer medical, dental and behavioral health services to those in need regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. The Minot facility opened Feb. 12, joining centers in Rolla, Rolette, Bowbells, McClusky and Turtle Lake.
 
     Northland CEO Patrick Butler tells the Minot Daily News that the nonprofit wanted to open a clinic in Minot in part because the city is on the edge of the western North Dakota oil patch, which is booming.
 
     A grand opening for the clinic is scheduled March 12.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The federal Interior Department and U.S. Geological Survey have teamed up to produce the nation’s first publicly available interactive map and database of onshore wind turbines.
 
     The map shows more than 47,000 sites. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says the information should aid land managers and improve the siting of future wind farms.
 
     Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle says the data also will support research on wind generation efficiency.
 
     Wind turbines are prevalent throughout the Dakotas. The American Wind Energy Association says South Dakota has 474 turbines and North Dakota 994.
 
     The wind turbine map can be found at http://eerscmap.usgs.gov/windfarm/ .
 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – More than 90 tons of fresh produce went to food pantries, soup kitchens and other charities last year through the Hunger Free North Dakota Garden Project.
 
     The state Agriculture Department and the Great Plains Food Bank started the volunteer program in 2010. It encourages home gardeners and commercial growers to plant extra produce each year to donate to charity.
 
     State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says the program is a vital partnership between people who have produce to share and those who can use it.
 
     The Salvation Army in Bismarck, the Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Center of Dickinson and Churches United of Fargo were the leading recipients of produce donations last year.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – One of North Dakota’s top crops is the focus of a daylong expo in the state’s biggest city.
 
     The North Dakota Soybean Council is holding its annual Northern Soybean Expo on Tuesday at the Fargo Holiday Inn. Among those scheduled to speak are U.S. Farm Report host John Phipps and World Weather Inc. President Drew Lerner.
 
     Agriculture Department data show that North Dakota farmers produced 139 million bushels of soybeans last year, worth $1.72 billion.

 

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) As part of last weekend’s Sport & Recreation Show in Jamestown was fishing expert, Ted Takasaki, with his seminars in conjunction with the Jamestown Rural Fire Department.

Buffalo City Tourism Director Searle Swedlund attended the 9:30 Saturday presentation, which he said was attended by 48 individuals.

Takasaki said the Jamestown crowd Saturday was a large as the Friday night presentation. Swedlund added pointed out that the Jamestown crowds were very engaged.

Board member Tanea Clocksene adds, there were over 65 at the 1:30 seminar on Saturday. Between his 9:30 seminar and 1:30 seminar he sat in the Lund boats (his sponsor) in the Gun & Reel area and talked to people.

He noted that the Jamestown fishing seminars had a larger attendance than the crowds Takasaki drew at the St. Cloud Sportsman Show, the weekend before.

He adds that Takasaki’s performance was funding through a grant request approved by the Buffalo City Tourism Board.

 

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Demolition has been halted at the Metrodome after a beam unexpectedly fell out of sequence and caused a tier to collapse.
 
     John Wood, senior vice president with Mortenson Construction, says nobody was injured in the accident, which happened around 1 p.m. Monday. And he says all the debris fell within the safety zone, so no passers-by were at risk. 
 
      Investigators are trying to determine what happened because demolition requires the same precise engineering as construction. The newspaper reports the collapsed tier is visible from the street.
 
     A Mortenson spokesman says it’s too soon to say when demolition will resume, but possibly later this week.
 
     The Metrodome is slated to be gone by April to make way for the Minnesota Vikings’ new $1 billion stadium.

 

BOYS BASKETBALL
 Class B District 1 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     Lidgerwood-Wyndmere 72, Fairmount-Campbell-Tintah 57
     Oakes 48, Lisbon 45
 Championship
     Milnor 70, Sargent Central 44
 Class B District 2 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     Central Cass 69, Northern Cass 66
     Enderlin 54, Maple Valley 51
 Championship
     Kindred 73, Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran 72
 Class B District 3 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     Hatton-Northwood 63, Griggs County Central 53
     Thompson 59, Larimore 50
 Championship
     Hillsboro/Central Valley 42, May Port CG 37
 Class B District 4 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     North Border 63, Drayton/Valley-Edinburg 29
     Park River/Fordville Lankin 67, Midway-Minto 64
 Championship
     Cavalier 48, Grafton/St. Thomas 42
 Class B District 5 Tournament
 Third Place
     Medina-Pingree-Buchanan 78, Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 48
 Championship
     LaMoure-Litchville-Marion 62, Ellendale 51
 Class B District 6 Tournament
 Consolation
     Napoleon 47, South Border 45
 Semifinal
     Linton-HMB 57, Kidder County 54
 Class B District 7 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     Carrington 56, Lakota/Adams-Edmore 43
     Harvey-Wells County 81, Warwick 62
 Championship
     Four Winds/Minnewaukan 51, New Rockford-Sheyenne 37
 Class B District 8 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     Benson County 61, Starkweather-Munich 45
     St. John 70, Rolla 61
 Championship
     North Star 64, Rolette-Wolford 50
 Class B District 9 Tournament
 Region Qualifier
     New Salem-Almont 51, Standing Rock 43
     Solen 56, Grant County 44
 Championship
     Flasher 47, Shiloh Christian 42

 
 GIRLS BASKETBALL
     Beach 65, New England 30
     Beulah 51, Heart River 34
     Bottineau 60, Des Lacs-Burlington 29
     Bowman County 54, Mott-Regent 39
     Dickinson Trinity 81, Richardton-Taylor 21
     Fargo North 69, Grand Forks Central 56
     Hazen 61, Killdeer 56, OT
     Hettinger/Scranton 39, Glen Ullin-Hebron 35
     Mobridge-Pollock, S.D. 50, Standing Rock 44

 

Mens college basketball…

Baylor 70, Oklahoma St. 64, OT

North Carolina 81, Florida St. 75

Towson 78, Delaware 63

 

(Undated) Syracuse is still No. 1 in the AP college basketball poll, but it is no longer a unanimous choice.

The Orange (25-0), who won two games in the final seconds last week, are on top for a third straight week but they received 64 first-place votes Monday from the 65-member national media panel. They were a unanimous choice the last two weeks.

Florida (23-2), which won at Kentucky on Saturday, moved from third to second and received the other first-place vote.

Wichita State (27-0), the only other unbeaten Division I team, stayed third while Arizona, which lost to Arizona State last week, dropped from second to fourth.

Duke moved from eighth to fifth and was followed by San Diego State, Cincinnati, Kansas, Villanova and Saint Louis.

UCLA, at No. 23, and Gonzaga, are No. 25, return to the rankings replacing SMU and Pittsburgh.

 

Olympics…

 KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) – Pierre Vaultier of France held off hard-charging Nikolay Olyunin of Russia to win gold in men’s Olympic snowboardcross on Tuesday. The competition also gives the United States another medal as Alex Deibold grabbed bronze after narrowly edging teammate Trevor Jacob in the semifinals. In women’s Giant Slalom, Julia Mancuso of the U.S. missed a gate on her first run. It’s her last event this Olympics but she’s not ruling out trying again in four years. She’ll head home with a bronze in super-combined.

 

 TENNIS-RANKINGS…
 
     SINGAPORE (AP) – Serena Williams is No. 1 in the new WTA world rankings. Ranked No. 2 is China’s Li Na (lee nah), who sets a record for Asian players by rising to a career-high No. 2. Li won the Australian Open last month for her second Grand Slam singles title and started 2014 with a 13-match winning streak, including a victory at her season-opening event.

 

In world and national news…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) – The birthplace of Arab Spring is hosting Secretary of State John Kerry today. He’ll offer continued American assistance in Tunisia, the North African nation where uprisings that toppled authoritarian leaders around the Arab world first ignited in 2011. Officials say Kerry will urge a cementing of democratic reforms enshrined in a new constitution that was formally adopted earlier this month.
 
     BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq is still beset by attacks presumably by militants seeking to destabilize the government. Officials say at least 33 people have been killed today in a series of car bombings in Baghdad and areas to the south.
 
     BANGKOK (AP) – Hundreds of riot police waded into anti-government protest sites around Bangkok, prompting clashes today that killed 4 people and injured 64. Multiple gunshots were heard near the prime minister’s offices, where riot police had started to remove protesters and dismantle a makeshift stage. In another blow to the government, the prime minister could face impeachment over her handling of an expensive rice subsidy scheme.
 
     PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The eastern U.S. still has some winter weather to contend with today, as a quick storm is expected to drop a few inches of snow. But residents are looking forward to better days the rest of the week with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. 
 
     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The International Space Station has taken out the garbage but still has ants. The little critters are supposed to be aboard. They’re part of a student experiment and will return to Earth on the next cargo run by SpaceX’s reusable craft. This morning, the single use Cygnus pulled away to burn up in the atmosphere with all the station trash aboard.