Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Mar 27

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS 10 TO 15. NORTH WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH DECREASING TO AROUND 10 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. SOUTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. NOT AS COOL. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTH
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND
SNOW. HIGHS AROUND 40.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
BREEZY. LOWS AROUND 15.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. BREEZY.
HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10. HIGHS
IN THE LOWER 30S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS AROUND 20. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SNOW. LOWS AROUND 20.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.

Bismarck (CSi) The National Weather Service computer models vary right now on the amount of snow and weather conditions with an upcoming winter storm, expected to generate light to possibly moderate snowfall amounts, to areas south of Highway 200.

The strongest of the three forecast models indicate widespread precipitation is expected this Sunday, Sunday night, and into Monday morning.

Mainly rain is expected Sunday, changing to snow Sunday night.

One forecast model indicates the possibility of around an inch of liquid precipitation, with more cold air moving in with strong wind, and suggests the potential for heavy snow/blizzard conditions into Monday.

The weather service says the main trough has yet to come on shore in the west, with a better handle on the eventual track of the storm, over the next few days.

Then another storm system next week with the possibility of more accumulating snow, Tuesday into Wednesday.

 Jamestown (CSi)  The probable cause of the Saturday March 22, 2014 Northeast Jamestown apartment building fire has been released.

Jamestown City Fire Chief, Jim Reuther says  with the information collected from firefighters, photos taken at the scene, information collected from interviews and working with private fire investigators, it would indicate that most probable cause would be smoking materials .

He says this concludes the fire investigation and this fire investigation would be considered to be closed unless further evidence is obtained.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Auditor’s Office says one person has filed petitions to run for mayor, and one for the city council seat, in the June 10, 2014 city elections.

Filing to run for re-election for a four year term, in Mayor Katie Andersen.

Mayor petitions that have been taken out but not filed yet include: Pam Phillips, Charlie Ricketts, and Richard D. Geigle.

Filing to run for re-election to his city council seat is Ramone Gumke.

Those with city council seat petitions out include: Dwaine Heinrich, and Matthew Kriedeman.

For City Park board, Mike Landscoot has filed for re-election. Also filing is Kevin Miller. Those with petitions out include Richard Ryan, and incumbent Larry Knoblich.

For Municipal Judge, Timothy Ottmar has a petition out for re-election.

Those wishing petition forms may pick them up at city hall.

The filing deadline in April 7, 2014 no later than 4-p.m., at city hall.

The filed petitions will then be reviewed to make sure it contains the proper number of valid signature.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education approved a plan for tuition increases after most college presidents committed to maximum rates that were equal to or lower than those recommended by a board committee.
 
     North Dakota State and Dickinson State were the only schools that requested the ability to increase tuition caps beyond those proposed by the board’s budget and finance committee.
 
     NDSU president Dean Bresciani (bruh-SHAW’-nee) says his school is “still recovering from a long-term tradition of underfunding” and programs would be cut under the committee’s proposed tuition cap of 3.28 percent.
 
     The board gave NDSU permission to set the cap at 4.23 percent. That’s a difference in income of $1.2 million a year.
 
     It’s unclear whether Dickinson Sate will request more than the 3.97 percent set by the committee.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Board of Higher Education has approved a plan for North Dakota State University to take over the Sanford College of Nursing.
 
     The new college will be NDSU Nursing at Sanford Health. It will be part of NDSU’s department of nursing and operate at its current location in Bismarck. All faculty and staff currently employed by the Sanford college will become NDSU employees.
 
     The board approved the plan over objections by some members who complained there wasn’t enough discussion on the idea and wondered whether the agreement would give a private business a competitive advantage.
 
     Sanford Bismarck president Craig Lambrecht says Sanford hires 1,000 nurses a year and has “triple digit openings” for nurses.
 
     Sanford Health is based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Police say three Minnesota men broke into three Fargo stores last spring and stole more than $100,000 worth of products.
 
     The men are each facing three counts of conspiracy to commit theft of property.
 
     Authorities say the men broke the front window and kicked in the storage room door at a Verizon Wireless store. The owner said approximately $30,000 was missing.
 
     Police say the men got away with 86 cellphones worth more than $46,000 from a second store, and later took $28,000 in merchandise from a third store.
 
     Cass County authorities say one man is already in a Minnesota correctional facility. The suspect was identified as 23-year-old Victor Doe of Plymouth, Minn.
 
     The other two haven’t been arrested but have warrants out for their arrest.

CHICAGO (AP) – The governor of North Dakota is touting the state’s strong economy at a summit that has gathered industrial executives, entrepreneurs, academics and elected officials.
 
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple on Thursday spoke at the Forbes Reinventing America Summit in Chicago.
 
     Dalrymple touched on recent reports that have highlighted North Dakota’s status as a leader in personal income and population growth.
 
     The U.S. Census Bureau has reported population growth in all regions of the state. Thousands of people have flocked to North Dakota’s northwest corner in recent years searching for high-paying jobs associated with an oil boom.

  WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – New Census Bureau estimates show that the oil-rich northwestern North Dakota city of Williston continues to be the fastest-growing micropolitan area in the United States.
 
     It’s the third year in a row that the city has held the distinction. Micropolitan refers to an area with a population of more than 10,000 but fewer than 50,000.
 
     The Census Bureau estimates that Williston’s population grew from 26,744 to 29,595 between July 2012 and July 2013 – a growth of 10.7 percent.
 
     Mayor Ward Koeser says city officials aren’t surprised. He says it’s “another sign of the excitement going on here.”

  WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The recent population boom that has made Williston the fastest-growing micropolitan area in the nation has also left the city’s emergency services struggling to keep up.
 
     There have been 9,440 calls to 911 in the first three months of 2014, up from fewer than 5,000 calls to emergency services in all of 2008.
 
     Mike Hallesy is the 911 coordinator in Williams County. He says the emergency dispatch office is understaffed and in need of upgraded technology.
 
     The office is now asking for the monthly 911 fee on residents’ phone bills to be raised by 50 cents to $1.50. Hallesy says the increase would alleviate staffing and technology concerns.
 
     Residents will vote on the proposed hike in July. County commissioners have already approved it.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A man convicted in Williston of offering cash for a hit on an associate in the drug trade has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
 
Billy Owens will be on supervised probation for five years following his prison term.
 
     Prosecutors say Owens paid Paul Huckstep $1,500 in May 2012 to assault Kenneth Moore, who was shot multiple times and is paralyzed from the chest down.
 
     Owens was convicted last October of leading a criminal organization and conspiring to commit assault.
 
     Huckstep was charged with attempted murder and pleaded guilty last year to a reduced charge of terrorizing. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Cannon Ball woman is accused of taking advantage of a man with a brain injury after he won money at a casino.
 
     Fifty-three-year-old Jeanette Blackcloud is charged with felony exploitation of a vulnerable adult, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Court documents do not list an attorney for her.
 
     The Bismarck Tribune reports that the man knew Blackcloud, and told her he wanted to buy some clothes for her grandchildren with some of his winnings at Prairie Knights Casino on Jan. 14.
 
     Blackcloud is accused of taking the man to Bismarck and Mandan and getting him to purchase things that were not for his intended purpose – including a $2,500 vehicle that was put in Blackcloud’s name.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Cleanup is wrapping up on one large oil spill in western North Dakota while work will continue for at least another week on a separate release near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers.
 
     North Dakota Water Quality Director Dennis Fewless says almost 34,000 gallons of crude that spilled from a broken oil pipeline near Alexander last week is nearly cleaned up. He says more than 225 large dump truck loads of oil-tainted soil have been removed.
 
     Fewless says cleanup of a 1,400-gallon spill at an oil well swamped by floodwaters near Williston this month will take more time.
 
     Most of the spill was contained. But Fewless says that as floodwaters receded, the oil left a “bathtub ring” on brush, trees and grass that is difficult to clean.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota music fans will be treated to a bevy of big time music acts this summer at the State Fair in Minot.
 
     Fair organizers say popular modern acts including Lady Antebellum, Florida Georgia Line and Brad Paisley will head to Minot in July. They’ll be joined by veteran performers John Mellencamp and The Charlie Daniels Band. Rockers Three Days Grace also will grace the grandstand stage.
 
     Tickets go on sale April 8.

In world and national news…

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) – Toyota is recalling 119,000 Avalon sedans from the 2003 and 2004 model years because their air bags could deploy inadvertently.
 
     The company says circuits within the air bag control module can be damaged if they’re exposed to interference from other electrical components in the car.
 
     The defect can also cause the seat belt pretensioners to tighten without warning.
 
     Toyota says it knows of one minor injury related to the defect, but no accidents.
 
     The company is notifying owners of the recall. Dealers will add an electrical noise filter to the air bag control module for free.

 VATICAN CITY (AP) – President Barack Obama and the Vatican are offering distinctly different accounts of the president’s audience Thursday with Pope Francis. Obama is stressing their common ground on poverty and inequality. But the Vatican is emphasizing the pope’s concerns over Obama’s health care law, and its requirement that employers provide coverage for contraceptives.
 
     PERTH, Australia (AP) – Yet another set of satellite images is indicating that there could be a big debris field in the southern Indian Ocean — possibly from the Malaysian airliner that disappeared two and a-half weeks ago. But those images are from earlier this week — and strong winds and fast currents make it difficult to pinpoint where the objects are right now. There’s also been stormy weather, which Thursday again stopped the search by air and sea.
 
     DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) – In the Washington state community that was devastated by a mudslide over the weekend, authorities say the number of confirmed dead is going to climb dramatically over the next couple of days, as the medical examiner’s office catches up with the recovery effort. The bodies of 25 victims have already been recovered or located in the debris, but there are 90 people who are confirmed as missing.
 
     MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A Montana newlywed who pleaded guilty to charges she pushed her husband to his death in Glacier National Park has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jordan Graham faced a maximum sentence of life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Prosecutors alleged Graham was having second thoughts about her 8-day-old marriage to Cody Johnson when she lured him to a steep cliff in Glacier National Park on July 7 and pushed him over. Graham insisted it was accidental but changed her plea to guilty in the midst of a jury trial.
 
     TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Americans don’t seem to be losing their taste for chocolate. Officials of the candy company Mars had a grand opening today for a new $270 million chocolate plant in Kansas, the company’s first new plant in 35 years. Mars officials say it was built mostly to meet U.S. demand for M&M’s and Snickers.