Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Aug 28

CSi Weather…

 TONIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. PATCHY FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
AROUND 60. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.  ISOLATED RAIN SHOWERS IN THE EVENING, IN THE EVENING IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA, WITH THE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION AT 20 PERCENT.

.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG IN THE MORNING. A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN
THE UPPER 70S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST
10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.LABOR DAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
70S. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY.

 THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON. BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS SATURDAY NIGHT CENTRAL. A FEW STRONGER STORMS WILL  BE POSSIBLE…WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE MAIN THREATS.

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

 MAX, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified a Bismarck man who died after rear-ending a payloader on U.S. Highway 83.
 
     Police say 55-year-old Roger Steckler died Wednesday afternoon in the crash near Max.
 
     Authorities say Steckler was driving a van that rear-ended the payloader, which was traveling about 20 mph. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
 
     The driver of the payloader was taken to a Minot hospital with unspecified injuries.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Texas man who pleaded guilty to distributing chemicals that resulted in the synthetic drug deaths of two teens in the Grand Forks, North Dakota, area has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison.
 
     Charles Carlton, of Katy, Texas, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fargo.
 
     Carlton pleaded guilty in March to three counts, including conspiracy to distribute controlled substances resulting in serious bodily injury and death.
 
     Authorities say the chemicals sold by Carlton’s company, Motion Resources LLC, were manufactured into hallucinogens. They say they wound up in the hands of 18-year-old Christian Bjerk, of Grand Forks, and 17-year-old Elijah Stai, of Park Rapids, Minnesota.
 
     They died within a week of each other in June 2012.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A judge will decide if statements made to FBI agents by a Colorado man accused of murder in Montana’s oil patch should be suppressed because the defendant is mentally disabled.
 
     Judge Richard Simonton on Thursday scheduled an Oct. 1 hearing in Glendive in the case of 25-year-old defendant Michael Keith Spell of Parachute, Colorado.
 
     Spell is accused of killing 43-year-old Sherry Arnold during an attempted abduction as the high school teacher and mother of two was jogging in Sidney in January 2012. Her body was found more than two months later in North Dakota.
 
     Richland County prosecutors dropped their pursuit of the death penalty for Spell after experts testified he has a mild mental disability.
 
     Accomplice Lester Van Waters Jr. has pleaded guilty to deliberate homicide by accountability in a deal with prosecutors.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A University of North Dakota program that aims to get more Native Americans into psychology has received more than $200,000 in federal funding.
 
     UND’S Indian Into Psychology program has received about $238,000 in funding from the Indian Health Service. The IHS is a department of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
 
     The psychology program helps to provide more mental health funding and professionals to underserved Native American communities.
 
     U.S. Sen. John Hoeven says the funding will lead to better mental health services for Native Americans in North Dakota.

BOWMAN, N.D. (AP) – Officials are starting construction on a $28 million hospital and clinic in the southwestern North Dakota town of Bowman.
 
     The current Southwest Healthcare Services facilities were built in the 1950s. The new 60,000-square-foot structure will more than double the size of the existing hospital and clinic.
 
     The project is expected to be finished in late 2016. The U.S. Rural Development agency is financing a little more than half of the cost with a $15 million low-interest loan. The rest is being financed through Southwest Healthcare and the North Dakota Medical Infrastructure Loan Program.

 
In sports…

 
     GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota junior goaltender Zane Gothberg has legally changed his last name to McIntyre, his mother’s maiden name.
 
     The sixth-round draft pick of the Boston Bruins in 2010 says his remarried mother and his late grandmother were influential in his life, and he wants to honor them.
 
     The Thief River Falls, Minnesota, native went 20-10-3 last season and was a finalist for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference’s Goaltender of the Year award.

In world and national news…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council has been meeting in an emergency session on the growing crisis in Ukraine. A top NATO official said today that at least 1,000 Russian troops have poured into Ukraine with sophisticated equipment and have been in direct “contact” with Ukrainian soldiers, resulting in casualties. A U.N. official calls it a “dangerous escalation in the conflict.”
 
     NEW YORK (AP) -Police and hospital officials in New York say Joan Rivers has been rushed to the hospital from a doctor’s office after going into cardiac arrest. There’s no word on the condition of the 81-year-old comedian.  She’d been scheduled to perform a show Friday night in New Jersey.
 
     RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Closing arguments are expected Friday at the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife. They’re accused of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts, trips and loans from a businessman in exchange for promoting his company’s anti-inflammatory product. The defense claims the McDonnells’ marriage was so broken, they couldn’t have conspired together. But an FBI agent testified today that the McDonnells spent many nights together in the governor’s mansion.
 
     BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Two men accused of killing a New York concert violinist during a robbery in her home have been ordered held without bail. A prosecutor in Buffalo Thursday detailed how the victim was shot and stabbed after opening her door to help them. Police say the men killed 61-year-old Mary Whitaker after she agreed to lend them her phone. They’re accused of driving her car to Erie, Pennsylvania, where they were arrested. They’ve pleaded not guilty to theft and carjacking, and a grand jury will consider state murder charges.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Mortgage rates are holding at a 52-week low. Mortgage company Freddie Mac says the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage stands at 4.1 percent. That’s down from 4.53 percent at the start of the year. Rates have fallen even though the Federal Reserve has been trimming its monthly bond purchases, which are intended to keep long-term borrowing rates low.