Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 10

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.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO
20 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTH
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…
THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
WEST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 60 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS IN THE EVENING IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA,  A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.COLUMBUS DAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 60S. LOWS AROUND 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID
40S. HIGHS AROUND 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
30S. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.

Kensal (CSi) – Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser describes the events that unfolded after law enforcement received a report of a shooting near Kensal, that turned out to not be true.   CSi Video story. 

Jamestown (CSi) The James River Humane Society is offering a reduction on the adoption fees for cats and dogs through October.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable two James River Humane Society President, Matt Opsahl said the reduced adoption cost is $99.

He said the shelter has a large number of cats available for adoption with the number at 35, adding that the large number is requiring a few of the cats being placed in foster homes, until they are adopted.

He pointed out the the shelter has 16 dogs available. A few are from a recent Prairie Paws rescue from Minot, and are being socialized before adoption.

Opsahl said the paid weekend position remains open at the shelter, with pay rate at $10 per hour.

On Saturday October 11^th a Bake Sales will be held at the Buffalo Mall starting at 10-a.m. Those wishing to donate a baked item may drop it off at the mall location.

The James River Humane Society is located off the I-94 Bloom Exit.

For more information call 7010-252-0747.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Local message therapists and reflexologists will offer 10 minute stress reducing massages as part of National Massage Therapy Awareness Week.  (For a minimum of $10).

The date for the local event is Thursday October 23, 2014 ffrom 10-a.m., to 5-p.m., at the Jamestown Business Center. (use the west door.)

Donations raised that day will go to the Jamestown Community Action Region 6, Weekend Backpack program.

The ten minute stress-educing massages will help individuals deal with their stress, increase productivity and improve their health.

For more information contact Terri at 252-4698, or Michelle at 952-2629.

 

RAY, N.D. (AP) – An Arizona man is dead after the semitrailer he was driving collided with a train in the western North Dakota oil patch.

The Highway Patrol identified the victim as 55-year-old Marion Ray Daniel from Show Low, Arizona.

Authorities say the semi was crossing railroad tracks near Ray when it was struck by a train Thursday afternoon. The train dragged the semi cab about 300 yards, and the cab and engine compartment were engulfed by fire.

 

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Mandan man has been charged in connection with a body that was discovered inside a mobile home that had caught fire.

49-year-old Rodney Harold Friesz was charged in South Central District Court Friday with Class AA felony attempted murder and Class B felony arson.

The victim has not been identified. The death was ruled a homicide on Friday, a day after the body was found.

Police Sgt. Jay Gruebele (GROO’-buh-lee) says the home mainly suffered smoke damage. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined.

Friesz was scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon.

 

LANGDON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified two teenagers who died in a crash on U.S. Highway 5 in northeastern North Dakota.

The Highway Patrol says 14-year-old Ashley Ratzlaff, of Wales, and 15-year-old Justin Kruk, of Langdon, were passengers in a car that collided with a semitrailer at an intersection about a mile west of Langdon on Wednesday afternoon. They were thrown from the vehicle and later died at a Grand Forks hospital.

The driver of the car was a16-year-old boy from Langdon. He hasn’t been named. The patrol says charges are pending against the boy, who failed to stop at the intersection. He was taken to a Langdon hospital with unspecified injuries after the crash.

The two people in the semi were not hurt.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s attorney general says agents are working to combat the theft of trade secrets in the state’s western oil patch.

The oil boom has presented “new opportunities” to steal trade secrets. He adds that agents from the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation are assisting in efforts to combat those hoping to steal secrets.

In September, FBI Special Agent Richard Thornton told KFGO that the risk of technology being stolen in the oil patch was a “national security threat.” He said the combination of money, foreign workers and the technologically advanced equipment used in the oil fields made it an environment where intellectual property theft could occur.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Health Departments says a Texas company is working to clean up a saltwater spill that flowed into a tributary of Lake Sakakawea.

Environmental geologist Kris Roberts says the spill was reported Wednesday by Houston-based Oasis Petroleum. He says about 42,000 gallons of the briny waste water leaked from a corroded pipe at a well site in McKenzie County.

Roberts says some of the wastewater was cleaned up at the site but some of it reached a creek that is a tributary to Lake Sakakawea, about 5 miles downstream.

Roberts says the saltwater likely will be diluted to safe levels by the time it drains into the Missouri River reservoir.

Roberts says no drinking water sources were threatened but the spill has caused some damage to vegetation.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority has approved a plan to lower a ring dike south of the metropolitan area after Minnesota officials complained that it should not have been built.

The change will provide flood protection at the 100-year level for the Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke areas, rather than the original 500-year level.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and state Rep. Paul Marquart of Dilworth, Minnesota, have criticized the authority for going ahead with the levee project before an environmental review was completed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

The planned $2 billion diversion project would include a holding area near Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke that would flood farmland in times in high water.

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A state wildlife official says healthy pheasant numbers should allow hunters to bag more birds when they take to the fields this fall.

The state’s pheasant season opens Saturday and continues through Jan. 4.

Upland game biologist Stan Kohn says a recent survey indicates the number of pheasants in North Dakota has risen 30 percent from last year, due to good spring weather.

Last year 76,500 hunters killed 450,000 roosters in North Dakota. Kohn says this year’s season should be similar to 2010 when 92,000 hunters bagged 550,000 birds.

Kohn says the number of hunters is directly related to the number of birds, and the number of birds is tied to habitat.

 

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota wildlife officials are moving forward with a plan to stock Atlantic salmon in Lake Oahe.

Game, Fish and Parks biologist Bob Hanten tells the Capital Journal that two public surveys over the summer found strong support for introducing the species. Starting in January, two fish hatcheries in the state will begin raising a total of 40,000 Atlantic salmon.

Chinook salmon have been stocked in the Missouri River reservoir in the Dakotas each year since the mid-1980s. Wildlife officials want to boost the salmon fishery with the new species.

Biologists plan to stock the first batch of Atlantic salmon in the spring of 2016. It could take about three years for them to grow big enough for anglers to catch them.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad. In a new “worldwide caution” issued today, the department says there’s heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the Islamic State group and its supporters since the U.S. and its coalition partners launched military action against the group in Iraq and Syria.

ABILENE, Texas (AP) – The first American flown back to the U.S. for treatment of Ebola is urging calm for the people of Dallas and elsewhere who are worried about contracting the deadly disease. Dr. Kent Brantly tells Abilene Christian University’s alumni magazine people should be finding ways to help the hardest-hit countries cope with the outbreak, not worrying that they are at risk because a hospital miles away treated a patient. The World Health Organization says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak is now more than 4,000, with the vast majority of the deaths in three West African countries.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize award is a victory for everyone who strives to uphold human dignity. The prize went to Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai (mah-LAH’-lah YOO’-suhf-zeye) of Pakistan and children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi (KY’-lash saht-YAHR’-thee) of India. Obama says both have faced threats and risked their lives to improve the world, and the award serves as a reminder of the urgency of protecting young people’s freedoms.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California officials have reactivated the state’s 22 firefighting air tankers days after one of the aircraft crashed in Yosemite National Park, killing the pilot. Pilot Geoffrey “Craig” Hunt was killed Tuesday when his plane smashed into a steep canyon wall while dropping retardant on a fire near the park’s west entrance. The fire has burned 245 acres and is 10 percent contained.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Washington D.C.’s mayor has signed legislation allowing people to carry concealed handguns in the nation’s capital. The legislation was crafted to comply with a court ruling that struck down the District’s ban on carrying handguns outside the home. Those who want to carry a concealed handgun the will have to show a specific reason that they need one, among other requirements.