Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Feb 24

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CSi Weather…

  TONIGHT…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE EVENING…THEN SNOW
LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. COLDER. SNOW ACCUMULATION AROUND 1 INCH IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA.
LOWS NEAR ZERO. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW
60 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY IN THE MORNING. COLDER.
HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW
60 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. WIND CHILLS AROUND 20 BELOW.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. COLDER. LOWS AROUND
15 BELOW. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND
35 BELOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. WEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 10 TO 15.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS NEAR ZERO.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 20.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO
5 ABOVE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
HIGHS AROUND 20.

 TUESDAY AND  TUESDAY NIGHT….
 
 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY
 83 TO THE MONTANA BORDER.  THOSE WITH TRAVEL
 PLANS ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LOW VISIBILITIES IN FALLING SNOW…ALONG WITH SNOW COVERED ANDICY ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED FOR FORECAST UPDATES.
 
 WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.
 
WIND CHILLS 25 TO 40 BELOW WILL BE A HAZARD WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING AND  AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING

 THE WEEKEND INTO MONDAY WILL BE COOL AND DRY. 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Choralaires 60th Anniversary Concert is set for two evenings, March 6 7, 2015 at the Jamestown High School auditorium
Both performances will be at 7:30-p.m.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, member, Roger Caine said,
joining the Choralaires will be the Jamestown Boys’ Choir, and the Jamestown High School Men’s Ensemble.

He added that traditional songs, and some new tunes will be performed.

Tickets are adults $10 and students $4, and are available from any Choralaires member, a Boys Choir member, or at Looysen I Care on 1st Avenue, South, and at the door.

The Choralaires will perform at the annual Big Sing in Rochester, Minnesota next month.

Jamestown will host the Big Sing in 2016, with regional singers coming to town.

 WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has vetoed a Republican bill forcing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
 
     The White House sent notice of the veto to the Senate on Tuesday, shortly after the bill was received at the White House. It’s the third veto of Obama’s presidency.
 
     The move puts a freeze on a top GOP priority, at least for now. It also reasserts Obama’s authority over a project that’s become a flashpoint in the national debate about climate change.
 
     Congressional Republicans may try to override Obama’s veto, but have yet to show they can muster the two-thirds majority in both chambers that they would need. Sen. John Hoeven, the bill’s chief GOP sponsor, says Republicans are about four votes short in the Senate and need about 11 more in the House.

Winter Show Highlight…

Valley City  (CSi)  Country music artist Rodney Atkins will be the feature attraction during the upcoming North Dakota Winter Show Concert on Friday, March 6 around 8:30pm. And “32 Below” a Fargo Country Rock group will open the concert at 7pm inside the North Dakota Winter Show Event Center main arena.
Tickets can be purchased online www.northdakotawintershow.com or at the North Dakota Winter Show office inside the Rosebud Visitor Center in Valley City or charge by phone at 1-800-437-0218 or 845-1401.
Tickets are also available at: Cork & Barrel Liquors and Neighborhood Grocery & Gas both of Jamestown, Town & Country Coop of Finley & Cooperstown, Farmland Ampride of Oakes, Highway Tesoro of Carrington, Vining Oil of Cando, Devils Lake and Fessenden, Gas Plus of Lisbon and Casey’s Stores in Valley City and all Fargo locations.
Atkins has six number one hits with “If You’re Going Through Hell,” “Watching You,” “These Are My People,” “Cleaning This Gun,” “It’s America” and “Take A Back Road.”
Atkins received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music and two from the Country Music Association, winning Top New Male Vocalist back in 2006.
Rodney Allan Atkins was born March 28, 1969 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Atkins signed a contract with Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart in 1997, but did not release an album until 2003?s Honesty, which included the number 4 hit “Honesty (Write Me a List.)”
If You’re Going Through Hell, his second album, was released in 2006. Its first two singles, “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)” and “Watching You”, each spent four weeks at the top of the country music chart, and were respectively ranked as the top country songs of 2006 and 2007 according to Billboard Year-End. The album, which has since been certified platinum in the United States, produced two more number 1 singles in “These Are My People” and “Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)”. It’s America (2009) included the number 1 single “It’s America” and the top 5 hit “Farmer’s Daughter”, which was added to a later reissue of the album. Take a Back Road (2011) produced his sixth number 1 in its title track.
Atkins has received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music and two from the Country Music Association, winning Top New Male Vocalist from the former in 2006.

TIOGA, N.D. (AP) – Three teenagers are dead after a crash on U.S. Highway 2 in Williams County.
 
     The Highway Patrol says the teens were in a westbound pickup truck that left the icy highway, crossed the median and entered the eastbound lanes, where it collided with a semitrailer. The crash happened about 8:30 p.m. Monday.
 
     A 17-year-old boy from Epping was driving the pickup. Seventeen- and 18-year-old boys from Ray were passengers in the truck. The patrol says all three were killed. Authorities did not immediately identify them.
 
     Ray School Superintendent Benjamin Schafer issued a statement saying the teens were students there and the school “is deeply saddened by this terrible tragedy.”
 
     The driver of the semi was taken to a Tioga hospital for treatment of what the patrol said were minor injuries.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a bill that will fast-track $1.1 billion for highways and communities affected by North Dakota’s exploding growth.
 
     The governor signed the bill Tuesday morning at the state Capitol.
 
     Darlrymple called the bill “a great legislative accomplishment” that had strong bipartisan support.
 
     The Senate voted 46-0 on Monday to approve the “surge funding” bill that is being rushed through the legislative process so projects can begin by summer. Most of the money is slated for the booming oil-producing region in the western part of the state.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House narrowly shot down legislation to allow elected and appointed public officials to carry firearms at the state Capitol and other public buildings.
 
     The House defeated the bill 47-45 on Tuesday.
 
     Current North Dakota law forbids carrying concealed weapons in public places. There are exemptions for law enforcement officers and others.
 
     The measure was sponsored by 12 Republican lawmakers.
 
     The proposal would have required the elected or appointed official to have a valid concealed weapons license to pack a gun in a public building.

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has endorsed a bill that would prohibit the governor from appointing a successor to a vacant U.S. Senate seat.
 
     House voted 67-25 on Tuesday to send the legislation to the Senate. 
 
     Republican Rep. Roscoe Streyle (STRY’-lee) is the prime sponsor of the bill. He says the goal is to allow voters to choose the successor instead of the governor.
 
     The legislation would require a special election to be held 95 days after a U.S. Senate seat is vacated.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Senate has rejected a bill that would require further study on a planned Red River diversion channel around Fargo, but project opponents have gained a temporary victory with a proposal meant to protect cemeteries.
 
     The Senate voted 24-21 Tuesday in favor of a bill to safeguard rural cemeteries south of Fargo that would be flooded by the diversion in times of high water. Fairmount Sen. Larry Luick, who sponsored the bill, told senators he was worried that the flooding could cause caskets to float to the surface.
 
     West Fargo Sen. Judy Lee argued against the bill and called it a “pre-emptive strike” against the diversion.
 
     The Senate voted down a separate bill to study the diversion, a measure that project supporters called a ploy to delay construction.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Insurance Commissioner says more than 27,000 North Dakotans were directly impacted by the recent data security breach of health insurer Anthem Inc.
 
     Commissioner Adam Hamm says he remains “extremely concerned” about the security breach of the nation’s second-largest health insurer. Anthem services the Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance networks nationwide.
 
     Hamm says information containing individual and dependent names, addresses, social security numbers and birth dates was compromised.
 
     Anthem has said that for two years it will provide credit monitoring, identity theft repair assistance if someone experiences fraud and identity protection designed specifically for children.
 
     Officials say hackers broke into a database storing information for about 80 million people sometime between Dec. 10 and Jan. 27.
 
     Hamm says Anthem is sending a letter to anyone affected.

 MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Mandan man accused of helping to hold a woman against her will last year has pleaded guilty.
 
     Thirty-six-year-old Donny Wagner entered guilty pleas to felonious restraint, aggravated assault and terrorizing on Tuesday.
 
     Wagner is one of three people accused of holding the woman at a Mandan home for more than a day in February of 2014 and threatening to kill her and her children if she wouldn’t take the blame for drug charges against 43-year-old Timothy Beiers.
 
  Beiers and Shanna Stenehjem have also pleaded guilty to their involvement.
 
     Morton County Assistant State’s Attorney Gabrielle Goter said there was a plea agreement in place for Wagner.
 
     A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A man shot by the police chief in Belfield after allegedly pointing a gun at him has pleaded not guilty to felony charges.
 
     Twenty-seven-year-old Richard Treff is charged with terrorizing and interfering with an emergency telephone call. He could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
 
     Treff was shot in the leg on Dec. 10 when he allegedly charged Chief Nick Barnhard while pointing a handgun at him. Treff was later released from the hospital and jailed in Dickinson. A trial date was not immediately scheduled.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A small group of Catholic nuns dedicated to eliminating the death penalty is working to spare the life of a man convicted of kidnapping and killing a University of North Dakota student.
 
     The Congregation of St. Joseph is an order of about a dozen nuns in Crookston, Minnesota, which is the hometown of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.
 
     Rodriguez is on death row at a federal prison for the 2003 killing of Dru Sjodin (shuh-DEEN’), of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. 
 
     Sister Pat Murphy says  she has never talked publicly about the death penalty and realizes her opinion is unpopular, even within her own family.
 
     Murphy has written letters to U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson, who sentenced Rodriguez to death. Erickson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Average retail gasoline prices continue to rise in the Dakotas.
 
     GasBuddy.com reports that the average price of a gallon of gas is about $2.13 in South Dakota and $2.22 in North Dakota. South Dakota’s average price rose 3  1/2 cents over the past week and North Dakota’s average jumped nearly 5  1/2 cents.
 
     Gas prices in both states fell below the $2-per-gallon mark in January as global oil prices dropped. But GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan says seasonal rises in gas prices are now well underway.
 
     Gas in the Dakotas is still more than $1 per gallon cheaper than it was a year ago, however.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The federal Environmental Protection Agency plans to assume responsibility for pesticide inspections in North Dakota after an evaluation concluded that acceptable inspections haven’t been done for years.
 
     EPA’s Office of Inspector General says North Dakota facilities that distribute pesticides haven’t been federally inspected for 14 years. The OIG also says about 1,300 pesticide imports that have come through North Dakota since 2011 haven’t been federally inspected.
 
     The report says the lapse might have put residents in North Dakota and other states at risk.
 
     Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is incensed by the report. He says inspections of pesticide facilities handled by his office meet or exceed federal standards, and that import inspections at the U.S.-Canada border are a federal responsibility.
 
     Goehring says the report “is about the OIG flexing their muscles.”

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is offering to allow a vote on legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security – without any of the immigration-related measures that many conservatives have been demanding. The Senate would still vote separately on a proposal to overturn one of the president’s controversial immigration executive orders, but Democrats are likely to prevent that bill from passing. The offer would leave it up to the House to decide whether to go along – or to allow a partial shutdown to occur at the end of the week at an agency with anti-terrorism responsibilities.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department says George Zimmerman will not face federal civil rights charges in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The department says there’s not enough evidence to bring federal civil rights charges, which would have required proof that the killing was motivated by racial animosity. Zimmerman has said he shot Martin in self-defense during a confrontation inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida. The case created a national conversation about race and self-defense gun laws. 
 
     LAS VEGAS (AP) – Defense attorneys say Las Vegas police were aware that a suspect in a neighborhood woman’s killing was smoking marijuana before he surrendered, and they questioned him while he was high. And the lawyers say that should cast doubt on anything the 19-year-old told investigators after his arrest. They also say Erich Nowsch (nowsh) might claim self-defense — because Tammy Meyers and her 22-year-old son, who was armed, went looking for Nowsch before Meyers was shot.
 
     ST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) – Snow and wind have been making travel difficult today in parts of Michigan. Authorities shut down a bridge connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas after a multi-vehicle crash amid near-zero visibility. Much of the country is dealing with snow, sleet and freezing rain — while the East Coast is enduring temperatures that are well below average.
 
     SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Californians will be voting on whether to repeal the statewide ban on plastic bags. The secretary of state’s office says a referendum has qualified for the ballot in November of next year. The trade group seeking the referendum was able to get more than 555,000 valid signatures. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the ban last fall, and it was scheduled to be phased in starting in July at large supermarkets. But the referendum suspends the ban until voters weigh in.