Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Nov 26

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS 15 TO 20. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHWEST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO 15. EAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
20S. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER
20S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN
IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 26, 2012) — The Barnes County Commission voted unanimously to appoint a new Barnes County Auditor.

Beth Didier will serve, starting in December 2012, and fill the unexpired term of Ed McGough who resigned earlier this year due to health reasons.

Ms. Didier previously worked in the Barnes County Auditor’s Office as a deputy auditor for nine years.

She presently is employed as a USDA Rural Development Loan Specialist in Valley City and is on the North Dakota Winter Show Board of Dirctors.

The county auditor’s term expires in two years with the election in November of 2014.

The interview selection committee recommended former Jamestown Public Schools Business Manager Joe Sykora as the new auditor.

County Commissioners decided to interview Ms. Didier a second time during a special meeting on November 23rd.

During Monday’s (Nov 26, 2012) Barnes County Commission meeting, Commissioner Leitner said Sykora withdrew has name for the appointment, not being chosen on a unanimous vote.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – The John Deere factory in Valley City
is holding a groundbreaking Tuesday, at 10:30 a.m. for its $20 million plant
expansion.
     Gov. Jack Dalrymple and other dignitaries are slated to attend
the groundbreaking of the new 100,000-square-foot addition.
     The factory makes air seeders and tillage equipment and has
about 325 workers. The company says the up to 100 new jobs are
expected with the expansion.

CHAFFEE, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have arrested three suspects
and are looking for a fourth after a home invasion-style armed
robbery in the eastern North Dakota town of Chaffee.
     Cass County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tara Morris says a woman and her
adult daughter called authorities after the men broke into the
mother’s home about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Morris says the mother was
assaulted and both women were threatened. She says the daughter’s
two children were upstairs in the home and weren’t harmed.
     Morris says the suspects took cash and valuables from the home.
She says they had weapons but she didn’t say what they were
     The three suspects were arrested in Fargo about 2 a.m. Monday.
Morris says the victims knew at least two of them.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The funeral of a 64-year-old woman shot to
death with three of her grandchildren in their New Town home is
being held in the northwest North Dakota community.

     Martha Johnson and the grandchildren – 13-year-old Benjamin
Schuster, 10-year-old Julia Schuster and 6-year-old Luke Schuster –
were found fatally shot in their home on Nov. 18. A man who killed
himself the same day as the shootings has been described as a
person of interest.
     The funeral for Johnson was scheduled Monday. Services for the
children were slated for Thursday in the eastern North Dakota
community of Warsaw.
     Johnson’s obituary says was involved in many community
activities, from Girl Scouts to 4-H. She also was the first female
president of the New Town Chamber of Commerce.
    

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Four airmen with the North Dakota Air
National Guard are returning home after four months of duty in
Southwest Asia.
     The airmen are scheduled to fly in to Fargo on two flights late
Tuesday. The Guard did not disclose their exact area of service
overseas. They handled duties including overseeing a fitness
center, assisting with lodging for soldiers, ensuring the quality
of food service and helping with food deliveries.
     Only two North Dakota Air National Guard soldiers remain
overseas. The Guard says that for a brief time after the new year
there will be no North Dakota airmen overseas. The Guard says the
break in service will be the first since the 9/11 terrorist
attacks.
     More than 100 North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers are
deployed overseas.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Bank deposits are soaring in North Dakota’s
booming western oil patch.
 Deposits in nine counties in the Bakken formation have risen from $1.4
billion in 2007 to $3.2 billion this year, an increase of 128
percent. That compares with a 38 percent rise in Cass County in
eastern North Dakota, the state’s most populous county.

     The Forum based its figures on reports from the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp.
     Banks in the Bakken have added staff and ATMs and even opened
new branches to keep up with the growth in deposits.

　BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota has reaped more than $1.1
billion since 2007 by allowing drilling activity on state land.
     The state owns about 1.2 million acres in 17 of western North
Dakota’s oil producing counties. And almost two-thirds of the
state-owned land has an oil well or one likely will be drilled
within five years.
     State Department of Trust Lands commissioner Lance Gaebe
(GAY’-bee) says royalty income from oil production has overtaken
lease revenue as producers increasingly drill wells to hold rights
to the land.
     He says the state is now collecting more than $20 million
monthly in royalty income.
     Most of the oil money goes toward public school funding. Money
also is paid to a trust fund that can be tapped by the Legislature
for special projects.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – As Washington gets back to work on avoiding
the automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that would take effect in
January, White House economists are warning that the uncertainty
facing U.S. taxpayers could cause consumers to rein in their
spending during the current holiday season. The report by Obama
administration economic advisers says retailers “can’t afford the
threat of tax increases on middle-class families.” The warning was
helping to keep stock prices in check Monday.
     
     ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A state official in New York says Superstorm
Sandy ran up a $42 billion tab on the state and on New York City —
which are making big requests for disaster aid from the federal
government. The cost includes $32 billion for repairs and
restoration — and it also includes $9 billion that will partly go
toward preventive measures for the next big storm.
     
     LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) – Some of the people who were hardest hit
by Superstorm Sandy are hoping for a big turnaround in their
fortunes this week. One retiree on Long Island whose car was
destroyed by rising floodwaters says he’s hoping a lot of storm
survivors share in the $425 million Powerball jackpot. But Raymond
Parker says he won’t buy a new car if he wins — he’ll probably
just hire a chauffer.
     
     CAIRO (AP) – Supporters and opponents of Egypt’s President
Mohammed Morsi are planning mass rallies tomorrow in the country’s
capital. And on the eve of those rallies, Morsi is showing no signs
of backing down from the decrees he issued last week that give him
some sweeping new powers. Monday, Morsi told the country’s top
judges that he didn’t infringe on their authority when he seized
the new authority.
     
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The Coast Guard has ended a search for a
teenager whose parents were killed after they plunged into the cold
and powerful surf in Northern California. It was part of a
nightmarish series of events that started when their 16-year-old
son went into the ocean Saturday to save the family dog, which had
been pulled in by a wave as it ran to retrieve a stick. Both
parents drowned. The boy has not been found and is presumed dead.
The dog got out of the water on its own.