Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Sept 14

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60. EAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.SUNDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.

 

ANOTHER MILD EVENING
 TONIGHT AND A WARM DAY ACROSS THE SOUTH TUESDAY.

 A SERIES OF EMBEDDED WAVES FROM A  WEST COAST TROUGH BRINGS A CHANCE OF RAIN INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

 THURSDAY NIGHT INTO  FRIDAY,  ANOTHER SHOT OF RAINFALL TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS, THEN WARMING BACK INTO THE 80S FOR THE WEEKEND

 

Update

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a Semi truck fire at 6:13-p.m. on Saturday on I-94 eastbound, at Exit 259.

No cause was listed as the truck was totaled.

Four city fire units and 20 fire fighters were on the scene.

No cause was listed.

Then, Jamestown City Fire department was called out to Altendorf Trucking, east of Jamestown, on Sunday about 6:55-p.m., in the lot at the shop area, where the fire rekindled, in the cab.

Four city units and 31 city fire fighters were on the scene, then, about an hour.

Valley City (CSi) Valley City Police report a chase on Sunday led to the arrest of 37 year old Shelton Ard

The senario started when Valley City Police Officer Major Hopp observed and verified a passenger wanted on an existing Warrant of Arrest and attempted to stop a truck.

Officer Hopp attempted to approach the vehicle when Ard exited the truck and ran through a field in the 1100 block of 5th Avenue Northeast. Officers gave chase and issued commands for Ard to stop, eventually overtaking Ard into custody without incident.

After Ard was taken into custody, his path was retraced by officials who found three plastic bags containing what is believed to be marijuana. During the booking process Ard was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver, Possession of a Controlled Substance and Fleeing on Foot.

He also has an outstanding Warrant of Arrest for failing to pay child support.

PolicE Chief Thompson said the investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information about this case is asked to call 701-845-3110.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Free checkups of car seats for children will be offered in North Dakota throughout the week as part of a national effort that stresses child passenger safety.

The North Dakota Department of Health in encouraging parents and caregivers to take advantage of the inspections to ensure their children are in the right car seats for their age and size, and that seats are installed correctly.

The department says car crashes continue to be a leading cause of death for children. Officials say more than 600 children in the U.S. under the age of 13 could have survived a crash in 2013 if they had been restrained.

The inspections are part of Child Passenger Safety Week that runs from Sunday through Sept. 19.

An inspection station can be located at www.safercar.gov/parents

Sheyenne Valley-Valley City Safe Community
101 College Street SW
Valley City, ND 58072
8AM-12PM
701.845.6672
Contact: Sarah Hansen

 

Jamestown (CSi) The 13^th Annual Gospel Music Jamboree will be held at Temple Baptist Church in Jamestown on Sunday October 11, 2015, at 3-p.m.

A free will offering will benefit the Jamestown Salvation Army, and the meal served by the Women of the Church.

Performances by:

CHOSEN with Doug Fogerud, Greg Hager, David McDowell, Steve and Nancy Kuykendall, Candy McDowell.

JOYUS TWO with Gerry Guthmiller & Joyce Heyne

TBC PRAISE BAND with Bernie Satrom, Steve Oberlander, Brian Markegard, Dustin Wagner, Kimm Avans, & Lisa Wagner.

 

Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kirsten Baesler says her new task force on student assessments will look into ways to reduce the number of tests in the state’s classrooms.

Baesler says parents and the public need information about student academic progress. But she says they can get that information with fewer tests. She wants to cut down the number of assessments.

State and federal law requires one student assessment in English, math and science in grades nine through 12. State law also says 11th graders must take the A-C-T college entrance exam.

Baesler says one option is to allow the A-C-T exam to count as the state assessment for high school juniors. She says a key question is, what information does North Dakota need from testing. The assessment task force is looking into the issue. It includes parents, school administrators, testing experts, home educators, legislators, business people and higher education officials.

The group is holding its next meeting in October.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Minot Police Department says an officer shot a man during a fight that began after the man tried to flee from law enforcement.
 
     The department says the man was shot around 9:40 p.m. Sunday, when the officer responded to a report of a suspicious person.
 
     The department says the officer asked the man to identify himself, but instead he began to flee. The officer caught the man and a fight ensued, leading the officer to discharge the weapon during the struggle.
 
     The man remains at a local hospital. His condition is unknown.
 
     The officer was placed on administrative leave, and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation is probing the incident. These are standard procedures when an officer is involved in a shooting.
 
     Police didn’t immediately identify the man and officer.

 

 ALEXANDER, N.D. (AP) – A collision involving a pickup truck and a semitrailer in the western North Dakota oil patch has killed two people from out of state and injured two others.
 
     The Highway Patrol says the pickup failed to stop at a U.S. Highway 85 intersection near Alexander shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday and collided with the semi.
 
     The 30-year-old man from Farmington, New Mexico, who was driving the pickup was killed, along with a 26-year-old man from Reno, Nevada, who was a passenger in the pickup.
 
     Two other passengers suffered undisclosed injuries – a 29-year-old man from Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a 30-year-old man from Lubbock, Texas.
 
     The Colorado man driving the semi was not hurt.

 

  MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Authorities in North Dakota say a stolen pickup truck and numerous items worth about $40,000 have been recovered in Minot.
 
     The Ward County Sheriff’s Department on Monday said the items were recovered when a search warrant was executed at a Minot apartment and garage Friday.
 
     Authorities say deputies found a 2012 Chevrolet pickup that had been reported stolen a few days before the search. The department says power tools, a handgun and other times that were stolen during several burglaries in Ward County were also recovered.
 
     The 22-year-old Joshua Evanoff, of Minot, was arrested when the search warrant was served. He faces charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of stolen property and burglary.
 
     Court records associated with the case do not list an attorney for Evanoff.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota drillers are still producing oil at a near-record pace despite depressed crude prices.
 
     The Department of Mineral Resources says the state produced an average of 1.2 million barrels of oil daily in July, down slightly from June. The July production was 27,000 barrels per day less than the record set in December.
 
     North Dakota also produced a record 1.65 million cubic feet of natural gas in June.
 
     The July tally is the latest figure available because oil production numbers typically lag at least two months.

 

 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota officials are inching toward completing a review of the Red River diversion project.
 
     The Department of Natural Resources released a draft Monday of its environmental impact study of the $2 billion flood control project. Commissioner Tom Landwehr says a top concern is the high water that would build up behind a dam across the Red River.
 
     That dam is a critical piece of the proposed flood control channel around the Fargo metropolitan area that project opponents say will unfairly affect upstream communities. 
 
     Minnesota’s review is a linchpin for construction on the massive project. A federal judge halted construction on a ring levee around upstream towns in the staging area until the review is complete.
 
     The state aims to finish sometime in 2016 after collecting public input.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects North Dakota farmers to produce more corn and sugar beets than last year, but fewer soybeans.
 
     USDA’s latest production report forecasts the state’s corn crop at 326 million bushels, up 4 percent from last year, and the sugar beet crop at 5.66 million tons, up 11 percent.
 
     The 2015 soybean crop in North Dakota is expected to be 190 million bushels, down 6 percent from last year’s record. That’s due to fewer acres for harvest and a lower average yield.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service is looking to increase the number of prairie dogs on the Little Missouri National Grasslands in western North Dakota, while also keeping the critters off neighboring private property.
 
     Prairie dogs are considered an important part of the ecosystem, but they can be troublesome for ranchers because they dig burrows and eat grass.
 
     Dakota Prairie Grasslands Supervisor Dennis Neitzke says the Forest Service is developing a long-term strategy that goes beyond poisoning prairie dogs that encroach on pastureland.
 
     The agency is taking comments on prairie dog management through Oct. 5. The comments will be considered for a draft management plan that also will be opened for public comment. The agency hopes to have a final decision sometime next year.

 

In sports…

Valley City (CSi) Valley City High School will have to forfeit one football game win after an ineligible football player played in the Lisbon vs Valley City game on Friday, September 4, 2015.

Activities Director Marty Bratrud said, “A letter of self report was sent to both the North Dakota High School Activities Association and Lisbon School District and now Valley City will have to forfeit the game.”

The record will now show Valley City with a 2-1 win loss record instead of 3-0 for the 2015 fall football season.

 

In world and national news…

 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The professor who was shot and killed in his office at a university in Mississippi Monday has been identified. A deputy coroner says Ethan Schmidt was killed in his office at Delta State University. He worked in the school’s history department. The suspect remains at large, and hasn’t been identified. But state police say the shooter is no longer believed to be on the campus.
 
     MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s governor says the marriage licenses being issued from the clerk’s office in Rowan County are valid. The licenses have been altered to remove the name of the clerk, Kim Davis. And they say they’re being issued “pursuant to a court order.” But Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear says the licenses will be recognized as valid in the state. Davis returned to work Monday — still refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, but not interfering with a deputy clerk who is issuing them.
 
     BRUSSELS (AP) – Germany’s interior minister says European Union nations have “agreed in principle” on the redistribution of 160,000 refugees who are now in Italy, Greece and Hungary, and who will be dispersed across most other EU nations. He says the tentative agreement doesn’t fully spell out the number of refugees each country will have to take.
 
     BRUSSELS (AP) – Several European countries have beefed up their border controls Monday, bringing additional fear and uncertainty to migrants. Hungarian police are patrolling a border fence on horseback, and workers have unveiled the razor-wire barrier that will finish that fence. And authorities in Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have joined Germany in tightening border controls.
 
     MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) – The wildfires raging in northern California haven’t just destroyed homes. Officials say a fire in Napa Valley has damaged water distribution facilities and a massive complex of geothermal power plants. There is one confirmed death and others are missing, though officials don’t yet know whether those unaccounted for are elsewhere.