– Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 23

CSi weather…

.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 50.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS
IN THE LOWER 50S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN AND SNOW. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S TO
LOWER 50S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
20S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning the public of a convicted sex offender who is residing in the City of Jamestown.

The report says 29 year old David Moses Cox resides at 517 4th Street Northwest, Jamestown, ND

He is a Native American male, five feet ten inches tall weighing 186 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.

Cox has been assinged a high risk by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee, of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

When he was 12 years old, the report says Cox lured a 7-year old boy to a thicket near his home in a forced sexual encounter.

His was convicted of sexual assault in June of 1998, in Winnebago Juvenile Court. His disposition is unknown.

He is on GPS monitoring.

Cox is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.

This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.

Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of the demographics of David Moses Cox are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

Marion (CSi) The Red River Regional Bomb Squad from Fargo was called to Marion, North Dakota Thursday afternoon after someone spotted a suspicious device in front of a home.

KFGO Radio reports that Lamoure County Sheriff Bob Fernandes says bomb technicians used a robot to approach and pick up the device. It was placed in a trailer. He says he doesn’t know whether it was an actual explosive.

A perimeter was set up around the scene until the all clear was given.

Jamestown (CSi) During National Massage Therapy Awareness Week, local massage therapists is offering massages to benefit the Community Action Region VI, Weekend Backpack Program.

The event takes place on Thursday October 29, 2015, from 10-a.m., to 3-p.m., at Jamestown Business Center (Use the west door).

Local massage therapists are offering 10 minute massaged, for a minimum $10 donation.

Also that day, the Noridian Bake Sale will benefit the Backpack Program with a Bake Sale from 10-a.m., to 3-p.m.

Jamestown (CSi) The Annual Turkey Trot in Jamestown is set for Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2015 at 8:30-a.m., starting at Cashwise Foods in Jamestown.

T-shirt pick up and race day registration opens at 7:30-a.m. Register by November 19^th to guarantee a race day T-shirt pick up.

The entry fee is $25, with proceeds donated for the Community Action Region VI Food Pantry.

Additional cash donations or check payable to Community Action Region six food pantry, the day of the event.

Credit or Debit Cards accepted online at: www.jamestownturkeytrot.webconnex.com/2015

Also, everyone is asked to bring a non-parishable food items, and personal hygiene item to donate on race day morning. Bring as many item you can carry.

Sponsors are: Bank Forward, Cashwise, Big Dog & Ted, and Walmart.

(CSi) On Friday afternoon, it was reported that water line maintenance is scheduled near the Water Treatment Plant South of LaMoure, and so the cities of Fullerton, Oakes, Edgeley, Ellendale, LaMoure and surrounding areas are asked to ration water usage for the next 24 hours.

Reservoirs are very low, so residents are asked to ration water usage. Water will also be discolored with a reddish yellow tint from iron deposits. Residents can expect the discoloration for the next week.

Water is safe to drink, but not to wash light colored clothing.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Grand Forks police say they have charged a suspect in the early morning stabbing of a person who later died.

Authorities say 36-year-old Nicolas Peralez Jr. has been charged with one count of murder. He is scheduled to make an initial appearance in court on Friday afternoon. Attorney information for Peralez was not immediately available.

Police say the victim, a 31-year-old Grand Forks man, was stabbed multiple times during a fight with another person near the victim’s apartment early Friday. The victim fled in a vehicle and eventually crashed it into two parked cars.

The driver was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of death was not immediately released, nor was the person immediately identified.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency challenging its new rule restricting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.

Stenehjem says the rule goes beyond the EPA’s authority.

The EPA says it’s an important step on climate change to reduce carbon pollution from power plants.

Stenehjem says the original rule proposed last year would have provided for an 11 percent reduction in carbon emissions, but it now requires a 45 percent reduction from 2012 levels by 2030. He says that goal is impossible to attain without the likely closing of least one power plant.

North Dakota has seven electric power plants that are fueled by lignite, an abundant but low grade coal that is mined in the state.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The commander of North Dakota’s National Guard is retiring.

Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk (sprihn-suh-NAT’-ihk) is leaving his command at the end of the year. Gov. Jack Dalrymple on Friday appointed Brig. Gen. Alan Dohrmann to take over the job.

Sprynczynatyk has been in the North Dakota National Guard since 1972. He was appointed its commanding officer in 2006.

Sprynczynatyk has led the National Guard during deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also led the military in flood-fighting efforts across the state.

Dohrmann is currently the North Dakota deputy adjutant general. Dohrmann led a multinational force of about 2,200 troops as part of a yearlong peacekeeping mission in Kosovo in 2009.

Dohrmann’s military service began in 1983 as an Army officer. He joined the North Dakota National Guard in 1991.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Minot nursing home that’s seeking compensatory damages from the city’s lone hospital over a hepatitis C outbreak now also wants to see Trinity Hospital punished.

ManorCare recently filed a request in federal court seeking punitive damages against Trinity. It’s part of a federal lawsuit filed by two victims of the hepatitis C outbreak involving more than 50 cases – the largest such outbreak in recent U.S. history.

The crux of the battle between ManorCare and Trinity is who is responsible for the outbreak.

J. Gordon Rudd is the lead attorney for the two plaintiffs in federal court. He’s also representing 20 other victims in state court. He worries that “escalating finger-pointing” by ManorCare and Trinity about who is to blame might overshadow the plight of his clients.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A former Minot State University football player accused in the assault of the captain of MSU’s baseball team has pleaded not guilty.

Twenty-one-year-old former running back Kwame Johnson is charged with felony aggravated assault and could face up to five years in prison if convicted.

Authorities allege that Johnson and another man assaulted MSU outfielder/first baseman Keith Ailes following an argument at a party Aug. 29. Ailes was treated at a hospital for facial injuries including a broken eye socket.

Authorities allege Johnson threw the first punch. His defense attorney says the fight included as many as five people and it’s not known who delivered the punches that injured Ailes.

MSU dismissed Johnson from the football team after the incident.

In world and national news…

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) – Hurricane Patricia’s center is now located about 85 miles southwest off the Pacific port city of Manzanillo, Mexico. The storm is moving north at 12 miles per hour and continues to have maximum sustained winds near 200 miles per hour, with even higher gusts. The National Hurricane Center says Patricia is expected to remain an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 hurricane through landfall over the next several hours.

WASHINGTON (AP) – It looks like the number two in charge of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group is taking over. President Barack Obama has named Brett McGurk as the new official in charge, now that retired Marine Gen. John Allen is stepping down after 13 months overseeing the effort. Obama is expressing his “profound gratitude” to Allen for putting off retirement to take the assignment. The president says he’s asked McGurk to work closely with the national security team to improve relations with Iraq, and with America’s partners in the region to help end the civil war in Syria.

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) – Twenty-seven people are dead and 96 are hurt after the latest suicide attack blamed on Boko Haram (BOH’-koh hah-RAHM’) extremists in Nigeria. The attack happened at the inauguration of a new mosque in the northeastern city of Yola. An earlier attack at a mosque in another city in the region killed 15. Emergency officials are urging people to give blood to help save some of the seriously wounded.

WASHINGTON (AP) – For now, Democrats on the House Benghazi committee are staying on the Republican-led panel, a day after Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony. A senior aide says the decision was made after Democrats met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The panel has spent more than $4.5 million to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks that killed four Americans. Democrats have been debating whether to remain involved.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – With a shortage in execution drugs, at least one state is taking unconventional steps to continue to put prisoners to death. Documents obtained by the Associated Press show Arizona tried to illegally import a lethal injection drug that’s short in supply, but federal agents intercepted the shipment at a Phoenix airport. That drug was sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that has been used to carry out executions but is no longer manufactured by Food and Drug Administration-approved companies. It’s not clear where it was shipped from.