Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Feb 19

Forecast…

THIS MORNING…LIGHT FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH
RAIN AND SLEET. AREAS OF FOG. NO SLEET ACCUMULATION. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF SNOW…RAIN AND SLEET IN THE
MORNING. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. WEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH
WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN ARE 50 PRECENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH AROUND 5 MPH IN THE
AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
15 TO 20. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH INCREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH
AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE
MORNING. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
LOWS 15 TO 20.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
LOWS 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.

 

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met in Special Session Friday at 7-a.m., at City Hall. Mayor Werkhoven was not present. The meeting was conducted by Vice President Pedersen.

The City Commission met to approve an attorney to replace Vogel Law Firm to advise city and provide opinion specific to the permissibility of the grievances filed against the mayor by four city employees and how the employee manual and code of conduct apply to the process going forward.

The Vogel Law Firm indicated that it had a conflict of interest.

Commissioner Luke asked if the Mayor’s apology at Tuesday’s meeting led to any grievances being withdrawn.

Commissioner Nielson said she was doubtful that will happen.

Auditor Richter said she had no indication that the grievances had been withdrawn.

Commissioner Magnuson suggested a mediator.

He then suggested that he meet with the Mayor and those four individuals bringing the grievances against the Mayor to determine if the grievances stand or a settlement can be reached without mediation.

Richter suggested clarifying which city manual should be used in determining the process.

Commissioner Nielson moved to have Commissioner Magnuson talk with those bringing greivances against the Mayor and if just one indicates they would not drop the grievance, that the city proceed with hiring an attorney for advice on proceeding, which was approved unanimously.

It was noted that those bringing the grievances will pay their own legal fees.

The meeting was shown live on csi 68 followed by replays.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning residents regarding a convicted sex offender, who has changed his  Jamestown address.

Roger Patrick McAvoy as of  February 18, 2016, now resides at 1510 Gardenette Drive, #1.

His vehicle is a silver 2000 Chevy Silverado pick up, ND license KNP923.

Mc Avoy is a 55 year old white male, five feet seven inches tall, weighing 172 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.

McAvoy has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

He was convicted in May of 1995 in Arapahoe County, Colorado, District Court of sexual assault of two girls, age 13 and 14, involving an incident at a skating rink.

Disposition: 90 days, 8-years probation

He was convicted in December 1989 in Burleigh County District Court of Gross Sexual Imposition involving a relationship with a 12 year old girl, that led to fondling and another  sexual act.

Disposition:  Four years.

McAvoy is currently on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation.

McAvoy is not wanted by police at this time and is currently serving his sentence. This notification was issued for public safety and not to increase fear in the community. Anyone harassing, intimidating or threatening the offenders their families employers or landlords are subject to prosecution.

Printed handouts of McAvoy’s photo and demographics are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information available at www.sexoffender.nd.gov/

 

Jamestown (CSi) Stutsman County Emergency Manager/9-1-1 Coordinator, Jerry Bergquest informs residents that on Friday, February 19, 2016, Stutsman County Communications will be performing a county-wide test of the CodeRED mass notification system.

The test will occur between 11:00 a.m. and noon, today.

The test message that will occur today will be general in nature and he describe the call as a CodeRED test call. Residents will not need to respond to the message

This system is used to alert residents of emergency events and notifications of immediate concern to the public. CodeRED informs the public by calling all land line telephones within the selected warned area. It also alerts those individuals that have signed up for notifications via cell phone, email or text message.

CodeRED service is free of charge to residents and businesses. Land line telephones are already included in the notification database. To receive notifications via cell phone, email or text, individuals can sign up for the service by going to the Stutsman County website (http://www.co.stutsman.nd.us/), scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the CodeRED icon.

Those without Internet access can call Stutsman County Emergency Management at 701-252-9093, Monday through Friday, (8AM-5PM) to sign up over the phone. The system is only used by Stutsman County officials to provide residents with important information that will keep the community safe and informed. Questions regarding CodeRED services should be directed to Stutsman County Emergency Management.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County/City of Jamestown Jail Committee has reviewed preliminary design plans for expanding the Stutsman County Correctional Center.

Klein McCarthy,Project Manager, Scott Fettig presented three preliminary design plans for three options for the jail committee to consider: expanding the jail horizontally, expanding the jail vertically or building a new jail facility somewhere else.

Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser, Chad Jackson, county jail administrator, Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger and Casey Bradley, county auditor/chief operating officer, will revise the site plans and floor plans for the three options, develop cost budgets for each option, review operational staffing plans and prepare a final study document. No cost estimates were attached to any of the preliminary design plans.

Fettig said the two options for expanding the existing correctional center would require closing a block of 6th Street Southeast between 2nd Avenue Southeast and 3rd Avenue Southeast. Both options for expanding at the current site include adding two more floors above the existing correctional center.

Fettig said the only way the existing facility can be added to vertically is by using lighter-weight construction material, rather than traditional cement-block-and-mortar construction.

The Stutsman County Commission and Jamestown City Council are splitting the $60,000 cost for a feasibility study being done by Klein McCarthy Architects, Bismarck.

The jail committee is about halfway through the process of being able to make a recommendation on whether the existing facility should be expanded or a new facility built.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Arts Center has been the recipient of recent charitable donations.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish said, that on February 11, 2016, during Giving Hearts Day, individuals went on line to impactgiveback.org and the results was a total with the matching dollars, of $8,000.

She also pointed out that the Jamestown Arts Center was awarded a Jamestown Community Foundation grant of $5,000.

Cyndi added that those dollars will go to the Arts Center for scholarships for its Arts After School Program, that serves students in grades 3-6, including some homeschooled students.

Children who enroll are transported by a bus service from their schools to The Arts Center where they are given a healthy snack and receive arts education by a professional artist.

Also on out show, Cyndi said that reservations are being taken for the Annual Gala, to be held on February 27, 2016, at the Quality Inn & Suites in Jamestown.

Call the Arts Center at 701-251-2496 as tickets are $100 each are by reservation only.

In addition to the dinner catered by Sabir’s 2 in Jamestown there will be entertainment, and live and silent auctions.

Auction items include a trip to Boston and Cape Cod, a Fargo/Moorhead Red Hawks baseball suite, and much more.

She said the Hansen Arts Park will see continuing work this spring and summer.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Giving Hearts Day online fundraising event held Feb. 11 across North Dakota and in northwestern Minnesota raised $8,272,304 for 326 charities through 37,109 donations at impactgiveback.org. The $1.3 million increase over last year’s $6.9 million represents nearly a 19 percent jump.

In Jamestown, The Arts Center recived $8,000.

Also in the area….

Anne Carlsen Center Jamestown, $172,096; Service Dogs for America in Jud, received $110,823. Both having a generous match reported prior to Giving Hearts Day donations and matches.

Many organizations raised vastly more match, some exceeding $100,000. Gifts to charity were provided online at impactgiveback.org or, if preferred, by check if $1,000 or greater. Match funds were pledged or given to charities in advance of the day.

Dakota Medical Foundation and other generous people and businesses matched donations of $10 or greater to at least $4,000 on Giving Hearts Day.

The top 10 large charity fundraisers, with operating budgets above $500,000, are: Oak Grove Lutheran School $328,665; Churches United for the Homeless $321,366; YWCA Cass Clay $314,786; TNT Kid’s Fitness & Gymnastics $286,955; FirstChoice Clinic $232,817; Great Plains Food Bank $176,943; Anne Carlsen Center (Jamestown, N.D.) $172,096; Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch $167,160; Park Christian School $146,517 and Service Dogs for America (Jud, N.D.) $110,823.

The top 10 smaller charities, with operating budgets under $500,000, are: Unseen $132,817; The Arts Partnership $105,203; Haley’s Hope $89,894; Red River Children’s Advocacy Center $76,646; Gateway to Science (Bismarck, N.D.) $73,565; St. Gianna’s Maternity Home (Minto, N.D.) $62,679; Gigi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center $48,364; Jail Chaplains $45,008 and Cat’s Cradle Shelter $43,176, HERO, Healthcare Equipment Recycling Organization $41,012.

Individual charity results beyond the top 10 are not released by the Foundation, and instead are reported by the organizations to their donors and communities.

Giving Hearts Day co-hosts Dakota Medical Foundation, Impact Foundation and Alex Stern Family Foundation provide incentives for top fundraisers, including $15,000 for first, $10,000 for second and $7,500 for third, all the way through $500 for 10^th place.

These prizes are awarded for both large and small charity categories.

Other awards include communication strategies, charity collaboration and gifts from the most U.S. states and N.D. cities. The charity results listed do not include prize funds, as many have yet to be determined. Final and official grand totals will include incentive prizes and be provided after April awards programs in Fargo and elsewhere in North Dakota.

Organizations interested in becoming part of Giving Hearts Day 2017, to be held Feb. 9 next year, may email sarastolt@dakmed.org or contact her at 701-271-0263.

Valley City (CSi) Sharon Buhr of Valley City will seek the Democratic nomination to run for the North Dakota House of Representatives in the November 2016 general election.

Buhr will seek the nomination to run as a Democrat during the District 24 Democratic-NPL District Convention on Sunday, March 6 at 2 pm in the Skoal Room at the Valley City State University Student Center.

The Barnes County resident is director of the Young People’s Healthy Heart Program at CHI Mercy Health and clinical dietitian at Sanford Health.

Buhr has a bachelors degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, and a masters degree in public health from the University of Minnesota. She is chair of the ON THE MOVE Partnership and the City County Health District Board.

Buhr served for 21 years on the Valley City School Board. She is on the Valley City Flood Task Force, has been a member of Valley City’s Beautification Committee for 20 years, chaired the CROP WALK for HUNGER the past 29 years, been an active member of What in the World Is Going On? a VCSU based group formed to bring issues of concern to the community.

Her background includes her interest in community development and her history of working in developing countries (both South Africa for 4 years and Liberia for 6 months as a medical missionary) led her to be an active member of a local group helping the community adjust to the increasing diversity.

Buhr grew up on a farm homesteaded by her great grandparents just north of Tower City which she co-manages. She is married to James Buhr a family physician at Sanford Health. They have two children, Christian who is married with two children and Nicolai. Buhr is an active member of Our Saviors Lutheran Church.

Buhr says “It would a privilege and honor to serve the citizens of District 24. We have a wonderful county and a beautiful state. We do, however, have a number of issues that need to be addressed in the next session, including the overall state finance, permanent flood protection for Valley City and Lisbon, along with other cities in our state which includes providing affordable housing, mental health and addiction services, health care, education, and more.”

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple (DAHL’-rimp-ul) is ordering state agencies to fly flags at half-staff to honor U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and a Fargo police officer who was killed in the line of duty recently.

Dalrymple says the U.S. and North Dakota flags will be lowered on the day of each man’s funeral. Scalia is to be buried Saturday. The service for Officer Jason Moszer will held on Monday at Scheels Arena in Fargo.

The 79-year-old Scalia was found dead Saturday at a resort ranch in Texas. Officials said he died of natural causes.

Moszer died a week ago of a gunshot wound during a standoff with a suspect at a house near downtown Fargo.

Dalrymple is encouraging North Dakota residents to lower their flags, too.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s top budget official says she’s confident state agencies will be able to “live within” mandatory cuts to help make up for a more than $1 billion budget shortfall that’s largely due to slumping oil prices.

Budget Director Pam Sharp says state agencies have submitted the required cuts ordered by Governor Jack Dalrymple (DAHL’-rimp-ul) earlier this month. Dalrymple ordered agencies that receive general fund dollars to trim their budgets by 4.05 percent, or about $245 million.

Sharp says she doesn’t know of any agency cutting positions but that most are limiting raises and bonuses.

Besides the agency cuts, Dalrymple shifted more than $497 million from a state rainy day fund. The remainder of the shortfall will be made up by using the previous budget’s ending-fund balance of about $331 million.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A new survey suggests there’s been a little improvement in some bankers’ views of the rural economy in Iowa, Nebraska and eight other Midwest states.

A report released Thursday says February’s Rural Mainstreet Index rose to 37.0 from 34.8 in January. Survey officials say any score below 50 on any of the survey’s indexes suggests that factor will decline.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the monthly survey, and he says it’s the sixth straight month that the index has registered below growth neutral.

The report says 8.7 percent of bank CEOs who responded say their local economy was expanding while 36.9 percent say their local economy was in a recession.

Bankers from Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and the Dakotas were surveyed.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – An Arizona man working in the North Dakota oil patch has been sentenced for robbing two banks.

Fifty-nine-year-old Gary Thomas pleaded guilty last November to robbing the BNC National Bank in Stanley the morning of August 13th and the Dacotah Bank in Minot that afternoon. Authorities say he took a total of about $11,000.

U.S. Attorney Christopher Myers says Thomas was sentenced this week to serve five years and 11 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Thomas also must pay restitution.

Thomas told U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland earlier that he robbed the banks because he was “deep in debt” due to less work because of the oil slowdown, work truck expenses and health problems.

Thomas has previous bank robbery convictions in Arizona.

 

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A 29-year-old Dickinson man is facing an attempted murder charge after allegedly shooting his roommate in the chest with a shotgun in an alcohol-fueled incident.

Police Capt. Dave Wilkie says officers responded to the scene about 10 p.m. Wednesday and found a wounded 25-year-old man.

Wilkie says the man is in critical but stable condition in a Bismarck hospital. He wasn’t immediately identified.

Police identified the suspect as Zane Perry. Court documents do not list an attorney for him, and a home telephone listing could not be found.

The charge against Perry carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He could enter a plea at an April 4 court hearing.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Antler is set to close the book on its ordeal with white supremacist Craig Cobb.

Town officials on Feb. 29 plan to demolish a dilapidated former bank building that Cobb once tried to buy. City officials thwarted his plans by buying up all of the town’s vacant property.

Now they’re trying to recoup the $35,000 they paid. They’re holding a lunch fundraiser during the building demolition, and also hoping it draws attention to their GoFundMe crowdfunding site account.

The demolition also is a nod of sorts to Leith, a town that Cobb unsuccessfully tried to turn into a white enclave. After he was put on probation for terrorizing and menacing residents, Leith officials torched condemned buildings – some of which were once owned by Cobb – to cleanse the community.

 

In sports…

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Nearly four years after retiring its controversial Fighting Sioux nickname, the University of North Dakota put some of the Indian head gear on sale to satisfy a legal agreement with the group that found the logo hostile and abusive.

UND officials say the settlement with the NCAA requires that the school maintain the Fighting Sioux trademark and the only way to do that is market the product. So a limited series of items known as the Dacotah Heritage Collection hit the shelves last week.

UND Interim President Ed Schafer says it would be better if the school did not have to sell the old gear, especially now that the school is transitioning to its new nickname, Fighting Hawks.

NCAA officials did not respond to repeated email and phone messages.

 

BOYS HOCKEY
West Regional Tournament
Quarterfinal

Mandan 4, Jamestown 0
Bismarck Century 5, Dickinson 1
Bismarck High 6, Williston 0
Minot 10, Hazen/Beulah 0

Mandan takes on the top-seeded Magicians in a semifinal clash today at 5 p.m., while the Blue Jays battle No. 8-seeded Hazen-Beulah in today’s first loser-out contest at 11 a.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL
Benson County 91, Midkota 37
Beulah 78, New Town 65
Bismarck Century 74, Jamestown 67
Carrington 64, Velva 46
Central Cass 74, Wyndmere-Lidgerwood 71, 2OT
Des Lacs-Burlington 81, Garrison 47
Dickinson Trinity 72, Hazen 51
Drake/Anamoose 75, Surrey 40
Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 67, Medina-Pingree-Buchanan 37
Enderlin 61, Hankinson 53
Fargo Shanley 74, Devils Lake 73
Flasher 56, Center-Stanton 42
Grafton/St. Thomas 50, Midway-Minto 43
Hillsboro/Central Valley 63, North Border 26
Killdeer 50, Watford City 44
Kindred 68, Maple Valley 51
Langdon-Munich 63, Lakota/Edmore 58, OT
Larimore 52, Cavalier 42
Mandaree 74, Glen Ullin-Hebron 70
May Port CG 47, Griggs County Central 39
Minot Our Redeemer’s 73, Bottineau 52
Mohall-Lansford-Sherwood 70, Tioga 69
Mott-Regent 65, Hettinger/Scranton 54
North Star 65, New Rockford-Sheyenne 52
Northern Cass 69, Milnor-North Sargent 67
Powers Lake 64, Divide County 35
Ray 58, Trenton 18
Richardton-Taylor 45, New Salem-Almont 42
Richland 59, Lisbon 52
Rolla 63, Warwick 44
Sawyer 56, North Shore – Plaza 54
Shiloh Christian 52, Linton-HMB 48
South Border 74, LaMoure-Litchville-Marion 61
Stanley 62, Burke County 47
Strasburg-Zeeland 63, Ellendale 51
Thompson 65, Park River/Fordville Lankin 51
Underwood 67, Grant County 35
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Bismarck Century 57, Jamestown 43
Fargo Shanley 92, Devils Lake 48

 

High School Wrestling..

Fargo (CSi) Jamestown’s Paxton Mewes set two more school records Thursday, at the Class A state wretling semifinals on Thursday at the Fargodome.

The senior pinned Valley City’s Jake Tangen in 36 seconds and followed that with a pin in 3:13 against Bismarck’s Brady Bieber to become the school’s first 50-match winner. He also becomes Jamestown’s first five-time state placer as he’s guaranteed at least sixth place.

He faces Grand Forks Red River’s Malek Larimer tonight.

 

 

NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION

Final    Washington        103    Utah                    89
Final    Cleveland          106    Chicago              95
Final    L-A  Clippers    105    San  Antonio      86

Utah    at    Washington    (7:00  p.m.,    postponed,  Postponed)

NATIONAL  HOCKEY  LEAGUE

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) – Matt Dumba, Thomas Vanek and Mikael Granlund each had a goal and an assist as the Minnesota Wild beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Thursday night. Jason Pominville and Charlie Coyle scored for the Wild. Minnesota started the scoring 10 1/2 minutes in on the power play when a big rebound came out to Pominville.

Final            Pittsburgh        6    Detroit                  3
Final  OT      Washington        3    N-Y  Islanders      2
Final            Ottawa                4    Carolina                2
Final            N-Y  Rangers      4    Toronto                  2
Final  2OT    San  Jose            2    Florida                  1
Final  2OT    Tampa  Bay          6    Winnipeg                5
Final            Nashville          2    Boston                    0
Final  OT      St.  Louis          2    Los  Angeles          1
Final            Arizona              6    Dallas                    3
Final            Anaheim              5    Vancouver              2

TOP-25  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Nate Mason had 18 points, six rebounds and six assists to help Minnesota get its first Big Ten win of the season with a stunning 68-63 upset of No. 6 Maryland on Thursday night. Jordan Murphy added 17 points and 11 rebounds. The Williams Arena crowd stormed the court when time expired to celebrate Minnesota’s first Big Ten regular season win since beating Michigan State last February.

Final    (  8)  Michigan  St.      69              Wisconsin      57
Final    (14)  Kentucky              80              Tennessee      70
Final              UConn                    68    (21)  SMU                  62

TOP-25  WOMEN’S  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Memphis and Temple have matched the longest game in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history, with the Tigers outlasting the Owls 100-97 in five overtimes.

Final    (  2)  Notre  Dame              86              Wake  Forest              52
Final    (  3)  South  Carolina      61              Georgia                      51
Final    (  5)  Ohio  St.                  96              Nebraska                    70
Final    (23)  Syracuse                  83    (10)  Florida  St.              73
Final    (11)  Louisville              74              Virginia                    59
Final    (12)  Texas  A&M                68              LSU                              54
Final    (16)  Kentucky                  83    (14)  Mississippi  St.      60
Final    (22)  Florida                    79              Vanderbilt                67
Final    (24)  Tennessee                57              Mississippi              51
Final    (25)  Michigan  St.          70              Rutgers                      67

 

NBA-TRADE DEADLINE…

UNDATED (AP) – The NBA trade deadline has come and gone, but the biggest news concerned those who stayed put rather than those who were jettisoned. Dwight Howard remains with the Houston Rockets, Kevin Love is still property of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Pau Gasol (pow gah-SAHL’) continues to play for Chicago and Al Horford is staying in Atlanta. They were among a number of players who were reportedly discussed as possible trading chips.

Instead of blockbusters, Thursday’s trading activity revolved around minor deals:

– The Wizards have acquired Markieff (mahr-KEEF’) Morris from the Phoenix Suns in a multi-player deal. A person familiar with the trade says the Suns received a first-round draft pick and forwards Kris Humphries and DeJuan Blair in exchange for the 6-foot-10, 245-pound forward. Morris was third on the Suns in scoring at 11.6 points per game and also was averaging 5.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists.

– Memphis has traded forward Jeff Green to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Lance Stephenson. Green has played 53 games with the Grizzlies this season and is averaging 12.2 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists. Stephenson started 10 of his 43 games with the Clippers this season but is averaging just 4.7 points.

– The Utah Jazz have acquired point guard Shelvin Mack from Atlanta in a three-team deal with the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls receive a second-round pick from the Jazz and guard Justin Holliday from the Hawks. Atlanta gets guard Kirk Hinrich (HYN’-rihk) from the Bulls.

– The Denver Nuggets have agreed to send shooting guard Randy Foye to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Novak and D.J. Augustin (AW’-guh-steen).

– The Cavaliers have acquired forward Channing Frye from Orlando and dealt center Anderson Varejao (VAR’-eh-zhoh) in a three-team trade with Portland. The deal sent Varejao and a protected future first-round draft pick to the Trail Blazers for a second-round pick. The Cavs then traded that pick and guard Jared Cunningham to the Magic for Frye.

– The New Orleans Pelicans have acquired forward Jarnell Stokes and cash from the Miami Heat for a future second round draft pick.

 

GOLF…

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Camilo Villegas (vih-ZHAY’-guhs) opened with an 8-under 63 to grab a three-shot lead over Bubba Watson, Chez Reavie and Luke List through one round of the Northern Trust Open at Riviera. World No. 1 Justin Spieth (speeth) shot an 8-over 79 that included a three-putt double bogey from 8 feet on his final hole, leaving him next-to-last. It was his worst score since an 80 in the third round of the 2014 Tour Championship.

 

MLB…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The two men that led the Kansas City Royals to the World Series last year have been given contract extensions. That means a new deal for general manager Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost. The deal for Yost will run through the 2018 season.

 

NASCAR-DAYTONA TWIN RACES

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch were the winners of Thursday’s two qualifying races for the Daytona 500, putting them in the second row for Sunday’s season-opening race.

Earnhardt dominated the first 150-mile race and zipped around leader Denny Hamlin with six laps remaining to cruise to victory. It was Earnhardt’s 17th career win at Daytona and came on the 15th anniversary of his father’s death.

The second race featured a multi-car wreck on the final lap, which could put several drivers in their backup cars for NASCAR’s biggest showcase. Jamie McMurray sent Jimmie Johnson into the wall, trigger a collision that also involved Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex Jr.

It wasn’t clear how much damage Kurt Busch and McMurray sustained.
In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The casket carrying Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court. Thousands of mourners – from the president and members of Congress to former justices and tourists – will pay their respects today as the casket rests in the court’s Great Hall. A private ceremony will take place at the court at 9:30 a.m. Scalia’s casket will be on public view from 10:30 a.m. until 8 p.m.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense after killing four people in a drunken-driving crash is about to find out whether his case will transfer to adult court. But Ethan Couch could get less of a punishment if that happens. Couch was given probation for the deadly crash, but he and his mother fled to Mexico after a video showed him possibly violating probation. He has a hearing today.

BEIJING (AP) – China is accusing the U.S. of militarizing the South China Sea, just days after it was revealed Beijing had deployed surface-to-air missiles on an island in the hotly disputed area. The Chinese Foreign Ministry says patrols by U.S. military aircraft and Navy vessels, along with joint exercises involving regional partners are the true reason why concerns are growing over peace and stability.

CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s Interior Ministry says disgruntled Egyptians beat up a policeman, blocked roads, and surrounded the local security headquarters last night after the officer killed a driver in a dispute. The Ministry is calling the shooting a “mistake.” It says the killing followed an argument over the police sergeant’s fare for a ride in Cairo. Residents are telling local news that the policeman insulted the driver and then shot him in the head.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Police on the campus of Ohio State University have released a preliminary report, saying a former university security guard damaged dozens of works of art at the university museum before he killed himself last year. The Columbus Dispatch says the report, released at the request of the county coroner’s office, says 63-year-old Dean Sturgis damaged more than 30 pieces of art by shooting or using black spray paint on them. Then he shot himself in the head at the Wexner Center for the Arts on November 29.