Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 20

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH INCREASING TO NORTH 15 TO 20 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. EAST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS. HIGHS
IN THE LOWER 50S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE
EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW
SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.
LOWS IN THE MID 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH
SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS
IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.

FOR THE WEEKEND…A RETURN TO WET WEATHER LOOKS FAVORABLE FOR THE SECOND

HALF…SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. LIGHT RAIN…POSSIBLY A MIX WITH SNOW AT NIGHT

Update…

POPLAR, Mont. (AP) 2:35 p.m. Wed – The Latest on the search for a missing 1-year-old girl (all times local):
 
Montana authorities say a 1-year-old girl who they believe was abducted has been found dead in Poplar.
 
     The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Wednesday that a person is in custody. The statement did not have any further details.
 
     County spokesman Lee Allmer says a cause of death has not yet been determined. He says the FBI is leading the investigation.
 
     Kenzley Olson was last seen Tuesday morning, and an Amber Alert was issued early Wednesday.
 
     Officials had originally sought two North Dakota residents they believed responsible for her kidnapping, but later determined they were not involved.

Earlier…

POPLAR, Mont. (AP) – Authorities in northeastern Montana are searching for a 1-year-old girl who may have been abducted from her residence in Poplar.
 
     The Roosevelt County sheriff’s office reports the girl was last seen at 9 a.m. Tuesday. An Amber Alert was issued early Wednesday, but officials later determined the two North Dakota residents being sought for questioning were not involved. The Amber Alert was then officially cancelled at 12:16-p.m., CDT, although the girl as of Wednesday afternoon was still missing.
 
     Officials are still looking for Kenzley Olson. The Native American girl has black hair, brown eyes and a three-quarter-inch scar over her right eye.

Jamestown (CSi) A bone marrow donor registry drive is set for Jamestown on Monday April 25, 2016.

The drive will be from 7:30-a.m., to 1-p.m., at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Jamestown.

The effort is part of the National Marrow Donor Program, aiming to deliver cures to individuals diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers through marrow transplants.

The process on Monday, is a cheek swab which adds the persons tissue type to the registry. It is NOT a marrow donation at that time.

Every four minutes someone is diagnosed with leukemia or other blood diseases like sickle cell anemia, and a marrow transplant is their only hope.

The age group targeted to be a donor and a potential match, is 18-44 years old.

The donor must meet certain health criteria to become a donor.

Jamestown (CSi) The University of Jamestown has announced that the 30th Annual Dine and Bid set an event fund raising record.　 The evening was hosted by President and Mrs. Badal, with 360 people in attendance and 200 volunteers supporting the event.　 Over $125,000 was raised for the benefit of student scholarships.

Coordinator of Special Events, Morgan Bossman, Coordinator of Special Events, says “We are incredibly appreciative of the outstanding support we receive.” said “Assistance from UJ staff, faculty, alumni and friends plus the Jamestown community is invaluable. Dine and Bid could not be a success without their help through sponsorships, item donations, in-kind donations, or serving on the committee. It takes a community to put forth an event of this kind and we are fortunate to have an outstanding community to partner with.”

The night was filled with events, including both silent and live auctions, student skits by the football, baseball, and basketball teams, along with the student senate, and the science club. In addition to the skits, many students spoke on what it meant to be a Jimmie, and how important student scholarships were to them.

The 31^st annual Dine and Bid is scheduled for April 22^nd, 2017!

Bismarck (CSi) Non-profit organizations statewide will benefit from housing program dollars that were authorized today by the North Dakota Industrial Commission. North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) will distribute more than $205,000 through its Helping Housing Across North Dakota (Helping HAND) program.

“Helping HAND dollars address the housing needs of lower-income individuals and families by providing the grant recipients with flexible funding that can be used to provide for the greatest local housing needs,” commission members said in a joint statement.

The Industrial Commission, consisting of Gov. Jack Dalrymple as chairman, Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, oversees NDHFA.

The 2016 funds will be distributed as follows:

Funded by agency earnings, the Helping HAND program has leveraged over $27.6 million since 2000 for the construction or rehabilitation of more than 4,900 housing units statewide.

Grant recipients are encouraged to use the program dollars to benefit the largest number of households possible. A local match of 25 percent is required to access the funds. Helping HAND grants are most often used to support housing weatherization and rehabilitation projects. All of the funds must be utilized for projects in North Dakota.

NDHFA is a self-supporting state agency dedicated to making housing affordable for all North Dakotans. For more information on Helping HAND, contact NDHFA at (800) 292-8621 or hfainfo@nd.gov.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is expressing doubts about laws in at least a dozen states that make it a crime for people suspected of drunk driving to refuse to take alcohol tests. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in cases challenging North Dakota and Minnesota laws that criminalize a refusal to test for alcohol in blood, breath or urine even if police have not obtained a search warrant.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal safety inspectors have cited two Bismarck companies after a worker at a roofing job site fell about 20 feet.
 
     The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a statement that it has proposed a $35,000 fine for L&L Brendel Construction and a $4,900 fine for Front Street Millwork & Lumber.
 
     The companies can pay the fines or contest them before an independent commission.
 
     L&L Brendel Construction declined comment to The Bismarck Tribune. Front Street Chief Operating Officer Rick Simonson told the newspaper that he believes the fine will be reduced because the company has taken steps to increase safety. He also said the injured employee is back to work.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Attorneys for a Minot hospital are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit that blames the facility for the largest hepatitis C outbreak in recent U.S. history. Trinity Hospital attorneys say the lawsuit doesn’t follow proper legal procedure and makes allegations that are “impertinent and simply untrue.” An attorney for the plaintiffs says Trinity is trying to “delay the victims’ day in court.”

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials say a petroleum tanker laden with 175,000 barrels of North Dakota crude has made its way to Europe.
 
     It’s the first such overseas shipment of the state’s oil since Congress lifted a 40-year ban on crude export in December.
 
     Officials say the tanker was being unloaded in Rotterdam, Netherlands on Wednesday.
 
     North Dakota’s congressional delegation and industry officials hailed Hess Corp.’s shipment as a milestone that could open more markets to faraway refineries where premium prices are typically fetched based on foreign prices.
 
     Hess was formerly was known as Amerada Hess. It was the first company to strike oil in North Dakota in April 1951.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – An audit of North Dakota’s Land Department has found scores of discrepancies with the agency’s practices, including employees who got free meals and booze from contractors who manage state assets.
 
     The state auditor’s office also criticized the agency’s handling of oil impact grants and unclaimed property. State lawmakers are slated to review the audit’s findings on Thursday.
 
     The agency leases grazing rights and rights to produce oil, coal and gravel from state lands. The Land Department manages several state trust funds, including a fund that benefits public schools. It has more than $3.4 billion in assets.
 
     The Land Department has 33 employees and a two-year budget of about $8 million.
 
     Land Department Commissioner Lance Gaebe (GAY’-bee) says the agency is working to correct the discrepancies.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – The U.S. Census Bureau has selected two Native American reservations where it will test questions on tribal enrollment and other fine-tuning strategies next year in preparation for the 2020 national population count. The Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas and Washington state’s Colville Reservation will serve as 2017 Census Test sites. The bureau has enlisted the help of the tribes as it pilots efforts to avoid a 5 percent undercount of the population seen in the 2010 Census.

In world and national news…

 NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Five former police officers have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina. In exchange for the pleas, the ex-officers will see drastically less prison time. The officers were convicted in 2011, but a judge set aside the verdict two years later because of federal prosecutors’ misconduct. Four of the former officers have been locked up for nearly six years while the fifth has been out on bond. The shootings took place days after levees failed, swamping the city. Police gunned down two unarmed men and wounded four others.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A Treasury official says Secretary Jacob Lew has decided to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, making her the first woman on U.S. paper currency in 100 years. The official says that the 19th century abolitionist and leader of the Underground Railroad will replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president. The decision to place Tubman’s portrait on the 20 likely means that Lew has decided to keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, a victory for those who had opposed his initial plan to remove Hamilton.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – The vote count from the New York primary shows Donald Trump picking up 89 of the state’s 95 delegates, with John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) winning four others. Ted Cruz was shut out. The last two delegates will have to wait until absentee votes are counted. Trump has won 47 percent of the delegates awarded so far. He has to win 57 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination and avoid a contested convention.
 
     CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Prosecutors in West Virginia say former coal company executive Don Blankenship has to head to prison on May 12, pending an appeal. Blankenship was sentenced this month to the maximum penalties of a year in prison and a $250,000 fine for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards at Upper Big Branch Mine. The coal mine exploded in 2010, killing 29 men. Blankenship is appealing. He’s also asking the higher court to stay free on his $1 million bond while his appeal continues.
 
     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Tennessee state House has failed to override Gov. Bill Haslam’s veto of a bill to make Tennessee the first state to designate the Bible as its official book. The Republican governor last week turned back the bill over constitutional issues and because of concerns the measure “trivializes” what he considers a sacred text.