{"id":15536,"date":"2013-03-27T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15536"},"modified":"2013-03-28T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T12:11:15","slug":"wayne-byers-show-evening-mar-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15536","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Mar 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>CSi Weather…<\/p>\n

TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. PATCHY FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
\n10 TO 15. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
\n.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
\n.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. SOUTH WINDS
\nAROUND 5 MPH.
\n.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
\nAROUND 5 MPH.
\n.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SLEET IN THE EVENING…
\nTHEN CHANCE OF SLEET POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.
\nLOWS IN THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
\n.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
\n.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
\n.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO 15. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
\n.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.<\/p>\n

PATCHY FOG IS EXPECTED IN THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY WEDNESDAY NIGHT \u00a0INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THE FOG MAY BE DENSE AT TIMES THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
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\n\u00a0THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
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\n\u00a0THERE IS A CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FRIDAY AND FRIDAY\u00a0 NIGHT ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.<\/p>\n

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Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 27, 2013) — The Valley City Commission met in Special Session Wednesday (Mar 27, 2013) at 8-a.m. at City Hall. All Commissioners were present, with Commissioner Luke participating via telephone.<\/p>\n

Commissioners overviewed the spring 2013 flood forecast with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bald Hill Dam, Manager Rich Schueneman.<\/p>\n

He said, as of this morning the Lake Ashtabula level was at 1257. 15 feet, with the maximum draw down scheduled for 1257 feet..<\/p>\n

The Bald Hill Dam release this morning was cut to 100-120 cfs.<\/p>\n

He said the release will continue to be cut back to match inflows.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that the flood buyouts in Valley City as eliminated the need for 200,000 sandbags should the need for flood protect arise.<\/p>\n

Schueneman pointed out that the latest moisture survey indicates 2-4 inches locally and about 3-5 inches in the upper basin, which he said is good figure right now.<\/p>\n

He added that the National Weather Service will issue an updated seven day forecast this Friday.<\/p>\n

He said the river level, trigger that requires the installation of clay dikes on the Sheyenne in Valley City is 17 feet and at 18 feet the flow is 5500 cfs through Valley City.<\/p>\n

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A Valley City Public Works budget update was presented by City Administrator David Schelkoph, which is planned to be regularly updated.<\/p>\n

He presented the five year overview history of each of the department\u2019s budgets.<\/p>\n

He projects a profit in the electrical department.<\/p>\n

He pointed out if the AMI meter reading proposal is approved, it will mean a reduction in overall costs. A public meeting is planned for April 4, 2013.<\/p>\n

Each department\u2019s estimated incomes were projected, with the electrical department income projected at $7.169 million.<\/p>\n

The Water Department budget was broken down to Treatment Plant income, and operations and maintenance.<\/p>\n

Discussions included the AMI and Electric Fund Payback Funds<\/p>\n

He said cash on hand is about $5.829 million.<\/p>\n

Schelkoph pointed out improvements to the downtown electric substation, and a transformer change out.<\/p>\n

Capital Improvement projects are earmarked at $1.4 million.<\/p>\n

The Commissioners discussed transfers from the city\u2019s electric fund to other utilities and for permanent flood control in Valley City, which includes $1 million.<\/p>\n

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More decisions will be made based on action by the State Water Commision.<\/p>\n

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The meeting was shown live on CSi 68, followed by replays.<\/p>\n

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Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) \u2013 Valley City State University will host a Regional Science Olympiad for teams of high school and junior high students on campus Thursday, March 28, 2013.<\/p>\n

Twenty-three high school teams and 16 junior high teams \u2013 comprising 500 to 600 students \u2013 will compete at VCSU.The VCSU event is one of five regional competitions throughout the state.<\/p>\n

Winning teams from each of the regionals will advance to the state competition April 20 at North Dakota State University.<\/p>\n

VCSU science students and faculty members, assisted by Science Olympiad team coaches, will run the various events on topics including anatomy and physiology, food science, astronomy, forestry, rocks and minerals, thermodynamics, water quality, musical sounds, circuits, chemistry, and genetics, among others.<\/p>\n

Most events will be held in the new Rhoades Science Center, with additional competition taking place in Foss Music Hall, Graichen Gym and the City Auditorium.<\/p>\n

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FARGO, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 27, 2013) \u2014 <\/strong>The American Red Cross Minn-Kota Region is part of a national test of the next generation of the organization\u2019s emergency response vehicle, with the new vehicle prototype in Jamestown on Saturday, March 30, <\/sup>2013.<\/p>\n

The vehicle will be showcased at the Jamestown Business Center West Parking lot for disaster volunteers to view, test drive and evaluate.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon Red Cross Volunteers will be assisting the Jamestown Rural Fire Department\u2019s \u2018Auto Extrication Training Exercise\u2019.<\/p>\n

The vehicle will be providing drinks and snacks during the break for all those taking part in this event.<\/p>\n

Buffalo Valley Chapter, Manager, Beth Dewald says, “This is an incredible opportunity for our community to be a part of shaping the future of our services and the iconic Red Cross response vehicle. Our community will help ensure that this redesigned vehicle will effectively provide help, hope and comfort to people in need after disasters across the country.”<\/p>\n

The Minn-Kota Region is one of two dozen Red Cross groups across the country in the testing and assessment program for the new vehicles.<\/p>\n

The prototypes are the result of a five-year process engaging Red Cross volunteers, staff, partners and the design community to create a vehicle that is more cost efficient and provides a better experience for both Red Crossers and the people we help.<\/p>\n

Currently, the Red Cross has more than 320 emergency response vehicles in 49 states that are used after disasters like home fires, tornadoes and floods to serve meals, snacks and beverages to families and distribute relief supplies.<\/p>\n

Ms Dewald adds, “Over the next decade, the Red Cross expects to replace our current fleet of response vehicles while saving millions of dollars by switching to a more effective platform with reduced maintenance costs. With the help of communities like Jamestown, we\u2019ll be able to make sure that the new design meets the needs of the people who turn to us for help after disasters.”<\/p>\n

The Red Cross has a long history of providing help and comfort from mobile vehicles. In 1898, Clara Barton used a wagon as an ambulance for her work on the battlefield. During World War II, the Red Cross used clubmobiles to support U.S. servicemen. In 1984, the Red Cross began to standardize the organization’s disaster response vehicles around an ambulance design. Prior to the 1984 initiative, the Red Cross used converted bread trucks, station wagons and pickup trucks to deliver meals and snacks after disasters. The prototypes that are being tested today represent the next generation of these historic response vehicles.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors in North Dakota have unsealed indictments against 15 people accused of bilking victims from the Dakotas and elsewhere out of more than $1 million in a Jamaican lottery scam.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charges against 11 defendants were made public Wednesday, after four people pleaded not guilty earlier to several charges, including mail and wire fraud.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota and South Dakota are the latest states whose residents have been victimized by a lottery scam originating in Jamaica. The scheme targets mostly elderly Americans. Authorities estimate that at least 30,000 telephone calls from Jamaica are made every day trying to defraud U.S. citizens.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Court documents show that one North Dakota woman lost more than $150,000 in the case. She was told to send money in order to receive a $19 million cash award.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Fargo man who allegedly posted messages on Facebook asking someone to burn down the Mesa, Ariz., house of the bosses who had just fired him.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cass Mortenson, who is in his mid-30s, is wanted on a felony terrorizing charge.
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\n\u00a0 Court documents indicate Mortenson was fired from O’Leary’s Pub in early February for allegedly overstating the number of hours he worked.<\/p>\n

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A 20-year-old North Dakota State University student has been arrested for allegedly concocting a story about being abducted and raped.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The woman was arrested Tuesday night. She did not immediately make a court appearance to be formally charged.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Campus police say the woman on Sunday night told authorities that a man wearing a ski mask forced her into a vehicle in a parking lot and drove her to another location, where he sexually assaulted her. The reported prompted a community alert.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After an investigation, police arrested the woman on suspicion of falsely reporting a crime to law enforcement, a misdemeanor. Authorities say in an email to students that there is no threat to the campus or surrounding area.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Prosecutors want to seize a Hummer vehicle a West Fargo landlord used to run over a former tenant – an incident that landed 75-year-old Alois Vetter in prison.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vetter was sentenced to two years behind bars in the assault and reckless endangerment case because jurors decided the Hummer constituted a dangerous weapon.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Defense attorney Richard Edinger says the state should have taken the $27,000 Hummer in April 2011, when prosecutors decided to treat the vehicle as a dangerous weapon.\u00a0A \u00a0judge will rule later.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vetter’s October 2011 conviction was upheld by the state Supreme Court in January.<\/p>\n

\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) – An attorney representing a Fargo TV station being sued by a former anchorwoman has asked a federal judge to dismiss the case.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Forum newspaper reports\u00a0 that attorney Gina Janeiro told U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson during a Tuesday hearing that the decision by KXJB-KVLY TV to remove then-50-year-old Robin Huebner from the station’s 10 p.m. newscast and replace her with a woman about half her age did not constitute age discrimination.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Huebner is suing KXJB-KVLY parent Hoak Media. She’s seeking more than $75,000 in damages.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Huebner’s attorney, James Kaster, told Erickson that the station’s decision to shift Huebner to another time slot and cut her pay by more than one-third was an undeserved demotion designed to make her quit, which she did.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Erickson will rule later.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple says his decision to sign strict new abortion laws, including the nation’s toughest restriction on the procedure, wasn’t based on “any religious belief or personal experience.”
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple signed three anti-abortion measures Tuesday – including one banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy – and positioned oil-rich North Dakota as a primary battleground in the decades-old fight over abortion rights.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unsolicited donations quickly began pouring into the state’s lone abortion clinic to help opponents prove the new laws unconstitutional.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple says he doesn’t know how much a court fight would cost but says money isn’t the issue. He says lawmakers have “decided to ask these questions on additional restrictions on abortions, and I think they have the legitimate right to ask those questions.”<\/p>\n

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\u00a0MINOT, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s governor and congressional delegation say the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded the city of Minot and Ward County more than $40 million in disaster relief funding.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sens. John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp, Rep. Kevin Cramer and Gov. Jack Dalrymple say the city and county will now be allowed to use the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Relief funding for home acquisition outside the floodplain, which was formerly disallowed.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The award brings the total block grant for Minot to more than $112 million, and the total of all federal funding combined to the city and region to more than $632 million.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The city received $35 million of the new money. The state of North Dakota received $6.6 million, with 80 percent going to Ward County.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service is planning prescribed burns on the Grand River and Sheyenne National Grasslands in the Dakotas.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Dakota Prairie Grasslands office says the work will be done as weather permits in the next month and a half. About 900 acres will be burned on the Grand River Ranger District in northwestern South Dakota and about 5,000 acres will be burned on the Sheyenne Ranger District in southeastern North Dakota.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grasslands officials say prescribed burns help keep native grasses and prairie habitat healthy while discouraging the growth of invasive species.<\/p>\n

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In sports..<\/p>\n

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Mar 27, 2013) \u2013 Guards, guards, everywhere guards. Frontcourt players took a back seat when the 2013 Class A boys all-state basketball team was selected.<\/p>\n

As chosen by the state Associated Press Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the first team consists of three pure guards and three rovers.<\/p>\n

A.J. Jacobson of state champion Fargo Shanley is the focal point of the team. He won a triple crown of sorts by winning a state championship, earning the Class A senior athlete award and claiming Mr. Basketball honors.<\/p>\n

Along the way, he broke the unofficial Class A career scoring record with 2,002 points. He averaged 26.4 points, 12.8 rebounds and 5.1 assists as a senior and scored 27 points in the Deacons\u2019 73-54 win over Bismarck in the state title game.<\/p>\n

In addition, he grabbed 12 rebounds and assisted on six baskets against Bismarck. For the season he averaged 2.6 steals and 2.5 blocked shots. He\u2019ll attend North Dakota State next fall.<\/p>\n

Jacobson\u2019s first-team all-state teammates are Mac Kroeplin of Grand Forks Red River, Erron Collins of Mandan, Nate Mertens of Devils Lake, Tanner Kretchman of Fargo Davies and Ben Weisbeck of St. Mary\u2019s. Jacobson returns to the first team. Weisbeck, Kroeplin and Mertens were second-team picks last season.<\/p>\n

Kroeplin, Collins and Mertens were Mr. Basketball finalists.<\/p>\n

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In world and national news…<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) – At least five Supreme Court justices appear to have some concerns about the federal Defense of Marriage Act and its provision that keeps same-sex married couples from getting the same federal benefits that go to other married couples. The questions they raised during Wednesday’s arguments indicated the court could strike down that law. Justice Anthony Kennedy said the law seems to interfere with the ability of states to recognize same-sex marriages.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PHOENIX (AP) – In the 2,700 pages of documents released by Arizona authorities Wednesday from the shooting of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there are some new details about the gunman, provided by his parents. The documents reveal that Jared Loughner (LAWF’-nur) had grown increasingly erratic and delusional in the months leading up to the rampage. He alienated friends and family and became paranoid that police were out to get him. His father told police, “I tried to talk to him. But you can’t.”
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Almost a week after a baby was fatally shot in his stroller, police in coastal Georgia are saying for the first time they believe the child and his mother were victims of a random crime. The police chief in Glynn County says investigators are looking into the possibility that the killing was gang-related — but he says evidence gathered so far doesn’t support that. The child’s mother says they were attacked last Thursday after she refused to give money to two youths who approached them on the street. A 17-year-old and a 15-year-old are charged with murder.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is asking his attorney general to investigate the visit by state child welfare officials to the home of a man who had shared a photo of his son holding a military-style rifle. The child welfare agency and local police went to the home after what police said were anonymous calls expressing concern about the safety of a child. Shawn Moore has said he thinks he was investigated because of a photo he posted online of his son holding the gun he got for his 11th birthday. No charges were filed.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years for stealing more than $125,000 in party money. Jim Greer was sentenced in Orlando Wednesday, more than a month after he pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and a single count of money laundering. The sentence was less severe than the three-and-a-half years in prison requested by prosecutors.
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