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USD wants help paying for DakotaDome renovations
Monday, February 8, 2010
VERMILLION, S.D.(AP) - The University of South Dakota says the DakotaDome needs $8 million worth of renovations, and it wants the Vermillion School District to help pay.
The district uses the dome for high school football games. USD is asking the district to pay between $1 million and $2 million, spread over 15 years. The university's vice president of finance, Rich Van Den Hul, says the request is only fair since the high school team also calls the DakotaDome home.
Under a past agreement, the school district paid for new turf and $15,000 every year. A committee made up of school district board members, university staff and community members is working on a new agreement.
SD farmer sues over failed expansion
Monday, February 8, 2010
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A farmer is suing for damages because Lake County denied his permit to build a hog barn east of Madison.
Ben Elliott's lawsuit in federal court argues violations of civil rights and property rights, and lost opportunity in a case dating to 2001. The county denied his permit for a hog confinement building after deciding it fell under the provisions of a new zoning ordinance. Elliott said he applied before the ordinance was rewritten and the permit should have been granted under those conditions.
The defendants haven't filed their answer in court yet. Their attorney declined to comment.
Elliott challenged the permit denial in an unsuccessful lawsuit in state court.
AP analysis: US economic stress hit a peak in Dec.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Weakness in Western energy-producing states helped raise the average U.S. county's economic stress in December to its highest point since the recession began in December 2007.
But the Dakotas continued to see relatively low stress levels. The Associated Press' monthly analysis of conditions says Alaska, Wyoming and Montana lost jobs related in part to a drop in energy and mining exploration. Those states in the past had
generally defied the national economy's weakness.
The AP's Economic Stress Index found that the average county's score in December was 10.8, compared with 10.2 in November. Under a rough rule of thumb, a county is considered stressed when its score exceeds 11.
North Dakota (4.99) was again the least-stressed state in December. Next were South Dakota (5.47) and Nebraska (5.63).
Mother of baby thrown from van believes in miracle
Monday, February 8, 2010
CENTERVILLE, S.D. (AP) - The mother of a baby who was thrown from a van during a rollover crash on Interstate 29 in southeast South Dakota says she thinks it is a miracle her daughter survived.
The 3-month-old infant was secured in a baby seat but the seat with Adrianna still in it was ejected from the van when it went out of control on ice and crashed about three miles north of Vermillion last week.
Mother Trista Voagen of Centerville says the car seat was properly buckled in but was thrown anyway. She says she found Adrianna sitting in the upright seat in the ditch, still strapped in with her blanket over her and her toys sitting beside her.
Voagen says the only way to explain it is that someone was watching over the family.
SD Labor Department awarded $2.5M for green jobs
Monday, February 8, 2010
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The state Labor Department will use a $2.5 million grant to develop training programs for jobs in so-called green energy.
Labor Secretary Pam Roberts says trained workers will be in demand as the state moves toward alternative energy. She says the grant will help train about 300 workers with an emphasis on renewable energy, biofuels, carbon capture and energy efficiency.
The money was authorized through the stimulus spending bill approved by Congress last year.
Lion count at 30 in SD Black Hills
Monday, February 8, 2010
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Black Hills hunters are closing in on the bag limit set for mountain lions in 2010.
The Game, Fish and Parks Department says 30 lions - 19 females and 11 males - were taken as of Sunday. The most recent was a female taken Saturday southeast of Spearfish.
The season began Jan. 1 and runs through March but will end early when 25 female lions or a combination of 40 male and female lions are killed.
Super 8, franchises to go to mediation
Friday, February 5, 2010
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A federal judge in Sioux Falls has ruled that the company that franchises Super 8 breached its contract with motel owners by forcing them to pay a fee for a customer-incentive program.
Judge Lawrence Piersol says the amount of damages that Wyndham Worldwide must pay to the franchisees will be determined by a jury unless the two sides can reach a settlement. He set an April 13 trial date. Mediation is scheduled March 15.
More than 160 franchisees signed on to the lawsuit against Super 8, which was founded in Aberdeen and is considered a South Dakota corporation.
Plaintiffs lawyer Ron Parsons said during the hearing that the franchisees want the money they paid in fees returned. He said that amounts to more than $3.5 million.
Arrest in church arson helps bring closure
Friday, February 5, 2010
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - Members of a Yankton church destroyed by what officials say was an intentionally set fire say an arrest in the incident is bringing closure.
Authorities say a 15-year-old boy is charged with first-degree arson and third-degree burglary in the fire at St. John's Lutheran Church last April.
Church member and preschool teacher Patsy James says the arrest brings a sense of closure, but also sadness because a young person is apparently responsible.
The congregation decided last fall to rebuild. The church plans to reopen its doors Easter weekend.
Another SD family brings home children from Haiti
Friday, February 5, 2010
WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) - Another South Dakota family is bringing home adopted children from the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation of Haiti.
Andrew and Susie Hudson of Watertown are adopting 3-year-old Peterson and 5-year-old Juvenson. Susie Hudson was bringing them from Florida to South Dakota on Friday, while her husband waited at home with their other children.
The adoption went through a glitch when Peterson was mistakenly sent back to an orphanage in Haiti. Susie Hudson ended up waiting in Florida for 12 days for the problem to be resolved. Andrew Hudson called it "an emotional roller coaster."
GF&P Building in Pierre nearly ready
Friday, February 5, 2010
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The state Game, Fish and Parks Department says a $2 million building project in Pierre should be completed by spring despite some weather setbacks.
Work began last summer on the facility next to the existing Missouri River Fisheries Center. It will hold wildlife staff and land management equipment.
The project will add 7,000 square feet to the existing 6,000-square-foot office and give the department a 20,000-square-foot building for equipment storage.
SD has flu hot line
Undated
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - State health officials have announced a new toll-free hotline for South Dakotans looking for information about vaccine for the H1N1 flu.
People can call 1-866-320-2740, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Central time, Monday through Friday.
State Health Secretary Doneen Hollingsworth says the vaccine still is limited but supplies are slowly increasing. She says most flu shots are being given in doctors' offices and clinics to high risk patients, but state officials hope to offer public clinics by mid-November.
Hollingsworth says South Dakotans also can check the Web site http://h1n1.sd.gov for the clinic schedule.
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