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No injuries in fire at SD particle board plant
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A blaze at a particle board plant in Rapid City was quickly knocked down by employees and firefighters.
• Officials say the Tuesday fire at the Dakota Panel plant happened in a structure used to collect dust from a processing area. Employees used on-site fire hoses to contain the flames to the structure until firefighters arrived. The blaze was knocked down in about half an hour.
• No one was hurt.
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SD man accused of shooting at fiancée pleads
• FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at his fiancée has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated assault.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says 39-year-old Ronald Berens Jr. of Fort Pierre faces up to 25 years in prison because he is considered a habitual offender. He is to be sentenced June 26.
• Authorities say the April 29 shooting began as a domestic violence incident at the residence Berens shared with his fiancée. Berens was accused of firing one shot inside and two more outside. One of the shots hit a home. No one was hurt.
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AP News in Brief
In a first, census figures show minorities make up more than half of babies born in US
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
• New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now resulting in fewer Hispanics entering the U.S.
• "This is an important landmark," said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau who is now a sociologist at Howard University. "This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders."
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