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• HIDALGO, Texas (AP) -- The only South Texas team in the Central Hockey League has folded amid financial trouble.
• The CHL on Wednesday announced the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees will not operate next season.
• A team statement says the economics of playing in the Valley are no longer financially viable. The Allen Americans and the Texas Brahmas are the other two CHL teams in Texas, more than 500 miles away in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
• The Killer Bees joined the CHL in 2003 and played at an arena in the border

town of Hidalgo (hih-DAL'-goh).
• The other CHL clubs are in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Signs will mark the spots where three people died in traffic crashes in South Dakota last year.
• A sign that says "think" marks the spot where 51-year-old Terry Brown of Rapid City was struck and killed last December by an alleged drunken driver. Family members tell KOTA-TV that the sign will help them remember and also send a message about the consequences of drinking and driving.
• KELO-TV reports that on Thursday, friends and family of 56-year-old Gwen Michalek of Chamberlain and 61-year-old Ellen Wright of Lower Brule were dedicating a sign in their memory. The women were driving in separate vehicles that went into a washout on a tribal highway between Reliance and Lower Brule and were carried away in rushing water after torrential rains a year ago.
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