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• CRAZY HORSE, S.D. (AP) -- More rock is being blasted away at the Crazy Horse Memorial in western South Dakota.
• Tuesday's blast marks the 136th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn and 86th birthday of Memorial president Ruth Ziolkowski (jew-uhl-KUFF'-skee).
• The memorial will waive its regular admission fee after 6 p.m. for each person bringing three cans of food for the KOTA Care & Share Food Drive.
• The memorial honors Crazy Horse, a famed Lakota warrior and leader who played a key role in the 1876 defeat of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. He died a year later after being stabbed in Nebraska.

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• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- The Crow Peak Trail in western South Dakota's Black Hills remains closed as crews battle a forest fire.
• The Crow Peak Fire sparked by lightning on Saturday had grown to 70 acres Monday evening and was only 5 percent contained.
• The blaze is in rugged terrain southwest of Spearfish. Firefighters are working on the ground and in the air. No evacuations have been ordered.
• Officials say lightning also touched off two smaller fires over the weekend. The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for western South Dakota for much of Tuesday due to anticipated low humidity and gusty winds.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Crop development continues to be well ahead of the average in South Dakota, but a lack of moisture caused some crop conditions to decline.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop and weather report that temperatures were warmer than average for the third consecutive week. Warm temperatures are starting to cause stress on some crops.
• Corn had an average height of 28 inches, ahead of the five year average of 16 inches, with 97 percent of the crop cultivated or sprayed once and 50 percent cultivated or sprayed twice.

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