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day with teacher supervision. They also spend time on written activities and projects.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission has decided to cut the number of East River deer hunting licenses this year.
• The commission voted Monday to issue licenses allowing a total of 58,585 deer to be shot east of the Missouri River this fall. That's a reduction of 16,360 tags from last year, with most of the reduction due to fewer three-tag licenses being sold.
• The East River deer season will run from Nov. 17 through Dec. 2.
• From Dec. 29 through Jan. 6, the season will reopen for hunters with unfilled ant

lerless deer and antlerless whitetail deer tags.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A missing state prison inmate is back in custody in South Dakota.
• Corrections officials say 30-year-old Justin Davis returned to the minimum-security unit of the Black Hills Correctional Transition Center in Rapid City on Monday night. He had failed to return on time earlier in the day after his work release job.
• Davis is serving two years behind bars on a forgery conviction out of Butte County.

• The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (all times EDT):
• 1. WHY THE FATE OF THE TAX CUT PLAN SEEMS DUBIOUS
• Democrats want to push tax cuts through the Senate for companies that hire new workers while Republicans may use procedural blockades to derail the measure.
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• 2. EGYPT'S LEGISLATURE CONVENES DESPITE COURT RULING
• The Islamist-dominated parliament meets in defiance of a ruling by the country's highest court dissolving the legislature.
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