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Kevin Schieffer named to SD transportation panel
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed Sioux Falls businessman Kevin Schieffer (SHEE'-fur) to the South Dakota Transportation Commission.
• Daugaard also has reappointed Mike Trucano (TRUH'-cah-noh) of Deadwood to another term on the commission that determines road construction priorities and advises the state Transportation Department on overall transportation needs. Trucano has been on the panel since 1997.
• Schieffer will join the nine-member commission on July 27 to replace Dick Gregerson of Sioux Falls.
• Schieffer currently advises and invests in start-up companies. He is a former U.S. attorney and spent 12 years as president of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. He also was chief of staff for former U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler.
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Judge hears testimony on one-drug executions
LINDA DEUTSCH,AP Special Correspondent
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California team of executioners is rehearsing how to use a new lethal injection to end the lives of death row prisoners with a single drug, an expert witness testified Friday.
• John McAuliffe, a former corrections officer who has been contracted to develop the new single-drug protocol, made the disclosure before a judge who is considering the Los Angeles County district attorney's bid to immediately execute two death row inmates.
• McAuliffe said the execution team would be composed of registered nurses who know how to insert IV lines.
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