• HURON, S.D. (AP) -- Workers from the Canadian Pacific Railway are cleaning up a train derailment east of Huron.
• Railroad spokesman Andy Cummings says the train left the rails at about 2:30 p.m. Monday. It was on its way to the Chicago area. Cummings told KOKK that it was too early to tell why the train derailed.
• KELO reports that five cars went off the tracks about five miles east of town. They were carrying wheat and sunflower seeds.
• Other cars were carrying ethanol, but those cars stayed on the tracks.

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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Police are searching for a 25-year-old inmate who walked away from a minimum-security prison in Pierre.
• William Vandervier failed to return to the Rapid City Minimum Unit on Monday afternoon. State officials say he had been searching for a work-release job.
• Vandervier was sentenced in March 2011 to four years in prison for possession of marijuana. People with information are asked to call law enforcement.
• Vandervier is the second inmate to disappear in recent days. Authorities continue searching for 31-year-old Oscar Herrera-Menjivar, who escaped from a prisoner transport bus early Saturday near Spencer.
• Herrera-Menjivar was being transported from Florida to Nebraska. Authorities say he should be considered dangerous and warned that travelers in the area should not pick up hitchhikers. He originally was charged with sexual assault of a minor.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A 30-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to charges he stabbed his former girlfriend to death in a Walmart parking lot.
• Michael Young entered the plea Monday to charges of first-degree murder, fetal homicide, felony violation of a protection order and stalking for the deaths of 30-year-old Morgan Myers Goodhart and her unborn child.
• The Rapid City Journal reports that Young was tracked to a nearby motel after the April 26 stabbing, where he was discovered bleeding from self-inflicted stab wounds inside a restroom. KEVN reports that Young was hospitalized until June.
• The Pennington County State's Attorney's Office has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty for Young. If convicted of either first-degree murder or fetal

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