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• The 10-story facility will be bigger than 22 football fields and include 460 hospital beds, 32 operating rooms and 51 emergency department bays. By 2018, it's expected to be staffed by more than 260 physicians working in 48 different specialties.
• The company will break ground on the facility on Tuesday night with a celebration to be headlined by popular rock band Train and expected to draw 15,000 employees, members and guests.
• "Fargo's new campus will bring unprecedented medical care and investment into North Dakota and neighbors in South Dakota and Minnesota," Sanford President and CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft said.

• Sanford already employs more than 7,500 people in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. The new medical center will create an additional 2,000 full-time positions.
• Sanford is based in Fargo and Sioux Falls, S.D. It has a presence in more than 100 communities in seven states and bills itself as the nation's largest not-for-profit rural health care provider.
• Sanford will continue to operate its existing campus in downtown Fargo and also plans to expand the Roger Maris Cancer Center. When the new medical center opens, Sanford will have 680 patient beds in Fargo-Moorhead.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Attorney General Marty Jackley have formed a task force to study the state's open records and open meetings laws.
• They say the goal is to ensure "maximum public access to state government business." Jackley says the group will continue work done in the past decade that led to the creation of an open meeting statute that presumes most state government records are public.
• Members of the task force range from city, county and state officials to law officers and journalists. They will meet several times this summer and fall and then report back to the governor and attorney general.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota college student accused of threatening to shoot people on campus and burn down a dean's house says he never in

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