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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Police have arrested a suspect in the robbery of a Sioux Falls casino.
• Authorities say the 35-year-old man was taken into custody Wednesday night. They did not immediately provide details of the arrest.
• Police say a gun-wielding man wearing a hooded sweat shirt and a bandanna robbed Jackson's Casino II about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. Authorities did not say if the money was recovered
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Efforts to give voters a chance to reverse a recent property tax hike in Minnehaha County might have fallen short.
• Critics of the tax increase, expected to raise about $4 million, turned in about 5,400 signatures by 5 p.m. Wednesday, the deadline to bring the measure to voters in an Oct. 1 special election.
• The Argus Leader reports that county auditor Bob Litz says his office did a rough count and thinks thousands of the signatures might be invalid. Petitioners need 5,334 signatures to get the issue on the ballot -- giving them a cushion of about 70 names. The official count begins Thursday.
• KELO television reports that the county's move to opt out of the state property tax freeze was meant to close a projected $2.8 million budget deficit.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota state budget director Jason Dilges (DIHL'-jehs) has become president of a national association of state finance officers.
• Dilges will be president of the National Association of State Budget Officers for the next year.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the selection of Dilges to head the association shows his counterparts across the nation recognize his expertise and knowledge of complex state budget issues.
• Dilges joined state government in 1995 as a budget analyst and later became state economist and deputy state budget director. He has been commissioner of the state Bureau of Finance and Management since 2002.

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