Saturday,  August 11, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 028 • 32 of 46 •  Other Editions

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1991 after a decades-long journalism career but still writes five columns a week for the Herald, including "Eatbeat."
• The annual award for lifetime achievement is named for USA Today and Freedom Forum founder Al Neuharth, a South Dakota native and 1950 University of South Dakota gradate. It will be presented to Hagerty on Oct. 4 at USD.
• Hagerty will be the 26th recipient of the award. Past winners include Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Larry King, Garrison Keillor and Katie Couric.
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SD corn, soybean production expected to drop

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Production estimates for the majority of crops in South Dakota are down from last year, as drought continues around the state.

• The Department of Agriculture's first forecast for 2012 estimates South Dakota's corn crop at 519.4 million bushels, down 21 percent over the year, and the soybean crop at just under 138 million bushels, down 8 percent.
• USDA also predicts decreases over the year in South Dakota's alfalfa hay and sorghum production but increases for spring wheat, oats and dry edible beans. The state's winter wheat crop is pegged at 62.4 million bushels, down 7 percent from 2011.
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Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials
The Associated Press

• The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls. Aug. 4, 2012
• Stand up and fight drugs in Yankton Sioux tribe
• The death of a 2-year-old girl has brought attention to a real problem on tribal lands -- drug use and the lack of adequate enforcement.
• Without RieLee Lovell's death in July while in the care of two people charged with meth and marijuana possession, it might not have come to light that the Yankton Sioux Tribe never got around to using a federal grant to hire a methamphetamine detective.
• Now, that failure to use a 2010 C.O.P.S. grant has triggered outrage among people in the tribe who have complained about the meth problem in Charles Mix County and people across the state who are sickened by what happened to RieLee Lovell. The child lived in a tribal housing unit in rural Wagner, and her death went unreported for almost two days because the adults who were supposed to care for her were partying, according to prosecutors.

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