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Marketers Association, said gas stations oppose the proposed warning label on pumps dispensing 85-octane gasoline.
• Leitzke said 85-octane gasoline has been unfairly criticized as dirty fuel, but it has been sold for decades in western South Dakota and high-altitude western states. A label indicating that a pump dispenses 85-octane fuel is sufficient notice to customers, she said.
• "A warning label to me says loss of sales. It says panic to consumers. It gives 85-octane a derogatory name. If there was a problem with vehicles, you would have seen it," Leitzke said.
• Rules generally cannot permit something banned in state law. But Vehle said the proposed rule would legally allow the sale of 85-octane gasoline by following a pro

vision of law that allows state requirements to conform to standards set by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
• Another part of the rule would require gas stations to keep records of the specifications of fuel they purchase. Officials said the Public Safety Department is purchasing mobile testing equipment that check the octane being sold by stations.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for his part in beating another man to death.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson announced Tuesday that 29-year-old Ronald Kills In Water of Mission was sentenced for the October 2011 beating death. Johnson says Kills In Water aided and abetted the beating of the victim, who died as a result of his injuries.
• Kills In Water also was sentenced to two years of supervised released and ordered to pay restitution.
• He was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- An attorney appointed to represent convicted killer Donald Moeller has told a federal judge that Moeller wants nothing done to delay his execution.
• Moeller was convicted in 1997 for the rape and killing of Becky O'Connell. Last month, circuit court Presiding Judge Kathleen Caldwell set Moeller's execution for

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