• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Five towns have been selected as the first clinical sites for a rural health care project sponsored by the University of South Dakota medical school.
• The Frontier and Rural Medicine program, known as FARM, allows USD medical students nine months of training in rural areas. The goal is to increase the number of doctors in rural South Dakota.
• Eligible communities for the clinical sites had to have fewer than 10,000 people.
• The students will be based in Milbank, Mobridge, Winner, Platte and Parkston.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant has posted a pamphlet online to help voters understand the measures that will appear on the November ballot.

• Gant says the pamphlet includes Attorney General Marty Jackley's explanations and the pro and con statements submitted for each proposed constitutional amendment, referred law and initiated measure.
• He says the pamphlet is important to help voters understand the measures on the Nov. 6 ballot. Gant says his office will distribute paper versions of the pamphlet, but the online version will also help educate voters.
• South Dakota voters will decide the fate of seven ballot measures. They include a proposed sales tax increase to fund education and healthcare, referred laws dealing with grants to large construction projects and bonuses for teachers, and a balanced budget amendment.
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