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day to raise South Dakota's minimum driving age. She said her adult son was killed Christmas Eve by a 15-year-old South Dakota boy who ran a red light at 85 mph.
• "We're hoping you guys are going to make some restrictions," she said. "It's just not my son. It's your own children that are being killed, too."
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The National Sunflower Association says this year's harvest should be done well ahead of average.
• A killing freeze in much of the Northern Plains last week put growers into full harvest mode.
• The association says that combines will be working steady this week thanks to a forecast of unseasonably warm temperatures and no precipitation.
• North Dakota's crop is rated 51 percent good, 35 percent fair, 7 percent poor, 6 percent excellent and 1 percent very poor. South Dakota's crop is rated 46 percent fair, 27 percent poor, 24 percent good and 3 percent very poor.
• Early harvest reports from central North Dakota are coming in at 1,700 to 2,200 pound yields.
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• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- Some 160 South Dakota Army National Guard soldiers are scheduled to arrive back in the Black Hills Thursday after a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.
• A welcome home ceremony for the 842nd Engineer Company is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at Black Hills State University in Spearfish. The unit is based out of Spearfish, Belle Fourche and Sturgis deployed in September.
• Members of the 842nd arrived in the United States on Sept. 17 and have been completing de-mobilization requirements at Fort Bliss, Texas.
• The unit during its deployment used bulldozers, scrapers, cranes, loaders and 20-ton dump trucks to build and maintain roads, construct base force protection measures and provide limited clearing operations.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Police have released the name of a 22-year-old window cleaner who died after falling off the roof of a hospital building.
• Joshua Keith Obenauer was washing windows at Avera McKennan's Prairie

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