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• Kogler has said the union opposes a proposed increase in health care premiums and wants to bring more jobs back to the U.S. The union had authorized a strike in the event that a new deal couldn't be reached with the Monroe, La.-based telecommunications company.
• CenturyLink workers in Montana, who are negotiating a separate contract, also agreed to the extension.
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Authorities probing Sisseton man's death
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are probing what caused the death of a Sisseton man whose body was found near a fire scene last week.
• A statement from Attorney General Marty Jackley's office says the Roberts County sheriff is investigating the death of 59-year-old Murray Hill.
• Hill's body was found last Tuesday when local firefighters were called to a fire in rural Roberts County. The state criminal investigation division and the South Dakota fire marshal are taking part in the probe.
• Jackley's statement said an autopsy was done on Hill's remains and that authorities are waiting for the final results.
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Solar device looks to add outlets to remote spots
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota entrepreneur Brian Gramm was tailgating outside a college football game one sunny day when he wondered why he couldn't use that energy to plug in a radio.
• The first-world inconvenience led him to develop the Forty2, an all-in-one "utility in a box" that Gramm now thinks could change millions of third-world lives.
• The device, which looks like a quadruple-sized laptop computer, could generate and store enough solar power in a remote African village to run a dorm refrigerator filled with medicine, a couple of fans and a dozen LED lights, said Gramm, founder and chief executive of Peppermint Energy.
• "We changed it from how could we run a TV and a satellite dish and a stereo, to being able to run that fridge around the clock 365 days a year, being able to charge cell phones because that's their only link to communication, being able to get them indoor cooking," said Gramm, of Sioux Falls.
• Darin Fey, who volunteers at orphanages in South Africa's Pretoria, said he sees a great need for that kind of power.
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