Sioux Falls police search for bank robbery suspect
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Police are searching for a man they say robbed a Sioux Falls bank.
• Authorities say the man demanded cash from a teller at a Wells Fargo bank branch inside a drug store shortly before 7 p.m. Monday. He did not display a weapon or make mention of one.
• The suspect fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. No one was hurt.
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Disabled SD veterans can get property tax break
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Military veterans who are permanently and totally disabled because of service-related injuries have only a short time left to apply for a new South Dakota program that grants them a partial exemption on their property taxes.
• The state Revenue Department reports that eligible veterans or the unmarried surviving spouses of eligible veterans must apply before Nov. 1 at county assessors' offices.
• The program exempts the first $100,000 of valuation of a disabled veteran's property from taxes. The exemption applies to a house, garage and lot.
• Because local government budgets and tax levies for property taxes payable in 2013 have already been set, veterans eligible for the program will first see a reduction in their property taxes payable in 2014.
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2 owls set for release after rehabilitation
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Two owls undergoing rehabilitation at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls are set to be released Tuesday.
• The zoo says in a statement that a great horned owl and an eastern screech owl are set to be released Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Blood Run nature area.
• The owls were part of the Raptor Rehabilitation Program at the Great Plains Zoo.
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Rare pianos loaned to School of Mines
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology's music department is getting the use of some rare Steinway pianos and a harpsi (Continued on page 19)
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