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Deployment ceremony set for SD Guard soldiers
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A deployment ceremony is scheduled next week for South Dakota National Guard soldiers heading to Afghanistan.
• The ceremony for the four soldiers with the 1978th Contingency Contracting Team is Nov. 28 at the Duke Corning Armory in Rapid City. The group is deploying for nine months of duty in Afghanistan after final training at Camp Shelby, Miss.
• The unit's mission will be to coordinate contracting functions at a brigade or combat team level.
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Judge in Beef Products lawsuit recuses himself
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge overseeing a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit filed by a South Dakota beef processing company against ABC News has recused himself from the case.
• Judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from the case that is being heard in U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The case has been reassigned to Chief Judge Karen Schreier.
• Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based Beef Products Inc. sued ABC News Inc. in September for defamation over its coverage of a meat product called lean, finely textured beef that critics dub "pink slime." The meat processor claims the network damaged the company by misleading consumers into believing the product is unhealthy and unsafe.
• A representative of Piersol's says she could not comment on why the judge recused himself.
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Dark matter detector nearing activation in SD mine
AMBER HUNT,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Scientists hoping to detect dark matter deep in a former South Dakota gold mine have taken the last major step before flipping the switch on their delicate experiment and say they may be ready to begin collecting data as early as February.
• What's regarded as the world's most sensitive dark matter detector was lowered earlier this month into a 70,000-gallon water tank nearly a mile beneath the earth's surface, shrouding it in enough insulation to hopefully isolate dark matter from the (Continued on page 22)
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