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serve as false alarms in their efforts to detect dark matter. • Nelson likens the experiment to Sherlock Holmes' approach to discovering the unknown by eliminating the known. • Once the data start to flow, it'll take a month or two before the detector is sensitive enough to claim the "most-sensitive" title, Nelson said. • After that, the scientists involved hope to start seeing what they covet most: something they've never seen before. •
FBI IDs remains found on S. Dakota reservation
• FORT THOMPSON, S.D. (AP) -- The FBI has identified remains found on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota as that of a 15-year-old girl. • The FBI says the remains were discovered Oct. 19 and belong to Shauntae Hope Marks. Marks had been missing since May. • The body was found in a wooded area of the reservation and investigators were not initially able to identify the remains. • The FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs are continuing to investigate the death. • The Crow Creek reservation is located in central South Dakota. •
Pipeline manufacturer breaks ground on SD plant
• BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. (AP) -- A Texas-based company is starting construction this week on a new pipeline manufacturing facility in western South Dakota. • Pipeline Plastics held a ground-breaking ceremony on Monday for the new plant, which is expected to employ up to 40 people. • The plant will make high-density polyethylene pipe for the oil industry in North Dakota and Montana. It also plans to sell pipes to cities for domestic water supplies. • South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he is proud to welcome the company to the state. He says the company will have a "tangible economic impact" to South Dakota. •
SD legislative leaders chosen for 2013 session
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City Republican lawmaker David Lust has been re-elected majority leader in the South Dakota House. • Lust's re-election Saturday follows the earlier re-election of Wentworth Republican Russell Olson as Senate majority leader. • Members of the minority Democrats also have re-elected leaders, for both cham (Continued on page 24)
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