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Officials release name, man's body found in MT
• BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Officials in southwestern Montana have identified a man whose body was found by snowshoers in Madison County.
• Madison County Sheriff David Schenck says an autopsy determined 47-year-old Chris Andrew Karantinos of Jefferson, S.D., took his own life.
• Snowshoers found Karantinos' body at about 9 a.m. Sunday in the Beehive Basin, a backcountry ski and snowshoeing area near Big Sky, southwest of Bozeman. At the time, Schenk said it appeared the man had fallen from cliff.
• Schenck said many questions about Karantinos' death remain unanswered, but there was no sign of foul play.
• A Gallatin County deputy continues to investigate Karantinos' death.
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Rounds donates Civil War-era rifle to center
• Former South Dakota Gov. Rounds donates Civil War-era rifle to Cultural Heritage Center
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Former Gov. Mike Rounds has donated his family's Civil War-era rifle to the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center.
• KCCR radio reports that the Model 1861 Springfield rifle was used by his great-great-grandfather, Leopold Joseph Balza.
• Rounds says Balza was an infantryman with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers, a group that participated in one of the Civil War's most famous campaigns. After the war, Balza settled near Cavour in South Dakota, got married and started a family.
• When Rounds became Governor, the family asked that he keep the rifle as a memento in his Capitol office.
• Cultural Heritage Center officials say they are honored by the donation. No decision has been made on how to publicly display the gift.
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Fire destroys building at SD construction company
• TEA, S.D. (AP) -- Fire has destroyed a building at a southeastern South Dakota construction company.
• The roof of the building owned by A&S Construction collapsed during the blaze Tuesday morning west of Tea. Assistant Fire Chief Steven Oberle says vehicles and construction equipment were inside.
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