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Meth lab dump site found near park in Sioux Falls
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities in Sioux Falls say they have located a methamphetamine lab dump site near a park.
• The abandoned meth lab was found Sunday night when someone walking their dog near Family Park in Sioux Falls noticed suspicious items and called police.
• Officials discovered a hydrogen chloride gas generator and other items used to manufacture methamphetamine at the dump site.
• Police and the hazmat team are working to clean up the site. Anyone with information is asked to call authorities.
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Nationals' mascots visit Black Hills of S. Dakota
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Some of the most well-known political figures are visiting South Dakota's Black Hills.
• The Washington Nationals presidential mascots are spending President's Day at Mount Rushmore.
• This is the first time the mascots have visited western South Dakota. The team includes the four presidents whose faces appear on Mount Rushmore: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. William H. Taft just joined the Nationals team. He was the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a season opener.
• Other places that the mascots visited during their three-day trip to South Dakota included Custer State Park, Wall Drug Store and Deadwood.
• The Black Hills, Badlands & Lakes Association invited the mascots and are acting as host. Video footage from their tour will be played during future games.
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SD museum with rare instruments seeks $15M revamp
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Grammy-winning fingerpicking guitarist Pat Donohue thinks a South Dakota college town of about 10,000 is an unlikely place for a wide-ranging collection of musical instruments that includes saxophones built by inventor Adolphe Sax, a rare Stradivarius violin with its original neck and a Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs.
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