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• The Joint Appropriations Committee refused Friday to add money to the state budget to cover an expansion of Medicaid beginning next January. Deb Bowman, a senior adviser to the governor, says if the study recommends that Medicaid be expanded, the change could take effect next July.
• Sen. Stan Adelstein of Rapid City asked the Appropriations Committee to add $1.5 million in state spending so South Dakota could get $59.8 million in federal funds to cover an additional 48,000 low-income people.
• But Rep. Mark Mickelson of Sioux Falls says the federal government may not be able to afford the Medicaid expansion.
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• JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) -- The Dakota State men and the Jamestown College women are moving on in the NAIA Division II basketball tournaments. The Jamestown College men are going home.
• Dakota State upset No. 5 seed Warner Pacific 89-80 on Thursday in the men's tournament in Point Lookout, Mo. Jamestown lost to second-ranked Cardinal Stritch 74-56.
• The Jamestown women beat Menlo 70-54 on Thursday to advance in the women's tournament in Sioux City, Iowa.
• Three other Dakotas teams made the national tournaments but lost in first-round action Wednesday: the Valley City State men and women and the Mayville State women.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A 33-year-old Rapid City man could face life in prison after being convicted of raping a 9-year-old girl at a slumber party.
• A jury found Jeremy Bauer guilty on Thursday after about four hours of deliberations. He is to undergo a psychological evaluation before being sentenced in about two months.
• Authorities said Bauer raped the girl at his home in April 2012, then tried to convince her she was just having a nightmare. His defense unsuccessfully argued during trial that physical evidence of a crime was lacking.
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• HOWELL, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan man who authorities say abducted his son and took him to South Dakota without the approval of the boy's mother has been

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