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State offices to be closed in eastern SD counties
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- State offices will remain closed Thursday in several counties in eastern South Dakota due to weather.
• Offices in the following counties will be closed: Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Codington, Deuel, Hamlin, Hanson and Hutchinson.
• Also, offices in Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner, Union and Yankton counties will be closed.
• State offices in the rest of South Dakota are scheduled to be open for regular business hours Thursday.
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SD residents look to pass time while hunkered down
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Residents lucky enough to have power during the spring storm that has slammed much of South Dakota are left with a dilemma: how to kill time as they wait for the worst to pass.
• Twenty-four-year-old Sara Nesbit and 22-year-old Eddie Sanchez turned to a Redbox movie rental kiosk for help.
• Their picks? The Academy Award-winning "Life of Pi" and the slightly less acclaimed "For a Good Time, Call ...."
• The Sioux Falls residents say it was all they could come up with when so many stores and roads are closed.
• Nesbit says, "There's really nothing to do otherwise."
• State officials are urging people to stay home and off the roads as the storm enters its third day.
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Alberta premier: US pipeline rejection would hurt
BY ROB GILLIES,Associated Press
• TORONTO (AP) -- If the Obama administration rejects the Keystone XL pipeline, it would be a significant thorn in Canadian-U.S. relations, Alberta's premier said Wednesday.
• Premier Alison Redford was in Washington for her fourth trip to lobby on behalf of a pipeline that Canada sees as critical to its economic well-being. The Obama administration is considering whether to approve the pipeline, which would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta across six U.S. states to the Texas Gulf Coast, which has numerous refineries. A decision is expected later this summer.
• "It would become something that we would continue to talk about," Redford said (Continued on page 18)
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