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• LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A beer truck in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay was vandalized by activists who were protesting the town's alcohol stores near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
• Two eyewitnesses tell The Associated Press that more than a dozen activists confronted the truck's driver Friday as he was making a delivery.
• Vic Clarke, a Whiteclay grocery store owner, says one activist flashed a knife and told the driver to leave town. Group members then started stomping on his beer containers and throwing them into the street. The truck's two front tires were slashed.
• The driver was not hurt. Native American activist Olowan Martinez says the activists were part a group she helped organize to protest Whiteclay. She declined to release names.
• Sheridan County Attorney Dennis King says criminal charges are likely.
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• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the death of a 23-year-old man whose body was found on a highway east of the city of Yankton.
• The Yankton County Sheriff's Office says a preliminary investigation indicates that Joseph Bret Jackson of Yankton was killed in possible hit and run early Friday morning.
• The body was found shortly before 4 a.m. Friday.
• Sheriff Jim Vlahakis tells the Yankton Press and Dakotan that no witnesses of the incident have come forth.
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• HARROLD, S.D. (AP) -- Harrold Fire Department Chief Treg Cowan says the fire risk remains high in the town Friday after crews responded to two grassfires Thursday night.
• KGFX and KCCR report that crews from Harrold and Fort Thompson responded to an eight-acre fire south of Big Bend on Thursday night. About an hour later, crews from Harrold and Blunt were called out to a small grassfire reported about six miles west of Harrold.
• No one was injured in either fire.
• Cowan says recent cool weather is slowing the growth of new, green grass, and

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