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eral shops and the drugs were in turn sold to customers.
• Morrison knew customers were ingesting the substances to get high, investigators said.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson said his office has stepped up its efforts to prosecute cases involving synthetic drugs.
• "We said what we meant and meant what we said. There will be consequences for anyone who sells these drugs in our state," Johnson said in a statement.
• It's an issue that has been prevalent in North Dakota as well. A large synthetic drug case in Grand Forks, N.D., area has resulted in more than a dozen arrests, including that of a Texas man accused of supplying the substances that led to two the overdose deaths of two teenagers.
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Judge sentences SD man to prison on assault charge
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to six years in prison on an assault charge.
• Twenty-three-year-old Isiah Mesteth, of Eagle Butte, pleaded guilty in February on a federal charge of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
• Authorities say the assault happened in October 2011. Mesteth allegedly hit and kicked the victim in the face several times, causing bleeding, bruising and swelling to her face and arms.
• U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange ordered Mesteth to serve two years of supervised release when he completes his prison sentence.
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USA Today founder honored at memorial service
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder Al Neuharth on Friday remembered him not as a driven media giant but as a loyal native South Dakotan who never forgot his roots.
• Some critics said Neuharth -- who titled his autobiography "Confessions of an S.O.B." -- was a ruthless egomaniac, but close friend Jack Marsh knew Neuharth as a different man.
• Marsh, the president of the Al Neuharth Media Center, said his boss was a free spirit, a visionary and a tenacious leader who was as thoughtful as he was tough. He was a South Dakotan through and through, who came back home a half dozen times a year for "reality checks," Marsh said.
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