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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota legislative panel has started a study of the state's domestic abuse laws, but it has delayed a discussion on whether those laws should cover people in same-sex relationships.
• The study was prompted by the defeat of a measure during this year's legislative session. The bill was killed after lawmakers could not agree on whether protections provided by the domestic abuse laws should extend to same-sex couples.
• Sen. Deb Soholt of Sioux Falls, chair of the committee, says the panel will likely discuss that issue at its next meeting on Aug. 1.
• The committee also is looking into problems in restoring the right to buy or possess a gun to people who have been convicted of a crime related to domestic violence.
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• LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has been arrested during a protest of alcohol sales in Nebraska, on the border of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
• Tribal President Bryan Brewer was taken into custody Monday in Whiteclay, as activists protested the town's alcohol sales on the border of the officially dry reservation.
• Deputy Sheridan County Attorney Jamian Simmons says Brewer was arrested on a 2012 warrant for passing a bad check for $191 to a veterinary clinic. Simmons says Brewer was taken to Rushville, where he paid the amount that he owed and was released. She says the charges will be dismissed.
• Brewer and his spokeswoman did not answer their cellphones or respond to text messages. Their voicemails were disabled.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Rain limited the ability for farmers in some areas of South Dakota to plant crops last week.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that producers had on average only 4.9 days suitable for fieldwork.
• Winter wheat was jointed at 76 percent and headed at 39 percent. This is behind

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