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• The funding will help cover the cost to repair or replace facilities damaged by the storms.
• The Standing Rock Indian Reservation straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
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Rewards increased in death of 2 Rapid City men
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A community organization in Rapid City is increasing the amount of reward money offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction in the death of two men.
• Rapid City police say in a news release that The Community Reward Fund is now offering a $6,000 reward for information in the death of 45-year-old Robert Ghostbear or 40-year-old Carl Bordeaux.
• The body of Ghostbear was found March 21, 2012. An autopsy determined he died from a blow to the head. Bordeaux was found dead in his apartment in January 2009. His throat had been cut and a phone cord was wrapped around his neck.
• Both cases remain open investigations.
• The Reward Fund -- operated with donations from community businesses and organizations -- was established in 1992.
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Augustana pitcher signs with Cleveland Indians
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Augustana College sophomore pitcher Jordan Milbrath has signed with the Cleveland Indians and will forgo his junior and senior seasons at the Sioux Falls school.
• The Indians drafted Milbrath in the 35th round of this year's Major League Baseball draft. He was the 1,041st player selected.
• Milbrath is a right-hander from Springfield, Minn. He has been assigned to the Arizona Rookie League.
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SD hopeful tax changes will boost wind industry
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's new economic development incentives are making the state more competitive with neighbors on large wind projects, but other industry challenges are keeping South Dakota from tapping its potential.
• Though it's the nation's fifth-windiest state, South Dakota produces just 784 megawatts in wind energy -- a number more than doubled by North Dakota, nearly quadrupled by Minnesota and surpassed more than six-fold by Iowa. But officials (Continued on page 28)
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