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• In April 2011, a prison guard was killed when two inmates attempted to escape the state penitentiary.
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Fire damages Pierre business and apartments
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Officials are investigating the cause of a fire in Pierre that damaged a business and two upstairs apartments.
• Fire Chief Bill Alexander says two people who were in one of the apartments when the blaze started Wednesday evening escaped unharmed.
• The fire started in a cardboard storage area behind Capital Sports and spread to the building. Damage was mostly contained to the building's exterior, though there was smoke damage inside the business and the apartments.
• KCCR radio reports that damage to the building itself is estimated at between $10,000 and $15,000. Deputy Fire Chief Ian Paul tells the station that the fire does not appear to be suspicious.
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SD man pleads guilty to murdering uncle
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Wagner man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his uncle and wounding another relative on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
• U.S. Attorney Brendon Johnson says 24-year-old Dancing Bull Fischer faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 23 on charges of second-degree murder and assault with the intent to commit murder.
• Authorities say Fischer shot and killed 47-year-old Anthony Fischer Jr. and wounded Dominic Fischer during a house party near Marty last Nov. 27.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
• 1. IMMIGRATION OVERHAUL IN HANDS OF HOUSE
• Speaker John Boehner says leaders will craft their own version of the legislation the Senate overwhelmingly passed to give millions in the country illegally a path to citizenship.
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• 2. RETIRED GENERAL REPORTED TARGET OF LEAK PROBE
• The investigation of the leaking of classified information about a 2010 cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities is focusing on Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright.
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