• GARRETSON, S.D. (AP) -- Two children had to be rescued when the canoe they were in tipped in the Big Sioux River at Palisades State Park and they became stranded on rocks.
• The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Department says an adult male was able to get to shore on his own during the Sunday afternoon incident, but a boy and girl had to be rescued. The boy suffered an ankle injury.
• The rescue operation northeast of Sioux Falls took about an hour.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A new South Dakota law prohibits beginning drivers from using cell phones while they are behind the wheel.
• South Dakota allows 14-year-olds to get instruction permits, the nation's youngest age for driving while accompanied by an adult. Those young drivers can later graduate to restricted permits that allow them to drive alone in the daytime.
• The new law says those with instruction and restricted permits cannot use cellphones or other electronic devices while they are driving. That ban ends when drivers turn 16 and get unrestricted permits.
• The measure's main sponsor, Sen. Craig Tieszen of Rapid City, says he hopes the cell phone ban will save some lives among beginning drivers.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A flag that might be a relic of one of the most famous battles of the Old West has found a resting place in Pierre.
• The Pierre Capital Journal reports (http://bit.ly/12fzIXV) that the South Dakota State Historical Society has a guidon (GEE'-dahn) that most likely is from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as Custer's Last Stand. A guidon is a swallow-tailed flag carried by individual companies in a regiment.
• Lt. Col. George Custer's 7th Calvary regiment had 12 identical 33-by-27-inch silk guidons that were hand-stitched by a New York seamstress during the Civil War.
• Author and re-enactor Bill Markley says the flags were used as formation markers or rallying points and it was part of a company's pride to keep its guidon safe.

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