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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota has finished the fiscal year with a $24 million budget surplus.
• Daugaard says revenue exceeded estimates by $13.6 million. In addition, agencies spent $10.6 million less than appropriated.
• South Dakota's sales and use tax receipts are the largest revenue source. The receipts grew nearly 6 percent in the month of June. Collections from the sales and use tax accounted for 57 percent of general fund receipts in Fiscal Year 2013.
• The $24.2 million was transferred to the Budget Reserve Fund, as required by law. The Budget Reserve Fund now has a balance of $95 million.
• Daugaard says finishing Fiscal Year 2013 with a surplus increases the chance of finishing Fiscal Year 2014 with a balanced budget while properly funding critical areas.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Powerball ticket sold in Rapid City is worth $40,000 in the latest drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win the game's $10,000 third prize in the Saturday drawing. The ticket buyer also had purchased an option for $1 that quadrupled the prize.
• The odds of winning Powerball's third prize are 1 in about 649,000. The winner has about six months to claim the money.
• Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot sits at $116 million for the next drawing, on Wednesday.
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• JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) -- Country music singer Jason Brown is performing concerts to aid the nonprofit Farm Rescue organization.
• The North Dakota-based nonprofit provides planting and harvesting help free of charge to farm families in the region stricken by a major illness, injury or disaster. Since 2006, the organization has helped more than 230 farm families in the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Iowa.
• Brown was born and raised in Iowa, and says it's an honor to team up with Farm Rescue.

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