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soon as southern rust is detected, he said.
• Common rust, a typical sight each year on tasseled corn rust appears as elongated dark red to brown spores in a random pattern on both the top and lower sides of leaves.
• Southern rust shows itself as clusters of light brown or orange bumps, round or elliptical in shape, mainly on the top sides of leaves.
• "If you hold the leaf against the light, for southern rust you're going to see a yellow halo around each pustule," Byamukama said. "For common rust, there's usually no halo."
• Southern rust favors hot, humid conditions, as spores can develop quickly in warm nighttime dew and reproduce in high temperatures. The spores can't survive a South Dakota winter, so new ones would have to blow in next summer to affect the 2014 crop, Byamukama said.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the state has entered a settlement with MoneyGram International Inc. entitling some customers to get money back from advance fee schemes.
• Jackley says MoneyGram has agreed to the forfeit $100 million back to eligible consumers. He says the agreements are from the company's involvement in mass marketing and consumer fraud causing tens of thousands of individuals to lose money.
• A person must have been defrauded into sending money under the promise of getting a large cash prize, under the promise of purchasing a high-ticket item at an Internet discount or have been involved in a secret shopper scam.
• The settlement affects U.S. or Canadian customers who sent money to a payee in the U.S. or Canada. from January 2004 through August 2009.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- State Labor and Regulation Secretary Pam Roberts will retire next month after serving in state Cabinet-level positions since 1989, Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Thursday.
• "Pam Roberts spent her career serving the people of South Dakota, working at high levels in the administrations of five governors," Daugaard said in a written statement. "Pam will be very much missed, and I wish her all the best in the future."

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