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a semi-automatic handgun. A third male stayed at the business entrance and acted as a lookout.
• The suspects fled on foot. The clerk was not hurt.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota rancher has won a national conservation award for the way he manages his land.
• The National Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies has awarded Highmore rancher Jim Faulstich (FAHL'-stik) its annual National Private Lands Fish and Wildlife Stewardship Award.
• State Game, Fish and Parks Secretary Jeff Vonk says Faulstich believes that stewardship of resources benefits the land, water, livestock, wildlife and people.
• Vonk says native and restored grasslands and associated wetlands make up about 80 percent of Faulstich's 5,300-acre ranch. He says the ranch provides good habitat to a wide variety of wildlife.
• Vonk says Faulstich is board chairman for the South Dakota Grassland Coalition and a big reason the group is an effective voice for grassland conservation and grass-based agriculture.
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• LARCHWOOD, Iowa (AP) -- It doesn't take long to get from Sioux Falls, S.D., to one of the biggest entertainment centers in the area that's located in northwest Iowa.
• It's a quick eight miles from the city's edge on East 10th Street to the Grand Falls Casino Resort near Larchwood that's in its second year of operation.
• But the projection that economic development will follow the gambling destination has proved a pokey process. Some observers of development say not much is happening outside of east-side Sioux Falls' commercial growth but it eventually will.
• The Argus Leader newspaper (http://argusne.ws/1bAjWi6 ) reports that Grand Falls will open an 18-hole golf course late next summer.
• And the casino is fine-tuning its other entertainment choices, including bringing in national entertainment and concerts each month.
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• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- SDSU Extension is hosting a Wednesday webinar for those working with educational teaching gardens in schools, afterschool pro

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