• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- The eastern South Dakota city of Brookings has suspended its police chief without pay, just a few months after leaders in the city of 22,000 people suspended their fire chief.
• Police Chief Jeff Miller was suspended Friday "until further notice" for violating personnel policies, City Manager Jeff Weldon said. He declined to elaborate, citing privacy rules.
• "But what I can say is that at no time has the integrity of the police department or the ability for the police officers to do their jobs been compromised at all," Weldon told KDLT-TV.
• Miller did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment on Wednesday.
• Assistant Police Chief Dave Erickson is filling in as chief until an investigation is complete.
• Miller has been with the police department since 1985 and has been chief for the past four years, overseeing more than 40 employees.
• The city last May suspended Fire Chief Darrell Hartmann for two weeks without pay, also for unspecified "personnel reasons."
• "These issues do come up occasionally and they need to be addressed, "Weldon said.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A weather system that crossed southern South Dakota set snowfall records in Rapid City and Sioux Falls.
• The National Weather Service says 3.1 inches of snow fell at the Rapid City airport on Tuesday, breaking the 2008 record for the date of 1 inch. Sioux Falls got 5.7 inches of snow, breaking that city's record for the date of 1.5 inches set in 1959.
• Some parts of southern South Dakota got even higher amounts of snow, but it was expected to start melting on Wednesday. The weather service forecast called for high temperatures from the mid-30s to the mid-40s.
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