• ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) -- Nicollet County Sheriff's deputies have recovered a body from the Minnesota River and believe it's a South Dakota kayaker missing since June.
• A fisherman found the body in a log jam on the Minnesota River at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, according to The Journal in New Ulm (http://bit.ly/17h3EXL).
• Steven Fritze's kayak overturned June 22 in a fast-moving, rising river after becoming entangled in bushes. Two friends made it to shore but Fritze did not. He was visiting family in New Ulm at the time.
• A coalition of 50 personnel from emergency response and law enforcement agencies worked together, scouring the river for weeks in boats and on shore with cadaver dogs.
• A memorial service for Fritze, a sixth-grade teacher at St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Watertown, S.D., was held on July 3.
• According to the sheriff's department release, a positive identification is pending results of an autopsy by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- More than a dozen other large South Dakota projects were funded by the same controversial visa program used by the Northern Beef Packers Plant that is now bankrupt and under an apparent federal investigation.
• Projects including a power plant, several dairies and a Black Hills hotel and casino were funded entirely or in part by wealthy foreigners who invested $500,000 each in exchange for green cards through the federal EB-5 program, the Argus Leader reported (http://argusne.ws/17hndiL ). Many of those projects are successful enterprises, but at least one other is a failure.
• Former officials of the Northern Beef Packers plant have said federal investigators have been asking questions about the financial dealings and EB-5. The 120 Chinese investors who loaned $500,000 each to the plant are now seeking in bankruptcy court to get as much of their investment back as they can.
• But Ken Rutledge, CEO of Huron's Dakota Provisions turkey processing plant,

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