• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A man accused of threatening Rapid City police officers with a butcher knife has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of aggravated assault on a law officer.
• Prosecutors in exchange are dropping charges of attempted murder and destruction of public property against Elijah White Magpie.
• White Magpie was shot and wounded by police in February after he allegedly threatened officers who responded to a disturbance at the public library.
• Authorities allege that White Magpie had been using alcohol and marijuana before he threw a rock through a window at the library, shattered a window in a parked van, threatened one officer and attacked another. He was shot twice by an officer.
• He faces up to 50 years in prison when he's sentenced on Jan. 7.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota has joined with 26 other states in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the sale of guns.
• Jackley says South Dakota allows private gun sales between law abiding citizens. He says the brief opposes the federal government's attempt to expand federal law to prevent such sales and prosecute lawful gun owners who buy firearms and sell them to others who can legally own guns.
• The brief was filed in a case involving a former Virginia police officer who bought a gun and then sold it to his uncle, a Pennsylvania man who could legally own firearms. Jackley says federal authorities prosecuted the Virginia man on the grounds that he made false statements on the gun purchase form.
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