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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Fort Pierre man has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for bank fraud.
• Forty-year-old Wyatt Rasmussen was accused of using fraud to obtain a business line of credit from Dakotaland Federal Credit Union in Huron, then using the money for personal purposes. He was indicted in May and pleaded guilty in August.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Rasmussen was sentenced to 33 months in custody, three years of supervised release and nearly $239,000 in restitution.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Officials have counted 1,155 homeless people in South Dakota, about the same as last year.
• The homeless count was conducted in September by the South Dakota Housing for the Homeless Consortium in collaboration with community agencies and homeless service providers. Fifty-two of 66 counties participated. The statewide, one-day count was a snapshot of people experiencing homelessness.
• The consortium says 40 percent of the homeless were men, 32 percent were women and 28 percent were children.
• The top three reasons named for homelessness were inability to pay rent and security deposits, unemployment or lost jobs, and substance abuse.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man has been sentenced in federal court for escaping from a minimum-security facility last year.
• Twenty-seven-year-old Eric Ladeaux pleaded guilty in February to escape. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Ladeaux has been sentenced to two years in custody and three years of supervised release.
• Ladeaux was serving out a federal prison sentence for a weapons crime when he left the Community Alternatives of the Black Hills facility in September 2012 and did not return as required. He led federal, state and local officers on a chase in early November of that year and got away but was tracked down two days later and arrested.
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