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Building South Dakota, will eventually be funded by part of a contractors' excise tax that is collected on large projects and some of the unclaimed property that the state receives from abandoned bank accounts.
• Republicans and Democrats worked for two months to find a compromise to help South Dakota better compete with other states in recruiting large and small projects.
• The plan also is expected to help communities build the infrastructure needed to encourage development, work with the state's technical centers on training and help K-12 schools bear the cost of English language training when a project draws workers from other cultures.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:
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• 1. OBAMA SETS HIS SIGHTS ON 2014
• Having signed bipartisan budget deal and defense bill that cracks down on sexual assault, raising the debt ceiling and health care law showdowns are next.
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• 2. BOMBING IN BEIRUT KILLS EX-FINANCE MINISTER
• Mohammed Chatah, who had served in former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri's cabinet, died along with four others.
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• 3. FOUR DEAD IN SOUTHERN LOUISIANA PARISHES
• Louisiana authorities say a man killed his ex-wife's mother and the head of a hospital where he'd worked before fatally shooting himself, and his wife was also found dead of unknown causes.
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• 4. NEWTOWN REPORT TO BE RELEASED
• Connecticut authorities plan to make state police documents from the investigation into last year's Sandy Hook school massacre available Friday afternoon.
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• 5. AMERICAN ABDUCTED IN PAKISTAN CALLS FOR HELP
• A 72-year-old development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by al-Qaida more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released to nego (Continued on page 16)
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