March trial set for South Dakota chase suspect
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Trial has been set for a Rapid City man shot and wounded by a Highway Patrol trooper after a chase last fall.
• Twenty-seven-year-old William Chandler is to stand trial March 6-7 on charges ranging from aggravated assault to eluding. He's pleaded not guilty.
• Chandler is accused of leading officers on a chase on Interstate 90 after a trooper tried to pull him over for speeding on Sept. 30. They say he eventually was caught and arrested but managed to escape his handcuffs and steal a squad car. He was shot after allegedly threatening to back the squad car into a trooper.
• Chandler faces up to 150 years in prison if convicted.
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SD budget panel discusses state aid to schools
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature's budget-writing committee is taking a look at state financial aid to school districts.
• The Joint Appropriations Committee is meeting Thursday to discuss the system used to distribute financial aid to schools.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard has proposed that state aid to schools be boosted by 3 percent next year, nearly double the inflationary increase required by law.
• However, school districts are asking the Legislature to increase state aid by 3.8 percent to put spending per student back where it was before budget cuts were imposed in 2011.
• The Legislature will not make a final decision on financial aid to schools until the state budget is passed in March.
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SD lawmakers approve more Common Core bills
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota lawmakers took another step Wednesday to prevent further expansion of Common Core standards while a study is done to determine whether the state's schools should continue using the academic benchmarks that establish what students should know in each grade level.
• Earlier in the week, a legislative panel approved a measure that would set up a two-year study of the existing Common Core standards for math and English.
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