• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls man who pistol-whipped a store clerk during an unsuccessful armed robbery attempt is heading to prison.
• Twenty-one-year-old Martine Moreno was sentenced Tuesday to serve 13 years behind bars for the April 6, 2013, holdup of the IU General Store and Laundry. Authorities say he pointed a loaded handgun at the clerk, demanded money and hit the clerk in the face with the gun. The clerk suffered a cut lip that required stitches.
• Moreno was arrested after an hour-long standoff with a SWAT team. The incident happened on his 21st birthday, and authorities say his blood-alcohol level was nearly four times the legal limit.
• Moreno pleaded guilty in December to attempted robbery and aggravated assault. He'll be eligible for parole after serving 65 percent of his sentence.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota legislative panel is considering a measure that would ban any abortion being sought because the fetus is not the gender wanted by a pregnant woman.
• The measure would make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion being sought by a woman because of the gender of the fetus.
• A doctor also would have to ask a woman seeking an abortion whether she was doing so because of the gender of the fetus.
• The House Judiciary Committee hears testimony on the measure Wednesday.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The EROS Center north of Sioux Falls is celebrating a year of success of Landsat 8.
• NASA launched the Earth-observing satellite into space from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base one year ago Tuesday.
• The U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science Center collects, archives and makes available for download more than 400 data-filled images of the Earth each day. The center also partners with a network of ground stations across the globe that help download and distribute the data.

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