• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The Rapid City Council has stripped the city's only strip club of its adult-oriented business license for three days.
• The license suspension for Shotgun Willies begins Tuesday, meaning the club can have adult entertainment again by the weekend.
• The council's 5-2 vote came Monday night after seven hours of discussion. Police had sought a 30-day license suspension, saying the club was cited five times in 2013 and once this year for violating the city's adult-oriented business ordinance. The club's attorney said authorities exaggerated claims.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux says a propane crisis on the Dakotas reservation is easing due to warmer weather and a drop in the price of the fuel.
• Chairman Dave Archambault (AHR'-sham-boh) says the tribe has ensured that everyone in need of propane has received some. He says the tribe has used $1.7 million in federal money and a $500,000 charitable grant from the Shakopee Mdewakanton (mehd-WAH'-kuh-tuhn) Sioux tribe in Minnesota.
• As many as 5,000 homes on the reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border rely on propane. Residents have been struggling to afford higher prices tied to a nationwide shortage of the fuel.
• Archambault says the tribe will continue to seek more federal money to ensure reservation residents make it through the rest of the winter.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota lawmakers are considering a measure that seeks to protect people from being sued for expressing their religious beliefs regarding sexual orientation.
• If passed, the bill would put the South Dakota Legislature on record as finding that expressing the viewpoint that any specific sexual orientation is wrong or a sin is free speech protected by the First Amendment. However, it says speech intended to incite or threaten violence is not allowed.

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