SD day care provider pleads guilty in child death
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A former Sioux Falls day care provider has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child neglect in the case of an infant who died in her home.
• Four-month-old Meredith Ulmer died on June 30, 2011. Authorities say 53-year-old provider Constance Edwards had taken nine children to a water park that day and left 15 others including Ulmer in the care of two teenage girls.
• Edwards also pleaded guilty to lying to police about how many children she had in her care. The number was more than allowed by the city.
• She faces up to 10 days in jail, a $2,000 fine and a ban on operating a day care under terms of her plea agreement with prosecutors that drops a felony child abuse charge.
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SD lawmakers begin look at development programs
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota legislative panel is holding its first hearing on the state's economic development agency and its involvement in issues related to a failed beef packing plant.
• The Government Operations and Audit Committee will review two reports from private auditing firms and one from the state Department of Legislative Audit.
• Those reports found flaws in some financial procedures and the handling of documents by the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard ordered the reviews after finding about alleged misconduct in the development agency before he took office in 2011. A federal investigation also is being conducted into the failed Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen and the use of the federal EB-5 program, in which foreign investors can secure permanent residency in exchange for $500,000 investments.
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SD student appointed to Merchant Marine Academy
• MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) -- A southeast South Dakota student has been appointed to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York.
• U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson nominated Alexis Blindauer of Mitchell for an appoint (Continued on page 14)
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