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• The company would not disclose the final cost of the purchase.
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Meetings planned to help ranchers apply for help
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Four meetings are planned for western South Dakota to give ranch families the chance to meet with Farm Service Agency officials regarding the Livestock Disaster Program.
• Several agencies are hosting the community gatherings and free meal on April 14 and 15 in Eagle Butte, Union Center, Hermosa and Interior.
• The program's application process starts April 15.
• A storm on Oct. 4 and 5 killed more than 43,000 cattle, sheep, horses and bison in South Dakota.
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Lawyers to open Sioux Falls death penalty trial
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Jurors in Sioux Falls must decide if a man should die by lethal injection for killing a woman as part of what he says was a plan to assassinate the president.
• Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday in the case against 43-year-old James McVay.
• He pleaded guilty but mentally ill to first-degree murder for the July 2011 stabbing death of 75-year-old Maybelle Schein.
• McVay was arrested in Madison, Wis., and said he killed Schein and stole her car as part of a plot to drive to Washington and assassinate President Barack Obama.
• Ten men and five women will serve as a jury and three alternates.
• They'll decide if McVay qualifies for the death penalty and, if so, whether he deserves the death penalty or life in prison.
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GOP's small-state edge boosts its Senate hopes
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican senators are entrenching themselves in small states that elected Democrats a few years ago, brightening the GOP's future if Americans continue their trend of voting for the same party in Senate and presidential races.
• The Senate's make-up has always given disproportionate power to less populous states. As liberal voters keep migrating to urban areas, many rural states are becoming more consistently conservative, a potential problem for Democrats.
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