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Expert expects below average wildfire season in SD
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A fire meteorologist in South Dakota says the snowfall of the past few months has created conditions that are expected to help keep the number of wildfires this year below average.
• State fire meteorologist Darren Clabo says the snow has built up soil moisture and dampened ground fuels preventing the woods to dry up.
• Clabo says he expects the 2014 wildfire season to be similar to the one last year.
• He says the highest fire potentials are in south-central South Dakota between Shannon and Charles Mix counties, where some dry conditions still persist despite the snowfall of this past winter.
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Police arrest men suspected of breaking into cars
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Police in Sioux Falls want residents to check their cars to see if any items are missing after officers arrested four men suspected of breaking into vehicles.
• Authorities say officers tracked down the men after a caller on Thursday reported seeing four people checking car doors.
• Police say one of them was found with a credit card that had been taken from a nearby car.
• Police identified the men as 19-year-old Alex David Hagen, 18-year-old Austin Eugene Hays, 18-year-old Jordan David Purlee and 18 year-old Jacob Dean Schmidt-Hinrichs.
• The Sioux Falls men have been charged with possession of stolen property and criminal entry of a motor vehicle.
• Police say officers found other items in the car the men were driving. Authorities are trying to determine whether they were stolen.
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Top toxic sites in Anadarko Petroleum settlement
The Associated Press
• Top toxic sites among thousands that are part of the $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. with approximate amount of funding for cleanup efforts and details about the sites, as provided by the Justice Department:
• --Henderson, Nev.: $1.118 billion for prospective cleanup costs.
• Groundwater at a former chemical manufacturing facility in Henderson, Nev., has been impacted by hexavalent chromium and perchlorate, a chemical used to pro (Continued on page 19)
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