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• Henry Red Cloud is the owner and founder of Lakota Solar Enterprises. His company employs tribal members who manufacture and install solar heating systems for Native Americans.
• Red Cloud also runs a renewable energy center that provides green job training. The White House says his sustainable energy projects offer Native Americans "a new way to honor the old ways."
• President Barak Obama has encouraged the development of solar power technology. Its production has grown more than ten-fold since 2008.
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Man sentenced in Eagle Butte stabbing death
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the stabbing death of an Eagle Butte man.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Jared Slader has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
• A federal grand jury indicted Slader on a second-degree murder charge in September. The Eagle Butte man pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge in January.
• Witnesses told authorities they saw Slader fight with Lester Peneaux outside the Golden Rule Bar in the early morning hours of Aug. 31.
• Documents show Peneaux died during surgery at Rapid City Regional Hospital several hours after the fight.
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SDSU to host purebread Hampshire sheep sale
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota State University will host its fourth annual purebred Hampshire sheep sale on Saturday, May 3.
• The SDSU Hampshire sheep flock was established in 1898.
• Twenty-five purebred Hampshire lambs consisting of five rams and 20 ewe lambs will be sold at the SDSU Sheep Unit facilities in Brookings.
• The sheep are selected from the fall and spring born lamb crop and they'll be sold as individual lots using a silent auction-board format.
• The barn will open at 10 a.m. on sale day for viewing and registration. Bidding is 11 a.m. to noon.
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