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Myers, Hubbel criticize alleged corruption in SD
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Two opposing South Dakota gubernatorial candidates say they want to clean alleged corruption statewide and limit the federal government's power over the state.
• Former state Rep. Lora Hubbel and former University of South Dakota law professor Mike Myers called a joint news conference Wednesday.
• KDLT-TV reports the candidates said South Dakota is the second most corrupt state in the nation according to Fox Business Network.
• The station reports Myers told the audience that two major hospitals in the area should pay more property taxes.
• Hubbel says she wants to start a volunteer sheriff's organization that will keep the federal government out. She says local sheriffs are South Dakotan's best protection against federal officials.
• Hubbel is challenging Gov. Dennis Daugaard in the Republican primary. Myers is running as an independent.
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LaPlante takes new job as assistant US attorney
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The state's Secretary of Tribal Relations J.R. LaPlante has taken a new job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Sioux Falls.
• South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Wednesday said LaPlante's resignation from the state office is effective Aug. 1.
• LaPlante became the state's first secretary of tribal relations in 2011. He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota School of Law and an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
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Some South Dakota GOP support help for immigrants
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Some Republicans in conservative South Dakota are putting the contentious politics of immigration reform aside and backing a measure to provide prenatal care to women living in the state illegally whose children will become citizens of the United States.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard, a Republican who's up for re-election this November, supports prenatal care as a way to prevent huge costs from babies suffering health problems after birth.
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