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• Daugaard says the decision will allow insurers to renew existing "non-compliant" insurance plans on or before Oct. 1, 2016, for individuals and for groups with 51 to 100 employees.
• The State Division of Insurance estimates that the move will affect more than 83,000 people and will save South Dakotans more than $70 million over the next two years.
• Daugaard says the federal Affordable Care Act is forcing millions of Americans to change health insurance plans, and in some cases it adds expensive and unnecessary new coverages.
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NTSB to focus on why SD plane was flying so low
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A federal investigator will focus on why a small aircraft was flying so low when it crashed into a wind turbine in South Dakota, killing all four people onboard.
• Possible factors include trouble with the pilot or plane, and the weather.
• The Piper crashed Sunday evening 10 miles south of Highmore, killing the pilot, Donald J. "D.J." Fischer, and three passengers.
• National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Rodi (ROH'-dee) says it doesn't appear the pilot filed a flight plan or was communicating with air traffic controllers, so it's unclear if he refueled before leaving Hereford, Texas.
• Fischer, of Gettysburg, owned the plane. Cattlemen Brent Beitelspacher, of Bowdle, and Logan Rau, of Java, were also killed. A funeral home Tuesday identified the fourth victim as 33-year-old Nick Reiman, of Ree Heights.
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Corn, spring wheat seeding progress in SD
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Seeding of corn and spring wheat has progressed in South Dakota thanks to a week of favorable weather.
• The federal Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop and weather report that about six days were suitable for field work.
• The spring wheat crop is now 42 percent planted, ahead of 12 percent last year but slightly behind the long-term average of 46 percent.
• Corn planting is 11 percent complete, near the average of 10 percent. Last year, no corn was in the ground in South Dakota at this time.
• The report says the calving season in South Dakota is three-fourths complete. (Continued on page 22)
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