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• The nonprofit Sioux Falls State Theatre Co., which owns the theater, has raised about $3 million for the project to date and plans to raise about $3 million more, Williamson said.
• Work begins only when money is in hand, he said, to avoid any debt that often plagues arts projects. His goal is to open for movies with no debt and an endowment to support operations.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a Rapid City business.
• No one was hurt in the blaze at the Ziegler Building Center late Wednesday and early Thursday. The business sold home improvement materials and ranch supplies for about four decades.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Powerball ticket sold in Sioux Falls is worth $10,004 in the Wednesday drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win the game's $10,000 third prize. The odds are 1 in about 650,000.
• The ticket also won an additional $4 on another play line.
• The winner has about six months to claim the money.
• Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot sits at $80 million for the Saturday drawing.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) An Arizona man who disappeared 17 years ago while serving a federal sentence at a South Dakota halfway house has been sentenced to 1 ½ years in federal custody.
• Federal marshals found 55-year-old Steven Durant in Arizona last September. The Rapid City Journal reports that court documents indicate he had created a new identity using the birth certificate of a dead child from Mitchell.
• Durant was sentenced in 1992 to 6 ½ years in federal custody on a weapons charge. He walked away from Community Alternatives of the Black Hills in Rapid City in March 1997.
• The U.S. Attorney's Office says Durant will spend three years on supervised re

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