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SD offering weed control to combat leafy spurge
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture will help qualifying landowners combat a tough, noxious weed called leafy spurge.
• The department has offered biological control agents to address the weed. Biological control agents range from fungi and bacteria to insects and mites.
• These agents are not always effective and take time and work to show results. Department officials say other weed control methods are necessary while the biological controls take effect.
• Establishment of the agents can take one to three years and more time after that to reduce the leafy spurge.
• Integrated Weed Management programs include biological agents as well as chemical methods like herbicides.
• More details on the program are available through the Agriculture Department.
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10 named in Pine Ridge drug conspiracy indictment
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Federal grand jurors have indicted 10 people from Rapid City and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on drug distribution and conspiracy charges.
• The U.S. Attorney's Office says the allegations stem from the distribution of cocaine and marijuana from 2005, mainly on the reservation.
• Those named in the indictment include Gerald LeBeau, Neil LeBeau, Susan Schrader, Holly Wilson, Whitney Zephier, Marie Zephier, Thomas Patrick Brewer, Twila LeBeau, Pablo LeBeau, and Lona Lee Colhoff.
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Lawsuit challenges North Dakota gay marriage ban
KEVIN BURBACH, Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Seven couples filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage in North Dakota, making it the last state in the country with a ban to be sued by gay couples seeking the right to wed in their home state. A federal judge also struck down Wisconsin's ban, ruling it was unconstitutional.
• The North Dakota lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fargo, challenges both that (Continued on page 15)
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