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• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Drug Enforcement Administration's recent effort to collect unused prescription drugs has netted nearly 47,000 pounds in part of the Midwest.
• The DEA's St. Louis office said Friday that the six states covered by the office saw 46,686 pounds of medication collected on April 28, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Nationwide, more than a half-million pounds of unwanted or expired medications were turned in for disposal.
• The St. Louis DEA says it collected 21,232 pounds of drugs in Missouri, 8,753 pounds in Kansas, 5,422 pounds in Nebraska, 5,365 pounds in Iowa, 1,490 pounds in South Dakota and 4,424 pounds in southern Illinois. Another DEA office is responsible for the rest of Illinois.
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• LEAD, S.D. (AP) -- State crews have finished a four-month project to remove trees infested with mountain pine beetles along the George S. Mickelson hiking and biking trail in South Dakota's Black Hills.
• Crews have been removing infested trees in an effort to slow the beetle's impact on scenery along the 109-mile trail that runs from Deadwood in the northern Black Hills to Edgemont in the south.
• Trail manager Dana Garry says that if the infested trees were not removed, they would die and could fall across the trail to create a safety hazard. She says about 2,700 trees have been treated so far, and more could be removed after the beetles fly and spread the infestation this summer.
• Crews will be cleaning debris and placing new material on the trail this summer.
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• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota State University has set a record for football season ticket sales, with the home opener still more than four months away.
• The school says 2,610 season tickets had been sold as of Wednesday. The previous record was 2,583 tickets last season. Officials say sales have risen for five straight years.
• The Jackrabbits 2012 home schedule has five games, starting with a matchup against UC Davis on Sept. 15.

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