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• Jackley says about $443,000 of South Dakota's share will go back to the state's general fund and $857,000 is the federal share. He says the settlement puts a stop to an improper pharmaceutical company marketing practice that needlessly wasted taxpayer dollars.
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• OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett

supports building the Keystone XL pipeline that TransCanada wants to build to carry Canadian oil south across the Great Plains to connect to Gulf Coast refineries.
• Buffett was asked about the project that would cross Nebraska Monday on Fox Business Network.
• Buffett says he's not an expert on the project, but he thinks it generally makes sense to build the pipeline.
• Last week, TransCanada reapplied for a permit to build the pipeline after changing the route through Nebraska to avoid the environmentally sensitive Sandhills region.
• State Department approval is needed because the $7 billion pipeline would cross a U.S. border before crossing Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. TransCanada has also proposed connecting the pipeline to the Bakken oil field in North Dakota.
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