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Supreme Court's ruling.
• "At this point, we know we did everything we could do," Damgaard said.
• Kyle Wiese of Rapid City, one of Costner's lawyers, said he had no immediate comment on the ruling.
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SD winter wheat crop expected to be smaller
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's winter wheat crop is expected to be 14 percent smaller than last year's.
• The Agriculture Department pegs the South Dakota crop at 57.2 million bushels. Yield is forecast to be up slightly but harvested acres are expected to be down by nearly one-fifth.
• Winter wheat production nationwide is forecast at just under 1.7 billion bushels, up 13 percent from 2011.
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Army Corps turns off tap at SD dam to check damage
• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers stopped releasing water from Gavins Point Dam for several hours to inspect damage to its spillway caused by heavy releases during last summer's record flooding.
• The eight-hour inspection Wednesday of the Missouri River dam in southeast South Dakota drew many spectators, including Yankton County Emergency Manager Paul Scherschligt.
• "It's probably once in a lifetime that you will see record flows to no flow," he told the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan newspaper. "It is pretty remarkable."
• Joe Koski traveled from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to witness Wednesday's rare event.
• "I just wanted to see what the dam looked like when the water dropped down," he said. "It's interesting to see people walking where there is usually water."
• The concrete on the spillway is about 1½ feet thick. Below that is about 4 feet of gravel. Gavins Point Operations Project Manager Dave Becker said some of the gravel has washed away.
• "The concrete was fine, but the gravel wasn't there," he said.
• Workers using radar and drilling test holes worked on Wednesday to determine the scope of the problem. A repair plan likely will be designed within a month and carried out this summer, Becker told the newspaper and local TV stations.
• It had been about 30 years since water releases at the dam were stopped, according to Becker.
• "Last year, we could feel the rumbling (of the dam) from our place," Aaron Olson, who lives near the dam, told the newspaper. "Seeing it now like this, it doesn't seem (Continued on page 31)
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