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2 SD cities resolving disputes with worker unions
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Pierre City Commission has finalized contracts with the union representing two groups of city employees, and Rapid City and its firefighters have come to an agreement on wages. Both disputes have been ongoing for about two years.
• The Pierre dispute involves the city's non-administrative civilian employees and some workers in the police department. KCCR radio reports that the city declared an impasse in 2010 and imposed a contract but the state Supreme Court eventually ordered negotiations to resume.
• City and union officials in Rapid City told the Rapid City Journal that the proposed agreement there was the result of a bargaining process that began shortly after a court ruling in the firefighter union's favor in January.
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5 runaway teens accused in SD armed robbery
• SELBY, S.D. (AP) -- Five teenagers are in custody after allegedly running away from an addiction treatment center in northern South Dakota and embarking on a crime spree that ended in a farm field.
• The teens ran away from the Aberdeen Area Youth Regional Treatment Center on Monday, rummaged through cars and found guns in nearby Mobridge, then broke into an auto shop east of the town and stole a van, authorities said.
• "They busted the window and crawled through," shop co-owner Tina Thompson told KELO-TV.
• The teens then allegedly went to Shorty's One Stop in Selby about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, pointed a shotgun and a rifle at the clerk and fled with cash and tobacco.
• "I'm just awed by it; I can't believe it happened," said Yvonne Helm, who works at the business but was not on duty when the robbery occurred.
• The teens tried to flee on foot after being pulled over by a Potter County law officer, Sheriff Curt Hamburger told the American News in Aberdeen. Three were caught immediately. Authorities with numerous local and state agencies searched by land and air for more than three hours before Walworth County Sheriff Duane Mohr found the other two hiding in a field of 1 ½-foot-high winter wheat.
• The teenagers' cases will be handled in juvenile court, which is closed to the public. Mohr said they could face charges of theft, burglary, armed robbery and fleeing.
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