• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Tourism says requests for information about the state have increased 11 percent during the first quarter of 2012 compared to last year.
• Tourism Department's quarterly travel newsletter says there was a 32 percent jump in information requests from February 2011 to February 2012.
• Hotel occupancy also saw an increase throughout the first quarter of 2012 as did taxable sales.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are looking for an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security prison in Rapid City on Sunday.
• Twenty-five-year-old Derek Bissonette (BISS'-uh-net) has been serving a four-year sentence for attempted grand theft in

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