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• Paul Thielsen, the U.S. Marshal for the District of South Dakota, announced Friday that officers arrested Shawn Kerns earlier this week after locating him in the Pine Ridge village of Oglala. Kerns was wanted by officials in Logan, Ohio, for failing to appear in court on a charge of gross sexual imposition of two minor girls, ages 8 and 14.
• Kerns is being held in Pennington County Jail while he awaits extradition to Ohio.
• The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Oglala Sioux Department of Safety also assisted in the arrest.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Texas-based pipe maker hopes to start construction by the end of the summer in Rapid City on what would be its seventh manufacturing plant, employing about 40 people.
• WL Plastics director Mike Dahl tells the Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/LKKb94 ) that the oil boom in western North Dakota is a factor in the company's efforts to expand into South Dakota. He says the company hopes to have the plant operating early next year.
• WL Plastics also has plants in Kentucky, Wyoming, Utah and in the Canadian province of Alberta.
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• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Dakotas-based Sanford Health has broken ground on a $13 million medical campus in Moorhead, Minn., centered around a 47,000-square-foot clinic.
• The clinic is to open in summer 2014. Sanford says the facility will boost services it offers in the area, adding such services as pediatrics, physical therapy and behavioral health.
• Sanford is based in neighboring Fargo, N.D., and in Sioux Falls, S.D. The health system has a presence in more than 100 communities in seven states.
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