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tion Tuesday prohibiting fireworks and burning outside of any municipality in Pennington County.
• Fireworks have already been banned in several communities in the county, including Rapid City, Wall, Keystone and Hill City.
• The U.S. Forest Service and South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression have banned open burning permits for campgrounds.
• Fire crews have been busy battling several wildfires in the Black Hills area of western South Dakota.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard is asking residents to drive safely

as the Fourth of July holiday approaches, and South Dakota Highway Patrol troopers are out in force.
• The patrol says the stepped-up effort comes after a weekend during which five fatal crashes resulted in eight deaths.
• Daugaard says that nearly all crashes can be avoided, but every person must take personal responsibility and do his or her part. This includes wearing a seatbelt, obeying speed limits and other traffic laws, avoiding distractions when driving and not drinking and driving.
• Two people died on South Dakota roads last year during the July Fourth holiday reporting period. Another 42 people were injured in 127 crashes in 2011.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling from the bank where she worked.
• Twenty-year-old Krissa Shewey is accused of stealing checks from mailboxes in December and January and then cashing them at the bank.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Shewey faces up to 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced on Nov. 16.
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