• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota Army National Guard unit has won an award for having the nation's highest weapons qualification rate.
• The 740th Transportation Company, headquartered in Milbank, won the National Guard Association Pershing Award for the second time in six years.
• The unit earned the highest figure of merit score during annual qualification firing with assigned individual weapons.
• The unit's overall qualifications rate was 99.4 percent. It qualified 64 experts, 75 sharpshooters and 30 marksmen.

• Capt. Jeremy Schafer, the company commander, says the award is reassurance that the unit's training is effective and sufficient.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- An autopsy performed on a Sturgis mixed martial arts fighter says he died of a subdural hemorrhage from blunt force trauma to the head related to an injury from a week earlier.
• The family of 26-year-old Dustin Jenson says he suffered a seizure after a May 18 fight at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Doctors later did surgery to relieve pressure on Jenson's brain, but he was declared brain dead on May 24 and taken off life support the next day.
• Rapid City police say in a release that although that timeline is consistent with the organized fight, there's no conclusive evidence the injury was sustained in the event.
• Mixed martial arts fighters use a variety of techniques, borrowing from boxing, wrestling and various forms of martial arts.
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