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• MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- Three candidates to be the next men's basketball coach at Minot State University will be on campus for interviews this week.
• They are Montana-Western coach Steve Keller, South Dakota Tech coach Jason Henry and Jamestown College coach Matt Murken.
• Minot State is still accepting applications for the job and more candidates might be interviewed.
• The school is searching for a successor to Peter Stewart, who has resigned after two seasons to spend more time with family and pursue other career interests.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The Hughes County Commission has voted to increase the county's wheel tax to raise more money for roads and bridges.
• The tax will rise by $2 per wheel or $8 per vehicle, doubling the current tax to the state maximum of $4 per wheel or $16 per vehicle. KCCR radio reports that it will generate about $350,000 per year.
• Proposals to increase the county's wheel tax have failed in the past. Voters defeated a referred measure in 1995, and in 2008 county commissioners rejected another proposal after a Pierre resident threatened to refer it.
• David Braun of Pierre says he plans to start circulating petitions to refer the latest measure to a public vote.
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• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- The new $55 million hospital in the northern South Dakota city of Aberdeen has started accepting patients.
• Dakotas-based Sanford Health began admitting patients to the Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center on Monday, about two weeks after unveiling the three-story, 48-bed facility to the public.
• Sanford Health is based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D. It has a presence in more than 100 communities in seven states and bills itself as the nation's largest not-for-profit rural health care provider.
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