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• MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) -- Former South Dakota Sen. Larry Pressler says he won a "substantial amount of money" more than a decade ago to settle a libel lawsuit over a book that he believes cost him his Senate seat.
• Pressler discussed the settlement after the death Friday of book co-author Alexander Cockburn (COH'-burn). Pressler has previously described the 1998 settlement as small.
• In "American Babylon," Cockburn and co-author Ken Silverstein speculated that the married Pressler was gay and suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
• Cockburn campaigned against Pressler's re-election in 1996. The Republican be

lieves the book influenced his loss to Democrat Tim Johnson.
• On Tuesday, Pressler told the Mitchell Daily Republic (http://bit.ly/O8MCFB ) that Cockburn's publisher paid a large libel settlement.
• Pressler says the publisher also pulled the book and paid more than $100,000 in legal fees.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The longtime owner of a Sioux Falls sod business faces federal charges that he's been illegally evading federal income taxes for more than a decade.
• Jerome Adrian made his first appearance in federal court in Sioux Falls last week. He remains free on his promise to show up for future court appearances.
• Court documents say the 70-year-old Adrian and a 76-year-old acquaintance, Raymond Ehrman, set up a number of trust accounts for Adrian's assets, and then used fake tax identification numbers.
• Ehrman is charged with conspiracy in the alleged scheme. Adrian is accused of tax evasion, failing to pay taxes and taking a fake tax refund.
• Adrian and Ehrman have pleaded not guilty.
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