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• "These are the kinds of things that have a disproportionately large influence on farming," said Gene Takle, director of Iowa State University's Climate Science Program.
• The National Weather Service predicted months in advance that June and July would be hot and dry in Iowa, Takle said.
• "What could we have said back in March that would have given farmers some actionable information to cope with this?" he said.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota woman faces charges in two counties after allegedly stealing a pickup in Pierre and leading police on a chase that exceeded 90 mph.
• Nineteen-year-old Ruby Sazue of Pierre is charged with grand theft in Hughes County after authorities say she stole a pickup parked in front of the federal office building. She is charged in Stanley County with aggravated eluding, underage drunken driving, speeding, careless driving and not having a valid driver's license.
• Stanley County Sheriff Brad Rathbun tells KCCR Radio (http://bit.ly/qNE5p ) that Sazue drove the pickup across the Missouri River bridge and was located south of Fort Pierre. He says officers chased the pickup for 13 miles before Sazue pulled over and was arrested without incident.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A fifth motorcycle fatality has been reported in connection with the Sturgis Motorcycle rally in western South Dakota
• The state Highway Patrol reports that 76-year-old Wilbert Verpooten of Lake Orion, Michigan, was killed in a crash on U.S. Highway 85. Verpooten crossed the center line while traveling on a curve and hit a trailer pulled by a pickup driven by 45-year-old Lisa Hollars of Laurel, Indiana.
• Verpooten was taken by ambulance to the Lead-Deadwood Hospital, where he died. Hollars was not injured in the crash.
• The Highway Patrol reports that only one person had died in a traffic accident at this point in last year's rally. The rally officially started Monday and ends Sunday.
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