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SD troopers to get upgrades from drug control fund
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Highway Patrol will receive about $215,000 from the state's Drug Control Fund to assist in drug-control operations.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says the money will be used to buy weapons and other equipment for the patrol.
• The drug control fund consists of money seized during drug arrests and investigations. Funds also are procured through the sale of drug-related assets, such as vehicles, televisions and appliances.
• Jackley says the patrol contributes substantially to the drug-control fund.
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AP News in Brief
Amid GOP concern, Romney heads to Colorado as schedule intensifies
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney heads to Colorado on Sunday, the first stop in what advisers call an "intense battleground state schedule" aimed at countering GOP criticism that his campaign is mismanaged and misdirected.
• The former Massachusetts governor will have the stage to himself in a state that will help decide the presidential contest. President Barack Obama was expected to be in Washington and had no official business or campaign activity scheduled.
• For Romney, an evening rally at a Denver-area high school represents his first public event of the weekend. With the election less than seven weeks away, the Republican candidate is facing pressure to spend less time raising money and more time explaining his plans to voters in swing states.
• He plans to do that beginning with the Colorado rally. Romney then launches a three-day bus tour in Ohio on Monday followed by a stop in Virginia -- all states Obama won in 2008 and held by Republicans four years earlier.
• The schedule shift comes in the last full week before the presidential debates move the campaign into a new phase -- one which Romney advisers suggest could prove pivotal following several weeks marked by negative attention, missteps and Republican concerns.
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CNN posts report on diary of slain ambassador Stevens; US State Dept. says family had objected
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CNN reported on the personal journal of slain American ambassador Christopher Stevens over objections from his family, a State Department spokesman said Saturday.
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