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voluntary manslaughter in federal court. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says she faces up to eight years in prison when she is sentenced next Jan. 7.
• Authorities say Koster was driving drunk on July 28 when the Crow Creek tribal officer stopped her, and that she sped away at more than 100 mph and lost control of the vehicle. Twenty-one-year-old Louis Herman died in the rollover crash near Fort Thompson. A 15-year-old female passenger survived.
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Distance courses grow in SD public universities
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Board of Regents reports that more than 20,000 students in the state's public university system took at least one course last year through the Internet, two-way television or some other distance delivery method.
• The number of students taking so-called distance education courses last year rose 13 percent from a year earlier. The number of students in such courses increased nearly 71 percent in the past five years.
• Regents Executive Director Jack Warner says the distance courses have delivered public university education to many people who might have been unable to take courses before technological advances allowed courses to be delivered away from university campus classrooms.
• Warner says about three-quarters of the distance students are undergraduates, and about 70 percent are enrolled part-time.
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2 hikes planned at Blood Run Nature Area
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Blood Run, a national historic landmark set to become South Dakota's first new state park in more than 50 years, is hosting two self-guided hikes this month.
• The picturesque acreage along the Big Sioux River was used by thousands of Oneota Indians into the early 1700s, and its diverse landscape boasts a large oak forest, rolling hills, flood plains and riverside bluffs.
• The walks are scheduled for Oct. 20 and 27. A campfire and hot cider will be available after the walk.
• Park naturalist Edward Raventon says visitors should plan to arrive by 6 p.m. and expect to spend an hour on the trial. The walk is free and registration is not required.
• The entire Blood Run site could eventually encompass some 1,400 acres in South Dakota and Iowa.
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