|
Cougar killed in Rapid City residential area
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities killed a mountain lion that wandered into a residential area in Rapid City.
• The young male weighing about 80 pounds was spotted in a tree Monday morning, and local police called in state Game, Fish and Parks officials. The department's policy is to kill lions that come into the city.
• Game, Fish and Parks regional supervisor Mike Kintigh says an agency officer used a shotgun to knock the lion from the tree, and a city police officer used a rifle to finish off the animal when it tried to run off even though it was mortally wounded.
•
Victim of weekend SD hunting accident identified
• HURLEY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities in southeastern South Dakota's Turner County have identified a man who died in a weekend hunting accident.
• Forty-nine-year-old Lorin Larsen died Saturday after falling from a tree stand on his land between Hurley and Viborg while bowhunting for deer. He was found by his father, Roger, and died while being flown to a Sioux Falls hospital. His funeral is Wednesday in Madison.
• Sheriff Byron Nogelmeier says it's not known what caused Larsen to fall from the tree stand.
•
SD National Guard gets new assistant adjutant
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Brig. Gen. Craig D. Johnson of Rapid City is the new assistant adjutant general for the South Dakota Army National Guard.
• Johnson is taking over from the former assistant adjutant, Brig. Gen. Jeffery P. Marlette of New Underwood, who is retiring from the National Guard after 32 years of service.
• Johnson is responsible to South Dakota National Guard Adjutant General Tim Reisch (RYSH) for strategic planning, strength management, troop readiness and mobilization support for the state's nearly 3,300 Army National Guard soldiers.
• During a transfer of authority ceremony in Rapid City, Johnson was promoted from the rank of colonel to brigadier general.
•
(Continued on page 21)
|
|
