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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The family of ex-U.S. Sen. George McGovern says the 90-year-old is "no longer responsive" in hospice care.
• McGovern's family issued a statement Wednesday afternoon through Avera McKennan Hospital.
• His daughter, Ann McGovern, earlier told The Associated Press that her father is "nearing the end" and appears restful and peaceful. She says it's a blessing that she and other family members are able to be with him.
• McGovern was the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide. He was a member of the U.S. House from 1957 to 1961 and a U.S. senator from 1963 to 1981, and considered a leader in his party's liberal wing during that time.
• In recent years, he turned his focus to world hunger.
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• MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for eluding Mitchell police in a February chase that exceeded 100 mph.
• Officers called off the chase for safety reasons, but they later arrested 30-year-old Justin Jonathon Hofer of Ethan.
• Hofer initially told authorities his vehicle had been stolen and he was not driving it during the chase, but he eventually admitted he was driving and the vehicle had not been stolen.
• The Mitchell Daily Republic reports (http://bit.ly/WoWVt5 ) that during a sentencing hearing, Circuit Judge Rodney Steele told Hofer his conduct has been dangerous and that he could kill someone with such conduct.
• Hofer pleaded guilty in July to aggravated eluding. His court case was delayed to give him time to undergo treatment for alcohol abuse.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- One of two adults arrested after a 2-year-old girl was found dead in their home near Wagner has pleaded guilty to drug charges, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Wednesday.
• Jackley told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader (http://argusne.ws/TvyqnR ) that as

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