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across the Midwest, Rosencrans wrote.
• That's welcomed news to growers of winter wheat and corn and soybean farmers, all hoping that significant moisture this autumn and through the winter recharges what had been bone-dry soil in time for next spring's planting season.
• The USDA said about 71 percent of the winter wheat crop is now in the ground -- a pace consistent with the five-year average -- even though only 36 percent of those plantings have emerged, off 8 percentage points from the norm over the previous half decade.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Wild Card 2 ticket sold in Rapid City is worth $5,000 in the Wednesday drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched all five white ball numbers but missed the Wild Card, and won the game's second prize. The odds of doing so are one in about 90,600.
• The winner has about six months to claim the money.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot sits at $185,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- Residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation will choose a leader in the Nov. 6 general election.
• Incumbent Oglala Sioux Tribe President John Yellow Bird Steele is facing Bryan Brewer. The Rapid City Journal reports that Brewer is a retired educator and president of the annual Lakota Nation Invitational sports tournaments in Rapid City.
• Brewer and Yellow Bird Steele were the top two vote-getters in the tribe's primary election, which featured 10 candidates. Brewer received 864 votes and Yellow Bird Steele 758 in the primary.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Drought conditions are stable in North Dakota over the week, but they have worsened again in South Dakota.
• The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that 57 percent of South Dakota is now in the two worst categories of drought, extreme and exceptional. That is up from about 53 percent last week. The amount of the state in exceptional drought --

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