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•"If everyone stays in town and isn't going back to work on Friday, we could get hit really hard," she said.
•At least one hotel is offering a discount for those attending the funeral of McGovern, who was born in Avon and grew up in Mitchell.
•The executive director of the Sioux Falls Regional Airport bets most out-of-towners will be driving. Pheasant hunting season opened last weekend, said Dan Letellier, and the airport's 23 daily flights Thursday and Friday are already booked.
•"Any national figure or business leaders from other parts of the country may very well end up chartering flights or corporate jets," he said.
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Internet payday lender agrees to W.Va. refunds
•CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- An Internet payday lender has agreed to stop making such loans in West Virginia.
•Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office says Payday Financial LLC and its owner, Martin A. Webb, also agreed prior to a contempt hearing this month in Kanawha County Circuit Court to refund $135,000 in fees to 120 West Virginia consumers and pay $5,000 to the state.
•Webb had claimed the loans originated on South Dakota's Cheyenne River Indian Reservation where Payday Financial was based and were subject to tribal laws. But Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom ruled Payday Financial's loans in West Virginia were governed by state laws and not protected by tribal immunity.
•After Bloom set a contempt hearing for Oct. 11, the agreement between Webb and the state was signed.
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Mont. oil lease sale could mark Bakken expansion
MATTHEW BROWN,Associated Press
•BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Texas company has bought oil and gas leases on almost 75,000 acres in northeast Montana's McCone County in a move that could portend a significant westward expansion of the Bakken oil patch, government officials and a company representative said Wednesday.
•San Antonio-based Donco Inc. paid more than $13.5 million for the leases in a competitive auction held Tuesday by the federal Bureau of Land Management. It marks one of the largest federal lease acquisitions by a single company in Montana in recent years, BLM spokesman Kristen Lenhardt said.
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