Thursday's Scores
The Associated Press
• PREP FOOTBALL
• Class 9AA
• Championship
• Deubrook 25, Howard 22
• Class 9A
• Championship
• Canistota 52, Warner 8
• Class 9B
• Championship
• Harding County 50, Colome 20
Senators urge USDA action to curb wildfire risk
• DENVER (AP) -- Senators from Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota are encouraging federal officials to use the timber industry to help thin forests prone to wildfires, like ones that raged across their states this summer.
• In a letter Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the senators said overgrown forests, drought, vast stretches of trees killed by beetles, and more people living in fire zones have left the West at a critical juncture. They expressed support for thinning more acres near critical infrastructure and in areas where urban areas are up against forests. The senators also urged Vilsack to prioritize timber sales.
• The letter was signed by Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet of Colorado; Mike Enzi and John Barrasso of Wyoming; and Tim Johnson and John Thune of South Dakota.
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Adviser: Future revolutions will happen faster
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Revolutions of the future will happen faster and be easier to start, but they'll also be harder to stop, a foreign policy and technology expert said Thursday.
• Jared Cohen, former adviser to Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Rodham Clinton, said the old model for revolutionaries such as Lech Walesa,
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