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seek re-election to the third-highest ranking Republican position in the U.S. Senate.
• Thune said Thursday that he intends to be re-elected as the Senate Republic Conference Chairman. He has held the position since January of this year.
• In a news release, Thune said the country is a crossroads and communicating the Republican vision to grow the economy, create jobs and restore the nation's fiscal health is important.
• Thune is the highest ranking Republican senator from South Dakota since Sen. Chan Gurney of Yankton, who served as conference vice-chair, the No. 5 position, in the 1940s.
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SD police seeking man who reportedly robbed bank
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City police are looking for a local man who is accused of robbing a North Dakota bank.
• The U.S. District Court of North Dakotas has issued an arrest warrant for 19-year-old Colt Schneider. Schneider's last known address is in Rapid City, though he hasn't been seen in the area for several weeks.
• The warrant is for bank robbery, use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and aiding and abetting.
• Authorities believe Schneider was one of three men who held up a bank in New England, N.D., at gunpoint last month.
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Drought tracker: Dryness worsens in Kan., Okla.
JIM SUHR,AP Business Writer
• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The worst U.S. drought in decades got worse in parts of the nation's midsection, further frustrating ranchers and growers of winter wheat in Kansas and Oklahoma, a drought-tracking consortium's update showed Thursday.
• The U.S. Drought Monitor's latest map showed that 60 percent of the land in the lower 48 states was experiencing some degree of drought as of Tuesday, down less than a percentage point from the previous week. Nearly one-fifth of the contiguous U.S. remained in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst classifications.
• But the stubbornly dry conditions intensified in Kansas, the top U.S. producer of winter wheat. Thursday's update, put out by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, showed that the expanse of that state in extreme or exceptional drought climbed roughly 6 percentage points, to 83.8 percent.
• Three-quarters of hard-hit Oklahoma -- another key winter wheat state -- is (Continued on page 29)
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