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• He is a former principal of Pine Ridge High School. Brewer also founded the Lakota National Invitational Tournament, which has become the nation's largest Native American high school basketball tournament.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The owner of a pellet gun authorities say was used in an exchange of gunfire with Rapid City police during a March crime spree has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
• Twenty-one-year-old Matthew Wright was one of five Rapid City men police say robbed two convenience stores, burglarized two homes and led officers on a chase through city streets. Officers returned fire during the chase with a shotgun.
• The Rapid City Journal reports that Wright will have to serve more than nine years behind bars before being eligible for parole.
• One of the suspects was sentenced earlier to 10 years in prison. The other three are to be sentenced next month.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man accused of getting angry at his girlfriend for not picking him up when he was released from jail and raping her has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• Forty-four-year-old Mark Gibson on Tuesday pleaded guilty to second-degree rape in the February assault, said he was sorry and asked the judge to sentence him to probation.
• Judge Janine Kern cited Gibson's criminal history in giving him a lengthy prison term and ordering him to undergo sex offender treatment. The Rapid City Journal reports that Gibson's criminal history dates back to 1992 and includes convictions for domestic violence and voluntary manslaughter.
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