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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The temperature in Sioux Falls hit 70 degrees on Wednesday, breaking a record for the date set in 1960.
• The National Weather Service says the temperature at Sioux Falls' Joe Foss Field hit the mark just before 2 p.m. CST.
• The old record for Nov. 21 was 68 degrees.
• Huron hit 68 degrees, tying a mark set the same year.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office is releasing new details about the death of a woman at the county's detoxification center.
• Sheriff Mike Milstead says officers with the Sioux Falls Police Department were dispatched to a home in Sioux Falls on Sunday at about 5 p.m. because the 48-year-old woman had been threatening suicide. The woman had been drinking rubbing alcohol and whiskey.
• The woman voluntarily agreed to a crisis center, where a team determined she should go to detox. Several hours later the woman was reported to be unconscious and officers were called to the scene.
• The woman was pronounced dead.
• The woman's name has not being released.
• The incident comes weeks after the facility was temporary closed to new patients because of a state investigation into safety issues.
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• ROSEBUD, S.D. (AP) -- A kindergarten class on the Rosebud Indian Reservation is donating their loose change to an effort to secure land in the Black Hills that tribal members consider sacred.
• The group of 19 students from Rosebud Elementary collected close to $50 over a two-week period and donated it to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Teacher Oyate Burnette says she wanted to teach the kids to take initiative. The kids presented the money to the tribal council during a meeting last week.
• Tribes of the Great Sioux Nation must raise $9 million by the end of the month to buy the land in the Black Hills. They have raised $7 million so far.
• The land the tribes call Pe' Sla (pay shlaw) is important to their creation story
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