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rights ensuring that no prisoner be penalized or discriminated against for their religious beliefs or practices. Inmates Blaine Brings Plenty and Clayton Creek argued that for Native American prayer to be effective, it must be embodied in tobacco and offered within a ceremonial framework.
• The state argued that the policy was not overly restrictive because it allowed other botanicals, such as red willow bark, to be burned.
• The Justice Department, in a brief filed in July, said the state's position ran contrary to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act and U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
• Schreier said in her September ruling said that even if state officials had asserted a compelling governmental interest, they did not prove that the complete ban was the least restrictive means available to further that governmental interest.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A legendary basketball coach, a golfing great and an Olympic runner are among 11 people who will be inducted into the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame next year.
• Don Meyer retired from coaching at Northern State two years ago with an NCAA record 923 victories. Kris Tschetter (CHEHT'-ur) played more than 20 years on the LPCA Tour, winning nearly $3 million. Rod DeHaven competed in the marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
• They and eight others will be inducted during a banquet April 13 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
• The others are basketball coaches Gary Munsen, Lyle "Dusty" LeBeaux and Curt Frederickson; football-basketball-track coach Bob Schroeder (SHRAY'-dur); basketball player Harold Thune; softball pitcher LeRoy Carlson; referee Pal Christensen; and football player-baseball coach James "Pev" Evans.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Box Elder man accused of trying to burn down his mobile home while his live-in girlfriend and her ex-husband were inside has pleaded not guilty to charges of arson and reckless burning.
• Authorities allege that 29-year-old Joseph Hodges poured gasoline throughout the home and set it afire on Oct. 25. No one was hurt.
• Hodges faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.

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