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win the game's third prize for Wednesday's drawing. The ticket was purchased at a store in Sioux Falls.
• Powerball officials said that tickets sold in Arizona and Missouri matched all six numbers to win the record $579.9 million jackpot.
• State lottery officials say South Dakota players set ticket-buying records on Wednesday, purchasing $1.33 million in Powerball tickets. This surpassed the previous one-day sales record of $775,000 for a Mega Millions drawing this year. Purchases reached a peak rate of $145,000 an hour in the last hour before the drawing.
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• EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson announced Thursday that 27-year-old David Low Dog, of Eagle Butte, was sentenced earlier this week for the July 9, 2011, incident.
• Prosecutors say Low Dog entered a house in Eagle Butte and engaged in an unlawful sexual act.
• Low Dog pleaded guilty to the charge in September.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top Army Corps of Engineers official told federal lawmakers the agency can't legally reverse its decision to reduce the Missouri River's flow into the rain-starved Mississippi River.
• But Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says Army Assistant Secretary Jo-Ellen Darcy did tell him and senators from Iowa and Minnesota on Thursday that the corps will see if the flows curbed last week by the Corps can be tweaked to help keep the Mississippi safely navigable.
• Lawmakers from Mississippi River states have argued that the waterway's critically low levels could threaten to bring barge traffic to a halt.
• Grain, corn, coal, petroleum and chemicals are all typically shipped on the river. That's partly because the volume is so high that using trucks or trains would be far more costly.
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