WY man pleads guilty in SD shootout with officers
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Wyoming man accused of shooting at law officers after a vehicle chase in western South Dakota has pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
• Forty-two-year-old James Baker of Gillette, Wyo., had faced an attempted murder charge after the Jan. 10 shootout with officers in the Rapid City area. He pleaded guilty on Friday to aggravated assault on a public officer and committing a felony with a firearm, in a deal with prosecutors who will recommend a prison term of 70 years.
• Baker's attorney said his client was trying to commit suicide and regretted the incident. He is to be sentenced Jan. 4.
• No officers were hit in the shootout but Baker was wounded and hospitalized.
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Death in Sturgis not believed to be suspicious
• STURGIS, S.D. (AP) -- Sturgis police say the death of a man whose body was found in Bear Butte Creek over the weekend does not appear suspicious.
• Residents in the area say two youths found the body near mid-day Sunday. Police Chief Jim Bush says it doesn't appear the body had been in the water for long.
• Bush tells KBHB radio that police think they know the man's identity and are working to notify next of kin.
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Livestock farmer says drought spiking feed prices
• GAYVILLE, S.D. (AP) -- A Gayville livestock farmer says his farm has gone from probably the wettest 18-month stretch to the driest 18-month stretch on record.
• Jim Petrik raises pigs and cows and sells breeder hogs to other pork producers.
• Petrik tells KMEG television (http://bit.ly/TXC7r3) that the dry conditions have caused feed prices to spike and how that's making a difference on the pigs to come. He says his Gayvlle farm is below 10 inches of precipitation in the last 16 months, which is drier than it was in the 1930s.
• Petrik just got a group of piglets a few weeks ago, and because of the summer's heat, they'll probably be more expensive to produce.
• He says inventories are going to be tight this spring.
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