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• Ashley Eide scored 14 points for the Jackrabbits (6-5), who had won three straight.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A mobile dentistry program has served its 20,000th patient.
• The Pierre Capital Journal reports (http://bit.ly/VEplKk) that Dakota Smiles uses two fully-equipped vehicles crisscrossing the state to perform preventative and restorative work along with oral health education.
• The program since its inception has done more than $9 million in dental work for kids in 73 communities.
• Delta Dental of South Dakota president CEO Scott Jones had heard about mobile medical units back in 2004 through his involvement with Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Dakota. He knew a mobile dental unit was what the state needed.
• Dakota Smiles manager Carrie Mikkonen says by 2006, the program's one bus was booked through the end of the decade. That led to the addition of a second one in 2008.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The presidential election has long been declared, but a historic tradition remains: casting the official electoral college ballots.
• South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, Attorney General Marty Jackley and the state's electoral college electors will cast the ballots at noon Monday in the governor's reception room in the State Capitol.
• Secretary of State Jason Gant says it's "an honor to witness this historic event."
• South Dakota voters elected Republican Mitt Romney as president with nearly 211,000 votes. President Barack Obama got 145,000 votes.
• Obama won the national race handily by the electoral college tally, with 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206. South Dakota has three electoral votes.
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