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tive to North America and were once thought extinct until their rediscovery in Wyoming in 1981.
• Private, public and tribal lands would eligible for the conservation effort in: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
• A 30-day public review and comment period will be announced in the Federal Register on Wednesday.
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Former Tea fire department treasurer gets prison
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The former treasurer of the volunteer fire department in the southeast South Dakota city of Tea has been sentenced to eight years in prison for aggravated grand theft.
• Investigators say Denae Baustian embezzled more than $170,000 from the department. Local media report that Baustian was sentenced to 15 years, with seven years suspended after pleading guilty to the charge in July.
• She will be eligible for parole after serving 30 percent of her sentence.
• Baustian is also required to pay back all the money she stole.
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Remains of 2 fetuses found in eastern South Dakota
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities have discovered the remains of two fetuses in eastern South Dakota and are investigating the case as a homicide, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said Monday.
• The "severely decomposed tissue and bones" were found in a rural shelterbelt on private land in Deuel County on Nov. 2, Jackley said.
• Experts have concluded that the fetuses were about 40 weeks old and capable of living outside the uterus, Jackley added, but he declined to say whether it appeared the deaths occurred before or after delivery.
• "There was a cooler with decomposed tissue and bones and then further remains were recovered in the area of the cooler," he told The Associated Press.
• Jackley could not say whether they were twins, noting only that there was a "second fetus of similar age."
• The state Division of Criminal Investigation and the Deuel County Sheriff's Office are working the case. Investigators have been gathering additional information from an autopsy report and a forensic anthropological evaluation.
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