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that was filed in May by three landowners along the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline.
• The lawsuit says the law that passed in April unlawfully delegated powers to the governor that belong with the Public Service Commission. It also says the law stemmed from unconstitutional special legislation because it benefited only one entity, TransCanada.
• The company's pipeline is designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada across Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. TransCanada also has proposed connecting it to the Bakken oil field in Montana and North Dakota.
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USDA: South Dakota hog and pig inventory down
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says South Dakota's Dec. 1 inventory of all hogs and pigs was 1.2 million head, down 14 percent from a year ago and down 7 percent from Sept. 1.
• The South Dakota office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service says market hogs totaled 1.035 million head, down 16 percent from last year and down 7 percent from September.
• Breeding stock totaled 165,000 head, down 3 percent from December 2011 and down 6 percent from September.
• The September through November pig crop was 936,000 head, unchanged from last year, but down 3 percent from the previous quarter.
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Group ends 2012 with reservation booze blockade
GRANT SCHULTE,Associated Press
• LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Native American activists spent the last hours of 2012 trying to disrupt the flow of alcohol onto South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- a fight that for many members is rooted in personal pain and tragedy.
• Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Deep Green Resistance, which advocates for Native rights, formed a blockade about 9 p.m. Monday on the road into the officially dry reservation from Whiteclay, a nearby town across the state border in Nebraska.
• Despite having only about a dozen residents, Whiteclay has four beer stores that sold the equivalent of 4.3 million, 12-ounce cans of beer last year, and the surrounding area is a hang-out for panhandlers who sleep in abandoned buildings and along (Continued on page 19)
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