Suspect arrested in Rapid City shooting death
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City police have arrested a suspect in a recent shooting death in a motel parking lot. • Authorities on Monday night surrounded a mobile home and apprehended 30-year-old Charles Birdshead without incident on outstanding warrants. After questioning him they arrested him on several charges including second-degree murder in the death of 33-year-old Eustacio Marrufo. • Marrufo was shot to death Jan. 7 in the parking lot of the South Dakota Rose Inn. Police say he died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Authorities had been seeking Birdshead for about a week for questioning. •
SD lawmakers hold 1st hearing on justice changes
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature is holding its first committee hearing on a plan to cut prison costs and improve the rehabilitation of convicted criminals by treating more nonviolent offenders outside prison walls. • The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee is getting a briefing Tuesday on the plan and some projected costs of the changes in probation, parole and special courts that treat offenders with alcohol problems. • A formal hearing on the measure will be held later by the Senate State Affairs Committee. But the Appropriations Committee has to deal with the plan's implications for the state budget. • Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson have asked lawmakers to support the proposal. •
Monday's Scores The Associated Press
• BOYS BASKETBALL • Bon Homme 63, Winner 56 • Dupree 90, Lemmon 45 • Ethan 78, Menno 42 • Harding County 60, Timber Lake 37 • Lennox 65, West Central 47
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