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• PARKER, S.D. (AP) -- The defense attorney for a South Dakota man accused of killing his infant son told jurors the man's wife rolled over on the child and his client had nothing to do with the death.
• Chris Miller, 39, of the southeastern town of Scotland, is being tried on several charges including second-degree murder in the March 2011 death of 4-month-old Jacob Miller.
• Prosecutor Lisa Rothschadl told jurors during opening statements Tuesday that Miller abused his son, who had broken ribs, skull fractures and bleeding in the brain.
• "Doctor after doctor will testify that these injuries were not accidental," she said.
• Defense attorney Tim Whalen told the jury that Miller's wife, Stacy, rolled over on Jacob while in "a drunken stupor," suffocating the boy.
• "The evidence will show the last person to see Jacob alive was Stacy Miller, not Chris Miller," he said.
• Judge Glen Eng blocked off 10 days for the trial. If convicted of murder, Chris Miller faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. He could face the same sentence if convicted of manslaughter.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Bismarck City Commission has hired a company to design a Bismarck Civic Center expansion that would cost only $25 million.
• Voters rejected a $90 million plan last November, and commissioners had been discussing a scaled-down $31 million plan that would double the size of the detached Exhibit Hall and upgrade locker rooms and performer dressing rooms in the main arena.
• The Bismarck Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/Xye6UX) the $25 million plan would scrap the main arena improvements and focus only on the Exhibit Hall.
• Bismarck officials fear large conventions might move to improved facilities in Sioux Falls and Rapid City, S.D. Bismarck can pay for a smaller Civic Center expansion project without a public vote if it uses existing taxes. The project voted down last year called for a tax increase.
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