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Owners of neglected horses turn themselves in
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Two animal owners accused of neglecting nearly 70 horses in Pennington County have voluntarily turned themselves in to authorities.
• The Pennington County Sheriff's Office says Donald and Terri Harwood turned themselves in Friday morning. The couple had been wanted on 10 counts of inhumane treatment of an animal. Warrants for their arrest had been issued.
• The Harwoods are currently out on bond.
• The Sheriff's Office impounded 69 horses the couple owned for neglect earlier this month. Officials were able to find adoption homes for the last 10 Spanish Mustang horses Friday morning.
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SD Guard unit prepares for Afghanistan deployment
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Nearly 170 South Dakota National Guard members are preparing for deployment to Afghanistan.
• The guard's1742nd Transportation Company based in Sioux Falls are scheduled to deploy in December 2013 or January 2014.
• The unit will provide transportation of both dry and refrigerated containerized cargo, general non-containerized cargo and bulk water and fuel products.
• The unit will report to Fort Hood in Texas to complete several weeks training prior to deployment overseas.
• This will be the second deployment for the unit. It deployed to Iraq in 2003-2004.
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Fire knocks out power in downtown Sioux Falls
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- An underground electrical fire early Friday sent smoke billowing into downtown Sioux Falls streets and knocked out power to hundreds of residential and business customers, including some people who might need alternate housing through the weekend.
• Xcel Energy said more than 500 customers were initially affected by the outage that happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. Friday. About 200 customers might remain in the dark until Sunday. The utility was sending workers from Minnesota to help with repairs, and local officials were considering moving affected residents to temporary housing.
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