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Lust said. "These people are now participating in their communities. They're paying taxes, they're employed."
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Arrest made in SD child support case
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it has arrested a man accused of failing to pay more than $68,000 in child support in South Dakota.
• The department says its agents and local officers in Great Falls, Mont., arrested Dennis J. Thomas on Wednesday on an outstanding federal warrant from 2009. Thomas on Thursday was ordered to be transported back to South Dakota by the U.S. Marshals Service.
• HHS says that the department's Sioux Falls investigative team got a lead in early January that Thomas might have been living in Montana and used surveillance to confirm the tip.
• According to the court papers, Thomas is accused of failing to pay from January 2007 until the indictment in December 2009.
• Attorney information for Thomas was not immediately available.
Daugaard signs tourism tax measure into law
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed his first bill of the 2013 legislative session.
• House bill 1066 continues the current tax rate on tourism-related businesses during the June-September period.
• The governor's office says the tax on the gross receipts of most tourism-related goods and services was 1 percent until it was raised to 1.5 percent for two years in 2009. A two-year extension that was granted by the Legislature in 2011 was due to expire this coming June 30.
• The measure makes the 1.5 percent rate permanent. It passed the state House 64-4 and the Senate by a 33-2 margin.
• Daugaard says the money is used to promote tourism, and the majority of it is paid by out-of-state visitors.
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