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Nationals' mascots to visit Mount Rushmore
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Nationals say the team's racing president mascots will spend Presidents Day at Mount Rushmore.
• The team says George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt will visit the South Dakota landmark that features their faces. They'll be joined by William Howard Taft, the newest mascot and the only one without his face on Mount Rushmore.
• The Nationals say that Roosevelt and Taft will "race" from Washington to Mount Rushmore starting on Friday. The team is calling the contest "Bill and Teddy's Executive Adventure." Fans can vote on Twitter for the president they want to win by using the hashtags (hash)VoteBill and (hash)VoteTeddy.
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SD delegation reacts to State of the Union address
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Democratic member of South Dakota's congressional delegation says President Barack Obama is taking the country in the right direction, but the two Republican members say Obama's State of the Union address did not show leadership.
• Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson says he likes Obama's focus on jobs, the middle class and renewable energy, though he says he's disappointed the president didn't mention the farm bill during his Tuesday night speech.
• Republican Rep. Kristi Noem and Sen. John Thune say Obama failed to offer solutions to out-of-control spending and the nation's debt. Thune says Obama needs to get serious about solving the nation's problems.
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SD Senate endorses concealed weapons permit bill
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Senate has approved a plan to make concealed weapons permits valid for five years, up from the current four years.
• Senators voted unanimously Wednesday to send the bill to the House for further debate.
• The measure's main sponsor, Sen. Larry Rhoden of Union Center, says he had hoped to use the bill to make other changes in state laws dealing with firearms. But he says additional study is needed before those changes can be made.
• Rhoden says one future change would provide that once people get South Dakota concealed weapons permits, they would not have to undergo separate background checks every time they bought a gun. He says that would require issuing (Continued on page 31)
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