Thursday,  March 7, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 231 • 22 of 33 •  Other Editions

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Watertown woman claims $64,000 lottery jackpot

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Watertown woman has claimed a $64,000 Dakota Cash

jackpot.
• South Dakota lottery officials say Charlotte Troska (TRAH-skuh) won the jackpot in the March 2 drawing. The odds of winning it are one in about 325,000.
• Dakota Cash is played only in South Dakota. The jackpot is at $20,000 for the next drawing, on Wednesday.

House approves bill expanding tech school bonds

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature has approved a bill that would allow more than $38 million in bonds to be sold to finance program expan

sions at two of the state's four technical institutes.
• The measure increases the bonding limit to $18.5 million at Western Dakota Technical Institute in Rapid City to pay for agricultural science and diesel programs.
• The $20 million in new bond money at Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls will be used to expand auto body and diesel programs and to expand construction technology,
• Student fees are used to pay off the bonds.
• The House on Wednesday agreed to Senate changes to the measure, sending the bill to the governor's desk.

SD man pleads not guilty in fatal traffic crash

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A man accused of driving recklessly and causing a fatal crash in central South Dakota has pleaded not guilty in federal court to involuntary manslaughter.
• Authorities allege that a vehicle driven by 19-year-old Charg Hebb, of Lantry, collided head-on with another vehicle on a Ziebach County road last October. A passenger in Hebb's vehicle, Arleigh McLellan, was killed.
• Hebb allegedly was driving on the wrong side of the road and speeding at the time.
• Hebb faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. A trial date was not immediately set.

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