Missing SD minimum-security inmate back in custody
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A state prison inmate is back in custody after walking away from the minimum-security unit at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
• Corrections officials say 24-year-old Mark Fromelt left the facility Thursday to go to a work-release job but didn't show up at the job site. They say he later returned to the prison on his own.
• Fromelt is serving a six-year sentence for a grand theft conviction in Minnehaha County.
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Season ends for USD women with WBI semifinal loss
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- The season is over for the University of South Dakota women's basketball team after a loss in the semifinals of the Women's Basketball Invitational.
• McNeese State beat the Coyotes 71-63 on Thursday night to advance to Saturday's championship game against Detroit.
• USD ends the season 19-16. The Coyotes almost made it to the NCAA tournament -- losing to rival South Dakota State in the championship game of the Summit League Tournament.
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SD commission considers Gregory elevator licenses
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a special meeting to consider whether to suspend the licenses of a grain elevator in Gregory.
• The commission's staff has recommended that the three commissioners immediately suspend the Gregory Farmers Elevator's grain buyer and grain warehouse licenses. The commission has scheduled a meeting Friday to discuss the issue.
• In a written filing, the staff says it has been working with the Gregory elevator since August as the company sought to correct financial problems. The staff now says it has determined that the elevator will be unable to obtain sufficient working capital to continue as a going concern.
• The staff filing says an immediate suspension of the elevator's licenses is the (Continued on page 17)
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