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Water system officials upset with federal funding
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The board chairman of the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System says the amount of money for the project in President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal "leaves us completely dead in the water."
• Obama has included $3.2 million for the ongoing project to bring Missouri River water to 300,000 people in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. Chairman Red Arndt says that isn't enough to do any construction this year. He calls it a "travesty."
• The project has been in the works more than a decade but is only 65 percent complete. Water started flowing through the system last summer, but funding to complete the project has become uncertain due to federal budget cuts.
• Arndt says that at the current rate of federal funding, the project will never be completed.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. BOMBINGS INVESTIGATOR: 'SOMEBODY KNOWS WHO DID THIS'
• The FBI appealed to the public for pictures or information that could lead them to arrests in the marathon explosions.
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• 2. WHAT BOMBS IN BOSTON WERE MADE OF
• The explosives-builder used kitchen pressure cookers packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings.
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• 3. WHO SENT POISON-LACED LETTER TO MISSISSIPPI SENATOR
• Lawmakers say a person who writes letters often to them is the suspect in the mailing of a letter containing ricin to Sen. Roger Wicker.
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• 4. STEPPED-UP SECURITY FOR THATCHER FUNERAL
• World leaders from 170 countries are attending today and 4,000 police officers will secure the route that will take the former prime minister's coffin to a London cathedral.
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• 5. BACKGROUND CHECKS BILL IN PERIL
• An Associated Press-GfK poll shows public support for gun control fell from 58 (Continued on page 26)
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