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• The attorney general says 1st Choice Marketing offered vouchers promising tickets from a nonexistent airline. He says documents said they were not a timeshare or land sales offer, but people who called the listed number were told they had to attend a meeting to redeem the travel voucher.
• Jackley says people who signed up will be notified they can cancel and get a refund.
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Winner healthcare center receives $3M gift
• WINNER, S.D. (AP) -- Winner Regional Healthcare Center says it has received a gift of more than $3 million from the estate of two brothers who spent their lives farming in the area.
• Raymond Erickson and John Erickson named the facility as the sole beneficiary of their estate.
• Interim CEO John Osse says the hospital is filled with gratitude for the men who chose to bestow the gift of health on the community.
• Winner Regional Healthcare Center, a member of the Sanford Health system, serves a seven-county area. It includes a not-for-profit hospital, long-term care facility and rural health clinic and employs more than 200 people.
• John Erickson died in 2009 when both brothers had retired and moved to Winner. Younger brother Raymond, who was John's sole beneficiary, died in November 2011.
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Floodwaters rising after storms deluge heartland
TAMMY WEBBER,Associated Press
• CHICAGO (AP) -- Volunteers worked into the night to stack sandbags against rising Midwest floodwaters and evacuate people in its path -- or rescue those already under water -- after a powerful spring storm system unleashed downpours from Oklahoma to Michigan.
• Rivers across Illinois, Iowa and Missouri was expected to rise for several days as the water moves downstream, contributing to a major flood on the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa, and Chester, Ill., that won't crest until the weekend or early next week, National Weather Service hydrologist Steve Buan said. The Illinois River in northern and central Illinois was rising, forcing one small-town hospital to evacuate patients. The Grand River and its tributaries in southwestern lower Michigan were overflowing, with workers using inflatable boats to rescue some people.
• "It's really just all over," Buan said. "We're talking about a very significant (Continued on page 15)
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