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• Maher said the Executive Board in May will appoint 15 lawmakers to the education study committee and set details of what will be included in the study.
• "It's going to be quite an undertaking," Maher said.
• The Executive Board also decided to set up a study committee to look at South Dakota's laws on domestic abuse. Bills on that issue have been narrowly defeated in recent legislative sessions.
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• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota man is being charged in a crash that killed another man in western South Dakota.
• The South Dakota Highway Patrol says 27-year-old Gabriel Culver, of Dickinson, is being charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and careless driving.
• Culver was seriously injured in the accident. Twenty-four-year-old Nicholas Sukstorf, of Spearfish, who was a passenger in the front seat of the pickup, was killed. Two people riding in the back seat received minor injuries.
• The Highway Patrol reports that Culver was driving downhill on a gravel and dirt road five miles west of Spearfish when he lost control of the pickup. The vehicle then went into a ditch, hit the side of a concrete bridge and landed on its side.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A research project led by biologists in the state shows that the venom a prairie rattlesnake uses to disable its prey is different in the higher elevations of the Black Hills than at lower elevations.
• The Pierre Capital Journal (http://bit.ly/XRUakf ) says that the research says the difference could be because the cooler, more rugged terrain of the Black Hills requires a snake to disable its prey faster.
• The project is led by Black Hills State University biologist Brian Smith, his student Mallory Ageton, Eduardo Callegari from the University of South Dakota and Steve Mackessy from the University of Northern Colorado.
• The scientists say that what they learn could lead to different strategies for treating humans bitten by rattlesnakes, depending on where they were when they were bitten.
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