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• The plan was developed in 1990 and amended in 2005, taking into account a mountain pine beetle epidemic and providing for logging, prescribed burning and other control methods.
• Environmental groups who sued worry about damage to plants and wildlife habitat in the 8,125-square-mile forest in northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota.
• Jackley says the federal court in Wyoming upheld the plan late last year and has now rejected a request by the environmental groups to reconsider the ruling. The groups can still appeal.
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• SPENCER, Iowa (AP) -- A northwest Iowa plant that had been awarded a state expansion loan has closed down.
• Simonsen Iron Works couldn't pay its 32 workers last week, but company President Aaron Schulz says he's trying to sell Simonsen to another company that could bring work into the Spencer plant.
• Simonsen's parent company, ATC Venture Group, had agreed to buy Sioux Falls, S.D.-based KW Manufacturing Group and move some of KW's work to Spencer. Schulz says he's uncertain about what will happen to the deal with KW.
• Schulz also says the state's $200,000 loan money hasn't arrived yet. The state approved the loan to help Simonsen expand its Spencer plant and create nine new jobs.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls police are looking for a man who robbed a casino at knifepoint.
• Authorities say the man entered the Power Keno Casino early Monday afternoon, showed a knife and demanded cash. He fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
• No one was hurt.
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