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• . $380.0 million, Mega Millions, Jan. 4, 2011 (2 tickets from Idaho and Washington)
• . $365.0 million, Powerball, Feb. 18, 2006 (1 ticket from Nebraska)
• . $363.0 million, The Big Game, May 9, 2000 (2 tickets from Illinois and Michigan)
• . $340.0 million, Powerball, Oct. 19, 2005 (1 ticket from Oregon)
• . $338.3 million, Powerball, March 23, 2013 (1 ticket from New Jersey)
• $337.0 million, Powerball, Aug. 15, 2012 (1 ticket from Michigan)
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SD high school graduates expected to increase
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- A new report expects South Dakota to buck the trend of a nationwide decline in high school graduates.
• The study by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education was presented to the South Dakota Board of Regents this week. It says that South Dakota is expected to show a significant increase in graduates over the next decade and beyond.
• The state is expected to expand its number of total high school graduates by 14.4 percent during the next 15 years. A peak of 10,300 graduates is projected for the 2024-25 academic year.
• Regents executive director Jack Warner says that's good news, as the state has experienced a relatively steady decline of high school graduates since the 1990s.
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5 free things in South Dakota's Black Hills
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.
• Covering approximately 8,000 miles (nearly 13,000 kilometers), the Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range with a big Native American influence. The Lakota took over the mountains from the Cheyenne in the 1700s and named it Paha Sapa (translated to Black Hills.) The Lakota signed a treaty with the U.S. government in 1868 exempting the hills from white settlers. But when gold was discovered in the mountains, the U.S. government broke the treaty and moved the tribes to reservation lands in other areas of the state.
• The Lakota influence can be seen not far from Mount Rushmore in the still-unfinished mountain carving of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Farther south, visitors (Continued on page 21)
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