Tuesday,  May 28, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 312 • 20 of 31 •  Other Editions

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taken by flooding, but residents have been dealing with basement flooding and pooling of water in lowland areas.
• "Everything's ponding up," he told The Associated Press. "It all just came too quick."
• Lincoln County Highway 135 was closed south of Newtown Hills State Park after the road washed out overnight.
• Harold Timmerman, the county's emergency manager, told KELO television Monday that other township roads may also be covered in water. He urged drivers to use extreme caution.
• Timmerman said workers were also putting sandbags at the west entrance of Liberty Elementary School in Harrisburg on Monday morning to stop floodwater from pouring into the building. The school has water in the gym and hallways.
• But Timmerman said most water levels were dropping in the communities of Harrisburg, Tea, and Canton.
• Gillispie said more thunderstorms are expected late Monday, but rainfall totals should be less than in previous nights.

SD State captures Summit League baseball title

• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota State baseball team is headed to its first NCAA Division I regional tournament after capturing the Summit League title.
• The Jackrabbits will face Oregon at 8 p.m. CDT Friday in the opening round of the Eugene Regional.
• South Dakota State (35-22) topped North Dakota State 1-0 in the first game Sunday in the Summit League baseball championship. Starting pitcher Shane Kraemer allowed five hits, no walks and struck out two in 5 1/3 innings to improve to 4-2 with the win. Layne Somsen got the final six outs for his first save of the year.
• South Dakota State also took the opener Sunday 2-0.

Hydropower from ag ditches pushed in Congress
MATTHEW BROWN,Associated Press

• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Federal lawmakers are seeking to lift restrictions on hydropower development so more local irrigation districts could use water flowing through government-sponsored agricultural canals and pipelines to generate electricity.
• Proponents say hundreds of irrigation systems, the bulk of them in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, would be able to pursue small power projects under

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