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against Van Dyke.
• But Lange said what triggers the statute of limitations clock is when the "injured party knows or should know that the damage has occurred, not full knowledge of exactly how and why an event occurred."
• Cashman also argued that the propane company fraudulently concealed information, but Lange said that claim was not supported. The judge said Cashman's attorneys made a strategic decision to leave CHS out of the state court case.
• Van Dyke suffered burns over a large part of his body, and a lawsuit he filed by Van Dyke against propane supplier CHS Inc. ended with a confidential settlement.
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U of M agriculture school gets $12M bequest
• ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The University of Minnesota has received a large and unexpected bequest from a South Dakota farmer and businesswoman.
• The $12.3 million gift from Millicent Atkins will go to the university's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.
• Dean Allen Levine (leh-VEEN') says it's the largest single gift ever designated for the college. And he says Atkins entrusted the college to use the money as it sees fit. He says the school expects to use it to increase support for undergraduate and graduate students.
• The university says Atkins owned more than 4,000 acres of prime farmland near Aberdeen, S.D., before she died last July at 93. She made similar bequests to Northern State University in Aberdeen and the Congregational Church in Columbia, S.D., where she lived most of her life.
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Application for transmission line filed with PUC
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Otter Tail Power Company and Xcel Energy have filed a permit application with the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission for a high-voltage transmission line from Big Stone City to near Brookings.
• The 70-mile 345-kilovolt line would run between a new substation about three miles west of Big Stone City and the existing Brookings County substation 12 miles east of Brookings.
• The permit covers the southern 40-mile portion of the project from just north of Gary to Brookings County. The goal is to have the line operational by 2017.
• The Minnesota-based companies are part of CapX2020, a joint initiative of 11 transmission-owning utilities.
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