• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Energy Department's inspector general says former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson collected $450,000 in questionable payments from the nation's federally funded nuclear labs after she left office.
• A report released Tuesday says Wilson, a New Mexico Republican, failed to document what she did to earn $20,000 a month from New Mexico's Los Alamos and Sandia national labs from 2009 to 2011.
• The inspector general says private contractors that run the labs have reimbursed the government for the payments. An investigation continues.
• The payments to Wilson included nearly $30,000 from the Nevada Test Site and the Oak Ridge lab in Tennessee.
• The report says Sandia apparently asked Wilson to lobby for more defense dollars, an apparent violation of her contract.
• The Associated Press was trying to reach Wilson for comment.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper is being honored nationally for bravery on the job.
• Thirty-four-year-old Trooper Andrew Steen was critically injured when he was struck by a car in Sioux Falls while trying to stop a suspected drunken driver last October. He suffered a fractured skull, a brain injury and a broken ankle. He underwent two surgeries to relieve pressure on his brain and was hospitalized for two months.
• The American Association of State Troopers has named Steen the 2013 Trooper of the Year. He was among 25 nominees from 18 states.
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• FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Opponents of breaks for a $16 million riverfront development in Fort Pierre have submitted a new petition after an earlier one seeking a public vote on some City Council decisions was rejected.
• Petitioners who think the project is getting preferential treatment have given the city an ultimatum -- accept the petition or face a court battle.

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