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AZ artist wins top award at Crazy Horse art show
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota artists have won all but one category at an annual art show at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills.
• But the top prize, best of show, went to Navajo rug maker Juanita Bancroft of Tuba City, Ariz.
• The awards were given at the 23rd Gift from Mother Earth Celebration art show.
• Artisans are showing their work at the Crazy Horse Memorial during the weekend. The mountain carving of Lakota leader Crazy Horse is located between Custer and Hill City in the Black Hills.
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Highway Patrol to get vehicle for investigations
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Highway Patrol is set to get a new SWAT vehicle to help with drug investigations.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley recently announced that the Highway Patrol will receive nearly $241,000 for the vehicle from the drug control fund.
• The vehicle will be used by multiple agencies for deployment throughout western South Dakota.
• Col. David Price says the Highway Patrol considers illegal drugs to be one of its top priorities. He says the vehicle will help state and local law enforcement across western South Dakota fight illegal drugs.
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Homelessness increases in oil-rich North Dakota
Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The director of an advocacy group says the number of homeless people is soaring in North Dakota.
• Michael Carbone, executive director of the North Dakota Coalition for Homeless People, says desperate job seekers are flocking to the oil-rich state to try and land one of the thousands of unfilled jobs.
• Volunteers counted a record 2,069 homeless people during a survey on Jan. 23. Carbone says that was a day in which temperatures were well below zero across much of the state.
• The survey found that the number of "unsheltered" homeless people was 1,395. (Continued on page 18)
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