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• The new Landsat has several advantages over its still-functioning predecessor Landsat 7, which captures 250 images a day. Landsat 8 boasts a new spectral band to see deeper into oceans, lakes and rivers and another to detect cirrus clouds.
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USDA awards grants to S. Dakota organizations
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced grants to several organizations in South Dakota to help rural businesses.
• USDA Secretary Tim Vilsack announced that Value Added Agriculture Development Center in Pierre will receive $99,950 to help establish a small business in Shannon County. Four Bands Community Fund in Eagle Butte will get $99,000 for marketing support to capitalize on tourism, and Kyle-based Lakota Fund, Inc. will receive $99,993 to provide training and assistance to Native American businesses.
• Vilsack says small businesses are the backbone of the economy in small towns and rural communities. He says the USDA is focused on making sure Main Street businesses have the tools they need to grow.
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SD man allegedly shoots 2 others, then kills self
• CLEAR LAKE, S.D. (AP) -- A man shot and wounded two people before killing himself in the northeastern South Dakota city of Clear Lake, Attorney General Marty Jackley said Monday.
• Authorities were called to a home about 9 p.m. Sunday for a reported double shooting. Jackley said two people were flown to a hospital while the man alleged to have shot them, Brett Pommer, 40, barricaded himself inside the residence.
• Officers tried but failed to make contact with Pommer, and SWAT team members eventually entered the home and found Pommer dead of what Jackley said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
• Information on the other two people and their conditions was not immediately released.
• Pommer pleaded twice to disorderly conduct in Codington County, one in 2003 and another in 2005, according to The Argus Leader. He was acquitted of four counts of aggravated assault in Hamlin County in 2003.
• Clear Lake Mayor Gordon Lee said people in the small community are in shock.
• "A tragedy like this puts life in perspective," he said.
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