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that one committed suicide and the other pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
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Officers shoot man following chase in southwest SD
• NEW UNDERWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- A suspected drunken driver was shot multiple times after allegedly brandishing a rifle following a half-hour police chase in southwestern South Dakota.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says two Pennington County deputies and a Highway Patrol officer chased 43-year-old Travis Ross on Interstate 90 Monday afternoon. The officers used spike strips to disable the suspect's vehicle when Ross left the interstate in the New Underwood area. They shot him when he allegedly got out of the vehicle with the weapon.
• Ross was taken to a Rapid City hospital with undisclosed injuries. No officers were hurt.
• Jackley says Ross has an active warrant for violating parole on a felony drunken driving conviction.
• Jackley will determine if Deputies Robert Schoeberl and Jamin Hartland and Trooper Clayton Heinrich were justified in shooting Ross.
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Fort Pierre riverfront project headed to court
• FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A proposed $16 million development on the Missouri River that would be the largest commercial undertaking in Fort Pierre history appears headed to the courts after the City Council rejected new petitions seeking a public vote on more aspects of the project.
• The council earlier this month accepted referral petitions and scheduled a July 9 election on a boat storage area in the proposed Riverwalk Landing project, which would include a marina, restaurant and retail space. Council members rejected a petition on zoning changes and a deferred development fee, saying the petitions were ambiguous and that the council actions were administrative and not subject to a public vote.
• Petitioners who think the city is giving preferential treatment to the Riverwalk (Continued on page 29)
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