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last year.
• Durum wheat, oats, sorghum and millet acres all are up in South Dakota. Sunflower and barley are down.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The state Board of Water and Natural Resources has approved $4.9 million in grants and loans for drinking water, wastewater, storm water and recycling projects.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard says residents will get better drinking water, improved wastewater treatment and enhanced environmental protection.
• The board approved $1.56 million in grants and grant amendments and $3.3 million in low-interest loans, with $950,000 of the loan total in principal forgiveness.
• The grants include $230,000 to Mitchell to buy a landfill compactor; $400,000 to Rapid City for a secured 24-hour service area, a scale house, a commercial hauler scale and residential scales; $225,000 to the South Eastern Council of Governments for a solid waste management revolving loan program; and $112,400 to Walworth County and $296,400 to Watertown for new landfill cell construction.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Bismarck police say they have arrested a second suspect in the apparent slaying of a man who had recently moved to the city from Sioux Falls, S.D.
• The 20-year-old Stanley man was arrested Thursday on a murder charge. Formal charges were pending on Friday.
• Authorities already have charged 25-year-old Theo Crowe with murder in the apparent death of 18-year-old John Swain, who was last seen in mid-May.
• Authorities say a body was found Wednesday at a home in Poplar, Mont., owned by Crowe's grandmother. An autopsy is being conducted to determine whether it is Swain.
• Crowe does not yet have a listed attorney.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Bond has been set at $100,000 cash for each of two people accused in a plot to break an inmate out of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
• Twenty-six-year-old former inmate Lloyd White Face and 45-year-old Jamie

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