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Wild Card 2 ticket sold in Lennox worth $6,000
• LENNOX, S.D. (AP) -- A Wild Card 2 ticket sold in Lennox is worth $6,000 in the latest drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched all five white ball numbers but missed the Wild Card to win the game's second prize in the Wednesday drawing. The odds of winning it are 1 in about 127,000.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot sits at $385,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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Contractor sentenced for operating without license
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Huron contractor has been sentenced to spend time in prison and ordered to pay more than $46,000 in restitution and other costs after pleading guilty to operating as a contractor without getting a South Dakota contractor's excise tax license.
• The state Revenue Department says 65-year-old Dennis A. Estabrook pleaded guilty to engaging in business without obtaining a contractor's excise tax license after being notified he was subject to the tax.
• Circuit Judge Jon R. Erickson sentenced Estabrook to two years in prison, but suspended all but 180 days of the sentence. The judge ordered Estabrook to pay $41,813 in tax, penalty and interest to the state. Estabrook also was ordered to pay other court costs totaling $5,000.
• Estabrook has paid the restitution and court costs.
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US attorney: Proposed lab cuts coming at bad time
DAVE KOLPACK,Associated Press
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The U.S. attorney in North Dakota said Thursday that proposed cuts in a federal drug prevention program that provides money to crime labs would be a blow to the state because law enforcement is trying to beef up prosecutions in the oil patch.
• The Associated Press obtained letters that the director of the Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program sent to nine crime labs in the region warning that funding would likely be trimmed in the next fiscal year and possibly eliminated (Continued on page 20)
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