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of $2.9 million to fund 17 law enforcement positions, including investigators, forensic scientists and intelligence analysts. Half of those positions were previously funded by the federal government and half are new jobs.
• The governor's budget also included $3.8 million for 15 new Highway Patrol troopers.
• "The state is working to help address the growing law enforcement needs," Zent said.
• Two South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation labs are slated to get $26,200 in 2013 HIDTA funding.
• Crime labs in other states are at risk of losing money, too, according to the letters from Barton: the Kansas Bureau of Investigation ($192,303 in funding), Iowa Department of Public Safety ($140,000), Missouri State Highway Patrol ($153,574), Kansas City, Mo., Police Department ($133,667), Nebraska State Patrol ($81,539), and St. Louis County Police Department ($70,781).
• "The letters were just the final steps in all of our discussions in trying to find where we can painlessly cut. And we can't," Barton said. "Every cut we make has some pain attached to it."
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls man has been arrested for allegedly striking another man with a pipe.
• Sioux Falls police say the 32-year-old man was arrested on charges of aggravated assault. The alleged assault took place Thursday morning around 1:30 a.m.
• Police say the man got into an argument with another man and struck him with the pipe. The 25-year-old victim was left unconscious with serious head injuries. He has been taken to a local hospital and is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
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