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and branches didn't wrap up until two months later.
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• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- A Spearfish man has claimed a lottery jackpot of nearly $85,000.
• Jake Barbarevech bought a ticket at a Deadwood convenience store that won the Dakota Cash jackpot in Wednesday's drawing. He says he hadn't played the game for a couple of years but decided to buy a ticket while buying tickets for other lottery games.
• He and his wife, Linda, plan to use the money to catch up on bills.
• The Dakota Cash jackpot starts again at $20,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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• DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- Hollywood actor Kevin Costner is asking $14 million for 1,000 acres of land he owns near the Old West gambling town of Deadwood in western South Dakota's Black Hills.
• The property includes the site of the ill-fated Dunbar casino resort, a $100 million project that would have included a golf course and a steam-powered passenger train. It never materialized.
• The listing does not include Costner's Midnight Star casino and restaurant, the tallest building on Deadwood's Main Street, or the $6 million visitor attraction he owns on the town's north edge called Tatanka: Story of the Bison.
• Costner filmed much of his Academy Award-wining movie "Dances with Wolves" in South Dakota.
• "He has a strong sense of loyalty to the area and it was a hard decision for him," real estate agent Mike Percevich said, adding that it took months for Costner to make up his mind.
• There are separate listings for three pieces of property, with asking prices of $7.4 million, $1.2 million and $5.4 million.
• The $7.4 million listing includes the property that at one time was being prepared for the resort. Completed work includes land leveling, parking lots, and water, sewer, and storm drains.
• "The ground has been prepared for a resort, which was to be called the Dunbar," Percevich said. "Everything's done up there. They were just getting ready to start

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