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• DALLAS (includes Texas and parts of New Mexico and Louisiana):
• Businesses generally expanded at a stronger pace as home construction and manufacturing picked up. Retail sales were flat and auto sales weakened a bit. Hiring increased at retailers and metal and cement manufacturers.
• SAN FRANCISCO (includes California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska):
• The economy grew modestly, driven by higher consumer spending and improved factory output. Rising demand for software developers boosted their wages. Tourism in Hawaii was robust while it remained soft in Las Vegas.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- State Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota judges are generally upholding a state law that says anyone driving a vehicle is considered to have given consent to the testing of the amount of alcohol in that person's blood.
• The U.S. Supreme Court in April ruled that police usually must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken-driving suspects.
• Jackley says that ruling has prompted many people suspected of drunken driving to seek to suppress blood tests. But he says trial judges have generally upheld the legality of taking blood samples under the state law that presumes drivers have consented to the withdrawal and testing of their blood.
• Jackley says the South Dakota Supreme Court will likely weigh in on the issue eventually.
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• ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AP) -- B-1 bombers at Ellsworth Air Force Base are again flying at a combat-mission-ready rate after being mostly grounded in April due to budget cuts.
• The grounding affected about one-third of the Air Force's active-duty combat aircraft, including squadrons of fighters bombers, and airborne warning and control craft.
• Base officials say that only a small portion of non-deployed aircrews at Ellsworth flew during the limited flying hours period.
• The Defense Department received authority from Congress to shift about $7.5

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