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lining the main stage.
• Also scheduled to take the main stage are American roots and blues artists the Scott Holt Band and Zydeco showman Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band.
• The 22nd annual free event at Yankton Trail Park has grown over the years into a top-tier festival drawing numerous top acts and more than 100,000 music lovers from the region. It began in 1988 with two jazz bands and one blues act playing in a back yard.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad will be joined by tribal leaders and Game, Fish and Parks officials at the dedication of Good Earth State Park at Blood Run, South Dakota's first state park in 40 years.
• The 615-acre state park is the 13th state park in South Dakota. Blood Run was designated a national historic landmark in 1970. The area along the Big Sioux River bordering Iowa was used by thousands of Oneota Indians into the early 1700s. The area includes a large oak forest, rolling hills, flood plains, riverside bluffs and burial mounds.
• The ceremony starts at 11 a.m. Guided hikes of the park will be offered following the ceremony.
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• CANISTOTA, S.D. (AP) -- Rescue crews have pulled the body of a man who drowned from a pond near Lake Vermillion.
• Local media report that crews were called to the scene about 3 p.m. Thursday.
• McCook County Emergency Management Director Brad Stiefvater tells The Argus Leader that the victim is a man in his 20s.
• The incident occurred on private property.
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• CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota commission delayed a vote Thursday on proposed rules for training teachers, other school staff members or volunteers to carry guns to improve security in school buildings.
• The Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Training Commission originally planned to certify the so-called sentinels -- essentially a license similar to the certifi

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