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armed volunteer might be in a school.
• Under the law, local police approval is required before a school can have armed sentinels. A school board would have to decide in a public meeting whether to take part in the program, and school district residents could force a vote on a board's decision. Teachers could not be forced to carry guns.
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Member of Board of Regents to retire
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A member of the South Dakota Board of Regents is retiring at the end of the month.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Thursday that Carole Pagones of Sioux Falls is retiring from the Board for personal reasons. It becomes effective July 31.
• Daugaard will name a successor to complete Pagones term soon. The term runs through 2015.
• Pagones served on the Board of Regents since 2003. She is a previous chair of the regents' Committee on Academic and Student Affairs, and continued to serve as a member of that committee.
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SD Supreme Court denies further Rhines appeals
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday denied further appeals in state court by Charles Russell Rhines, who has been on death row for two decades for the slaying of a man during the burglary of a Rapid City doughnut shop.
• South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said state prosecutors believe the Supreme Court's ruling means that Rhines has exhausted his appeal opportunities in state courts, clearing the way for action on Rhines' federal appeal.
• Rhines, now 57, was sentenced to death for the 1992 fatal stabbing of Donnivan Schaeffer. Authorities said Schaeffer, a part-time employee at the doughnut shop, surprised Rhines during the burglary.
• The state Supreme Court upheld Rhines' conviction and death sentence in 1996, but he has pursued secondary appeals in state and federal courts.
• In the secondary appeal filed in state court, Circuit Judge Thomas Trimble of Rapid City upheld Rhines' conviction and death sentence last year. Rhines also contended that the state's one-drug execution protocol amounts to an unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment, but Trimble ruled in February that the execution method does not pose a risk of unconstitutional pain and suffering.
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