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• The state also has delayed a decision on whether to expand the Medicaid program to cover people considered too poor to get the subsidized private insurance offered through the exchanges. South Dakota's Medicaid program now covers about 116,000 children, adults and disabled people. The expanded eligibility would add an estimated 48,000 people, mostly adults without children.
• Dave Hewett, president of the South Dakota Association of Health Care Organizations, said the association is working with national groups and South Dakota hospitals to continue helping patients find coverage through Medicaid or the new health insurance exchange. A plan to reach those people is still being worked out, he said.
• Hospitals want more people covered by insurance so they no longer wait until they are severely ill and go to an emergency room, Hewett said. People with insurance get treated early and avoid more costly problems, he said.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Funeral services for a South Dakota teenager who went missing in North Dakota and whose body was found in Montana have been set.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/1c3LMUR ) the funeral for 18-year-old John Swain will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sioux Falls Christian High School in South Dakota. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the school.
• Swain's body was found June 26 at a home in Poplar, Mont. Swain had recently moved from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Bismarck, and authorities believe he was lured to a home where he was hit with a hammer before his legs were dismembered.
• Two people have been charged in the death. Authorities say Swain's body was found at a home owned by the grandmother of one of the suspects.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant has been named treasurer to The National Association of Secretaries of State.
• As treasurer of NASS, Gant will be a member of the executive committee and serve as President of the organization in 2015.
• The organization is the oldest nonpartisan organization of public officials in the United States. The association focuses on elections and voting, state business services and digital archiving, and international relations and state securities regulation.

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