4,020 licenses for this year's ND fall turkey hunt
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's Game and Fish Department says 4,020 hunting licenses are being made available for the fall wild turkey season, 125 fewer than last year.
• Upland game management supervisor Stan Kohn says the slight decrease is a result of four years of poor turkey production.
• Online and paper license applications will be available in mid-August. The deadline for hunters to apply is Sept. 4. Only resident hunters can apply for the first license lottery. Nonresidents can apply for any licenses that are available after the initial lottery.
• The season begins Oct. 12 and runs through next Jan. 5.
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Test results to stay in SD manslaughter trial
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A judge has denied a request by a Sioux Falls woman to keep blood-alcohol test results out of her second trial on a manslaughter charge.
• Thirty-one-year-old Tammy Kvasnicka (kay-VAYS'-nihk-uh) was convicted and sentenced two years ago for the July 2010 crash in which authorities say she drove the wrong way on Interstate 229 in Sioux Falls while drunk and hit an oncoming car, killing another person.
• The state Supreme Court overturned her conviction earlier this year. Kvasnicka faces a second trial this month. Defense lawyers on Thursday argued that her blood test results were improperly collected and should be thrown out. Prosecutors argued against it and Judge Robin Houwman sided with them.
• Authorities say the blood test results show Kvasnicka's blood-alcohol level was more than two times the legal limit.
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Sturgis draws police to I-90 in Wyo. and SD
• CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- State troopers from Wyoming and South Dakota have been stepping up patrols on Interstate 90 between Sturgis, S.D. and Sundance in response to the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
• State police agencies in both states say that officers made 24 arrests and issued (Continued on page 16)
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