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renovation.
• Higher Education Facilities Fund bonds will provide $5 million and the remaining $7 million will come from private donations.
• The increased project amount will need approval from the 2014 Legislature.
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SF woman pleads guilty in drunken driving crash
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Instead of being tried a second time on charges she drove drunk and killed a man, a Sioux Falls woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and vehicular battery.
• Thirty-year-old Tammy Kvasnicka (kay-VAYS'-nihk-uh) was sentenced earlier to serve 60 years in prison 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. It killed 27-year-old Michael Xayavong.
• The state Supreme Court overturned her conviction in March, saying it was improper for a police officer who testified during her trial to compare the force of the crash to more than 900 handguns being fire at once.
• Kvasnicka's new trial was scheduled to start Tuesday. Now she faces 37 1/2 years in prison when she's sentenced.
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Regents look to freeze tuition, fees for residents
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Board of Regents wants to freeze tuition and fees for on-campus resident students in its 2015 budget proposal.
• The regents' draft budget, approved Thursday during a meeting in Sioux Falls, would keep students' costs stable by increasing state funding to cover an expected $6 million that's due to inflation and a rise in the costs of salaries, benefits and health insurance claims.
• The original proposal sought a $4.6 million increase, but board members asked staff to allow for an expected 15 percent jump in state health insurance claim costs.
• Dean Krogman, the board's president, said the regents don't want to be in the position of having to later consider a tuition increase because it didn't plan for higher health costs.
• "What we have to hold true to is that freezing tuition," Krogman said.
• The proposal will go to Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who can make changes before he submits it to the Legislature.
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