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• "How can we in any way possibly say there's not going to be a shortage if we have a shortage now," Bowman said.
• Hospital officials said they have already pledged they will be able to care for the additional patients, but officials said dentists and mental health providers will have trouble caring for the added Medicaid patients.
• The report also said even though the federal government would pay most of the cost of expanding Medicaid, additional state tax dollars would also be needed.
• But Sen. Billie Sutton, D-Burke, said South Dakotans will pay federal income taxes to support the national health care overhaul even if the state does not expand Medicaid.
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Godless SD billboards reach out to non-theistic
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A national effort to reach out to atheists and agnostics is showing up on some South Dakota billboards.
• The South Dakota Coalition of Reason says it's a group of seven non-theistic groups that used funding from its national organization and an anonymous donor to put up the billboards.
• They're located in Brookings, Vermillion, Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Spearfish and will be up until Sept. 15.
• The group says the campaign is part of a nationwide program started in 2009 that has spread to 33 other states and the District of Columbia.
• The national group's director says the goal is let humanists, atheists and agnostics know they're not alone.
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4 crew names released from B-1B bomber crash
• ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AP) -- The Air Force has released the names of the four South Dakota crew members who safely ejected from a B-1B bomber that crashed in Montana.
• Maj. Frank Biancardi II and Capt. Curtis Michael were the instructor pilots on board. Capt. Chad Nishizuka and Capt. Brandon Packard were weapons system instructors.
• Their hometowns were not released.
• All four suffered injuries and are being treated or already have been released.
• Investigators are trying to determine the cause of Monday's crash near Broadus, Mont., about 170 miles southeast of Billings, Mont.
• The bomber and crew were part of the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force (Continued on page 18)
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