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Rapid City woman pleads guilty to child abuse
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City woman accused of leaving her young child in an apartment that caught fire has pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse.
• KOTA-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1a4f43S ) 38-year-old Angelita Elk Boy told a judge Tuesday that she was drunk when she left her 16-month-old child alone in their apartment in March.
• The stove was turned on and the apartment caught fire, but fire crews rescued the toddler.
• Her attorney says Elk Boy was too drunk at the time to remember all of the details. She also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and felony drunken driving charge.
• Elk Boy faces up to 20 years in prison when she's sentenced next month.
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2 to be inducted into SD Transportation Hall
• to be inducted into South Dakota Transportation Hall of Honor in September
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Transportation Hall of Honor plans to induct two new members in September.
• Long-time DOT employee Dennis Landguth of Rapid City will be honored Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Ramkota Inn in Rapid City.
• Former Union County and Minnehaha County Highway Superintendent Bob Meister, of Kalispell, Mont., will be honored Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Ramkota in Sioux Falls.
• Both banquets are hosted by the Transportation Hall of Honor Committee.
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Midwest, Plains economy should keep growing
• OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The economy should continue growing during the rest of 2013 in nine Midwest and Plains states but at a much slower pace than earlier this year, according to a monthly survey of business leaders that was released Tuesday.
• The survey's overall economic index remained in positive territory and rose to 53.8 in August from July's 53.5.
• "Our results point to positive growth for the final quarter of this year but at approximately half the rate of the first quarter. Both exports and farm income growth are down from earlier in the year," said Ernie Goss, the Creighton University economist who oversees the survey.
• Job growth is also likely to remain weak because manufacturers with ties to agriculture and international markets were cutting employment in August, Goss said. (Continued on page 24)
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