Man gets 10 years for stomping on another's head
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A McLaughlin man was sentenced to just over 10 years in federal prison for stomping a man on the head and face with his feet.
• The U.S. Attorney's Office says 21-year-old Ross Dean Farrell earlier pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit murder.
• Prosecutors say that last October he was socializing with the victim and others at his home. At some point that evening, the victim went to sleep on a mattress on the floor. Farrell was mad about something the victim or someone else said and pulled the man off the mattress onto the concrete floor and attacked him.
• The victim suffered major injuries, including severe head trauma that required surgeries and also had to be placed in a medically induced coma.
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Winter wheat coverage deadline approaching in SD
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- The deadline to purchase or change winter wheat coverage in South Dakota is Sept. 30.
• SDSU Extension Risk and Business Management Specialist Matthew Diersen says more than 90 percent of South Dakota's wheat acres were covered by revenue protection during the 2013 crop year.
• Diersen says the main choice for growers this time of year is often related to the yield election level.
• Volatility in the futures price has been lower this year than its five-year average. He says that will lower premium rates for 2014, so growers should consider increasing the coverage percentage.
• Growers have until Oct. 15 to plant winter wheat with full insurance coverage.
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Hydroelectric power makes big comeback at US dams
• DAVID PITT, Associated Press
• DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- On a typical summer weekend, hundreds of boats glide across the shimmering surface of Iowa's Lake Red Rock, the state's largest body of water.
• The placid 15,000-acre lake was created in the 1960s after the government built a dam to prevent frequent flooding on the Des Moines River. Now the cool waters (Continued on page 17)
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