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get built."
• Her company is building a 6-megawatt plant at a dam on Mahoning Creek in western Pennsylvania after buying the permit from another company in August. It will supply enough power for 1,800 homes.
• An environmental group that has sought since 1973 to minimize harm from hydropower dams largely supports the idea of adding generators to existing dams.
• "Some dams need to be removed, but there are also many working dams out there that are still serving a useful purpose for society," said John Seebach, who leads the effort for Washington-based American Rivers.
• In general, he said, rivers would be better off without dams. But since they aren't going away, "powering those existing dams is in our view the best way to get new hydropower capacity. It's cheaper than building new dams, and it's much less likely to cause additional harm to a river."
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Body found in Black Hills that of Custer woman
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A decomposed body was found last month in the Black Hills was that of a Custer woman who disappeared a week earlier, authorities said Wednesday.
• Meshell Will, 38, was last seen Aug. 24, Rapid City and Pennington County authorities said.
• Someone taking photos Aug. 31 along Iron Mountain Road near Mount Rushmore discovered the body.
• Her identification was confirmed through fingerprints. Autopsy results are still not back, so the cause of death has not been released.
• Investigators encouraged anyone who may have seen Wills around the time she disappeared to call 605-394-6115 or 605-394-4134. Anonymous tips can also be sent by texting 'RCPD' and the information to 847411.
• She was wearing a T-shirt and capri-style sweatpants.
• Iron Mountain Road is known for its wooden "pigtail" bridges and one-lane tunnels that frame Mount Rushmore. The body was found between the higher and lower part of the road at mile post 54.
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1st SD woman who was county, circuit judge dies
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The first woman to serve as a county judge and circuit court judge in South Dakota has died.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the Hon. Mildred Ramynke, of Peever, died Satur (Continued on page 20)
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