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games," he said. "But when it comes down to it, it's really about access to facilities like this for youth to play in and be able to keep themselves in shape."
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Powerball ticket sold in Rapid City worth $10,004
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Powerball ticket sold in Rapid City is worth $10,004 in the latest drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball in the Saturday drawing to win the game's $10,000 third prize. The ticket buyer also won another $4 on another play line.
• The odds of winning $10,000 playing Powerball are 1 in about 649,000. The winner has about six months to claim the prize.
• Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot for the Wednesday drawing is $400 million.
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Pedestrian killed on highway in southern SD
• WHITE RIVER, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the cause of a crash that killed a pedestrian on U.S. Highway 83 in south central South Dakota.
• The Highway Patrol says 25-year-old Randy Larvie, of Yankton, died Sunday night when he came in contact with a pickup truck about a mile north of the town of White River.
• The two people in the truck were not hurt. Both were from Murray, Ky.
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Centers in the Dakotas getting large health grant
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The National Institutes of Health is giving multimillion-dollar grants to two centers in the Dakotas.
• The Children's Health Research Center at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls is getting $11.6 million over five years, and the University of North Dakota medical school in Grand Forks is getting $10.5 million over that time.
• The Children's Health Research Center is a nonprofit formed by Dakotas-based Sanford Health and the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Officials there are studying congenital defects and childhood diseases ranging from pediatric brain cancer to kidney disease.
• "This grant demonstrates NIH's commitment to the capable team of researchers in Sanford Children's Health Research Center as well as the overall organizational vision of Sanford to improve the health of children across the globe," said David Pearce, vice president and chief operating officer for Sanford Research.
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