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day as authorities searched for an arson suspect who was arrested across the border in Iowa a short time later.
• Elk Point-Jefferson School was put on lockdown as a precaution after someone set fire to an Elk Point house Wednesday morning. Police said the suspect has family ties to students at the school. Students were not under any immediate danger and classes were held as normal, said Police Chief Ryan Fleek and Superintendent Brian Shanks.
• The lockdown order came at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday and ended around 10:30 a.m.
• Scott Allen Hughes, 32, of rural Elk Point, was arrested in Akron, Iowa, about 15 miles northeast of Elk Point, and was awaiting extradition back to Union County, according to a news release from the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office in Iowa.
• The release said South Dakota authorities were chasing Hughes, and officers in Iowa were put on guard to see if the suspect entered that state. After South Dakota officers discontinued their pursuit, the suspect was seen entering Iowa.
• The vehicle later entered a cornfield south of Westfield, Iowa, and deputies did not chase it, according to the news release. A short time later, deputies noticed a fire in the field and found the burning vehicle the suspect was driving.
• Hughes was charged with misdemeanor eluding and an unrelated charge of criminal mischief fourth degree, a misdemeanor.
• Fleek said Elk Point police and the South Dakota Highway Patrol were at the school as protection.
• Elk Point is about 60 miles south of Sioux Falls on Interstate 29.
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SD panel releases report on expanding Medicaid
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota task force says expanding Medicaid in the state would improve access to preventative care and lower mortality rates, but it would also overload doctors and nurses and limit the state's flexibility in expanding health coverage.
• The 29-member Medicaid Opportunities and Challenges Task Force, appointed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard to investigate the pros and cons of expanding Medicaid in the state, issued its final report this week.
• Under the Affordable Health Care Act, the federal government will cover the entire cost of a state's new Medicaid enrollees from 2014 through 2016 before the federal share begins to gradually drop to 90 percent.
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