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Dakota Cash ticket sold in Sisseton worth $143,706
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Dakota Cash ticket sold in Sisseton is worth $143,706 in the latest drawing.
• South Dakota Lottery officials say the ticket matched all five numbers in Wednesday's drawing to win the jackpot. The odds of winning the top prize in Dakota Cash are about 1 in 324,000.
• Dakota Cash is played and won only in South Dakota. The jackpot starts again at $20,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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Organizers continue drive for SD minimum wage vote
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Organizers of a petition drive seeking a statewide vote on a measure that would raise South Dakota's minimum wage say they have collected about half the signatures they intend to gather.
• The South Dakota Democratic Party and some labor unions are seeking a statewide vote next year to raise the minimum wage from the current $7.25 an hour to $8.50 in January 2015. The measure would raise the minimum wage each year after that to account for inflation.
• KOTA-TV reports (http://bit.ly/GAONRq ) petition gatherers have been stationed at the county courthouse and U.S. Post Office in Rapid City.
• Organizers will need to get at least 15,855 valid petition signatures by Nov. 4 to put the issue on next year's ballot, but they are seeking 25,000 to make sure they have enough.
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SD court asked to reinstate firefighter lawsuit
• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls man who was injured in a car crash with a Chester volunteer firefighter speeding to a fire has asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to reinstate his lawsuit against the firefighter.
• A trial judge ruled that Areyman Gabriel could not sue Tim Bauman because the volunteer firefighter was immune from damages. South Dakota law grants good Samaritans immunity unless their conduct is willful, wanton and reckless, and the judge said speed alone could not constitute recklessness.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/171sXvD ) that Gabriel's lawyer asked the Supreme Court to decide how dangerously a good Samaritan should be allowed to drive on the way to an emergency. Bauman's lawyer asked the high court to rule that he cannot be sued.
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