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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Wild Card 2 ticket worth $6,001 in the latest drawing has been claimed by a Rapid City man.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched all five white ball numbers but missed the Wild Card to win the game's second prize in Wednesday's drawing. The ticket holder won another dollar on another play line.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot is at $455,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Officials say South Dakota's fourth grade and eighth grade scores for math and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam have remained steady over the years but there is room for improvement for younger readers.
• The tests, also known as "the nation's report card," are given every other year.
• South Dakota remains above the national average for reading and math at eighth grade. Fourth graders this year scored at the national average for math but slightly lower than the national average in reading.
• Education Secretary Melody Schopp says there is much to be proud of with the test scores. But she is concerned about the below-average scores for fourth-graders.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls voters will decide on a zoning issue related to a proposed super Wal-Mart on the city's south side.
• City Clerk Lorie Hogstad says petitioners have gathered enough valid signatures to put the matter on the April 8 ballot.
• Wal-Mart Stores Inc. challenged the petitions, claiming that more than 2,000 of 6,502 signatures were invalid. But Hogstad says the number of valid signatures exceeded the 5,089 required to bring the matter to voters.
• The opposition group Save Our Neighborhood circulated the petitions to refer a City Council decision to rezone 40 acres of land from agricultural use to commercial use to make way for the store.

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