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cluded: big game tag transfers, chasing big game with motor vehicles, shooting at big game from motor vehicles, hunting without licenses, failing to tag big game animals, improper use of radios to hunt big game, taking over limits of game and wanton waste of game.
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SD delegation reaction mixed to president's change
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson says he welcomes President Barack Obama's announcement allowing insurance companies to renew for another year policies that otherwise would be canceled because they don't comply with the new health care law.
• Johnson says the health care law has had a rocky start, but it will eventually give South Dakotans and millions of Americans affordable health care coverage.
• Republican Rep. Kristi Noem says she's glad Obama recognized the Affordable Care Act is hurting people by canceling their old insurance policies. But she says the problem should be fixed by legislation that provides more certainty than a policy switch by the president.
• Noem says she still believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed and replaced with something better.
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New SD prison warden says all rules up for review
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The new warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary said he's learned over his career to constantly question why things are done.
• Darin Young spent 21 years with the prison system before taking the top job for just under two years at the Minnehaha County Jail. Learning a new system from top to bottom before returning to the prison allowed him to get into the habit of questioning everything, he said.
• "Even if it was a procedure or a rule that I wrote myself 10 years ago, everything is up for review," Young said Thursday in his first extended interview since taking the top job. "Because it may have been a good idea 10 years ago, but is it still a good idea today and is it the best way of doing business."
• Young replaced Doug Weber, who retired from the position of director of prison operations and chief warden in June. He reports to Mike Durfee State Prison Warden Bob Dooley, who assumed the director of prison operations and chief warden duties upon Weber's retirement.
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