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• Gray Television Inc. and Excalibur Broadcasting LLC say they've reached a series of deals to acquire a total of 15 stations in seven markers from Hoak Media LLC and Parker Broadcasting Inc. for about $335 million in cash.
• South Dakota TV stations Gray is buying from Excalibur include KSFY in Sioux Falls, KABY in Aberdeen and KPRY in Pierre.
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South Dakota's unemployment rate holds at 3.7 pct.
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's labor department says the state's unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent from September to October during the partial federal government shutdown.
• The number of South Dakotans in the labor force also remained unchanged at 449,400 over the month but was 6,100 more than last October.
• The agency says that over the year, the seasonally adjusted nonfarm worker level increased by 4,500 workers. Most of those came in trade, transportation and utilities, followed by leisure and hospitality, then educational and health services, and finally industry.
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Early morning fire destroys barn near Pierre
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a pole barn east of Pierre and killed some pigs.
• Pierre Rural Fire Department Assistant Chief Sean Kruger tells KCCR radio that the fire was reported about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday and that the 7,800-square-foot barn was engulfed by the time firefighters arrived.
• The barn contained farm equipment, feed and pigs. Kruger tells KGFX radio that some of the pigs died. A damage estimate was not immediately available.
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No sentence change for SD horse abuse convict
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A judge has refused for now to modify the sentence of a western South Dakota woman convicted of mistreating horses.
• Terri Harwood is scheduled to begin serving a yearlong jail sentence on electronic monitoring later this month. Her attorney on Tuesday asked Magistrate Judge Shawn Pahlke to modify her sentence because her mother in Illinois is terminally ill.
• Prosecutor Patrick Grode said he was willing to consider a sentence change later after Harwood has spent some time on electronic monitoring and started to make restitution payments. Pahlke agreed.
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