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flights Friday due to foul weather in Texas. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines canceled almost 90 flights.
• Temperatures are forecast to stay below freezing after the rain passes, meaning residents will have to contend with icy roads through the weekend.
• WASHINGTON
• The National Weather Service says the cold snap has brought the coldest temperatures in three years to western Washington.
• Organizers canceled Saturday's holiday parade in Walla Walla, saying they didn't want to expose the expected 5,000 spectators to temperatures forecast to be no warmer than 11 degrees.
• The temperature Thursday at Pullman's airport was a record-breaking minus-3.
• WYOMING
• Laramie postponed its Friday night downtown holiday parade and tree lighting because temperatures could drop as low as minus-15.
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Measure to raise minimum wage set for 2014 ballot
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A measure to raise the state minimum wage will be on the 2014 general election ballot as Initiated Measure 18.
• Secretary of State Jason Gant says that based on a validation of a sample of signatures, the group sponsoring the measure submitted nearly 21,000 valid signatures. That's well over the 15,855 needed.
• The measure, which is supported by South Dakota Democrats and labor unions, would raise the minimum wage from the current federally set $7.25 to $8.50 an hour and increase the $2.13 hourly tip wage to half the minimum wage. It would also tie future increases to the cost of living.
• Supporters say about 62,000 South Dakotans would get a raise if it passes.
• Opponents worry about the cost to businesses.
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NCAA to award Billy Mills with highest honor
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The NCAA will honor Pine Ridge native and Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills next month with its highest honor.
• The Theodore Roosevelt Award is named after the former president, whose concern for the conduct of college athletics led to the formation of the NCAA in 1906.
• It's given annually to an individual "for whom competitive athletics in college and attention to physical well-being thereafter have been important factors in a distin (Continued on page 21)
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