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Judge rules against SD teenager in 4-H scandal
• WHITE LAKE, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that a South Dakota teenager embroiled in a 4-H cheating scandal is not entitled to monetary damages in her case against two 4-H administrators.
• Bayley Kroupa was barred from participating in 4-H in 2011, when she was 16, after officials said she cheated in a State Fair competition by showing a pig different from one she showed at a county fair Her family denied cheating and sued for $850,000, saying she had been humiliated and denied due process.
• Judge Karen Schreier says the two 4-H officials couldn't have been expected to view their actions as depriving Kroupa of her constitutional rights.
• Schreier left intact a previously granted injunction allowing Kroupa to compete. The 18-year-old will be eligible to participate in 4-H until she's 19.
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Lawmakers say new defense bill helps protect SD
HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers say a comprehensive, nearly $633 billion defense bill that cleared the Senate on Thursday will protect South Dakota priorities, including the long-term future of Ellsworth Air Force Base.
• The Senate approved the defense policy bill late Thursday, a week after the House passed the same measure. It now goes to President Barack Obama.
• The bill deals with several policy issues that South Dakota's congressional members have worked on, including covering the costs of combat pay for members of the military, funding for equipment and efforts to stop the epidemic of military sexual assaults.
• All of South Dakota's delegation -- Sens. John Thune, a Republican, and Tim Johnson, a Democrat, as well as GOP Rep. Kristi Noem -- supported the sweeping legislation.
• Thune said the bill will have a broad impact on South Dakota because it has a large military and retired military population.
• "I've always described South Dakota as punching above its weight for military service," Thune said. "For a small state, we have a pretty big impact on military readiness."
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