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off the Akron-Spink exit along Interstate 29.
• The Union County Planning and Zoning committee recently held an informative meeting about rezoning the land.
• Union County Planning Director Dennis Henze says the facility would be easily accessible for the majority of farmers.
• The multimillion dollar project was approved for recommendation by the zoning board, and the project will be considered by the county commission.
• The co-op recently consolidated with Beresford Co-op.
Rapid City police look for casino robbery suspect
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City police say they're looking for a man who robbed a casino at gunpoint.
• Police spokeswoman Tarah Heupel says a man entered Toby's Casino on East North Street on Thursday night and demanded money from the clerk. He threatened the clerk with a handgun and left with cash.
• A witness reported that as the suspect left, he fell on the ice and snow, firing one shot from his gun.
• Officers stopped a male subject running away from the scene and arrested him on a warrant, but they determined he wasn't the robbery suspect.
AP News in Brief
Sloppy storm system snarls start of holiday travel period, leaves Midwest, New England on ice
• CHICAGO (AP) -- Those who got a jump on their holiday travels this year apparently got it right. Those who didn't may have to wait a bit.
• A large storm system moved into the Midwest on Friday for the start of one of the busiest travel periods of the year, but things didn't really get messy until Saturday, when it delivered a bit of everything -- freezing rain, snow, ice, flooding and even tornadoes -- to an area that stretched from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to eastern Canada.
• Those who took to the roads or skies before midday Saturday likely got where they wanted without a major hitch, but by midafternoon, roads had become slick in many places and flight cancellations and delays started to mount.
• The system's strange swirl of winter and spring-like conditions produced starkly different weather at times in areas separated by a couple hundred miles. While driv (Continued on page 20)
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