Minimum-security inmate missing in Sioux Falls
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are searching for a state prison inmate missing in Sioux Falls.
• State corrections officials say 43-year-old Geoffrey Peterson went to his work release job Monday and failed to return to a minimum-security unit at the State Penitentiary.
• Peterson is serving five years behind bars for a fifth-offense drunken driving conviction in Minnehaha County.
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SD supplants ND as top sunflower-producing state
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- South Dakota sunflower farmers last year rebounded from crippling drought in 2012, while their counterparts in North Dakota struggled through a wet spring planting season and a late harvest.
• The end result is that South Dakota has supplanted North Dakota as the nation's top sunflower producer for only the second time in recorded history.
• The Agriculture Department says 2013 sunflower production in North Dakota was down 58 percent over the year to about 608 million pounds, while South Dakota production rose 12 percent to about 997 million pounds.
• The government started compiling sunflower data for the Dakotas in 1977. Until last year, the only year in which South Dakota's production topped North Dakota's was 2011, when North Dakota was hit hard by flooding.
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Winter weather impacting travelers in the Dakotas
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Strong winds and snow are making travel difficult in parts of the Dakotas.
• The National Weather Service is cautioning residents about blowing snow in central and eastern North Dakota that's reducing visibilities to a half mile or less. Parts of South Dakota are getting even worse weather.
• A winter storm warning is in effect for the central and northern Black Hills. Forecasters say two-day snow totals could reach a foot in some areas. Much of the rest of South Dakota is dealing with strong winds and blowing snow.
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