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• State law would require only a 1.6 percent inflationary increase for school aid.
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Wild Card 2 ticket sold in Sisseton worth $6,000
• SISSETON, S.D. (AP) -- A Wild Card 2 ticket sold in the northeastern South Dakota city of Sisseton is worth $6,000 in Saturday's drawing.
• The ticket matched all five white ball numbers but missed the Wild Card to win the game's second prize. The odds of winning it are 1 in about 127,000.
• South Dakota lottery officials say no one won the jackpot, so it grows to $225,000 for the Wednesday drawing.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho.
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172 ND bow hunt licenses available to nonresidents
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's Game and Fish Department is making 172 any-deer bow hunting licenses available to nonresidents this year.
• March 1 is the deadline to apply. A lottery will be held if more applications are received than there are licenses available. Any remaining licenses after March 1 will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis.
• The number of nonresident any-deer bow licenses is 15 percent of the previous year's mule deer gun license allocation. Game and Fish issued 1,150 antlered mule deer licenses in the 2013 deer gun lottery
• This year's bow season opens at noon on Aug. 29 and runs through next Jan. 4. More information is available on the Game and Fish website, at http://www.gf.nd.gov .
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SD Legislature to debate Common Core standards
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- State Education Secretary Melody Schopp expects to spend much of the upcoming South Dakota legislative session defending the Common Core standards that establish what students should know in math and English at each grade level.
• She's ready for the battle.
• "Were' going to stay firm, and hopefully the message will be clear that it's the right thing for South Dakota," Schopp said.
• School districts this year began implementing the standards, adopted by 45 states, but those guidelines are coming under increasing attacks from some lawmakers and others who argue they take away too much local control of schools.
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