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ban on gay marriage.
• Don Frankenfeld of Equality South Dakota says he hopes the decisions in Oklahoma and Utah lead to a challenge in South Dakota, but he has not heard of anyone planning to file such a lawsuit. Lawrence Novotny, chairman of the organization, says a challenge might come from same-sex couples married in other states who now live in South Dakota.
• State laws ban gay marriage and say South Dakota does not recognize same-sex marriages from other states. A 2006 state constitutional amendment says only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid.
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Prices, future markets on minds of SD corn growers
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota corn farmers produced a record crop last year, but prices and future markets will likely be on their minds during their annual convention Saturday.
• Corn Growers' executive director Lisa Richardson says high prices after the drought led to a huge decrease in exports, and ethanol companies aren't building new plants. The China market is ripe for expansion, but it hasn't been opened enough to have an effect.
• Richardson says farmers are wondering where the next billion or 2 billion bushels worth of demand is going to come from.
• Saturday's annual meeting at the Sioux Falls Convention Center will also include panels on nutrient management, conservation and sustainability.
• Corn, which was trading around $8.20 per bushel in June 2012, is currently trading at about $4.25 per bushel.
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SD chief justice says courts working on reform law
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The court system is expanding existing programs and starting new ones to treat more nonviolent offenders outside of prison as part of the overhaul of South Dakota's criminal justice system, state Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson said Wednesday.
• In his annual State of the Judiciary speech to the South Dakota Legislature, Gilbertson said the court system is expanding an existing program for drug and alcohol offenders and working to start pilot programs in the Selby and Sioux Falls areas to reduce probation violations with drug offenders.
• In addition, pilot courts to handle some military veterans charged with misde (Continued on page 13)
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