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• The appeals panel ruled that the information is not exempt from disclosure because the department, not any retailer, generates the information. The judges said that the underlying data is obtained from third-party payment processors, not from individual retailers.
• The case has been remanded back to the district level.
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Farm bill would help ranchers' storm recovery
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A massive, five-year farm bill set for a floor vote in the U.S. House Wednesday contains help for South Dakota ranchers dealing with cattle losses from last October's early-season blizzard.
• Under the bipartisan compromise reached Monday, ranchers who lost livestock to natural disasters would be able to recoup some of their losses. The provision would be backdated to when the programs initially expired in 2011.
• The storm impacted more than 600 farmers and ranchers, some of whom lost more than half their herds.
• Passage would mark the first farm bill since a 2008 deal. That bill expired in 2012 but was extended until last September.
• Its passage is far from assured in the House, where conservatives have previously bucked party leadership on the issue.
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Farm bill would offer choice of safety net
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A massive farm bill set for a U.S. House floor vote Wednesday would allow growers to choose between two types of farm safety nets.
• South Dakota Corn Growers Association executive director Lisa Richardson says the bill's commodity title gives farmers the choice between a revenue based agriculture risk coverage program or a price loss coverage program.
• Richardson says growers will have to make their decisions right away, so there's going to have to be a significant amount of education on the benefits of each.
• The decision can be important for growers of crops such as corn, for which natural disasters such as floods and droughts can cause fluctuations in yields.
• Farm-state lawmakers have been working for more than two years to get a new five-year farm bill passed.
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Rapid City man sentenced for kidnapping and rape
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man has been sentenced to 40 years in (Continued on page 25)
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