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• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Memorial services have been scheduled for former South Dakota State University President Sherwood Berg, who died Sunday in Brookings at age 94.
• Eidsness Funeral Home says the service for Berg is 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church. Visitation is 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday at the McCrory Gardens Education and Visitor Center.
• Berg was born May 17, 1919, at Hendrum, Minn. He was president of SDSU from 1975-1984. The university credits him with "internationalizing" the campus, with programs set up in Syria, Botswana, Senegal and Mauritania, and the number of international students on campus growing.
• Berg also was an early proponent of the reciprocity program with Minnesota, and he oversaw the groundwork for the first endowed chair for the university, the Ethel Austin Martin-Edward Moss Martin Chair in Human Nutrition.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota legislative panel has killed a measure intended to expand Medicaid eligibility for all people below 100 percent of the federal poverty level.
• The House Health and Human Services committee has voted 9-3 to defeat the bill.
• It would have required the state's Department of Social Services to apply for a waiver from the federal government. Gov. Dennis Daugaard has already requested such a waiver.
• The department opposed the bill, saying that the state should first wait for a response to the governor's request. The department secretary says the waiver application process would be time-consuming and cumbersome.
• Supporters of the bill, including various medical associations, say it's important to provide health care for the people who don't qualify for Medicaid already and cannot afford insurance premiums.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The Rapid City Council has stripped the city's only

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