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kota, Minnesota, Iowa and eastern Montana.
• As with planting and harvesting assistance, farmers must have suffered a major injury, illness or natural disaster to qualify for haying help. And Farm Rescue doesn't hand out cash -- it brings volunteers to a farm to do the actual physical labor.
• CEO and President Bill Gross says the haying assistance is possible because RDO Equipment Co. is supplying a tractor and baler. RDO Executive Vice President Keith Kreps says it's a way to help more farmers.
• Farm Rescue has helped more than 250 farm families since its inception in 2006.
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SD lawmakers consider bill to repeal death penalty
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota legislative panel is considering whether the death penalty should be repealed in the state.
• The measure would ban the death penalty in all future criminal cases, but it would leave in place the death sentences of three convicted murders currently on South Dakota's death row.
• Supporters of the death penalty argue it is an appropriate penalty for the most vile crimes and deters others from committing murder.
• Opponents of the death penalty contend it does not deter others from committing horrible crimes, save money or improve public safety.
• The House State Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the bill Friday.
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Thursday's Scores
The Associated Press
• Boys Basketball
• Aberdeen Christian 67, Warner 66, OT
• Bison 61, Lemmon 52
• Chadron, Neb. 53, Red Cloud 48
• Douglas 61, Spearfish 53
• Faulkton 59, Edmunds Central 20
• Flandreau 82, Howard 39
• Hamlin 43, Deuel 37
• Hanson 60, Corsica/Stickney 40
• Irene-Wakonda 68, Bridgewater-Emery 41
• Kimball/White Lake 73, Andes Central 63
• Leola/Frederick 72, Eureka/Bowdle 55
• Madison 65, Vermillion 59
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