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US rig count up 7 to 1,771
• HOUSTON (AP) -- Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by seven this week to 1,771.
• The Houston firm said in its weekly report Friday that 1,425 rigs were exploring for oil and 342 for gas. Four were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago there were 1,761 active rigs.
• Of the major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas gained six rigs, Alaska gained three and Pennsylvania gained one.
• Louisiana, New Mexico and North Dakota each lost two rigs while Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma each lost one. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming were unchanged.
• The U.S. rig count peaked at 4,530 in 1981 and bottomed at 488 in 1999.
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4G LTE network to cover Crow Creek reservation
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A new wireless broadband service will soon cover the Crow Creek reservation.
• The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe on Friday announced that Native American Telecom will operate a 4G LTE service in the reservation in central South Dakota.
• Crow Creek Chairman Brandon Sazue says the move is a "historic" step in the tribe's embrace of new technology. Sazue says people living in the reservation often find themselves without access to various basic necessities that people in the rest of the country take for granted including communications services.
• Native American Telecom is a tribally-owned telecommunications company. It provides fixed broadband and telephone service to more than 150 customers in the Fort Thompson community on the Crow Creek reservation.
• The 400-square-mile reservation is located about 26 miles northwest of Chamberlain.
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SD panel declines study of Common Core
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota House Education Committee has killed a bill to study the economic impact of the controversial Common Core standards.
• Committee members voted 8-5 against the bill.
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