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prohibit players from entering casinos based on cheating or other misconduct. But officials say it's been difficult to enforce those bans because there is no penalty for banned players who re-enter casinos.
• The law signed by the governor will make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for anyone to enter a Deadwood casino after being placed on the list of people excluded from those establishments. The maximum penalty for violating a ban would be one year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
• The law will take effect July 1.
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Wednesday's Scores
The Associated Press
• Boys Basketball
• St. Francis Indian 94, Lower Brule 62
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Report: Keystone contractor followed federal rules
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A consulting firm that helped write an environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline complied with federal rules regarding possible conflict of interest, the State Department's inspector general said Wednesday in a report that buoyed supporters of the controversial pipeline and disappointed critics.
• The report said the contractor, Environmental Resources Management, fully disclosed that some staff members who worked on the State Department report had previously done work with the pipeline operator, Calgary-based TransCanada. None of the work for TransCanada involved Keystone XL, and all of it occurred before the staff members began work at ERM, the report said.
• The State Department followed federal guidelines regarding use of outside contractors, the report said, "and at times was more rigorous than that guidance."
• Still, the report said the State Department's process for hiring outside contractors can be improved, adding that requirements for documenting how contractors are selected were "minimal."
• London-based ERM largely wrote the State Department's Jan. 31 environmental report on the $5.3 billion pipeline, which would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada through the U.S. heartland to the Texas Gulf Coast. The report raised no major environmental objections to the pipeline and was seen as a major victory for pipeline supporters.
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