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bounds as North Dakota State clinched the Summit League title with an 82-54 blowout over South Dakota on Thursday night.
• North Dakota State (22-6, 11-2) never trailed, opening the game with a 24-3 run en route to a 36-15 advantage at the break, and then continued to pull away in the second half. The Bison needed just one win in their final two regular season games this week to cinch the regular-season conference title and earn a bye through quarterfinals of the Summit League tournament.
• Mike Felt also scored 15 points, TrayVonn Wright had 14 and Marshall Bjorklund 13 for North Dakota State, which shot 52 percent from the field and was 11 of 19 from 3-point range in its sixth straight win.
• Karim Rowson led South Dakota (12-16, 6-7) with 10 points and four rebounds.
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SD panel kills bill banning radar traffic cameras
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota representative said Thursday she was disappointed to watch her bill prohibiting certain traffic cameras die by a narrow margin in a Senate hearing.
• The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-3 Thursday to kill the bill, which would have kept local governments from using cameras with radar detectors to ticket drivers for speed and red-light violations.
• The bill had passed through the House earlier this month.
• "I thought I had it," Democrat Peggy Gibson of Huron said after the hearing.
• A court ruling in a 2006 case filed against Sioux Falls and the company that operated its one camera declared the use of the devices unconstitutional. No such cameras are currently used in the state.
• Gibson said devices with radars and cameras can issue tickets to the wrong person and violate the constitutional right to due process because they are difficult to contest.
• But opponents said the language in the bill was unclear. One opponent said local governments should decide whether to use the devices, not the state.
• Such traffic cameras have prompted lawsuits in numerous other states, including in Minnesota, where the state Supreme Court ruled the cameras unconstitutional in 2007.
• Gibson said the camera system made red-light violations a civil penalty, causing a disparity in laws across the state because other communities treat those violations when issued by a police officer as criminal charges.
• Gibson also said the cameras don't improve safety.
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