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They heat a liquid solution, creating vapor that users inhale to get nicotine without the smoke of regular cigarettes. The bill would treat e-cigarettes as tobacco products, prohibiting sale to minors.
• One opponent of the measure says nicotine is similar to caffeine and the bill is a governmental overreach.
• Supporters say the state has spent a lot of money discouraging nicotine use among young people. They say this bill could encourage addiction and the smoking of tobacco products.
• The measure passed the Senate about two weeks ago. It will go next to Gov. Dennis Daugaard for final review.
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• MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana man has pleaded guilty to three federal charges for taking millions of dollars in down payments from customers to build steel buildings and instead using the money for his personal benefit.
• Jonathan Lee Oliver of Missoula solicited payments of nearly $7.9 million mostly from residents of Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota between October 2010 and December 2011 to build steel buildings, but he completed only one building, the U.S. attorney's office in Montana said.
• The payments he received from customers ranged from $90,000 to $993,000, according to court records.
• Prosecutors alleged Oliver used nearly $686,000 to buy three new vehicles, a 42-foot motorhome, a house, two personal watercraft and an engagement ring. He also was charged with making 17 withdrawals from his account in amounts just under the $10,000 threshold at which banks are required to file a federal report.
• Oliver, 41, pleaded guilty Feb. 25 to wire fraud, money laundering and structuring. He had been indicted on 96 counts of wire fraud, seven counts of money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and 17 counts of structuring. He also faces forfeiture of any property bought with the proceeds of his scheme.
• Sentencing is set for June 20.
• Oliver also was being sought for violating his probation in an Oregon case when he was arrested Dec. 21, 2011, after a brief chase in North Dakota. The next day, North Dakota's attorney general issued a cease and desist order against Oliver's company, Western Steel Structures Inc., for violations of North Dakota's consumer fraud law. Western Steel Structures had addresses in Missoula and in Salem, Ore.
• The cease and desist order alleged Oliver filed for a contractor's license in North

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