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tims of the scam to contact the South Dakota Consumer Protection Division 1-800-300-1986. People should contact their financial institutions if they've given out their personal information to suspicious rob callers.

University of Sioux Falls to present new AD

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The University of Sioux Falls is set to present its new athletic director.
• University President Mark Benedetto will introduce the director at a public event Friday following a two-month search.
• USF is an NCAA Division II school and a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Students compete in 15 different sports.
• The school's former athletic director Kevin Hesser resigned in January to take a private sector job in his home state of Nebraska. Associate athletic director Pam Gohl has since served as interim AD.

Exhibit examines SD's environmental history

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota State Historical Society is getting set to debut a new exhibit on South Dakota's environmental history.
• "South Dakota Environments: A Window to Past Times" opens Saturday, April 5, in the Observation Gallery of the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.
• Museum director Jay Smith says the exhibit features four epochs of environmental history about the land that eventually became South Dakota. Visitors can explore Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Pleistocene and Holocene epochs and witness animals found on the land.
• Displays will feature a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Short-Face Bear and a massive representation of a mammoth.
• The exhibit also demonstrates how the location of the land that became South Dakota has shifted along with what became the North American continent over time.

SD Capitol glass repairs on track, 'fascinating'
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Barbara Johnson could not wait until June for the return of the stained glass to South Dakota's Capitol rotunda skylight.
• So the scholar of stained glass windows, who has received state grants to study them, visited the skylights at the Wisconsin studio where they have been taken to be cleaned and repaired.

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