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ployees.
• The board approved the plan over objections by some members who complained there wasn't enough discussion on the idea and wondered whether the agreement would give a private business a competitive advantage.
• Sanford Bismarck president Craig Lambrecht says Sanford hires 1,000 nurses a year and has "triple digit openings" for nurses.
• Sanford Health is based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Augustana College has named Sioux Falls Roosevelt High School activities director Slade Larscheid as its new athletic director.
• The Spearfish native will succeed Bill Gross, who stepped down after 28 years at the helm to take an administrative position with the college's Advancement Office.
• Larscheid was one of three finalists. The others were University of Arkansas-Fort Smith athletic director Dustin Smith and University of South Dakota associate athletic director Jon Schemmel.
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• DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- A Wild Card 2 ticket sold in Deadwood is worth $6,000 in the latest drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched all five white ball numbers but missed the Wild Card to win the game's second prize in Wednesday's drawing. The odds of doing so are 1 in about 127,000.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot sits at $420,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to know within months whether dredging Lewis and Clark Lake on the Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota would be worth the cost.
• The Lewis and Clark Sediment Management Study should wrap up this summer, complete with dredging cost estimates, corps hydraulic engineer and project manager Paul Boyd said this week during a public meeting in Springfield.
• "We have the technology and the wherewithal to dredge it," Boyd said. "But we all know that it's going to be really expensive.

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