Rapid City police chief to retire at end of May
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City's police chief is calling it a career after three decades in law enforcement.
• Steve Allender says he will retire at the end of May. The 52-year-old Belle Fourche native began his career 29 years ago with the force in that city, spending two years there before moving on to the Rapid City Police Department in 1985. He was named chief in 2007.
• Allender says the low point in his career came three years ago, when two of his officers were shot and killed and third was injured in a confrontation with a suspect who also died in the exchange of gunfire.
• Allender says he feels the time is right to retire. He has no specific plans but looks forward to spending more time with his family.
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Corn and soybean stocks up in South Dakota
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Corn and soybean stocks are up in South Dakota.
• The Agriculture Department in a report this week says that soybean on-farm and off-farm stocks in the state on March 1 were up 19 percent over the year and corn stocks were up 52 percent.
• Wheat stocks were down 25 percent. Oat stocks were up 52 percent and barley stocks up 110 percent.
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Failed beef plant purchased by Calif. company
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A San Francisco company has finalized purchase of the failed Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen.
• White Oak Global Advisors bought Northern Beef and its assets on Tuesday. A bankruptcy judge earlier declared that the deal had to be finalized by April 4.
• Northern Beef filed for bankruptcy because it lacked money to buy cattle for slaughter. The ownership change frees the facility from its bankruptcy proceedings.
• In a statement, White Oak says it is evaluating options but "remains confident in the facility's future as an operating plant."
• White Oak was previously the top bidder on the plant. It submitted a cash and credit bid of $44.35 million in December.
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