• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The number of South Dakotans in nonfarm industries has grown very slightly since 2012.
• The Department of Labor and Regulation figures show that the number of wage and salaried workers in 2013 rose 1.4 percent in the state. Nationally the rate has gone up 1.7 percent.
• The South Dakota figures show more than three percent growth in retail trades and the leisure and hospitality industry.
• But the mining, logging and construction industry lost 3.6 percent of its workers in the state. That industry saw a slight increase nationally.
• The department views the figures as a sign that South Dakota is faring well in recovering from the recession.
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• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- An eighth-grader from Sturgis Williams Middle School has taken top honors at the 2014 South Dakota state-level Geographic Bee.
• Bridger Gordon receives $100 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to represent South Dakota in the national finals of the Bee at National Geographic Society headquarters on May 19-21.
• Gordon captured the state title Friday at Northern State University.
• Max Peters, a seventh grader from Patrick Henry Middle School in Sioux Falls, took second place. Tyler Neely, an eighth grader from O'Gorman Junior High School in Sioux Falls, took third place.
• Up to 100 fourth- to eighth-graders in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Atlantic and Pacific territories, and Department of Defense Dependents Schools took part in the state-level bees.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A federal jury has found a 43-year-old Belle Fourche (FOOSH) man guilty of federal sex trafficking.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson James Eugene Larive Jr. faces a mandatory minimum term of 10 years in federal prison after being found guilty on Friday.

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