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lottery officials hoped, is boosting lotto sales.
• The South Dakota Lottery is within the state's Department of Revenue. Lottery revenue goes toward lottery administration costs, the state's General Fund and other state coffers.
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Women given 42 1/2 years for running over trooper
• CANTON, S.D. (AP) -- A 26-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to running over a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper while drunk has been sentenced to 42 1/2 years in prison.
• A Lincoln County judge sentenced Rachel Lee Coleman Friday for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and driving under the influence.
• Trooper Andrew Steen tried to pull Coleman over on Oct. 17, 2012, but she led authorities on a 20-minute chase. It ended in a parking when Steen got out of his vehicle to try and stop Coleman, but she accelerated and ran him over.
• Coleman was shot by other officers and arrested nearby.
• Steen suffered a broken ankle, a skull fracture and traumatic brain injury.
• Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. Craig Price says the patrol is satisfied with the outcome.
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Senate ads hitting television airwaves in SD
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Television ads for the lone Democratic candidate and the Republican front-runner for one of South Dakota's U.S. Senate seats are beginning to hit the airwaves.
• Rick Weliand, a Sioux Falls small business owner who once served as a staffer for former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, is unopposed on the Democratic side for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson. Former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds is considered the front-runner among the five Republicans vying for the GOP nomination. The primary is June 3.
• Weiland's 30-second ad, titled "Take it Back," features a montage of photos of state residents and video snippets of the Democratic candidate meeting people. The narrator says that if people are going to take back the country, it's going to start in various small towns in South Dakota with someone standing up to say America is supposed to be the land of big hopes and dreams, not big money.
• "So if you're tired of taking it in Virgil and Hot Springs, take it back," the narrator (Continued on page 20)
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