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says. "Rick Weiland's ready if you are, and we promise they'll be hearing us all the way to D.C."
• In Rounds' 60-second spot, titled "Reacquainted," the Republican offers some biographical background before touting his experience as governor from 2003-2010, saying the state balanced its budget each year and kept taxes among the lowest in the nation.
• "With your help, we'll change Washington, D.C., cutting bureaucracy and making government live within its means, like we do here in South Dakota," he said. "Working together we can build a better future for ourselves and generations to come."
• Also seeking the GOP nomination are state Rep. Stace Nelson of Fulton, state Sen. Larry Rhoden of Union Center, Yankton attorney and soldier Jason Ravnsborg and Sioux Falls physician Annette Bosworth. Rounds is considered the front-runner for the seat, which provides a prime opportunity for Republicans needing a net gain of six seats to control the U.S. Senate.
• Former Republican U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler, who served two terms in the House followed by three Senate terms from 1975 to 1997, is running as an independent. In February, Pressler bought two 30-second local spots during the Oscars broadcast to remind South Dakota residents that he was the lone congressman to turn down a bribe in the real-life 1970s Abscam scandal, which was the focus of best picture nominee "American Hustle."
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined his counterparts in 18 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the use of a cross to memorialize veterans doesn't violate the First Amendment.
• A veterans group has asked the Supreme Court to overrule an order to remove a 43-foot war memorial cross from a San Diego mountaintop after it was found to violate the unconstitutional separation of church and state.
• The cross was erected in 1954. The American Civil Liberties Union and Jewish War Veterans sued the federal government in 2006 after the land on which the cross sits was transferred from the city to the federal government. A judge in December ordered the cross removed after years of legal wrangling, but the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association and the U.S. Department of Justice want the courts to allow the cross to remain.
• Jackley said in a statement that he and the other attorneys general have filed a

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