• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Friends and family members of a Sioux Falls woman killed by a man who's been given the death penalty say justice has been served.
• Jurors Monday sentenced to death James McVay for killing 75-year-old hospice nurse Maybelle Schein in July 2011 as part of a plot to steal her car and drive to Washington, D.C., to assassinate the president.
• Schein's brother, Stan Fetters, says it was hard for family members to contain themselves in the courtroom when the verdict was read.
• Schein's friend Marge Anderson says the jury's decision should make the public feel safer. She also hopes people will remember Schein for the woman she was -- not as a woman who was brutally murdered.
• Public defender Traci Smith said McVay's characterization by the prosecution as monstrous was inaccurate.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Government officials in the Dakotas say they're ready for ranchers to start signing up for federal disaster aid to help them recover from an early October blizzard.
• Signup begins Tuesday for the Livestock Indemnity Program and also the Livestock Forage Disaster Program. Both were authorized in the new farm bill.
• South Dakota Farm Service Agency Executive Director Craig Schaunaman tells The Bismarck Tribune that he's got extra help on board and overtime authorized to get paperwork processed after the biggest livestock disaster in recent memory. An estimated 43,000 cattle and other livestock died.
• The blizzard also killed more than 1,000 cattle in North Dakota. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says in a statement that ranchers who need help applying for disaster aid can contact the North Dakota Mediation Service for assistance.
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• ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities plan to release test results and update the investigation into the 1971 disappearance of two girls near Alcester.

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