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New NDSU men's hoops coach adds assistant
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- New North Dakota State University head men's basketball coach David Richman has added an assistant.
• Jayden Olson has been director of basketball operations the past two seasons under Nebraska head coach Tim Miles, a former NDSU head coach. Olson also spent two seasons with Miles at Colorado State, as director of basketball operations and video coordinator.
• Olson also is a former assistant coach at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. He played his college ball for Williston State and Dickinson State in North Dakota.
• Richman is taking over at NDSU for Saul Phillips, who left for Ohio after leading the Bison to the NCAA Tournament. He says current NDSU assistant coach Freddy Coleman and director of basketball operations Josh Vaughan will remain in their current roles for the Bison.
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Officials ready for ranchers seeking federal aid
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Ranchers in the Dakotas are starting to sign up for federal disaster aid to help them recover after an early October blizzard killed tens of thousands of animals, and government officials say they are ready.
• Tuesday is the first day ranchers can sign up for the Livestock Indemnity Program and the Livestock Forage Disaster Program. Both were authorized in the farm bill that was signed into law Feb. 7. Signup continues through next January.
• "We implemented these programs in record time and kept our commitment to begin sign-up today," federal Agriculture Secretary Vilsack said in a statement Tuesday. "To ensure enrollment goes as smoothly as possible, dedicated staff in over 2,000 Farm Service Agency offices across the country are doing everything necessary to help producers that have suffered through 2 1/2 difficult years with no assistance because these programs were awaiting congressional action."
• South Dakota FSA Executive Director Craig Schaunaman told The Bismarck Tribune that he has 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 in the state died.
• "It's the goal of the agency to shoot those checks back as quick as possibly," Schaunaman said. "These people have been patiently waiting."
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