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the state Legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.
• The agenda includes a workshop on "likeable leadership" for Democratic candidates and a luncheon with candidates for governor.
• A VIP reception and a dinner wrap up the day. The keynote speaker is U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana who is also a rancher and farmer.
• The event is named after the late U.S. Senator and Congressman George McGovern, who Crago called the "father of the state Democratic party."
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School of Mines starts work on new rec center
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Students at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology will have a new place to work out.
• The Rapid City university breaks ground Monday on the Stephen D. Newlin Family Student Wellness & Recreation Center.
• The school says alumnus Stephen Newlin donated $2 million toward the nearly $9 million project also funded with fee increases.
• Newlin is chairman, president and chief executive officer of PolyOne Corp. He graduated from the School of Mines in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
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South Dakota's Jackley wants 1971 evidence issued
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The 1971 disappearance of two South Dakota girls has been ruled an accident, so South Dakota's attorney general wants to unseal three court documents from the now-closed criminal investigation.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley said last week that Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson were killed when their Studebaker drove off a gravel road and landed in a creek. The 17-year-old Vermillion High School juniors were on their way to a party at a nearby gravel pit.
• His office filed a motion this week in Union County asking a judge to make public two search warrants and one affidavit supporting a search warrant from 2004 searches at the Alcester boyhood home of a man who was at one point charged with killing the girls.
• Authorities said at the time that David Lykken might have been involved in the disappearance of Miller and Jackson as well as three other unnamed people. Lykken is in prison serving an unrelated 227-year sentence for rape and kidnapping.
• In 2007, a Union County grand jury indicted Lykken on six murder counts in the (Continued on page 17)
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