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motor home has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 53-year-old David Wallace has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison. Wallace was also ordered to spend 3 years on supervised release and pay a $1,000 fine.
• The man from Newton Square, Pa., pleaded guilty in 2013 to a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
• Authorities say a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper spoke with Wallace and other occupants of a motor home in March 2013 when they stopped for fuel. The trooper became suspicious and with the help of a narcotics-detection dog found four jars of hashish oil weighing almost 1.5 pounds in the motor home.
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Woman gets 5 years for crash that killed child
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing an accident that killed a child.
• The U.S. attorney's office says 54-year-old Lavina Mackey earlier pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
• Prosecutors say she was driving while intoxicated on May 4, 2012, near Red Shirt Table on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, lost control of the vehicle and rolled it.
• One of the passengers was a 3-year-old boy who was not restrained. He was thrown from the vehicle and died from his injuries. His name is not included in court documents.
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Ag, rail officials talk delays with regulators
JAMES MacPHERSON
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Crude oil trains are not displacing grain shipments in the Dakotas and surrounding states, railroad officials assured North Dakota regulators Monday.
• Many farmers and some state officials believe the increased crude oil and freight shipments from North Dakota's booming oil patch were largely the cause of shipping delays, which have created big backlogs at grain elevators and added costs for agriculture shippers.
• But BNSF Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway officials told the North Dakota Public Service Commission during a meeting with representative from agriculture and transportation groups that brutal winter weather and bottlenecks in Chicago are to blame.
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