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• "Now we'll actually have 10," Gackle said.
• Steve Willard, the superintendent at Belle Fourche Public Schools in South Dakota, said freeing up Fridays allows teachers more development time, gives struggling students more time to get specialized attention and mitigates how much school time student athletes have to sacrifice.
• About a quarter of schools in South Dakota, including Belle Fourche who switched in 2003, run on a four-day school schedule.
• Data from South Dakota's Department of Public Education shows that about 40 schools -- or 26 percent -- run on four-day weeks. Brenden said they found there are about 120 nationwide.
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Weiland says graduates should get help with loans
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland says college students graduating with student loans carrying higher interest rates should get some relief.
• Weiland said Wednesday that he's supporting Sen. Elizabeth Warren's emergency loan refinancing act, which will allow people to refinance loans with rates of 5 percent and 6 percent down to 3.86 percent.
• The lone Democrat in the crowded race for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson says that loans are used to pay for technical schools, not just colleges and universities. He says three-quarters of South Dakota graduates leave school with some debt.
• Weiland says South Dakota's young people would benefit tremendously from Warren's legislation as they struggle to begin their careers.
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SD man charged for threatening to shoot school
• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- Police in southeast South Dakota say a Yankton man has been charged for threatening to shoot up a school in a message on Twitter.
• Yankton Police Chief Brian Paulsen says 23-year-old Travis Potts has been charged with two counts of making terroristic threats.
• A caller notified the Yankton County Sheriff's Office about the tweet Wednesday. Paulsen says the tweet stated that Potts intended to "shoot up" a school.
• Paulsen says active shooter protocols were put in place and officers were sent to every school in the Yankton School District.
• Potts was arrested before noon. Officers are searching his home.
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