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• Thirty-three-year-old Sara Jo Morrison pleaded guilty to stealing from a credit union in Eagle Butte while working as a teller there between October 2010 and January 2011.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Morrison also was ordered to pay $5,400 in restitution. She will be on supervised release for two years.
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• Man with 60 pounds of marijuana plead guilty
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Men from Minnesota and Wisconsin caught with two duffel bags of marijuana during a traffic stop in South Dakota have pleaded guilty to drug charges.
• The Rapid City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1kX84f3 ) that the state Attorney General's Office has negotiated plea agreements with 64-year-old Dennis Krivinchuk of Superior, Wisconsin, and 66-year-old Richard Ward, of Duluth, Minnesota.
• The deals call for minimal jail time, though a judge must agree. Krivinchuk could face up to five years in prison and Ward up to 15 years. They're to be sentenced on June 3.
• Authorities say the men had 60 pounds of marijuana and 150 grams of hashish when a Highway Patrol trooper stopped them on Interstate 90 near Rapid City last November.
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Hundreds of Dakotas ranchers apply for federal aid
BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- About one-third of the initial applications made to a federal aid program for disaster-stricken ranchers have come from the Dakotas, and most of the money given out so far has gone to South Dakota producers.
• South Dakota ranchers lost an estimated 43,000 cattle and other livestock in a blizzard last October that struck early and with surprising ferocity. More than 1,000 animals died in southwestern North Dakota.
• The Livestock Indemnity Program authorized by the new federal farm bill started taking applications April 15. As of May 1, there were 1,034 applications nationwide, with 326 from South Dakota and 32 from North Dakota, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. About $343,000 had been disbursed to ranchers across the country -- with 85 percent of the money going to South Dakota ranchers. The applications from North Dakota were still being processed.
• South Dakota Stockgrowers Association Executive Director Silvia Christen said she is glad ranchers are quickly taking advantage of the program but that "those (Continued on page 45)
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