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• Topsoil moisture supplies are rated 1 percent very short, 12 percent short, 83 percent adequate and 4 percent surplus.
• The week ending May 25 had 6.3 days suitable for fieldwork, which included mending fences, moving cattle to pasture, planting and applying herbicide treatments.

SD Parks booking Saturday for Labor Day weekend

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Campsite and cabin reservations for Labor Day weekend in South Dakota parks open Saturday.
• Reservations must last three nights because it is a holiday weekend.
• Those arriving on August 27 can make reservations May 29. For August 28 arrivals, reservations open May 30. And for stays that begin the Friday of Labor Day weekend, August 29, reservations open May 31.
• Most reservations open 90 days before the arrival date. Sites in Custer State Park open a year in advance.
• Reservations can be made online at www.CampSD.com or by phone.

Supreme Court to hear implied consent argument

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court plans to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the state's implied consent law for drunken driving enforcement.
• The law allows for blood to be drawn from motorists suspected of drunken driving without their permission or a warrant. The blood tests are used to determine the amount of alcohol in a driver's system.
• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year in a Missouri case that police must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken driving suspects.
• Judges in South Dakota have disagreed whether that ruling renders the state's law unconstitutional. State Supreme Court justices will now decide after hearing arguments Wednesday morning in Pierre.
• The case before the court is State of South Dakota vs. Shauna Fierro.

As tribal health care woes mount, feds get blame
MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press

• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Misdiagnosed illnesses, denied payments and a shortage of trained medical personnel in government-run clinics are wrecking the federal

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