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store locations, and then working 12 to 15 hours per day for four or five days to open up a new store.
• The assistant managers would stay in hotel rooms overnight and were not paid overtime, the lawsuit contends.
• "The defendant utilized assistant store managers to perform this work as a way to reduce labor costs associated with the grand opening of a new store location," the lawsuit said.
• According to its website, the chain grew out of a single Dunham's Bait and Tackle shop that opened in 1937 in Waterford, Michigan. The company now has stores in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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• WWII veteran in SD gets medals 70 years later
• SCOTLAND, S.D. (AP) -- A World War II veteran in the South Dakota town of Scotland has been recognized for valor in combat, nearly 70 years after his service.
• Delmar Strunk, 92, was awarded several medals on Wednesday, including the Bronze Star, one of the military's highest honors. Several military and political dignitaries were on hand for the ceremony at Scotland City Hall.
• Strunk served in the war from October 1943 to April 1945. His service included a four-month mission behind enemy lines in the Burmese jungle to attack Japanese bases and supply routes. Only about 200 of the 3,000 members of the unit known as Merrill's Marauders survived.
• "There's a reason a guy can make it through," Strunk said. "I always thought of my God. I never quit believing in my God. That's what everybody should do."
• After the war, Strunk's personnel records were lost, and he never received the medals that he was due. Military historian and author Jon Hittle later discovered Strunk's involvement in the war and enlisted U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to help secure the medals for Strunk.