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• Matt Gill spent four summers interning in different state offices. He said the experiences provided him with insight and connections that brought him back to the Department of Education after he worked a few years as a teacher.
• Health Secretary Doneen Hollingsworth said interns in that department do much more than make coffee and copies. Every summer an intern studying the West Nile virus learns to determine the sex and species of mosquitoes, and others work in labs doing chemical and microbiology analyses.
• Some former interns from her agency have made their way into leadership positions in correctional health care.
• During an interview with one, Hollingswoth asked the intern where she wanted to end up in her career.
• "'I want to be sitting right there in your chair,'" Hollingsworth said the young woman told her. "You know what? She sure could be."
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department says the preliminary corn price is up 2 cents per bushel from last month.
• The South Dakota office of the National Agriculture Statistics Service says the May price is $4.21 per bushel.
• Preliminary winter wheat prices are up 36 cents to $7.09 a bushel. Spring wheat, at $7.02 a bushel, decreased 14 cents from April.
• The preliminary all sunflower price, at $20.80 per hundredweight, is up 80 cents from last month.
• The Ag Department says the price for soybeans, at $14.10 per bushel, is up 40 cents from April.
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• DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is calling on the U.S. Forest Service to better protect ranchers' grazing rights and to offer compensation to ranching families impacted by a 2013 wildfire.
• Heitkamp made the remarks at a roundtable discussion with the U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell in Dickinson on Friday.
• Heitkamp says fair grazing access is critical to the health of the grasslands and the livelihoods of ranchers. But she says U.S. Forest Service policies are making it difficult for ranchers to do their jobs.

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