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Sioux Falls resident crowned Miss South Dakota
• HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls resident has been crowned Miss South Dakota 2014.
• The 19-year-old Meridith Gould earned the title this weekend as well as a $500 scholarship. She is a sophomore at University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
• Fourteen young women participated in the contest. The first runner-up was Jade Possail of Brookings.
• Gould will represent South Dakota at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September. The pageant will be televised on ABC.
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SD woman sentenced for stealing IHS hospital drugs
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A woman accused of stealing prescription drugs from the Rosebud Indian Health Services Hospital has been sentenced to 18 months of probation.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 38-year-old Bonnie Levy will also have to pay a $200 fine and nearly $40 in restitution.
• Levy was indicted last year on one count of acquiring controlled substances by fraud and one count of theft in connection with health care. The Rosebud woman pleaded guilty to the former charge in March.
• Johnson's office says Levy became addicted to prescription drugs while she was working in Georgia in 2005. Authorities say she began working at the Rosebud hospital in March 2013 and used her position to obtain morphine and Benadryl for her own use.
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Summits call state to reach workers in, out of SD
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard held his last in a series of workforce summits this week, gathering ideas on what the state can do, if anything, to address a shortage of qualified workers.
• The Republican met with business and education leaders in Mitchell, Watertown, Brookings, Rapid City, Aberdeen and Sioux Falls between April and June.
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