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Most Endangered Historic Places on Monday. It includes sites from Virginia to Hawaii.
• Preservationists say a major slave-trading center in the one-time Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, is threatened by potential development of a minor league ballpark. The Shockoe Bottom area was home to Solomon Northup's jail, featured in the film "12 Years a Slave," and still contains underground artifacts.
• For the first time, the list includes two sites from the same city: Cincinnati's symbolic Art Deco Union Terminal and its Music Hall. Both sites need extensive repairs.

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The legal sale of fireworks in South Dakota begins Friday.
• The Department of Public Safety says state law allows the purchase and discharge of fireworks from June 27 until the Sunday after July 4. That means this year it's legal to discharge fireworks through July 6.
• Fire Marshal Paul Merriman says common sense goes a long way toward being safe during Fourth of July celebrations. Merriman is urging South Dakotans to follow the instructions on the fireworks they buy, avoid using them in places where a fire could start and keeping some water handy.
• The department says fireworks caused about 17,800 fires nationwide in 2011.
• Merriman says residents should also check local ordinances as some cities may have limits that are stricter than state law.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications from people interested in participating in a trade mission to Russia that will center on beef genetics.
• State agriculture officials are encouraging beef producers and industry representatives to apply by July 14. The trip is tentatively planned for October.
• Ty Eschenbaum with the state's Agriculture Department says this trip will demonstrate that the Northern Plains region is a top producer of high-quality beef genetics. Eschenbaum says Russian cattle breeders like the fact that cattle from the Northern Plains grow in a similar climate to their own.
• Funding for the trade mission will be provided by the nonprofit U.S. Livestock Genetics Export.
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