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• An early morning lightning strike Friday caused a fire at a saltwater disposal well near the North Dakotan oil patch town of Ross, state Health Department environmental geologist Kris Roberts told The Associated Press. No one was hurt but the site likely is destroyed.
• The weather promised to put a damper on the McQuade charity softball tournament over the weekend in Bismarck and neighboring Mandan. McQuade Distributing Co. bills the event as the largest nonprofit, one-weekend slowpitch softball tournament in the country. Last year, the event drew 454 teams from around the U.S. and Canada.
• Many areas in the Dakotas already have saturated soils from recent heavy rains that led to earlier flooding. The problem has been most acute in southeastern South Dakota, where floodwaters in recent weeks have damaged hundreds of homes.
• Canton homeowner Tara Ekle told the Argus Leader newspaper that water inundated her basement last week for the first time in the 18 years she has lived there. The family lost their furnace, washer, dryer, water heater, freezer, snowmobile, lawn mower, power tools and photographs to water damage, and doesn't have insurance to cover the loss.
• "I never had such a disaster in my life," Ekle said.
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Black Hills State names new men's hoops coach
• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- Black Hills State University has named Augustana College assistant coach Jeff Trumbauer as its next head men's basketball coach.
• Trumbauer has spent the past five seasons at Augustana. Before that he spent six years as head coach at Jamestown College.
• At Black Hills State he will replace Bradd Schafer, who resigned in May after eight seasons with the Yellow Jackets to become the head coach at Western State Colorado University.
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Rapid City civic center has preferred design
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The preferred design for an expansion of the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City involves a westward expansion of the facility's Barnett Arena and an attached parking garage.
• The $180 million design would expand arena seating from 9,400 to 19,000. The arena would be large enough to house an indoor football field. The multilevel parking garage would have room for 1,000 vehicles, though construction would eliminate (Continued on page 22)
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