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scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Pierre on charges she violated election laws.
• A Hughes County grand jury indicted the Sioux Falls physician last week on multiple counts of perjury and filing false documents.
• Authorities say she fraudulently attested to gathering voter signatures when she was really on a Christian mission trip to the Philippines.
• Bosworth lost the June 3 Republican primary with 6 percent of the vote.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley filed charges against her the next day and the 42-year-old turned herself in to the Minnehaha County Jail.
• She was released and then held a news conference during which she called the charges "political persecution."
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SD archery complex earning international cred
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota city with fewer than 15,000 residents is continuing to establish itself as an international archery powerhouse.
• Yankton, a Missouri River community in the state's southeast corner, recently beat out Mexico City (population 8.8 million) in its bid to host the 2015 World Youth Championships. The weeklong event next June will draw some 600 competitors from more than 60 countries to the National Field Archery Association center.
• Like many of the archery centers popping up around the U.S., the NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Complex is riding a wave of popularity boosted by a string of bow-friendly Hollywood movies. USA Archery has seen a flood of kids picking up bows and arrows looking to emulate their heroes from the "The Hunger Games," ''Brave," ''The Avengers" and "The Lord of the Rings" series.
• "We've had some really good shots in the arm there, which is just great exposure," said Bruce Cull, the association's president and manager of the Yankton complex.
• Individual memberships to USA Archery, the sport's governing body in the country, have jumped from about 4,700 in 2011 to nearly 13,000 as of May 31. And participation at national events has nearly doubled from just shy of 2,400 in 2011 to more than 4,400 in 2013, and USA Archery expects the trend to continue when this year's numbers are finalized.
• Olympic medalist Khatuna Lorig, who is training in Chula Vista, California, for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro summer games, said archery is a terrific family activity.
• "They can shoot and have fun without breaking bones," she said. "It's a safe sport, and it gives you mental strength, it gives you physical strength and keeps you in shape."
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