Thursday, July 10, 2014 • Vol. 16--No. 356 • 14 of 31

News from the

Gift shop crash near Mount Rushmore injures girl

• KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) -- A girl was taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a 12-year-old boy crashed his parents' sport utility vehicle into a gift shop at a tourist attraction near Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
• The Pennington County Sheriff's Office says the boy was sitting in the running SUV when he shifted gears and crashed into the Rushmore Tramway Adventures building about midday Wednesday. The 8-year-old girl was standing nearby and suffered cuts from flying window glass.
• Authorities do not plan to file any charges in the incident.
• Damage to the building is estimated at between $2,000 and $3,000.


Texas company proposes oil pipeline through Iowa

• DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A Texas company wants to run through Iowa a pipeline that would carry crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to Illinois.
• The Des Moines Register says (http://dmreg.co/1q1gIPe ) the underground route through Iowa would begin in Lyon County and slice southeast through 15 other counties and exit at Lee County.

• Energy Transfer Partners LP, of Dallas, is proposing the pipeline, which would carry at least 320,000 barrels of crude a day and end in Patoka, Illinois. Energy Transfer Partners says there would be railroad access from Patoka to several markets.
• The project faces Iowa regulatory reviews from the Utilities Board and the Department of Natural Resources. The company wants to begin operation of the pipeline by the end of 2016.


Indian land buy-back program extends to Montana

• HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. government has signed agreements to extend a land buy-back program to three Montana reservations.
• The agreements announced Wednesday between the Interior Department, and leaders from the Crow, Fort Belknap and Fort Peck reservations pave the way for

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