• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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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