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bec, that killed 47 people.
• Railroads that fail to comply with the order are subject to a $175,000 fine per day and are prohibited from hauling oil from the Bakken region until they do so.
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Sioux Falls Skyforce coach lands NBA assistant job
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls Skyforce head coach Pat Delany is moving on to the NBA.
• Charlotte Hornets General Manager Rich Cho announced Wednesday that the team has added Delany as an assistant coach under head coach Steve Clifford.
• Delany spent last season as head coach of the Skyforce, the NBA Development League affiliate of the Miami Heat. He led the team to a 31-19 record.
• Before coming to the Skyforce, Delany served as the Heat's advance scout for six seasons from 2007-13. He was Miami's video coordinator for four seasons from 2003-07 following one season as a video intern.
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Centrist political action committee backs Pressler
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A new political action committee aimed at eliminating partisanship from national politics announced Wednesday it is endorsing independent candidate Larry Pressler in his bid to take back the U.S. Senate seat he held decades ago.
• Charles Wheelan, director of Centrist Project Voice, said Pressler embraces principles that include fiscal responsibility, environmental stewardship, social tolerance, economic opportunity and a pragmatic approach to solving policy challenges.
• The project is designed to empower a growing political middle by channeling the support of centrist Americans to a handful of key U.S. Senate candidates, said Wheelan, a senior lecturer and policy fellow at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
• "I would argue that one of the reasons the political middle is so docile is they don't know what to do," he said.
• Pressler, a former Republican, served two terms in the House followed by three Senate terms from 1975 to 1997. He is challenging former Republican Gov. Mike Rounds, Democrat Rick Weiland and independent Gordon Howie for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson.
• A Pew Research study released last month suggests that voters have evolved past the traditional conservative and liberal labels into eight political typology (Continued on page 20)
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