• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The state of South Dakota has released new consumption advisories on where anglers might want to limit their consumption of certain fish.
• They're based on 2013 test results and include walleye longer than 21 inches in Swan Lake, walleye longer than 17 inches in Long Lake and black crappie longer than 12 inches taken from Pudwell Dam.
• The West Twin Lakes advisory for walleye longer than 18 inches and northern pike longer than 19 inches was expanded to include East Twin Lakes and the waters jointly referred to as Twin Lakes in the advisory listing.
• The South Dakota departments of Health, Environment and Natural Resources and Game, Fish and Parks annually coordinate testing of fish for metals, pesticides and PCBs.
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• FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) -- Sen. Tim Johnson says the National Endowment for the Arts is giving up to $150,000 to the city of Freeman to help the town design an arts and agricultural center.

• The NEA grant is part of the Our Town program, which awards competitive, matching grants to support the development of arts programs in rural and urban communities across the country.
• Johnson says the Freeman Arts Earth Center will host performances, shows and events. The new center will help the rural community of 1,300 off U.S. Highway 81 draw tourists.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. government has signed agreements with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to extend a land buy-back program for the reservation straddling the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
• The agreements announced Wednesday between the tribe and the Interior Department pave the way for the government to buy fractionated land parcels from

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